It's funny, as I was reading my friends blog today I thought about how MBD glorifies Young Geezy's CD. Praising this man who obviously ani't get enough love from his momma and/or aunties that he doesn't seem to respect woman that much. I haven't heard his CD, but MBD specifically said I need to listen to track 16. Proceeding to tell me I need a thug in my life and that I would relate to the song. Well, maybe I missed something in my life, cause I didn't grow up in the ghetto, I haven't hustled on the GRIND to get my DOE, and I don't talk about
F@$^ing broads. Heheheh :)
And even though MBD does not always make smart personal choices. He is book smart though so what is it about men wanting to be thugs or even wanting to associate with the lifestyle as if it is a positive thing. Don't get me wrong I don't want a man that is a punk(meaning, he doesn't have a back bone, let people talk to him any kind of way, and also be willing to stand up for his woman.) On the flip side I don't wan t him smacking me up, or IGNORING me as Geezy says on the
Shake It Off remix for Mariah Carey's song he's on with Jay-Z. Also to include on his attempt to not respect women or to glorify his thugness he has a song where he talks about hitting(sexually) a woman and sending her ass back to her real man so that he can eat the pu-tang. Cause Young Geezy don't do that.
Oh pleeze I am about tired of him. What is happening to these men that they feel they would rather profit off of degrating women, instead of getting middle class profit for empowering our youth to keep on fighting for our rights so that after we are gone us as black people can still have a race on this continent.
All this talk about these rappers and what they do to sell records also has me thinking about why is it that they feel they need to go from one extreme to another. For example going from hustlin on the block and living in the 9th ward of New Orleans to living out in Beverly Hills. Why is it that our poorest people don't recognize that money can't bring you happiness. It can take some stress off of things, but it won't make you complete.
How about working your way to money, so that we appreciate the riches of the success. Too many of these artist, and atheletes(sp) get too much at one time and they mentally are not reading for all of the responsibility. I could go on for days about how we continue to trap ourselves but i'll stop while i'm ahead.