Sep 06 2007
Jena 6 - Where is Hip- Hop?

The Jena 6 Case: Where’s the Support From Hip-Hop’s Flashiest?

Hop on YouTube and you’ll find a bunch of people video bloggin about the Jena 6 case. There was one that caught my attention. This chick by the ‘name’ of Jia.

She asks where is the support from rappers, producers and the music moguls who love to tell us how much money they have and the price-tags-don’t-mean-shit-to-me lifestyle they lead. Yet when it comes to this real life situation, where they could have helped bail these kids out of jail or with the legal bills they’ll pile up, there isn’t one high-profile person you can name.

I’d add that would not only be helpful (and a true cause) it’s good business.

Think of what people would say about 50 Cent if he gave a lump sum to these kid’s families so they can refill the pockets they’ve had to empty to bail their kids out of jail, and then talked up Jena 6 during his promo tour. It’s not like he’s saying anything else. Now he can be flashy with a new vest on. Making that line.. “before I couldn’t do good, now I can’t do bad”.. mean a whole lot more. It would be so hood too.

Not to pin it all on 50, just an example, cause Jay and Diddy aren’t in the mix either.

We’re talking a car, a trip to the South of France,  a month’s payment to the baby mama..

 

Tagged: EventsJena 6

☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼

1 Alex Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 3:34 pm

Is anyone filing a complaint with the law society of Louisiana against the attorney who went to the school and told the boy he could kill them with the stroke of a pen. Someone needs to file a complaint, maybe, this guy does not deserve to practice law. Maybe you can write about that.

2 dmac Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 3:52 pm

damn that, thats some real shit, I often wonder the same thing. damn these rich mutherf**kin rappers are selfish. I ain’t buying another damn cd, f**kem.

3 sunshine12036 Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 4:51 pm

You know we sit around and listen to all this about the HIP-HOP community and now that this has happened to the HIP-HOP community ( the Black community ) there is no support for these families.  The families of these 6 boys have suffered and will suffer alot.  I think personally that this is a wake up call to our community ( Black ) to let us know that this world is ran on a Black or White.  Know matter what statue you hold in life, you are still a NIGGA and that is very sad.  It takes a “VILLAGE TO RAISE OUR KIDS” and until we the black community learn to stand and support one other outside of record, cars, houseS, and clothes sales,  we will never grow.  I think that we as a race need to stand strong with these families and the young man that is on trial for this.  We need to show the Governor, Judge, prosecuting attorney and the President that we “SHALL OVERCOME, NOT ONE DAY, BUT TODAY”  I pray that these boys are set free and the young men ( white boys ) who performed that hateful act will reap what they sow. ( they have to answer to GOD)

God aint no JOKE and until the white race understand that we as black people or just as equal, we have to show them by standing strong together and believing in one another.  this support not only need to go to records sales but to issue like this.

ONE LUV
SUNSHINE12036

4 NETRIDER Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 9:05 pm

So easy to be “Gangsta” on a CD, So easy to say the N-word, B-word, and H-word in every other line.
Aint that easy to stand up to the power structure….Thats to “REAL” for our Gangstas….

So to all you Rappers who quiet as a church mouse when YOUR community needs you…..I’ll say what nobody else will.
Fuck ya’ll Punk B#$%@%s

5 What Is Wrong With Yall?! Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 11:00 pm

These JENA 6 did something wrong and are too scared to face the consequences. They should have thought before they tried beat someone up..no matter what color. Don’t talk about how the white kids were racist. If they’re racist…so are the black kids as well. Talk about a pot calling a kettle black.

6 "Who is Yall"?! Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 1:50 am

To “What is Wrong with Yall?!” First of all, why are people wrong for standing up to the racial injustice of these 6 black students? If your kid, niece, nephew or anyone 15,16,17 or 18 year old child you know, with no prior record, and a outstanding student was involved in a school fight (which happens in every school no matter were you live) was facing 22yrs to life in prison what would you do?
Iam not saying they need a slap on the wrist but jail time is not what you would want for yours..DOUBLE STANDARD!

