Only Jesus can save the world ie man from himself.
i mean we've been through 2 World Wars,practically on the verge of a 3rd which could degenerate into a nuclear conflagration thanks to North Korea,Iran,the USA et al,steadily been hit by a series of natural disasters,El Nino subsists,Diseases ravage whole nations and of course the Middle East still knows no peace.global warming?tell me about it.
compared these other looming problems,this grand conspiracy theory thing is a child's play.
anyone who aint feeling the status quo should stop whining,get up and do something about it ....thats all i'm saying.
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Hip Hop is being used to enslave the masses minds
Started by blacknoise, Jul 25 2006 01:04 PM
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Posted 08 January 2007 - 03:23 PM
Peace
The size of the fight is huge, but we shoud first acknowledge that we are able to defeat it in order to beat it. That is the same with the odds that Jesus was up against. God made man to show other humans that if they followed his true intentions and way, they too could rebel and fight the system of the time. BUT instead this version of christianity purposely forgets that it is about the revolutionary Jesus that died for what he believed in ... but we are too afraid and brainwashed to turn the other cheek and follow that example. Hip Hop once was like Jesus ... Revolutionary and did not care what the corpaorates had to say and in fact they were anti-these corporations that now own hip hop and I think it is for this very reason that they had to co-opt it to silence its very revolutionary intention.
We need to not just move from becoming aware of the problem and then directly to being defeated without even thinking of rebelling or trying to solve the problem in any way. Too many of us skip the action and immediately go to being defeated and hopeless in the face of the problems size. Imagine the situation that we were in during Apartheid and still rose above. We were willing to die for our freedoms infront of those armoured trucks ... YES, we have the power to change what appears to be unchangable or undefeatable... We have done that time and time again on this planet and can do it again, but the first step to attaining an objective is the belief that you can beat all odds with WORK and ACTION.
Emile
The size of the fight is huge, but we shoud first acknowledge that we are able to defeat it in order to beat it. That is the same with the odds that Jesus was up against. God made man to show other humans that if they followed his true intentions and way, they too could rebel and fight the system of the time. BUT instead this version of christianity purposely forgets that it is about the revolutionary Jesus that died for what he believed in ... but we are too afraid and brainwashed to turn the other cheek and follow that example. Hip Hop once was like Jesus ... Revolutionary and did not care what the corpaorates had to say and in fact they were anti-these corporations that now own hip hop and I think it is for this very reason that they had to co-opt it to silence its very revolutionary intention.
We need to not just move from becoming aware of the problem and then directly to being defeated without even thinking of rebelling or trying to solve the problem in any way. Too many of us skip the action and immediately go to being defeated and hopeless in the face of the problems size. Imagine the situation that we were in during Apartheid and still rose above. We were willing to die for our freedoms infront of those armoured trucks ... YES, we have the power to change what appears to be unchangable or undefeatable... We have done that time and time again on this planet and can do it again, but the first step to attaining an objective is the belief that you can beat all odds with WORK and ACTION.
Emile
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Posted 08 January 2007 - 05:00 PM
MAN THIS WHT I CALL..
medicine of the mind
healer of the soul
friend to humanity and
oneness with God..
lets take control of ur minds and make things work for us...it's such ironic tht ppl claim they love the teachings of jesus but they dun want to go thru wht he went thru..jesus was opposite of the jewish system by then..a revolutionary..not jus a revolution..a big one..thts all i can say..i know fcukers like addict wont learn cuz they hate wisdom..
thts the problem of the world today..
we love chemicals but hate when chemistry is talking..
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medicine of the mind
healer of the soul
friend to humanity and
oneness with God..
lets take control of ur minds and make things work for us...it's such ironic tht ppl claim they love the teachings of jesus but they dun want to go thru wht he went thru..jesus was opposite of the jewish system by then..a revolutionary..not jus a revolution..a big one..thts all i can say..i know fcukers like addict wont learn cuz they hate wisdom..
thts the problem of the world today..
we love chemicals but hate when chemistry is talking..
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Posted 09 January 2007 - 03:45 PM
xactly what i'm saying...less talk more action ...if we truly want to change the status quo.
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Posted 14 January 2007 - 10:19 PM
MTV, DSTV, COMMERCIAL RAP, PLAYSTATION, CELLPHONES, MIXIT, XBOX, IPODS, ETC .... Occupy the youths minds and prepare them for an adulthood of consumerism. Corporates are so sneaky and clever about preparing our children for a lifetime of debt and corporate/ capitalist SLAVERY. SLAVES is what they are creating and for very good reason too.
You see they study the past in order to not make the same mistakes again. Whether it be South Africas Apartheid or USAs civil rights movement, the youth fought the hardest and sacrificed the most in the streets ... WHY, you might ask. Because their minds were not manipulated by the system yet. They were at that stage of their lives when they were being revolutionary or simply just rebelling. You see, capitalists saw that this was happening globally and in order to change that they needed to pre-empt that by creating little adults that wanted the same freedoms and wanted to have "financial freedom", like their parents ... which actually is credit cards and DEBT. A country that has the interest of its youth at hurt over that of the capitalists will know that these companies wish to enslave the free-thinking young people of our society. South African government unfortunately cant see that they are allowing our children to be slaves to corporates who give credit to young people who have no income because they wish to own these young slaves salaries and have them be financial slaves and who become dependent on the slave master. All of these commodities mentioned above are sold as youth products, but have you seen the price. No kid can afford these so-called toys without a part-time job or nagging their parents constantly. These consoles and games cost an arm and a leg, yet so many young people have them because they have become a must buy for most parents. Parents have also become less interactive with their kids because they wish to have their freedom ... well, its simple ... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE, you wanted a kid, now you have to sacrifice your freedom and BE A PARENT. Parents complain that they had no idea their kids were into this and that ... WHY! because they are BAD PARENTS ... stop making excuses about the internet, some killer game that they bought for their kid while they did not pay for school fees or MIXIT, when you as a parent wished to be your kids friend by allowing them these freedoms. YOU ARE NOT THEIR FRIEND, YOU ARE THEIR PARENT. You have to switch the channel on TV when they say parental advisory ... PG13. Its your responsibility to LOVE your kids enough to switch the channel. You need to not give youth freedoms that they are too young to cope with. Hip Hop is ironically the only music genre thats insulted by the media regularly for content, but no one blames PLAYSTATION or MTV or DSTV, or SABC 3 or eTV sex shows or MIXIT or any of these other companies that our government should have reprimanded for conning our youth out of their freedom. Their finding who they truly are instead of carbon copies of each other and these idiots like Parish Hilton and the other children of consumers/ capitalists.
