Damn! This dude is deep. I have always felt the same way that he does.

And I definitely want to commend him on one thing….

IT IS NOT WEAK TO TALK ABOUT EMOTION AND TRUTH!!!

He hit that nail on the head! For real!

And to me? Yeah! Kanye definitely said the realest shit of all time (recently) with that statement. I built up so much respect for Kanye when he said that. It was the equivalent of standing up at the Republican convention and spittin’ that shit into the crowd! Every Black person always thought that. That wasn’t new. But to have a Superstar…. Kanye…. to have the balls to drop that shit? Damn!!!

Sure… After that Kanye went back to gettin’ money. But I can’t minimize that moment. It ranks very high with me.

first off, gieco sucks, they tried to sue me. second, more mcs need to spit with emotions and keep it real not fake to be a gangsta. now that doesn’t mean cry on a track. that doesn’t mean be a str8 up B**ch. it means displaying the right amount of feelings. no drama.

Nothing but real sauce. They carried Kanye, Kid Cudi, and other artist for showing emotions. They called it “bitching”, well artist are people who express themselves with a talent. So thats what they’re supposed to do. It pissed me off a long time ago that people said bs like he is too emotional.

Rap as we know it started as party music for inner city blocks of NY inspired by the jamican sound system. It later added more social commentary such as mele mels the message and this opened the door for more than the braggadico disco tech ish. Then many artists composed songs based on their world/experiences but when gangsta rap really hit the scene it changed the whole landscape. Though early gangsta rap should have been viewed as social commentarty by the youth of the time concerning their environment. Its success caused a arms race in the music industry to make 1 million disposable NWA clones in each city claiming they were harder and simply loved the gangsta life rather than talking about the fate of those people trapped in street culture or making frank statements about it.

Not to mention the fact it played right into the 2 dimensional image of black males in america and thus it became an easy sell because many folks saw rap as just some ghetto trash noise, rather than art or music. They devalued the idea from jump waiting for it to fade. But the emotionless thug image is the new ministrel icon look at how hollywood still portrays us as thugs,buffoons or some hapless character rather than the leading man.

To quote ice cube heres what they think about you