7 Queendom in New Orleans Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 6:22 am

I agree with this young lady.  I am an educated BF in New Orleans Post-Katrina.  And let me say two years after the hurricane, 100,000+ members of the black population haev still not here.  However, the City Council just voted to commandere $170 million FEDERAL dollars for revitalization projects.  NOT IN THE NINTH WARD THOUGH (where the community still doesn’t exist due to the house being wshed away).  But, I am sure downtown and uptown will get nice flourishes here and there.

The acts of many white people these days are more or less BLATANTLY geared to construct a segregated society.  New Orleans and the south itself was built on the backs of our ancestors.  So, the battle is far from over for us.

But I digress… 

Just today, I sent an email to a friend in response to the Jena 6 issue.  It reads:

U can Pass this on Tap!
>
> Let me first say not all white people are represented by this North
Louisiana community. Some know better than these folks, but clearly
this is a place that has been allowed to exist with persistent
segregationist activity under the radar for a long time. Another
place like this is the city of Walker up in Livingston Parish (right
pass the I-10, I-12 splict traveling east outside of Baton Rouge—- a
place which David Duke called home). Old black men there are still
called “boy.” I heard about it when I was attending law school there.
Incidentally, Baton Rouge schools just… JUST resolved a 50+ year old
de-segreation suit. How sad.
>
> I heard about this Jena incident a while ago. Presently, the guys’
sentences are being reviewed, but they should have never been tried for
this nonsense in the first place. (I suggest that we invest in some
offensive and defensive gear for the coming race war.) Everything is
going backwards and no one seems to want to acknowledge it. These
folks must think they’re going to get away with this travesty of
justice, violation of human rights, lack of common decency and
sense.
>
> I am a professional as you well know, but sometimes, SOME-TIMES…
people act in ways deserving a good old fashioned BEATDOWN!!!! Those
noose-hanging, segregationist white kids (a reflection of their parents
and community)...OOHH!!! The D.A.and the local police need some tough
love too.
> H—E—DOUBLE HOCKEY STICK YEAH! But, what type of help does violence
ever lend to a situation? (I can dream though, because it would sure
be a stress reliever.)
>
> However, in order to stop the insistence that we are N- words, we
need to eliminate it from our vocabulary. PERIOD. IT WILL NEVER BE A
TERM OF AFFECTION. If we throw blame around and mobilize when whites
display ignorant behavior (ie. IMUS), we should also admonish the
ignorant record companies and artists who capitalize on the suffering
of people who died for “living while black.” I refuse to purchase
gansta rap and music that is degrading to black women (to me that is
black on black hate). So, SNOOP & LUDACRIS, etc. will never be on my
iPod.
>
> But I digress…these young guys are victims of a society, and on a
microcosmic scale, a community with a glaring disparity between blacks
and whites. I only saw people living in small wooden “shacks” on the
TV show in the Heat of the Night (the Botttoms, where the black people
live). But people in smaller rural areas in the south still live in
“the Bottoms.”
>
> But, regardless of where they lived, these guys were in high school—
still at the beginning of their young lives. Their whole futures
were/ARE ahead of them. They aren’t inner city youths with criminal
records and the like who are slinging and using crack, heroin, and
shooting up each other in my neighborhood—controlled by yet an unseen
puppetmaster who is probably not living in the hood, nor a part of our
beautiful race. Yet, again, I digress.
>
> I am glad that the whole world sees the dirty south as what it is.
The fact is, whites in north Louisiana aren’t afraid to show their
hatred of us. They are card carrying conservatives who voted for Bush
and who wish their Jim Crow, pre-segregation “utopia” still
existed.
>
> But, first, blacks need to become an educated and cohesive unit. We
should aspire to take part in public office and seek means other than
entertainment to make marks in society. The entertainment industry is
not concerned about the black cause. And although athletics allow our
kids to go to college, a star is only a star if he can shut up and make
money for the owners of the teams.
>
> We are all victims. We are all deluded because we live in a state of
delusion everyday, especially in terms of BET awards, Baby Phat
clothes, plastic Chinese-made tennis shoes that people will pay $200
for, and gold gem studded grillz (thank you Nelly, thank you very
doggone much—NOT). Quite simply, Beyonce’s “ka-thunk-ka-dunk” is
more important than these fellas’ plight. Whitney and Bobby’s custody
battle is more important than this battle.
>
> You don’t need a gun to kill somebody. If you kill a man’s culture
and traditions, you commit genocide. Public Enemy said it best,
“You’re blind!”
>
> That’s my soapbox. Black Power!
>

Again, this is my soapbox.  I am in total agreement with Jia.  All of us should aspire to have firey consciousness.

