GYYPS - GYPSYBURNS
Pretty exhausting to view this automatically through the lens of a victim or aggrieved party. Youtube is full of videos of people...reacting to things they aren't familiar with. This is not an exclusive thing about black music, it's a general Youtube reaction thing. You brought up gaming...Conan O'Brien does videos where he plays videogames; he's not a gamer, has no interest in gaming, but it's a...reaction skit. There is no difference.
People aren't watching those particular videos for any real insight into hip hop. They are watching them for the novelty of seeing someone who may not be intimately familiar with the genre react to listening to something for the first time. That goes for most of the reaction videos on you tube like "kids try Korean food." No one is watching these videos to see whether a 5 year old is going to understand the depth of flavor in kim chee stew. And the kid with his dad is one of the coolest shits things ever. I don't know how you could watch one of those and listen to that 8 year old speak about music more eloquently than the majority of simple reaction videos and not be won over. If someone like Lionpride actually decided to film himself listening to a Gang of Four album, I'm not going to say "wow you weren't even alive or know what the post punk scene was like in the 70's."
If you want in depth videos or deep dives there's stuff like dead end hip hop. My point isn't that racism doesn't exist, it's that trying to point that out using dudes that are notoriously elitist and closed minded actually trying something new and finding ways to appreciate it is kinda dumb.
Those Conan vids are trash too.
Thanks for expanding on this, see5harp. I don't like kids, so nah I'm not into that boy's videos. If he maintains the same level of interest into adulthood, then I'd be much more interested in his thoughts on the genre.
Perhaps I should have said "Reaction videos in general are bad. Videos about hip-hop by white people who are explicitly unfamiliar with hip-hop are particularly off-putting to me." They're allowed to critique as much as they want, but I'll continue ignoring them.
I don't disagree; it's how most white 18 year old's get treated. Which I never thought there was anything wrong with in a bubble; the problem isn't going easy on white kids it's how hard the justice system is on black kids.
Meek is still a clown though. It's not like he's just violating petty probation rules; one of his revocations involved an assault charge.. which happened while traveling without notice lol
He's already "made it"; so why let the rich guy break the rules?
One of my issues is that the probation terms were excessive. Nonsensical rules (length of probation and the travel restriction) ought to be changed. In the mean time, anyone who breaks them (rich or poor) shouldn't be punished. If the assault you're referring to was the one at the airport then I agree that he definitely fucked up there. He should have known better, but even that fight wasn't unprovoked. An airport employee wanted a picture. He declined, started getting annoyed and then hit them. He was wrong to do that of course, but doesn't deserve to keep suffering years later. The
airport assault case got dismissed too.
This is tight.
Yeah, no, I can easily do without RTJ.
I still listen to the occasional track containing a Chris Brown-feature though, so maybe I'm just garbage with how I justify the shit artists do.
Killer Mike has some wacky views (supporting Dr. Umar, Bank Black, and this recent NRA thing), but Chris Brown's a woman beater. I'll be more offended if RTJ4 were just as boring as their 3rd album. Maybe then I'd stop checking for him.