I faced the gun head on with a brick in my hand during apartheid, because I was willing to fight for my freedom and the freedoms of this generation and the next. Ironically our politicians and "PARENTS" wish to relive their childhood and forget their responsibility. Hip Hop was the voice of the youth and thus a huge threat to the corporate world and they thus changed its public image. YOUTH are without jobs, bonds on houses and other responsibilities because this is the time in their lives when they are moulded by their search for who they individually are ... so corporates step in and mould them into little SLAVES who owe the slave master before they have earned their first pay-check. Hip Hop is now assisting them to do that. YOUTH, is our last free UNDOMESTICATED people. YOUTH, reading this or listen to hip hop need to read between the lines or just READ to FREE YOUR MINDS FROM THEIR SLAVERY ...
Emile YX?
You see they study the past in order to not make the same mistakes again. Whether it be South Africas Apartheid or USAs civil rights movement, the youth fought the hardest and sacrificed the most in the streets ... WHY, you might ask. Because their minds were not manipulated by the system yet. They were at that stage of their lives when they were being revolutionary or simply just rebelling. You see, capitalists saw that this was happening globally and in order to change that they needed to pre-empt that by creating little adults that wanted the same freedoms and wanted to have "financial freedom", like their parents ... which actually is credit cards and DEBT. A country that has the interest of its youth at hurt over that of the capitalists will know that these companies wish to enslave the free-thinking young people of our society. South African government unfortunately cant see that they are allowing our children to be slaves to corporates who give credit to young people who have no income because they wish to own these young slaves salaries and have them be financial slaves and who become dependent on the slave master. All of these commodities mentioned above are sold as youth products, but have you seen the price. No kid can afford these so-called toys without a part-time job or nagging their parents constantly. These consoles and games cost an arm and a leg, yet so many young people have them because they have become a must buy for most parents. Parents have also become less interactive with their kids because they wish to have their freedom ... well, its simple ... YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE, you wanted a kid, now you have to sacrifice your freedom and BE A PARENT. Parents complain that they had no idea their kids were into this and that ... WHY! because they are BAD PARENTS ... stop making excuses about the internet, some killer game that they bought for their kid while they did not pay for school fees or MIXIT, when you as a parent wished to be your kids friend by allowing them these freedoms. YOU ARE NOT THEIR FRIEND, YOU ARE THEIR PARENT. You have to switch the channel on TV when they say parental advisory ... PG13. Its your responsibility to LOVE your kids enough to switch the channel. You need to not give youth freedoms that they are too young to cope with. Hip Hop is ironically the only music genre thats insulted by the media regularly for content, but no one blames PLAYSTATION or MTV or DSTV, or SABC 3 or eTV sex shows or MIXIT or any of these other companies that our government should have reprimanded for conning our youth out of their freedom. Their finding who they truly are instead of carbon copies of each other and these idiots like Parish Hilton and the other children of consumers/ capitalists.
I faced the gun head on with a brick in my hand during apartheid, because I was willing to fight for my freedom and the freedoms of this generation and the next. Ironically our politicians and "PARENTS" wish to relive their childhood and forget their responsibility. Hip Hop was the voice of the youth and thus a huge threat to the corporate world and they thus changed its public image. YOUTH are without jobs, bonds on houses and other responsibilities because this is the time in their lives when they are moulded by their search for who they individually are ... so corporates step in and mould them into little SLAVES who owe the slave master before they have earned their first pay-check. Hip Hop is now assisting them to do that. YOUTH, is our last free UNDOMESTICATED people. YOUTH, reading this or listen to hip hop need to read between the lines or just READ to FREE YOUR MINDS FROM THEIR SLAVERY ...
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Hip Hop was the voice of the youth and thus a huge threat to the corporate world and they thus changed its public image. YOUTH are without jobs, bonds on houses and other responsibilities because this is the time in their lives when they are moulded by their search for who they individually are ... so corporates step in and mould them into little SLAVES who owe the slave master before they have earned their first pay-check. Hip Hop is now assisting them to do that.
That ish is so true dawg. Watch out for the education system too. It's strives to enslave us (them study loans instead of busaries and scholarships) Why give debt to a person when you trying to create freedom. I always hold the statement that "once you owe me, I own you"
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Posted 15 January 2007 - 08:11 AM
Freedom means taking RESPONSIBILITY & being DEDICATED
Yes, My Brothers and Sisters.
We can rebel all we want, but we have to ask ourselves if we are contributing to our own suffering. Ofcourse I am fully in agreeent with the previous post about study loans and debt of tat nature, BUT, we have to ask ourselves two things:-
(1) Do we wish to really liberate ourselves with the information that they enforce on our most educated peoples minds and does that really free them. Very few of our academics put back into the community, but instead leave the masses without thinking collectively, but now thinking "I". That is what is at the core of their education that our people ironically pay to be indoctrinated with ... thats one brilliant plan if ever I saw one. You see all our youth talk about how this eductaion will free them, you even hear governement talk that same rhetoric, but ask yourself if youe enemy will truly empower you with the information that he feeds you. If it is to liberate the mind of those studying, the content would encourage passing that information around, it would include the protection and conservation on the very planet that we live, it would encourage you to think collectively and to be RESPONSIBLE for your community, city, country and planet. BUT NO, all it teaches you is capitalistic "I" ideals and playing their game for personal gain at the expense of the masses and anything else that gets in your way.
(2) Young Parents have to take the responsibility for saving to send their children to study further and teah them the value of that eductaion in the context of how it can benefit the community. It is our responsibility to do this in order for our children to prepare to do the same and have that respect for their children when tey plan to bring them into the world. It is a lack of self respect, resepct for the new life you bring into the world, lack of respect for your community, country and planet if parents do not take the RESPONSIBILITY to prepare to have mony to educate their children. We need to be DEDICTATED to our CHILDRENS future on this PLANET if we inten to change the order of things. What I am saying is that we need to think if we are ready to have children both emotionally and financially before doing so and taking into consideration our own radiness with DEDICATION to that child. This is imporant for our community and country as well. You see, we have to be prepared to FIGHT and be dedictaed to that fight to get change to happen. I have toured Sweden and seen how the high taxes pays for the peoples education, but I have asked people here if they would pay such high taxes and they were definitely opposed to it beause they were taught to think I and not about improving our society. I ronically they also complain about crime, but see no connection to their lack of DEDICATION to the bigger fight.
It is becoming so that we internalise our oppression and enslave ourselves. In fact, no one can enslave you, unless you allow them to, so we play a huge role in our own MENTAL & PHYSICAL SLAVERY.
Emile YX?
Yes, My Brothers and Sisters.