8 PAMELA / ATL GA Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 11:29 am

WOW! The world we live in!!!!
This is like something out of a 1920’s black face movie but its REAL!  I am pleased to see the support from around the world from some of our black leadership (that we barely have these days, but I do agree that the hip-hop nation or rap community should also support and take a stand (who knows maybe some of them are but we don’t hear about that). I do know that Rapper T.I. has been out and visably supporting the movement in New Orleans, as well as Spike Lee adding some exposure…but this thing in Jena is f’n crazy outta this world!!! Prayers go up for the families of the victims as well as for a community seemingly lost in a timewarp. WTH?, what the black community in this small town doesn’t need is to be divided, but united and continue to stand strong against the madness.

9 Mrs.V / San Diego, Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 5:55 pm

I keep up with a lot of tragies and misfortunes such as this one.  I am a mother of 7 and I’ve listen to people say that most of the crime happening with our black youth today is because of the rap music. I am not sure about this crime in Jena.  What does rapp music have to do with this?  As for the 6 black young men that are being charged or have been charged I pray for them.  I have a teenage male that will soon be 18 and I pray every day that he is safe and does not have to encounter any racial violence or any violence in general.  As for the rappers coming out of the pocket to help the black or even the white community you can forget that.  These people are selfish. Oh I listen to the music on the radio and my children buy some of the CD’s. We are so worried about the wrong things here.  I do understand these boys are being charged with a crime that they may not have commited and if they did why are they being charged as hardened criminals.  This young man that was beat is still alive and well and with his parents.  We should pray for all the families involved.  While we are here in the united states killing or hurting each other we have men overseas trying to save our country and at the rate we are going we are going to be so blinded by all this racial nonsense that the people overseas that hate us so much are going to do away with us all.  Look how our toys are being contaminated.  Look at what happened in new york on 9-11.  Look at how the people overseas really don’t want us there and talk about how we as a country are going to fall.  What we need to do is pull together as one nation instead of our race worry more about them and what they are capable of doing to us to wipe us all out.  I personally worry about that and not what race a man or woman is.  Yes the south still have a great deal of racism.  But they need to start kissing and loving each other and join together as one.  Because if one of these other countries come here and do what we have done to them they wont give a damn what color any of us are.  We will all be American and the most hated people on the face of the earth.

10 nawtyxes Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 11:52 pm

Who is this chick to tell someone what to do with their money?  How do you know what someone HAS actually done?  Just because it’s not your cause doesn’t mean that their are causes are worthless.

11 Lord Nah-L Killa Cali Sat, Sep 08, 2007 - 4:19 am

First of all anyone claiming to be very very conscious is suspect..

Its sad that this chick has waisted energy hating on the success of her peers, she could have used this time to post a P.O box address asking for donation on behalf of the famillies and challanged the Hip Hop community to give back.

That would have been a very succesful aproach without demeaning the Hip Hop community as well as being pro active. I also question her intentions as i seen no evidence of her own action, just complaining. She falls into the group of hating niggroes that dont get off the stoop.

And how do you know what people are giving and doing in they communities, Russ has fout tooth and nail against drug laws that effect the black community, what has she done..!!!!!!

Wise Up sista, drop the emotions and start thinking
Mrs Conscious….

12 Lord Gemma Sat, Sep 08, 2007 - 5:24 am

hats the ex porn ho Kira Kane anyway people will do what they want with there money be it right or wrong we can state our opinions but there like @ssholes everybody has one.

