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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Amerikkka Won

Usually, this is the part of your day where you hop on this section of the Internets to see which shitty rapper will catch a bad one from me. You’ll also see some random-ass hump or two flood the comments board defending the honor of said shitbag rapper with an almost-incestual appreciation. However, with site being “the source for hip-hop news,” I feel it’s a must that other issues must be addressed. Just because they are not hip-hop per se doesn’t mean the shit doesn’t affect the hip-hop community.

Unless you’re either living under a rock, this country we live in – while allowing certain freedoms other civilizations cannot enjoy such as, say, the ability to call someone like Rick Ross a pussy hoe without fear of retribution – has remained the oppressive, unruly society built on the bloodied and scarred backs of a slavery system that prevalently exists today [1]. This same system has implemented a variety of rules, each which have been designed to keep shitting on the young, urban demographics. Instead of teaching them about upliftment and prosperity, those same urban demographic instead are taught that showing off their ridiculously expensive materials possessions is the embodiment of success. Who really gives a shit about running around the ‘hood in a vehicle whose emissions are poisoning the environment? As much as I hate to say this, we all in our own “unique” way are destroying our children’s children’s future. I sometimes sit back and realize that my great-grandseeds are going to be the strongest dorsal fin-having kids in the neighborhood, and they still may not be able to land a high-ranking, well-respected position because their flippers are bigger than the other kids’.

It agitates me when humps run around claiming they either run a block or own a city. If those words held truth they wouldn’t be shook whenever someone of a higher authority comes in and shuts the shit down. Not a lot of people realize that the Bloods and Crips were offshoots of the Black Panther Party after COINTELPRO systematically destroyed them. Originally supposed to carry the ideals of unity, solidarity and family established the Panthers, Bloods and Crips manipulated those virtues and turned on each on some petty quest for some invisible “block power” that usually gets snatched up quickfast by the law if they feel gangs step out of pocket. Word to my Internets wifey Drea, the government has the means to infiltrate, assimilate and annihilate any and everything they deem is posing a threat with virtually no resistance at all thanks to seemingly unlimited funds. Why do gangs feel like monarchs once they “own” a couple blocks? That shit’s like small fish compared to a government that runs a couple countries.

It also confuses and irritates me whenever I see a gump praise some shitbag rapper’s “street credibility.” Selling nicks and dimes, popping a couple hand cannons here and there and other nonsensical shit that tears your community from the inside out ain’t shit when the real gangstas can get their own man ethered on a higher scale and only get a slap on the wrist. I actually give props to Itchy Fingaz  for popping his own boy, and then making him apologize for the shit as if it were his fault he got blasted in the face. If that ain’t the definition of gully, I don’t know what is.

I’m not saying that we all should stand up and take on our oppressors blindly, nor am I saying we should drop everything and start the revolution; hell, I’m probably gonna make some custom Dunks later on today and work on my next tattoo's design, plus I don’t have that kind of power to move a crowd on such a large level [2]. But I would like the hip-hop community to at the very least sit back and reflect on this shit. This world is much bigger than your block, your coinage and your blammer. And if people took just perhaps five minutes thinking and acting upon something as simple as that thought instead of getting asshurt because I say I don’t like Southern hip-hop music, perhaps this society could be a more inhabitable place for our past, present and future.

[1] And I’m not talking the OG Kunta Kinte-style shit either. If half your paycheck gets yoked from you before you even get paid, that’s slavery. If you have a PhD and you drive a taxi to feed your fam, that’s slavery. I could keep going on, but I’m trying to make a point here.

[2] Then again, certain humps here get pickle-faced when I jump on their favorite shitbag “producer,” so you never know.

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