We can rebel all we want, but we have to ask ourselves if we are contributing to our own suffering. Ofcourse I am fully in agreeent with the previous post about study loans and debt of tat nature, BUT, we have to ask ourselves two things:-
(1) Do we wish to really liberate ourselves with the information that they enforce on our most educated peoples minds and does that really free them. Very few of our academics put back into the community, but instead leave the masses without thinking collectively, but now thinking "I". That is what is at the core of their education that our people ironically pay to be indoctrinated with ... thats one brilliant plan if ever I saw one. You see all our youth talk about how this eductaion will free them, you even hear governement talk that same rhetoric, but ask yourself if youe enemy will truly empower you with the information that he feeds you. If it is to liberate the mind of those studying, the content would encourage passing that information around, it would include the protection and conservation on the very planet that we live, it would encourage you to think collectively and to be RESPONSIBLE for your community, city, country and planet. BUT NO, all it teaches you is capitalistic "I" ideals and playing their game for personal gain at the expense of the masses and anything else that gets in your way.
(2) Young Parents have to take the responsibility for saving to send their children to study further and teah them the value of that eductaion in the context of how it can benefit the community. It is our responsibility to do this in order for our children to prepare to do the same and have that respect for their children when tey plan to bring them into the world. It is a lack of self respect, resepct for the new life you bring into the world, lack of respect for your community, country and planet if parents do not take the RESPONSIBILITY to prepare to have mony to educate their children. We need to be DEDICTATED to our CHILDRENS future on this PLANET if we inten to change the order of things. What I am saying is that we need to think if we are ready to have children both emotionally and financially before doing so and taking into consideration our own radiness with DEDICATION to that child. This is imporant for our community and country as well. You see, we have to be prepared to FIGHT and be dedictaed to that fight to get change to happen. I have toured Sweden and seen how the high taxes pays for the peoples education, but I have asked people here if they would pay such high taxes and they were definitely opposed to it beause they were taught to think I and not about improving our society. I ronically they also complain about crime, but see no connection to their lack of DEDICATION to the bigger fight.
It is becoming so that we internalise our oppression and enslave ourselves. In fact, no one can enslave you, unless you allow them to, so we play a huge role in our own MENTAL & PHYSICAL SLAVERY.
Emile YX?
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:15 PM
thats some black power melanin
much luv for that - we need creativity
its not for the love of the art anymo, its for the love of money
theze days- they mindz are now cripled sayin
rap carear is 2 shot hence they hav to mek mony when they can, its pathetic how this
rap industry is headin to these days
i hate it wen i hear these wanabee rappers & all dat reppin crap claimin thye gat game wen they aint gat none.
& frm me i dnt think i iwll eva buy a crap CD just bcuz a fellow African has made it- i will get it based on the credibility & skill.
Where is the love for the art gone? thats my question
needles to say much lets show theze wanabee rappers how this game is supoz 2b represented ait
much luv for that - we need creativity
its not for the love of the art anymo, its for the love of money
theze days- they mindz are now cripled sayin
rap carear is 2 shot hence they hav to mek mony when they can, its pathetic how this
rap industry is headin to these days
i hate it wen i hear these wanabee rappers & all dat reppin crap claimin thye gat game wen they aint gat none.
& frm me i dnt think i iwll eva buy a crap CD just bcuz a fellow African has made it- i will get it based on the credibility & skill.
Where is the love for the art gone? thats my question
needles to say much lets show theze wanabee rappers how this game is supoz 2b represented ait
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 02:28 PM
Word up all ma lafamilia peace Black Noise
That’s some interectual points that needs to be redressed
That’s some interectual points that needs to be redressed
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Posted 16 January 2007 - 03:24 PM
@Blacknoise: you's an intellectuall dawg, respek.
Too add to your answers about the above questions you raised
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Our education system does not free our minds (maybe private schools do). Even the tertiary institutions do not. THe way it was designed it was designed to center our minds (copied from the apartheid edu. sys.), i.e, make them focus on one thing, e.g, once graduated, graduates usually only think within the realms/boundaries of their academic qualification/career. They fail to think beyond the cup, cos they are not equipped with such skills. The other point here is that, most historically underprivilleged people still have that thing of wishing to be doctors, lawyer, teachers, profesors, and so on. We are adviced to get out off school and go to tertiary, which is correct, but devarstating in the minds and lives of those adviced. A lot of things, if you carefully look around you, are proof that tertiary education is not the only way to success or freedom. Some people can make it happen through any means. And those little means are what our govt. needs to focus on, e.g. music, fine arts (painters), creative writing (leading to writing movie scripts- a standard ten person can do this), and etc. The education system needs to stop generalising our way of thinking. We are individuals. If we are generalised, we'll end up with a bunch of, e.g doctors who can't perfom they jobs properly. And other main problem in this aspect is money. We go to tertiary institutions to obtain education. Our parents/teachers/and society at large advice us to go for good paying careers/ careers with reputation, such as the ones above. After graduation, graduates discover that they never liked what they studied, but need money to feed they parents/relatives. So they continue with that shit just for the money or the reputation/title isocciated with the profession.
On this one, I think our generation needs to do this for their children: planning and planning, and planning. Our parents didn't or don't even have the money for registering us at tertiary, not to mention tution, transport and food (recall, staying alone means another grocery from a R300 mom's wages). They were not educated in terms of financing, especially long term planning. They lack the knowledge and the money. They realize the importance of going to tertiary, however, they can't take us there. They can't advice us how to get there. They see schools as a means/the only means of escaping poverty. And most have given up and expect us to take up on this mission. On the other hand, government knows the situation of us and our parents. They also know the standards of educatioin in townships (lack of teachers, books, class rooms, and etc) and the fact that we grow up in extreme poverty. Yet, private companies and govt offer busaries and scholarships to students with outstanding results. Now tell me, how are you going to get examption on Math if you don't have the teacher and the money to attend extra classes. The fact is you have to rely on you, your close friend and the outdated book and then pass with a d to f symbol or even fail with h. Now how fucked up is that. So the only choice you end up having with your not so good looking examption is a study loan that you can only pay once you done studying. Your parents are not gonna qualify to apply for this due to their employment situations, but they will qualify you. Isn't our system twisted.
Advice Just pull up your socks once you're in tertiary you can get a busary or scholarship after one or two years, depending on your performance, and institution you are studying in.
Too add to your answers about the above questions you raised
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(1) Do we wish to really liberate ourselves with the information that they enforce on our most educated peoples minds and does that really free them.