13 ohso kool Sat, Sep 08, 2007 - 6:43 am
14 EYEZ (NEW ORLEANS) Sat, Sep 08, 2007 - 9:23 pm

THATS SOME REAL SHIT RIGHT THERE!  AND IT’S RIGHT YOU CAN’T TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR MONEY.  BUT AT LEAST COMMENTS LIKE THIS GIVE PEOPLE THE INCENTIVE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT THEN WHAT WE SEE IS OBVIOUSLY HURTING US A PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY.  BUT SUPPORT ACROSS THE BOARD WITH BLACK PEOPLE IS ESSENTIAL.  IF WE COULD RELEARN WHAT IT IS TO MOVE LIKE A UNIT AGAIN. . . TO BE ABLE TO RELY ON ONE ANOTHER AGAIN, TRUST, RESPECT, UNDERSTAND ONE ANOTHER AGAIN. 

“IT’S A CRIME AND A SHAME THAT THE DEVIL DOESN’T HAVE TO DO HIS OWN DIRTY WORK ANYMORE.”

GO TO “JONEYEZ” ON YOUTUBE & CHECK OUT SOME VIDEOS. “FOUND MY WAY HOME” IS THE ALL ORIGINAL PIECE IN THIS SERIES BUT I HAVE LOTS MORE TO POST.

15 CG Sun, Sep 09, 2007 - 12:52 am

I take serious offense to the one person’s comment about the Hip-Hop Community being the Black Community. Do not get twisted, many latinos and, dare I say it, white (YEAH THAT’S RIGHT, whitey!) helped Hip-Hop become the success that it is.

With that said, as a brown person, I am personally outraged about what’s happening to the Jena 6. I want to go down to LA on the 20th and help support the fight for all these cats get their conviction overturned. This is 2007, not 1807. Massa ain’t in charge no mo. We as a people (Black, White, Yellow, Puerto Rican, Haitian, etc) have to stand up and fight this bullshit! The real criminals are the school system, District Attorney and cops. The Federal Government needs to get down their and do what they’ve been doing since we took back the Dirty-ass South. This shit in Jena definitely makes the South Dirty as hell…and I don’t mean it in that cool, colloquial way, neither.

16 umm? Thu, Sep 13, 2007 - 8:38 pm

NETRIDER- Thu, Sep 06, 2007 - 9:01 pm

So easy to be ?Gangsta? on a CD, So easy to say the N-word, B-word, and H-word in every other line.
Aint that easy to stand up to the power structure….Thats to ?REAL? for our Gangstas….

So to all you Rappers who quiet as a church mouse when YOUR community needs you…..I?ll say what nobody else will.
Fuck ya?ll Punk B#$%@%s


how old are u? and why didnt you !#3$@*) the f**k?


and check the Crip of Redman

17 Send money to africa Thu, Sep 13, 2007 - 8:43 pm

First of all. u got enugh money to send some to poor ppl in africa. do you do it? nope. same shit here, they dont spend all their $$$ on charity, they spend some but, its they money. Pls, u call it ghetto. go to a real ghetto south america or africa then go back to your home in the ghetto and if u complain u can put a plastic bag over ur head and choke on d*cks.

