Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Instagram – Reposting my repost from a few years ago. Think about the lyrics of the dope shit you listen to. Biggie is mos def on my top fave list. Doesn’t mean I get to ignore the content. 95% of his and Jay Z, and PAC’s catalog is the opposite of spreading love and upliftment of our people. Yes, they have some uplifting songs. And yes, Nino Brown gave turkeys out on Thanksgiving. Being a fan doesn’t give me license to play dumb to the messaging of my fav Mcs music. I’m tired of figuring out a way to ignore my feelings when I hear the gratuitous use of n*gga and b*tch in my Black music. Some folks out here mad at me bc I question if the fight for our freedom was really about us being allowed to be dumb for free? We are victim to the programming. Disrespecting our own in a way that would be considered anti-Black if spit by anybody of any other race, has become so normalized that folks out here caping so hard for the programming and making me out to be a hater. Stop falling for the okey doke, folks. Come check out more truth that doesn’t always go down easy: follow us @nah_notallhood Repost: Not one lie told. We know that beginning in the late 80’s there was a concentrated and deliberate push by record labels to promote misogyny, murder, and mayhem in hip music over anything conscious. So much so that we have been conditioned to normalize blaxploitation and the degradation of Black men and women in our music. Think about how much of our Black music, when you take away the music and just listen to the lyrics, is actually anti-Black? Name 4 out of your top 5 emcees’s who aren’t talking about niggas and bitches as if hip hop couldn’t exist without those terms-and I’m not saying those emcees don’t exist, I’m saying YOUR TOP 5. That being said, I recognize that to find dope emcees who do not follow this trend takes a bit more time to deep dive than I have these days so I eagerly invite you to tag any dopeness I should pay attention to and post or at least tag myself. Because I’ve always been quite vocal about the elements of hip hop I hate, I would love for you to help me do a better job of accentuating the positive aspects we should celebrate. 🙏🏿✊🏿🤘🏿 | Posted on 14/Jun/2024 10:44:14