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Gangsta Rap - Babylon Propaganda

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Messenger: Doctor Binghi Sent: 2/12/2005 2:54:02 PM
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Yes I, respect

Don't get me wrong, bredren.. some of it is truth and reality. I guess my last message was a little one-sided. I don't want to be misunderstood. I just really hate the tough-guy stuff. I know tough and it's not a gun. I know rich, and it has nothing to do with money or "bling" You get me?
Maximum Respect, One Love, Selassie I


Messenger: the rock Sent: 2/12/2005 3:53:55 PM
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seen
respect


Messenger: RasBowy Sent: 12/3/2007 6:01:57 PM
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The young are blind and very impressionable. i represent the struggle so i relate to Gangsta Rap howver i'm wise enough to know what to apply and discard i think this is what we should do with the wealth. Is it not natural for somone to say things to get poeples attention so they hear you?! the only way around this is concoucness of our black people and true rastas (not rastafrians no -ism or -scisms)
RasBowy
Love+Peace=Hope


Messenger: Anthony Humboldt Sent: 7/18/2008 8:21:30 PM
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I'll admit that I still listen to some gangster rap. I think of it as a story kind of like a movie, but if someone really tries to live like a gangster they need to be stopped. I think rap has brought attention to some problems in the ghetto, but it has also made people think that those problems are good. Instead of changing the problems it has made some people believe that killing, pimping, and drugs are acceptable and great. I think gang members should be rounded up and judged with some Old Testament style fire. There is no place in society for them.


Messenger: NineMile2004 Sent: 7/22/2008 10:45:53 PM
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Gangsta rap is something that came about as a revolt to the system, which is good. However, I find a lack of message and misguided anger in this music. Also ther is too much focus on violence and false wealth. Love is directed at the wrong things or looked for in the wrong places.


Messenger: Ras Sistren Khamyl Sent: 7/23/2008 11:19:16 AM
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InI find that if you make rap music with hollow words, you become successful.

Have you noticed that "Goodie Mob" aint had no airplay since they dropped those infamous lyrics telling of the New World Order, "guess whose lQQking through my window?"


-RSK


Messenger: RasRanga Sent: 7/23/2008 2:48:58 PM
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Respect Ninemile. the problem with gangster rap is it's lyrical content has no message in most cases. It only promotes the kind of lifestyle HIM would not support. Talks about fornication, filthy money, murder, revenge etc as things we should desire which is definitly NOT the message of iternal life. As ini listen to some of these songs, i feel i spirit just rejecting the music altogether as its mesage is destructive rather than constuctive. Fire burn gangster rap!!!!
Itinual praises to the most High
Selassie I Jah Ras Tafar I


Messenger: Ras Sistren Khamyl Sent: 7/23/2008 4:54:23 PM
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RasRanga there is gangsta rap that is clean truthful etc. It can only be found underground and through people who self publish. The categorizing of gansta rap as such is a marketing concept anyway. It is marketed to serve two purposes, 1 to spread and glamorize ignorance and 2, to stereo type the entire genre to discredit it so that the real message driven works will be ignored

-RSK


Messenger: Ten Sent: 7/23/2008 6:02:26 PM
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Greetings
I think we have to look at the origins of gangsta rap before we just dismiss it as meaningless talk about guns n violence, groups like NWA, Public Enemy were the forerunners of this movement and they had alot to say abt the world. TuPac, Biggie, Snoop, Dr Dre pushed gansta rap in a different direction and it had a bigger commercial appeal. And nowadays its been commercialised but still you can't deny some of the messages in the music of pple like Jay Z, Fifty Cent, Game etc - personally I dislike 50Cent but I can't deny there is a message in some (not all) of his music. Its a question of whether listeners can filter through all the the jiggy bling crap and hyper-sex talk to choose which gangsta rap is worth listening to and which is pure nonsense...And if you arent into the gangsta stuff, rap is such a diverse music genre there is a whole range to choose from...Bless


Messenger: NineMile2004 Sent: 7/23/2008 8:35:10 PM
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RSK - I was not aware of a NWO song by Goodie Mob, but I firmly believe that if this is so it would clearly explain their loss of airtime. Guess who runs the "fair and balanced" media?

YEs, I am not saying that there is no rap with a message out there, but you will have to look for it. Take Reggae for example, you will find good lyrics a lot easier in that music. Probably even in some of the metal and similar music.




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