18 CHIEF 00 Sun, Sep 16, 2007 - 7:45 pm

THIS IS 2007 AND WE ARE STILL HERE. WE ARE STILL GETTING PULLED OVER BY THE POLICE BECAUSE WE ARE BLACK, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY NEED THEIR END OF THE MONTH TICKETS (TROOP I CONNECTICUT, MERIDEN POLICE), WE ARE STILL BEING CONVICTED OF CRIMES THAT EVEN IF WE WERE WHITE WE WOULD WALK FREE(LEAVING BABYS IN CARS TO DIE). WHY DOES WHITEY FEAR US? WHEN I SAY WHITEY I DO NOT MEAN ALL WHITE PEOPLE, IT JUST HAPPENS TO BE WHITE PEOPLE WITH POWER (JUDGES, PROSECUTORS AND DEFINATELY PUNK ASS POLICE OFFICERS) WHY DO THEY FEEL WE DON’T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO DRIVE A CAR WALK ON THE STREET WITHOUT TELLING US TO PULL OUT OUR ID. I SAY IF YOU WHITE OFFICERS DON’T LIKE US I AM PERSONALLY OK WITH YOU FIGHTING ME LIKE A MAN INSTEAD IF HIDING BEHIND YOUR SORRY ASS BADGES TRYING TO MAKE US INTO CRIMINALS. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO THE RACIST COPS IN THE WORLD TODAY BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGINS. I CHALLENGE ALL WHITE OFFICERS TO STAND UP AGAINST THIS KIND OF POLICING AND I CHALLENGE ALL BLACK OFFICERS TO STOP TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK WHEN YOU KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING (SGT. GAMBRELL) BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT YOU DO THIS!!!

19 Sammy Two Toe Mon, Sep 17, 2007 - 4:06 am

The 6 should be charged with the hate crime of assualt and using excessive force and be locked up for it. As much as the white student was wrong, he did not carry out any personal injury. What should have been done was discipline/expell/suspend the student but these 6 decided to put their own lifes into question and carry out what they did KNOWINGLY. If they get excused, it only gives way for more like them to try and get away with things of this nature.

20 CHIEF 00 Mon, Sep 17, 2007 - 1:50 pm

SAMMY TWO TOE, NOBODY ISN’T SAYING THAT THEY SHOULDN’T BE CHARGED WITH THE CRIMES WE ARE SAYING THAT HAD THE SITUATION BEEN REVERSED THE WHITE BOYS WOULD HAVE GOTTEN OFF FREE AND YOU KNOW THIS IS TRUE. I GUESS YOU ARE OK WITH HANGING THE NOOSES FROM THE TREE AND THAT’S NOT A HATE CRIME TO YOU. YOU STILL FEEL THAT BLACKS DON’T BELONG IN CERTAIN PLACES (LIKE UNDER A TREE) AND NOTHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THAT RIGHT.

21 Ms. J Mon, Sep 17, 2007 - 10:50 pm

^

22 Trillmatic in Texas Mon, Sep 17, 2007 - 11:24 pm

We are the future and the future is NOW!
Gen X and our younger compadres HAVE GOT TO DENOUNCE the Hateful things that our country thrives on. 22 yrs in prison is DISGRACEFUL.An assault charge/conviction even in Texas should only warrant a fine and possible probation. Seriously, this case broke my father’s heart.
It would have broke mine but there’s so much of this sort of injustice for us young Black people that there is nothing left to break.
FREE THE JENA 6! STAND UP YOUNG AMERICA.

23 CHIEF 00 Mon, Sep 17, 2007 - 11:50 pm

TRILLMANTIC IN TEXAS, I AGREE WITH YOU, THINGS LIKE THIS HURT BUT THEY CAN’T EVEN BREAK MY HEART EITHER BECAUSE THIS IS AN EVERYDAY THIHG FOR BLACKS TO DEAL WITH. IN NEW HAVEN AND HAMDEN CONNECTICUT EVERY TIME ONE PERSON GETS SHOT THE COPS START PULLING EVERYBODY OVER TO SHOW THAT AFTER THE SHOOTING THEY ARE DOING THEIR JOB WHERE WERE THEY WHEN THE PERSONS GOT SHOT? HIDING I BET. STATE TROOPERS WAIT UNDER HIGHWAY UNDER PASSES (TROOP I) FREQUENTED BY BLACKS TO PULL US OVER AT THE END OF THE MONTH FOR THEIR END OF THE MONTH TICKETS. IN THE EYES OF THE LAW WE AS BLACK MEN ARE ALWAYS CRIMINALS TO COPS AND THIS NEEDS TO STOP (THE RACIAL PROFILING) BLACK COPS NEED TO STOP STANDING BY WHILE WHITE COPS PROFILE US. THIS INCLUDES STATE TROOPERS IN CT TOO (TROOP I) YES I AM CALLING YOU ALL OUT TO STOP THIS LEGALIZED RACISM BECAUSE IT STARTS WITH YOU ( COPS AND STATE TROOPERS). BLACKS ARE HUMAN TOO NOT ANIMALS AS YOU ALL TREAT US.