Our education system does not free our minds (maybe private schools do). Even the tertiary institutions do not. THe way it was designed it was designed to center our minds (copied from the apartheid edu. sys.), i.e, make them focus on one thing, e.g, once graduated, graduates usually only think within the realms/boundaries of their academic qualification/career. They fail to think beyond the cup, cos they are not equipped with such skills. The other point here is that, most historically underprivilleged people still have that thing of wishing to be doctors, lawyer, teachers, profesors, and so on. We are adviced to get out off school and go to tertiary, which is correct, but devarstating in the minds and lives of those adviced. A lot of things, if you carefully look around you, are proof that tertiary education is not the only way to success or freedom. Some people can make it happen through any means. And those little means are what our govt. needs to focus on, e.g. music, fine arts (painters), creative writing (leading to writing movie scripts- a standard ten person can do this), and etc. The education system needs to stop generalising our way of thinking. We are individuals. If we are generalised, we'll end up with a bunch of, e.g doctors who can't perfom they jobs properly. And other main problem in this aspect is money. We go to tertiary institutions to obtain education. Our parents/teachers/and society at large advice us to go for good paying careers/ careers with reputation, such as the ones above. After graduation, graduates discover that they never liked what they studied, but need money to feed they parents/relatives. So they continue with that shit just for the money or the reputation/title isocciated with the profession.
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(2) Young Parents have to take the responsibility for saving to send their children to study further and teah them the value of that eductaion in the context of how it can benefit the community.
On this one, I think our generation needs to do this for their children: planning and planning, and planning. Our parents didn't or don't even have the money for registering us at tertiary, not to mention tution, transport and food (recall, staying alone means another grocery from a R300 mom's wages). They were not educated in terms of financing, especially long term planning. They lack the knowledge and the money. They realize the importance of going to tertiary, however, they can't take us there. They can't advice us how to get there. They see schools as a means/the only means of escaping poverty. And most have given up and expect us to take up on this mission. On the other hand, government knows the situation of us and our parents. They also know the standards of educatioin in townships (lack of teachers, books, class rooms, and etc) and the fact that we grow up in extreme poverty. Yet, private companies and govt offer busaries and scholarships to students with outstanding results. Now tell me, how are you going to get examption on Math if you don't have the teacher and the money to attend extra classes. The fact is you have to rely on you, your close friend and the outdated book and then pass with a d to f symbol or even fail with h. Now how fucked up is that. So the only choice you end up having with your not so good looking examption is a study loan that you can only pay once you done studying. Your parents are not gonna qualify to apply for this due to their employment situations, but they will qualify you. Isn't our system twisted.
Advice Just pull up your socks once you're in tertiary you can get a busary or scholarship after one or two years, depending on your performance, and institution you are studying in.
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Posted 17 January 2007 - 06:15 PM
@Beesting and Black Noise...a standing ovation..
deep minds..
deep minds..
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Posted 28 February 2007 - 11:57 PM
Its been a while ... Im finally done in the studio ...
I grew up during Aparteid and hear many parents from back then say how they were willing to die for freedom and how their children have no idea about the struggle they went through so that they could have this freedom. Many of them say that todays kids are brainwashed by hip hop to be nothing but brand worshippers and chasing bling and other material wealth.
I thought about this hard and long and then it struck me. HOW DO YOU STOP REVOLUTION. June 16 Youth Day is proof that globally the youth rose up ... Thats right, the ones with the least to loose ... the ones without being slaves to the accounts and housing or car loans and their jobs. THATS RIGHT, we were free back then and thats why revolution is strong in schools and universities ... You see the corporates and slave masters study us and see that we are more likely to be revolutionary thanks to Reggae music by Bob Marley or songs by Public Enemy or Immortal technique ... so what do they do ?? ... they STOP / BAN playing this people empowering music. They then use their media to brainwash the youth with materialism that they can directly attach their self worth to. They find bad role models from our communities to sell to our youths. Before, we showed off our skill on the dance floor or on the Mic or with your graf skill or with your soccer skills or poetry or practical applications ... Now its all a virtual skill that is connected to your OUTER appearance. The size of your cellphone, the clothing brands you wear, the car you arrive in etc.
These corporates have spies asking questions at hip hop jams doing research and claiming to have a genuine interest in the culture, when their interest and research is actually about controlling what we create for revolution. They realise that the younger they enslave the youth, the easier stopping revolution will be. hey now have kids responsible for cellphone bills and getting messages advertising upgrades and what more money will get you. It is not in their interest to liberate us, so they will not advertise switching phones off to be free for a day. Kids are creating accounts at shopping chains and some who are still at school have huge accounts that they opende with the help of their immature parents, making them slaves way before they earn their own money, so they will inherit debt. Freedom is sold as a holiday on some expensive island and not just switching your phone off for a day and free yourself from their constant plugging into your mind. A few years ago everyone was fearful of the day when the devil will brand us all with his numer and we will walk around with this number that reords all we do and through which we all can be contacted or monitored ... Is that not the cellphone???? Our kids are absorbed by their MIXIT, sms, virtual world on playstation and other DISTRACTIONS from them stealing all they can while we are being distracted. The divide between the youth and the adults is because we have chosen to look at our youth as the enemy, when they benefit from that generation gap and turn our future against us ... we need to be revolutionary and turn their technology against thema nd sho our youth what is really happening to them and how this is no different from the physical apartheid that has now become and mental war against the masses.
Yes, we have access to the internet, computer and cellphone technology, but the airwaves are being saturated with BULLSHIT, the downloads of Parrish Hiltons songs, porn videos, pictures and wealth. Idiots have become our kids role models. These people they choose for our youth as role models. More of our youth know David Beckham than Steve Biko. One could say that they have subliminally made us feel that we can not do without it, but we need to supply an alternative to what they offer us in their own realm and expose their research of how to keep us enslaved and consumers, instead of producers and FREE....
What do you think ???? How do we expose this to our youth and once again make them revolutionary and aware that capitalism does not enrich everyone and its about enslavng the majority and enriching a minority. ...
Peace Until next time ...
emile
I grew up during Aparteid and hear many parents from back then say how they were willing to die for freedom and how their children have no idea about the struggle they went through so that they could have this freedom. Many of them say that todays kids are brainwashed by hip hop to be nothing but brand worshippers and chasing bling and other material wealth.
I thought about this hard and long and then it struck me. HOW DO YOU STOP REVOLUTION. June 16 Youth Day is proof that globally the youth rose up ... Thats right, the ones with the least to loose ... the ones without being slaves to the accounts and housing or car loans and their jobs. THATS RIGHT, we were free back then and thats why revolution is strong in schools and universities ... You see the corporates and slave masters study us and see that we are more likely to be revolutionary thanks to Reggae music by Bob Marley or songs by Public Enemy or Immortal technique ... so what do they do ?? ... they STOP / BAN playing this people empowering music. They then use their media to brainwash the youth with materialism that they can directly attach their self worth to. They find bad role models from our communities to sell to our youths. Before, we showed off our skill on the dance floor or on the Mic or with your graf skill or with your soccer skills or poetry or practical applications ... Now its all a virtual skill that is connected to your OUTER appearance. The size of your cellphone, the clothing brands you wear, the car you arrive in etc.
