Paradise Gray of X-Clan thinks so.. thats why he came at them hard with this video he directed.. It’s a scathing critique of the current climate of rap music featuring Jasiri X, Isada Tariq and Living Proofe and produced by Idasa Tariq.
Paradise wrote: “I edited the video myself so whoever got a problem with it let me know…but you know it’s true..”
He also said this;
If Hating you is Wrong, I don’t Wanna Be Right!Dedicated
to: Gucci, Drake, Waka Flacka, Rick Ross, Lil’ Wayne, T- Pain, 50 Cent,
Nikki M, and the rest of you COON ASS RAPPERS!!!
That was pretty nice; good flows. When the climate in America changes then it’s commercial hip-hop mascot will change. Right now civilization is at the pinnacle of materialism, frivolous pursuit, and independent optimism. The music industry is happy. Hip-hop is sterilized. They haven’t given the commercial open door to a political thought hip-hop group since P.E. Lupe had to talk about skate boarding first. Chamillionare now appears blackballed for his riding dirty record. The game is locked down.
However when things turn very harsh here shortly, the people won’t want music that is so emotionally and visually off-step from the common reality. Not that Gucci Mane is the pulse of America now, but he and the rest represent the elusive fantasy that is considered obtainable.
The night of running is coming.
This is actually pretty good!
The irony is it took a dumbed down pompous ghetto yokel rap song to combat dumbed down pompous ghetto yokel rap songs.
It’s like to even garner the attention of the public with any kind of media contrast, you have to launch a small scale psychological war…. and just suck up your own hypocrisy.
Regardless, I like the song.
How about this….
Do you really think “White” people are portrayed accurately in the music industry?
You think I give a fuck about or can relate to Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Pink, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Justin Bieber or any of those other whiny, goofy, impotent, materialistic, self absorbed, shallow fucking numbskulls? Davey, do you view me, as you view these white artists? If you do, then your opinion of me could not be more wrong. Not saying you do, but just saying…
So I present to you this, I agree with this video, yet i will go a step further and say it is not only an attack against black people, but against white people as well, it is an attack against humanity, a smearing, a conditioning to not only manipulate how we look in others eyes, but how we look at ourselves.
@ Josh: Mamby pamby! Get the fuck outta here with that reverse discrimination bullshit. Eminem knows he’s a ministrel and he don’t apologize about it. The first “nigguhs” in black face were white people anyway and they were just imitating what they thought black people were – like Em and Vanilla Ice and so on. The only thing I despise more than an apologist white rap sympathizer begging for acceptance, is a Zip Coon nigguh rapper like Gucci, Wayne, Ross, yep and to a lesser degree even Fitty Cents. All you gotta do is look at the Old South and Dixie to see that Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Pink, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Justin Bieber are all behaving the way that YOUNG RICH WHITE PEOPLE BEHAVE WHEN THEIR HEGEMONY IS UNOPPOSED.
SO STOP THE NONSENSE! WHY IS IT THAT BEING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE SCARES WHITE PEOPLE INTO THINKING OR RESPONDING LIKE IT’S ABOUT BEING AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE? IN MOST OF MY CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE WHITE PEOPLE DON’T EVEN EXIST EXCEPT AS AN ENEMY OR A WANNA BE BLACK PERSON ANYWAY. STAY IN YOUR LANE. A AND B CONVERSATION AND A SMART PERSON WOULD SHUT UP!
Regret
by GOLDIE
You can be-LIE-ve in the true lies passed down from master’s hand to the mind of slaves since the dawn of the ages
All I ask is how can help be on the way when we are ALL already dead?
And fuck what you heard about what any deity says is the right way to go,
For niggas saggin in the hood seems to possess more power over life and death than any martyr could ever pray or sacrifice his ONLY life for
Seems the more seasons change, the more ignorant we get
For instance,
Many still listen to doctrines demanding their allegiance, wholeheartedly, in the unseen
Never once stopping to ask why the main protagonist doesn’t have to prove its existence to us so-thought lowly, lesser hue-man beings
Perhaps we are children of a lesser god indeed?