24 summerranedrops Wed, Sep 19, 2007 - 5:58 pm

THIS MESSAGE IS TO:
WHAT IS WRONG WITH Y’ALL AND NETRIDER….

Let me sing this song -  “Oooh tie a yellow ribbon (sic rope) round your old oak tree!  An eye for an eye!  Keep that sh&t;up y’all doing!  What goes around comes around! 

White America is going down…to hell where you belong.  Nobody in the world like you white people anyway, look at your racist news reports abroad and around the world!  White american is so used to picking with black people, everybody else is phucking you up at the same time!  If you white american’s keep it up, there will be no one there to pick your azz up!  I know I won’t be there!

25 2intense4u Wed, Sep 19, 2007 - 11:46 pm

People blame rappers for so much, but the picture is so much bigger.  BET (Black Entertainment Television) is quick to put American Gangster and all these negative images on the television feeding negativity to the youth like it’s nutriment for soul.  There could have been more press from BET and many others about this.  It?s so unfortunate all black leaders that has the opportunity to reach the masses through television are to afraid to address Jena 6.  (Oprah, Montel, Obama, 106 and Park etc?..)

We can’t look at one with out looking at them all.

26 CHIEF 00 Thu, Sep 20, 2007 - 7:21 pm

2INTENSE4U, THE PERSON THAT YOU BRING UP THAT BOTHERS ME MOST IS OBAMA. I UNDERSTAND THAT HE IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT BUT HE NEEDS TO STEP UP IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. HE NEEDS TO REALIZE THAT HE IS STILL BLACK. I AM TIRED OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT GET A LITTLE RESPECT FORGETTING THE REST OF US. GET INVOLVED OBAMA!!!  SAY SOMETHING!!!

27 Jia Fri, Sep 21, 2007 - 12:02 am

To Lord Nah…

Sweetie, Im beyond “wise” and do a lot more thinking that you could ever imagine.

First and foremost, to those of you who said that Im “hating,” please note that this word is highly overused and most certainly NOT what Im doing. I wish everyone much success in whatever they choose to do and those who gain more success than the next, MORE POWER TO THEM!

However, to mistake my emotion for envy rather than logic is completely unfounded. Im not trying to TELL anyone to do with their money. It is, however, a little upsetting to see that a lot of these rappers, movers and shakers in the hip-hop community can go out and buy all these expensive things but rarely (if at all) do you hear of them giving back to the community. Even if not in THIS situation, then WHEN?

Second,  to the person who felt compelled to point out that I was an adult film actress, the only thing I can tell you is find something else to talk about. Irrespective of my past career choices, I STILL have an opinion and as long as I have a mouth, mind and platform in which to express it, I will continue doing so. Dont like? Dont watch me! Dont think I should be talking? Cover your ears. Either or, I WILL speak on issues that concern me in ANY way I so choose and those who dont like it are more than welcomed to tune me out.

The bottom line is this…Im not blaming the hip hop community for anything. But I also feel that we all have some sort of social responsibility to our youth. If we’re busy sending out the message that opulence and superfluousness are all that matters, then we should also teach in the same breath that giving back once we’ve gained such wealth is the icing on the cake!

Thanks..and if anyone else feels the need to address me, please do so at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

28 BLACK WOMAN Fri, Sep 21, 2007 - 2:11 am

Hello Jia.  I would like to commend you on your intellectual values.  Thank you!  I strongly agree with you.  Beyonce making a comment “I am so rich, it’s embarrassing and Jemaine Dupri “Money aint a thang”  Why not contacting the families of these racial victims and purchasing a well educated jews attorney to avoid a bias decision?  These rappers say they have a hundred thousand on their neck, like that ignorant guy Jim Jones.  All they do is make babies and insult my culture by wasting money on devil wealth.  We will all be judged one day.  I am not passing the blame because we are all responsible.