These corporates have spies asking questions at hip hop jams doing research and claiming to have a genuine interest in the culture, when their interest and research is actually about controlling what we create for revolution. They realise that the younger they enslave the youth, the easier stopping revolution will be. hey now have kids responsible for cellphone bills and getting messages advertising upgrades and what more money will get you. It is not in their interest to liberate us, so they will not advertise switching phones off to be free for a day. Kids are creating accounts at shopping chains and some who are still at school have huge accounts that they opende with the help of their immature parents, making them slaves way before they earn their own money, so they will inherit debt. Freedom is sold as a holiday on some expensive island and not just switching your phone off for a day and free yourself from their constant plugging into your mind. A few years ago everyone was fearful of the day when the devil will brand us all with his numer and we will walk around with this number that reords all we do and through which we all can be contacted or monitored ... Is that not the cellphone???? Our kids are absorbed by their MIXIT, sms, virtual world on playstation and other DISTRACTIONS from them stealing all they can while we are being distracted. The divide between the youth and the adults is because we have chosen to look at our youth as the enemy, when they benefit from that generation gap and turn our future against us ... we need to be revolutionary and turn their technology against thema nd sho our youth what is really happening to them and how this is no different from the physical apartheid that has now become and mental war against the masses.
Yes, we have access to the internet, computer and cellphone technology, but the airwaves are being saturated with BULLSHIT, the downloads of Parrish Hiltons songs, porn videos, pictures and wealth. Idiots have become our kids role models. These people they choose for our youth as role models. More of our youth know David Beckham than Steve Biko. One could say that they have subliminally made us feel that we can not do without it, but we need to supply an alternative to what they offer us in their own realm and expose their research of how to keep us enslaved and consumers, instead of producers and FREE....
What do you think ???? How do we expose this to our youth and once again make them revolutionary and aware that capitalism does not enrich everyone and its about enslavng the majority and enriching a minority. ...
Peace Until next time ...
emile
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Posted 10 April 2007 - 08:54 PM
Awe, just thought I would share this lyrics with you before the album hits the internet and communities later this year. Thanks for the inspiration wth your questions and discussions on this site and many others. I hope that we will continue to dialogue about how to make words reality and be more than just CDs, but actions ... Peace Emile YX?
Intro
Cordless puppetry, when we the puppets be
Physically controlled, when controlled mentally X2
Chorus
You're just a slave, from the cradle to the grave
You're just a slave, can't we see how we behave
You're just a slave, who's forgotten to be brave
You're just a sla a a a aaaaaaaaaa aaa ve
Verse 1
These thoughts are not our own we're domesticated as we grown
Owned by society when we no longer kick a groan
We Moaned a little longer but later forced to conform
Our inner storm silenced as we accept the norm
Born free but enslaved from our first breath to our last
Our past determines our fear of being outcast
Fast we internalise the beliefs of our folks
We pokes fun at difference, but its effects are no jokes
We throw a spanner in the spokes of in-di-vi-duality
Your bodies enslaved by who controls your mentality
Realities propogandas now sold as education
Nations are enslaved by who controls the information
Be patient, study hard change the system from the inside
While their lies they hide in libraries worldwide
Our pride is hidden to maintain their mental slavery
Slavery of mind helps them kill the revolutionary
Verse 2
Welcome to the 21st Century of Slavery
Where 3rd world debts enforced by brokers of democracy
Ironically, the debts a result of their robbery
Colonial exploitation and ensuing misery
Global lie to me - tell me that you'll set me free
And why I should buy your latest commodity
The oddity of the language of economics
Dehumanise communities label it emerging markets
Sons of farm slaves, now cheap labour in prisons
While sons of slave master diversifying their options
The lesson heres welcome to modern day slavery
Capitalisms merely slavery , eufumistically
They branded slaves, now we endorse their brand
parading around for a portion of their grand
The Grand Parade is where slaves were paraded
Faded like the slave tree that their shame has now hid
And did you see the effects of the dop system today
Pay them with alcohol so the profits come back their way
Hey slave descendents who every weekend get gesuip
No one blames SAB for the killing, abuse or rape
Tape your mouth shut they legalised more shabeens
Seems our leaders are hell bent on killing all our dreams
Screams & gunshots from townships dont reach their ears
They're too busy discussing their wealth with their peers
Verse 3
Our kids are slaves to the latest trends and fashion
Finance and partners make us sacrifice our passion
Crashing individuality with having to conform
Slave to the norms now silencing our storm
Teenage storms were once willing to die for freedom
Now dems heroes 50cents, Beckham & Hilton
Switch on Mixit and they glued to their cellphones
Now malls baby-sit kids looking like brand clones
With matching ringtones of latest US hit songs
Gones our self pride that causing these new wrongs
Strongs our tendency to follow the Western way
But their kids dont listen to what their own parents say
Play station the new virtual youth plantation
A virtual world distraction to subdue revolution
Mind pollution equals body occupation
Mentally enslaving both you and your nation
Intro
Cordless puppetry, when we the puppets be
Physically controlled, when controlled mentally X2
Chorus
You're just a slave, from the cradle to the grave
You're just a slave, can't we see how we behave
You're just a slave, who's forgotten to be brave
You're just a sla a a a aaaaaaaaaa aaa ve
Verse 1
These thoughts are not our own we're domesticated as we grown
Owned by society when we no longer kick a groan
We Moaned a little longer but later forced to conform
Our inner storm silenced as we accept the norm
Born free but enslaved from our first breath to our last
Our past determines our fear of being outcast
Fast we internalise the beliefs of our folks
We pokes fun at difference, but its effects are no jokes
We throw a spanner in the spokes of in-di-vi-duality
Your bodies enslaved by who controls your mentality
Realities propogandas now sold as education
Nations are enslaved by who controls the information
Be patient, study hard change the system from the inside
While their lies they hide in libraries worldwide
Our pride is hidden to maintain their mental slavery
Slavery of mind helps them kill the revolutionary
Verse 2
Welcome to the 21st Century of Slavery
Where 3rd world debts enforced by brokers of democracy
Ironically, the debts a result of their robbery
Colonial exploitation and ensuing misery
Global lie to me - tell me that you'll set me free
And why I should buy your latest commodity
The oddity of the language of economics
Dehumanise communities label it emerging markets
Sons of farm slaves, now cheap labour in prisons
While sons of slave master diversifying their options
The lesson heres welcome to modern day slavery
Capitalisms merely slavery , eufumistically
They branded slaves, now we endorse their brand
parading around for a portion of their grand
The Grand Parade is where slaves were paraded
Faded like the slave tree that their shame has now hid
And did you see the effects of the dop system today
Pay them with alcohol so the profits come back their way
Hey slave descendents who every weekend get gesuip
No one blames SAB for the killing, abuse or rape
Tape your mouth shut they legalised more shabeens
Seems our leaders are hell bent on killing all our dreams
Screams & gunshots from townships dont reach their ears
They're too busy discussing their wealth with their peers
Verse 3
Our kids are slaves to the latest trends and fashion
Finance and partners make us sacrifice our passion
Crashing individuality with having to conform
Slave to the norms now silencing our storm
Teenage storms were once willing to die for freedom
Now dems heroes 50cents, Beckham & Hilton
Switch on Mixit and they glued to their cellphones
Now malls baby-sit kids looking like brand clones
With matching ringtones of latest US hit songs
Gones our self pride that causing these new wrongs
Strongs our tendency to follow the Western way
But their kids dont listen to what their own parents say
Play station the new virtual youth plantation
A virtual world distraction to subdue revolution
Mind pollution equals body occupation
Mentally enslaving both you and your nation
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Posted 14 April 2007 - 08:36 PM
Yes, I said it. Capitalism is the force behind the greed that causes them to sell this poison that put that youth into a stooper when he took the life of Mr Devious. Capitalism was behind the Roman control that felt obliged to do the dirty work of the Jews to cruxify Jesus. Capitalism was behond the gu that killed Steve Biko, behind the gun that killed Gandhi, that killed Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey and most other revolutionary. Its behind the beef between biggie and Tupac and many other rappers that took each others lives.
