F*ck Whoever Don't Like Little Brother.

I was just over at Gotty's house and they got a post up titled, "The Enemies of Hip Hop" in 2007.

That post reminded me of a post I have been meditating on all week called "F*ck However Don't Like Little Brother" because this culture nullifies the voice of Non Thugarrific Black men.

See it all started last Sunday the n*gga Bab was bumping the Minstrel Show in the new whip and I was like, you know what, this culture don't give a*fuck about what NON thuga-licious cats gotta say.

Which brings me to the skit on the minstral show where the dad is talking to his kid about school.

....Boy cut off that TV show watching that ignorant ass sh*t.
Gotchu messhin up your home work. Damn Minstrel Show Sh*t.
Makin' Black Folks Look Like Damn fools.
Talking Bout I love it.
If it was your damn' time tables, would you love that?
Can't stop won't stop, brining these damn F's home on your got d*mn report card....
How about loving some long division n*gga?
You need to love your multiplication tables.....

This skit reminded me of a couple of things.
The first is that it reminded me of how my OWN friends have been on me to remain focused. That THIS IS HOW BLACK PEOPLE ARE.

Stephen "What you need to be focused on is the unavailibility of a witness" when I blogged about TL a couple of weeks ago.

Or how mean sexy was like you need to have Tunnel Vision between now and finals, no dates.

In re-hearing this song on Sunday I realized how this voice is minimized in Hip Hop at large and pop culture definatly.

I then started to reflect on conversation with Black men that supported my theory.
In a post Imus conversation I had w/Minnesota and he was stated:

If I rapped, yes, my sh*t would talk about ho's. Because there are SOME ho's. But I would also talk about metaphysical sh*t , poetry, graffiti, family and history. Because my work would embody what I am about."

Then I thought about The Graduate.
I liked him.
He argued w/ me about 2 pac over brunch.
He contended, last November, that:

Tupac is exactly what is wrong w/ Black people and Rap music in general.
How are you going to have the backroung that you have, and come up around the Panthers and be so f*cking destructive. Thats NOT manhood. Manhood is about being about your family and your community.
I hold him to a different standard because HE KNEW better.

Of course I was livid. But It was nice to hear someone express their theories with conviction.

But taking all these comments together I began thinking about how the Non Thuglicious Cats, Kweli, Comm, LB are thought to be INAUTHENTIC black male voices.


Minnesota pointed out how Nas had is father. He exposed him to Jazz. Kweli's parents are both professors and his brother is a supreme court clerk. YET. We do not hear about these aspects of black people in OUR MUSIC.

Come to think of it. This topic reconfirms why De La's voice was so necessary and poignant because Posdanous was adamant in his rhymes about HIS VOICE MEANING SH*T even though he was NOT from the projects.

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That was a fun post.

The first amendment Rocks!

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