Jesus Christ is black.  This is how they treated Jesus Unfairly.  This is proof that Jesus Christ is black. 


They lie to you by putting that white hippy men with blue eyes to front like he is Jesus, Please…


That is why I stopped going to Catholic churches. 


40% of white people are phenomenally awesome but the 60% are pure blue eyes devils.  They have no souls or conscience. 

I am not a racist, I am basing this through personal experiences and observations.


My step father was white and one evil one.  He turned my siblings to believe only white is right.

The idiot O.J is only experiencing racism.  He is so obsessed with white women that he is too blind to figure that out.


Racism does exist…they are still hanging blacks in the south. 


This needs in immediate attention.  During Jesus time, God was sending profits.  These profits are our celebrities today.  They are not prophesizing as they are suppose to.  Instead they are marketing the devil.


Alot of these celebrities are anti-christ and not even know it. 


We as a black nation are extremely powerful and not even aware of how powerful we are.

All we need to do is help one another like our latin people do.  That was probably why Beyonce said she wish she was Latina.


We black people are our own enemy.  They white men is sitting back laughing watchin us kill ourselves.


The term n***r means ignorant, not knowing…

We are ignorant by not investing in things that matters.  we just want to flash and show “look what I have” 

Education is Power!!!!!!!!!!


We too can build our own cities better than Beverly Hills in which I grew up in.


Let us too show we can progress without them. 


What are we waiting for?

My gray uncles were lynched because they did not believe we should be labeled as n***rs and here we are glorifying that on rap music.


What is that about?

P. Diddy, 50, Snoop, Beyonce, Venus and Serina, that white girl Tyra Banks step the f**k up and help!!!!!!

29 NOA Sat, Sep 22, 2007 - 3:36 pm

I am angry and upset at the hip hop community. I LOVE HIP HOP. I stayed up until 3am back in the 80’s to listen to hiphop shows when they didn’t play it on mainstream radio. No one will fight for hiphop like I will. But when you talk about the injustices (Chamillionaire- Riding Dirty) and you have the opportunity to stand up publicly. you don’t. It makes me think that it is really about the money and a lot of these rappers are ignorant. This is exactly what they talk about in their rhymes. Police brutality being a thug, killing N*$$ but when a threat comes along something THEY ALL KNOW ABOUT what do they do? I am not sure. I have seen very few say anything publicly. But I know for sure 50 runs NY, and Diddy got a homecoming party at Howard. 

You can’t tell me that one, just one of their brothers, cousins or homeboys was never locked up for something they didn’t do or given harsh treatment when they were arrested. WHY AREN’t they standing up? Your homeboys don’t want to stand up but you want us to buy your records?

I guess this is what NAS was talking about. HIPHOP is dead. FROM NY to LA to CHI to TX Hiphop is dying.
Back in the days the KRS ONE’s, Big Daddy Kanes, Public Enemy’s, would have addressed this (publicly). We can talk about each other but when pure rascism rears its head and you think the thugs and hard core rappers would stand up against a REAL threat they don’t care. I guess they do care about the money.

I am waiting to hear what these rappers will say in the coming rhymes about this. it will be interesting to see if this was even on their minds or if the record companies are hoing them as usual. I don’t buy much hiphop any more but I will really be selctive after this. I will support those who support the things I am interested in. SAVING MY BLACK MEN

THANK YOU MOS DEF, ICE CUBE, COMMON, KANYE and all the rappers that support the cause.

Remember this could be any black man. I am from Brooklyn and when the Yusef Hawkins case happened that could have been my brother or Stephon Marbury coming home from practice through bensonhurst and got Jumped and killed.

Does any one remember
Emmitt Till
The images of a black man and his 2 sons being hung for cropping the first cotton.