In South Africa we think that we are free, but if we were truly free capitalism would send its foot-soldiers to kill us. The wars that go on throughout the world are funded by capitalists interests. The war in Iraq is the most obvious of their inteest in oil and Isreal being funded by the USA against Palestine. The destablization of many nations is being waged by these capitalists that pay mercenaries to atack these countries who choose to go against the status quo. Like they did and do in Cuba. Like they did assist South Africa during Apartheid. They vilify Zimbabwe because they are sticking it to the man, but if they had oil ... goodbye the current regime and hello George Bush. This is the hidden truths of the silent deeds of capitalism. Their control of the media assists in getting us to push their aenda and lazily repeat their crap because we are too lazy to make up our own minds. To think for ourselves. They are able to steal the so-called democratic vote of black people in the USA and make it seems that Bush honestly won that election. They make England look like the good guy, when its wealth is based on all that they oppresed through slavery and now continue to control via ownership of those countries wealths that have been privatized. We speak revolution, but in our deepest reaches of our souls know that THEY WILL KILL US IF WE REALLY REBELLED to the extent of crippling their CAPITALISM. Its behind the pollution of the planet through its corporate endeavours. Its behind minimal wage, child labour, sex trade, wars, dehumanization of of people of colour, etc etc etc ...
We speak an academic revolution, but are we willing to die ... yes, you Christian whimps who claim to follow Christ WHO WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ... ARE YOU WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY ... WILL YOU BE CRUXIFIED FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Will you even speak out against the satus quo or you local politicians and capitalism who abuse your brothers and sisters???? Hmmm ... will you???
So reading all this my brothers and sisters ... can you see how hip hop has become their tool to sell their products to our youth and how hip hop is being used to enslave our youths and how true revolution is about being willing to be crixified for your belief in a better world and belive me they have killed and will kill again.
Peac until next time
Emile YX?
In South Africa we think that we are free, but if we were truly free capitalism would send its foot-soldiers to kill us. The wars that go on throughout the world are funded by capitalists interests. The war in Iraq is the most obvious of their inteest in oil and Isreal being funded by the USA against Palestine. The destablization of many nations is being waged by these capitalists that pay mercenaries to atack these countries who choose to go against the status quo. Like they did and do in Cuba. Like they did assist South Africa during Apartheid. They vilify Zimbabwe because they are sticking it to the man, but if they had oil ... goodbye the current regime and hello George Bush. This is the hidden truths of the silent deeds of capitalism. Their control of the media assists in getting us to push their aenda and lazily repeat their crap because we are too lazy to make up our own minds. To think for ourselves. They are able to steal the so-called democratic vote of black people in the USA and make it seems that Bush honestly won that election. They make England look like the good guy, when its wealth is based on all that they oppresed through slavery and now continue to control via ownership of those countries wealths that have been privatized. We speak revolution, but in our deepest reaches of our souls know that THEY WILL KILL US IF WE REALLY REBELLED to the extent of crippling their CAPITALISM. Its behind the pollution of the planet through its corporate endeavours. Its behind minimal wage, child labour, sex trade, wars, dehumanization of of people of colour, etc etc etc ...
We speak an academic revolution, but are we willing to die ... yes, you Christian whimps who claim to follow Christ WHO WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ... ARE YOU WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY ... WILL YOU BE CRUXIFIED FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Will you even speak out against the satus quo or you local politicians and capitalism who abuse your brothers and sisters???? Hmmm ... will you???
So reading all this my brothers and sisters ... can you see how hip hop has become their tool to sell their products to our youth and how hip hop is being used to enslave our youths and how true revolution is about being willing to be crixified for your belief in a better world and belive me they have killed and will kill again.
Peac until next time
Emile YX?
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Posted 14 April 2007 - 08:53 PM
Yes, I said it. Capitalism is the force behind the greed that causes them to sell this poison that put that youth into a stooper when he took the life of Mr Devious. Capitalism was behind the Roman control that felt obliged to do the dirty work of the Jews to cruxify Jesus. Capitalism was behond the gu that killed Steve Biko, behind the gun that killed Gandhi, that killed Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Marcus Garvey and most other revolutionary. Its behind the beef between biggie and Tupac and many other rappers that took each others lives.
In South Africa we think that we are free, but if we were truly free capitalism would send its foot-soldiers to kill us. The wars that go on throughout the world are funded by capitalists interests. The war in Iraq is the most obvious of their inteest in oil and Isreal being funded by the USA against Palestine. The destablization of many nations is being waged by these capitalists that pay mercenaries to atack these countries who choose to go against the status quo. Like they did and do in Cuba. Like they did assist South Africa during Apartheid. They vilify Zimbabwe because they are sticking it to the man, but if they had oil ... goodbye the current regime and hello George Bush. This is the hidden truths of the silent deeds of capitalism. Their control of the media assists in getting us to push their aenda and lazily repeat their crap because we are too lazy to make up our own minds. To think for ourselves. They are able to steal the so-called democratic vote of black people in the USA and make it seems that Bush honestly won that election. They make England look like the good guy, when its wealth is based on all that they oppresed through slavery and now continue to control via ownership of those countries wealths that have been privatized. We speak revolution, but in our deepest reaches of our souls know that THEY WILL KILL US IF WE REALLY REBELLED to the extent of crippling their CAPITALISM. Its behind the pollution of the planet through its corporate endeavours. Its behind minimal wage, child labour, sex trade, wars, dehumanization of of people of colour, etc etc etc ...