It’s the things you don’t know and can’t see makes the choicest, strongest weed seem like mere tobacco
I’ve long grown sick of being surrounded by that which never lets up or lets go
And if you ain’t know,
Life ain’t the bitch and sleep ain’t the cousin of death
The true bitch is the ability to hope in a world filled with so much hopelessness
And the real cousin of death is looking back, at the end of your life, at a life filled with nothing but regret…
The power of media reigns supreme. That compiled with endless oppresion is a recipie for disaster. I consider my culture hiphop-from videos like this to videos featuring ass and money. To this day there’s no other culture that speaks to my experience as a black male in mass media. For the untrained, or uncultivated mind it ends with the coonery.
Thank goodness to those trying to undermine the negativity cause at the end of the day it’s bigger than hiphop.
Stop the cooning!!!!! Stop the cooning!!!Real Brothers do real things to survive, the good and the bad.There’s no balance in rap music anymore.They don’t talk about positivity just negativity. Negative mindsets rule society because they’re disturbed struggling for sanity.This is what they call tricknology. Brainwashed black brothers with too much self hatred and no self love who were former prison role models would dance a jig for the former white master(corporate record labels) in the form of minstrel rapping looking like idiots and sellouts and straight dumb muthafuckas for what???????Peace to Jasiri X and Paradise Gray of X-Clan for staying true to what they believe in and show brothers in a different light.Anyway Gucci Mane,Wacka Flocka and Rick Ross are straight garbage. And for the fake brothers who don’t live the life they rap about on their songs either get their card pulled or fall off into oblivion never to be heard from again.
I don’t understand how any black person can call any other black person that word, but the n word bother you. If you any type of rapper, in a sense you’re playing a sterotype, so is the rapper dissing a coon just as well? I wonder if Gucci Mane, Wayne and whoever wasn’t as known and rapping the same, would they be coons? I asked that b/c I watched the movie “How High”, with Redman & Method Man starring in it, that was a ignorant movie IMO. I saying this b/c I wonder what if Lil Wayne & Gucci Mane stared in that movie, how would the (east coast) hip hop media react? Again, I see hip hop bias when it comes to certain folks. Idk if the author trying to say, just southern rappers are coons and ignorant or mainstream artists are coons. I used to believe in that “real” hip hop junk, until I open my ears and stop judging rappers by cds sells(selling more cds make you wack bs). I used to just listen to underground rap, & remember there are just as many negative underground rappers as there are mainstream, but in the underground it is known as “keeping it real”. When it got to point where I was being closed minded, I asked myself was I being fair, then I began to change my thinking. I started to think everybody selling was wack no exception, I thought knew it all. Now I just listen to music, all that other bs I don’t care about. If it good its good, I dont care.
No problem with the song. Makes sense and has good points…
The song “Just A Minstrel” makes a good point, but it’s rather flat in it’s appeal. Nobility does not equal quality and that is what some of these so-called authentic artists need to realize.
Peace to brotha Jasiri X for shedding the light on what we let the hip hop game become. It was a time when the art belonged to the people. u can just as easily sell your mixtape or albums on the street and get corporate praise. It was like going to a local restaurant and getting quality food which made u want to return to that place. until you became a regular there. now they tear that restaurant down and built a McDonalds in its place ( the rap game now). stuff you with fucking big macs and fries all day. advertise to your children to fuck them up in the days to come. supersize that shit all day on the radio and in your ear.let’s not mention the quality of the food they serving. it’s all poison. corporate poison they playing in our ear 100 times a day. But it do got a ring to it huh? and them jingles sure make yo tapdancing shoes move.
I believe that the black man has many perspectives. There are 53 countries in africa. and i believe every part of the black culture represents one of those. But cooning is a American born culture, made by ignorant white men that stole and stereotyped every place they ever set foot on. and we need to erase that from our society to become a stronger nation of people.
It’s a Useless man Run after women.
A responsible man Run after money.
So when you achieve your Goal, people we be looking for you with there Gold.
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S’ High Artist
( Fresh Money Entertainment )