The image of the black man being burned after he was stoned and beat while white people looked on with their children on their shoulders. THIS WAS COMMON PRACTICE IN AMERICA
The woman in 1918 that was pregnant and she was doust with gasoline, burned alive, her baby cut from her stomach and stomped to its death.
The 4 Birmingahm girls burned in the church.
The black man that was dragged from a car for 3 miles back in the 90’s
THe young black kid that is in jail NOW for having consentual sex with a white girl. HE IS SERVING 10 years.
The black woman in WVA that was kidnapped,raped, sodomized forced to eat feces called every name in the book (NOT TO MENTION THAT BLACK MEN DIDNT STAND UP FOR THAT- when you demean the women and the men do nothing you know you are doomed)

Seems to me if a few of the HIPHOP “THUGS” went down there maybe it would have made an impression.

30 NOA Sat, Sep 22, 2007 - 3:45 pm

Maybe we are expecting too much from the hiphop community. Maybe we think they are smart conscious young black men.

whaaaaattttttt

even if you don’t snitch how many black men will go into the community and handle it without the police. my father does.

They are sexy when they step up

31 CHIEF 00 Sat, Sep 22, 2007 - 4:10 pm

NOA, BLACK PEOPLE DIDN’T STAND UP FOR THESE THINGS NOT JUST BLACK MEN. WE NEED THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY TO STEP UP BUT THE WAY TO DO OT IS NOT THE WAY WE ARE GOING ABOUT IT. BARAK OBAMA SHOULD STAND UP BUT YOU ASK FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE NOT GET MAD IF THEY DON’T. IT’S TRUE WHEN WE HAVE $100,000 OF JEWELRY AROUND OUR NECKS AND NOT GIVING BACK THERE IS A PROBLEM. TO THE PERSON THAT CALLED THEM BABY MAKERS, THEIR ARE WOMEN LAYING DOWN TRYING TO GET A CHILD SUPPORT CHECK SO LETS NOT JUST CALL THEM BABY MAKERS IT TAKES 2 TO MAKE A BABY 1 TO HAVE IT AND THAT ONE IS NOT THE MAN!!!

32 Grown Man Wed, Sep 26, 2007 - 6:43 pm

Well said sister. I been waiting for hiphop to grow up with me.

Any else feel the same like, rap stopped at 16 or somethin?

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33 I AM HIP HOP Mon, Oct 08, 2007 - 7:25 pm

OK YAL, I AM IN TOTAL SUPPORT OF THE JENA 6 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.  I WANT TO CRY EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT IT BUT THAT IS BECAUSE I AGREE THAT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS OUT OF LINE AND I DISAGREE WITH HOW THOSE KIDS ARE BEING TREATED.  HOWEVER, WE CAN’T FORCE OUR OPINIONS ON HIP HOP ARTISTS THOUGH.  WE CAN’T JUST ASSUME THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK THAT THEY ARE GONNA AUTOMATICALLY AGREE WITH THIS CASE.  YOU KNOW?  MAYBE THEY JUST NEED TO BE EDUCATED ON THE CASE, I DON’T KNOW BUT WE CAN’T JUST AUTOMATICALLY ASSOCIATE ALL BLACKS WITH THIS, WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME AND WE ARE NOT ALL GOING TO AGREE.  TAKE IT EASY ON THE ARTISTS THE ONES WHO STEPPED UP ARE THE ONES WHO CARE.

34 CHIEF 00 Mon, Oct 08, 2007 - 8:18 pm

I AM HIP HOP, I STILL THINK THAT HIP HOP COULD DO A LOT MORE THAN THEY ARE DOING. WHEN DAVID BOWIE IS GIVING $10,000 AND HIP HOP CAN STAND AROUND AND DO NOTHING. THAT IS A CONCERN.

35 death to hateful white people everywhere Mon, Feb 21, 2011 - 9:47 am

help
The world a better place without honkeys

36 yabwoy (Barbados 2 S. Africa) Mon, Jan 16, 2012 - 9:59 pm

Dubu hulibhunu
Shoot the boar!

Boycott sucker recording artists,
Occupy the industry!
Support the underground.

37 Diazz Wed, Feb 22, 2012 - 6:01 am

drake =homolil wayne=homosoulja boy=homonicki minaj=everything on her faeilkl b=homop diddy=snitchbirdman=homolil kim=skankbow wow =lolon and on hip hop is doomed

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