We speak an academic revolution, but are we willing to die ... yes, you Christian whimps who claim to follow Christ WHO WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ... ARE YOU WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY ... WILL YOU BE CRUXIFIED FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Will you even speak out against the satus quo or you local politicians and capitalism who abuse your brothers and sisters???? Hmmm ... will you???
So reading all this my brothers and sisters ... can you see how hip hop has become their tool to sell their products to our youth and how hip hop is being used to enslave our youths and how true revolution is about being willing to be crixified for your belief in a better world and belive me they have killed and will kill again.
Peac until next time
Emile YX?
In South Africa we think that we are free, but if we were truly free capitalism would send its foot-soldiers to kill us. The wars that go on throughout the world are funded by capitalists interests. The war in Iraq is the most obvious of their inteest in oil and Isreal being funded by the USA against Palestine. The destablization of many nations is being waged by these capitalists that pay mercenaries to atack these countries who choose to go against the status quo. Like they did and do in Cuba. Like they did assist South Africa during Apartheid. They vilify Zimbabwe because they are sticking it to the man, but if they had oil ... goodbye the current regime and hello George Bush. This is the hidden truths of the silent deeds of capitalism. Their control of the media assists in getting us to push their aenda and lazily repeat their crap because we are too lazy to make up our own minds. To think for ourselves. They are able to steal the so-called democratic vote of black people in the USA and make it seems that Bush honestly won that election. They make England look like the good guy, when its wealth is based on all that they oppresed through slavery and now continue to control via ownership of those countries wealths that have been privatized. We speak revolution, but in our deepest reaches of our souls know that THEY WILL KILL US IF WE REALLY REBELLED to the extent of crippling their CAPITALISM. Its behind the pollution of the planet through its corporate endeavours. Its behind minimal wage, child labour, sex trade, wars, dehumanization of of people of colour, etc etc etc ...
We speak an academic revolution, but are we willing to die ... yes, you Christian whimps who claim to follow Christ WHO WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ... ARE YOU WILLING TO GO ALL THE WAY ... WILL YOU BE CRUXIFIED FOR YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. Will you even speak out against the satus quo or you local politicians and capitalism who abuse your brothers and sisters???? Hmmm ... will you???
So reading all this my brothers and sisters ... can you see how hip hop has become their tool to sell their products to our youth and how hip hop is being used to enslave our youths and how true revolution is about being willing to be crixified for your belief in a better world and belive me they have killed and will kill again.
Peac until next time
Emile YX?
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Posted 27 April 2007 - 12:20 AM
Damn
system overload, so much wisdom
Its a shame tho cus things are gettin uglier by the second.
It seems the world is gettin blind, brainwashed by the so-called leaders.
Black Noise ure on point. Im so gobsmacked by this forum I don know what to say exacly.
Keep up the good work or should I say how on earth did I just discorverd this site NOW
Lol anyway Im new Holla to everyone
system overload, so much wisdom
Its a shame tho cus things are gettin uglier by the second.
It seems the world is gettin blind, brainwashed by the so-called leaders.
Black Noise ure on point. Im so gobsmacked by this forum I don know what to say exacly.
Keep up the good work or should I say how on earth did I just discorverd this site NOW
Lol anyway Im new Holla to everyone
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Posted 12 May 2007 - 05:38 AM
AFRICA POST
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mondays 8an to 9pm
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send original music to: crashcollects@gmail.com
Listen to my mix on http://www.rebornradio.com/djcrash.asp
mondays 8an to 9pm
Saturdays 5pm to 6pm
http://www.rebornradio.com/djcrash.asp
Link to my CD MP3s
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... d=58735887
Link to my Podcast
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send original music to: crashcollects@gmail.com
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Posted 23 August 2007 - 04:45 PM
my brother, thanks for dropping that bomb of knowledge! am so happy i found this post especially on my first visit to this site!
there is definitely a shift in the collective consciousness of the African people taking place right now, and this forum is evidence of this.
people are beginning to wake up and are tired of being manipulated i.e. more and more people are unplugging themselves from the "matrix".
keep it coming!
"knowledge leads to wisdom which then brings understanding"
there is definitely a shift in the collective consciousness of the African people taking place right now, and this forum is evidence of this.
people are beginning to wake up and are tired of being manipulated i.e. more and more people are unplugging themselves from the "matrix".
keep it coming!
"knowledge leads to wisdom which then brings understanding"
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Posted 18 November 2007 - 11:53 PM
While in the US, I attended a hip hop concert by Dialated Peoples and The Roots. It was good, but while looking around I realised that aside from about 10 black people, everyyone else were white. Now I know that blacks are minority in the USA, but man ... that was what brought me to this question. OK, fast forward to today ... I walk into this skate shop and a white brother here in South African is listening to some MCs rhyming and chorus is NIGGA NIGGA and he's bobbing his head to that shit ...
I heard from many Afro-Americans that they have had enough of brothers insulting them in this manner and if you watched "Freestyle" you will hear all those MCs say that its all about chasing that paper ... hey, MCs have the right to make a living ... but the question is ... does it have to be at the expense of the entire black race? Do they have to work for the salve master to that extent and is that why its just a game to them. Unfortunately, we have become our own worst enemy. Down side is that the media is owned by them and they create perception so that the once powerful voice of hip hop can be reduced to this insult to the very people that created it. You know somethings wrong when the MC making the most sense and rhyming the most thought provoking rhymes on comercial radio is a white boy, then you know that alls lost to that cause on that medium. We all(most of the so-called hip hop lovers) know that the radio can not be trusted, but thats how everyone and your mother gets to hear about hip hop or what its all about to them and how they can turn your own family against you.
A while back I also saw this religious DVD about how hip hop is the music of the devil. Its interesting that religion would side witht he forces that got Bush into power and not the voice of their youth. The verdict is our - CRUXIFY the messenger and then we will leave the voice open to be used by the very people it was meant to be used against. Rock was created by Black people too and look at it now. Does this mean that maybe in years to come ... less black people or people of colour will listen to hip hop??? This seems to be just a side effect of the bigger agenda that is behind the villification of hip hop in the their media. These capitalists will never give the revolutionary hip hop a chance to reach the ears of the masses. It is for this reason that they have to make parents hate their kids interest in Hip Hop. It serves their interest to get parents to associate violence, crime and drugs with hip hop, so they use it as theme music when they have drugs and gangs and black youth in movies ... so that the subliminal stereotype seed can be planted and watered with ongoing references to the 2 until a point where the one becomes synonomous with the other. That is their real agenda. Its like they did with the heroes revenging their good coloured side-kicks and how they die just before the end of the movie. Its how they show mostly black people doing crime, without showing their genocide of tribes and undereductaing Africa so that they can blame Africa for its own demise ... they have giving Africans the bad gift that keeps on giving the continent more problems that are a result of their brainwashing and continues mental enslavement of the black mind. MEDIA is the new tools that controls the slaves via remote control.
These so-called educated Africans are just prons that have been brainwashed to think like them and work for them and in order to be successful, they need to internalise the intentions of the masses enemy. This is the hidden agenda that their colleges and universities teach to the "educated" African. They teach them to blame the victim, instead of the cause. We think that being like them will bring freedom, but freedom does not come with education or Eurocation or financial stability. Freedom comes from being self-sustainable and not have to buy into their structural control over you. Freedom is about not needing those who oppress the many. True freedom is feeling complete without their titles and accalades.
Hip Hop is being USED by the few to control the many ...
AFRO-CATE YOURSELF TO REMOVE THE SELF-HATE
Emile YX?
I heard from many Afro-Americans that they have had enough of brothers insulting them in this manner and if you watched "Freestyle" you will hear all those MCs say that its all about chasing that paper ... hey, MCs have the right to make a living ... but the question is ... does it have to be at the expense of the entire black race? Do they have to work for the salve master to that extent and is that why its just a game to them. Unfortunately, we have become our own worst enemy. Down side is that the media is owned by them and they create perception so that the once powerful voice of hip hop can be reduced to this insult to the very people that created it. You know somethings wrong when the MC making the most sense and rhyming the most thought provoking rhymes on comercial radio is a white boy, then you know that alls lost to that cause on that medium. We all(most of the so-called hip hop lovers) know that the radio can not be trusted, but thats how everyone and your mother gets to hear about hip hop or what its all about to them and how they can turn your own family against you.
A while back I also saw this religious DVD about how hip hop is the music of the devil. Its interesting that religion would side witht he forces that got Bush into power and not the voice of their youth. The verdict is our - CRUXIFY the messenger and then we will leave the voice open to be used by the very people it was meant to be used against. Rock was created by Black people too and look at it now. Does this mean that maybe in years to come ... less black people or people of colour will listen to hip hop??? This seems to be just a side effect of the bigger agenda that is behind the villification of hip hop in the their media. These capitalists will never give the revolutionary hip hop a chance to reach the ears of the masses. It is for this reason that they have to make parents hate their kids interest in Hip Hop. It serves their interest to get parents to associate violence, crime and drugs with hip hop, so they use it as theme music when they have drugs and gangs and black youth in movies ... so that the subliminal stereotype seed can be planted and watered with ongoing references to the 2 until a point where the one becomes synonomous with the other. That is their real agenda. Its like they did with the heroes revenging their good coloured side-kicks and how they die just before the end of the movie. Its how they show mostly black people doing crime, without showing their genocide of tribes and undereductaing Africa so that they can blame Africa for its own demise ... they have giving Africans the bad gift that keeps on giving the continent more problems that are a result of their brainwashing and continues mental enslavement of the black mind. MEDIA is the new tools that controls the slaves via remote control.
These so-called educated Africans are just prons that have been brainwashed to think like them and work for them and in order to be successful, they need to internalise the intentions of the masses enemy. This is the hidden agenda that their colleges and universities teach to the "educated" African. They teach them to blame the victim, instead of the cause. We think that being like them will bring freedom, but freedom does not come with education or Eurocation or financial stability. Freedom comes from being self-sustainable and not have to buy into their structural control over you. Freedom is about not needing those who oppress the many. True freedom is feeling complete without their titles and accalades.
Hip Hop is being USED by the few to control the many ...
AFRO-CATE YOURSELF TO REMOVE THE SELF-HATE
Emile YX?
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Posted 19 November 2007 - 11:39 AM
c-sa said:
Who are they? ...let us not fall into the trap of blamin social ills on an illusive organisation/people who really have no names. It's so easy to say they they they, pointing out problems but not providing solutions
@Noise, i am not in any way undermining your stature as a HIP Hop icon...The academic does not go and study for a degree because his so brain washed...He goes and sits in lecture halls, because just maybe he really loves his proffession
@Noise, i am not in any way undermining your stature as a HIP Hop icon...The academic does not go and study for a degree because his so brain washed...He goes and sits in lecture halls, because just maybe he really loves his proffession
Me likes! Word C.
In My Opinion, black people are mostly trapped behind the “THEY…” concept. Whenever things go wrong, “THEY” are responsible. Like C-SA asks, Who is “they”: They can refer to your own father, mother, brother, sister and friend in my world and experiences.
Emile and some of you guys mentioned something about starting something new…I got some questions for you guys. And please, be precise and onpoint:
1) Why is it that people that are perceiving themselves as “hustlers” see music as roof during the rainy days? Key question is "WHY?". Why can’t people be creative, initiative and innovative in getting money (you don’t need a lecture room for these qualities)? There’s no ithemba la ma-gumusha (gangsters hope)! People are stuck with conventional concepts and ways of getting money.
2) The system is not one but multiple units working together. When one says system, what is s/he referring to? The government? The management? The white people? Please bring me upto speed with a PRECISE AND DIRECT answer. Instead of trying to gain pity and complain about the system. People need to stop looking at the world and actually start being part of the world. That way you can change it…not just merely critisize it.
3) As far as hip hop goes, what are the people on top of the pyramid (icons or pioneers/management) doing to ensure that those at the bottom survive through hip hop? With all respect, educating is not enough, but acting is. A brief example is the Governments BEE charter. Companies are forced to comply to the Black Economic Empowerment legislation. Recently, government forced diamond exporters to take 10% of their diamonds mined in South Africa to local cutters and polishers. Why can't laws be pushed into the hip hop community? It’s suprising that artists still talk and brag about getting signed today…
What are you doing at your institution to support or endorse your revolutionary thought-ware? In your community? In your workplace? Does it end in your stereo? In the streets as you walk with your baggy jeans and getting people looking at you strangely? In your home with your parents/siblings always degrading your way of life? Hmm?
I admire it when people are hard at work to change people’s mentality as far as slavery and supremacy goes.
Emile/BlackNoise said:
These so-called educated Africans are just prons that have been brainwashed to think like them and work for them and in order to be successful, they need to internalise the intentions of the masses enemy
You bring such great insight Emile but you need to be careful of your comments. You might be part of the Brainwashing system in this regard.
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"The sky is not the limit, but your attitude is..." Prof David Block
-JeaH-
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