'Yes, we can grieve. Yes, we can hurt. BlackMenDeservetoGrowOld. But what we can't do is blame a genre of music for an isolated incident, even when the pain and trauma feels collective.' -TaylynHarmon
. “Rap music becomes responsible for things we have no control over.”
I grew up in Chicago, IL as the child of two ex-gang-affiliated parents. You may expect gunshots and early deaths to be as American as apple pie for me. But where do we place the blame when“[Gun violence] is a crisis that affects everyone in the entire country no matter your background and no matter where you're at in public spaces,” says Durkee.
to treat lyrical content as artistic expression rather than criminal confessions and ban the use of lyrics in court. In these cases, hip-hop is further demonized and assumed as having malicious intent.1988 song “Gangsta Gangsta,” became a sort of catch-all term for “music made from the perspective of people in the streets,” Adams says. “Which is not a new phenomenon [for a 40-year-old genre].
“Many of our political leaders, many of our revolutionaries, came from a so-called ‘gangster’ background,” adds Adams, riffing on icons like Huey P. Newton and Malcolm X. “If we removed everybody with a gangster background from Black history, you’re going to be sad to see who's going.”You can’t have a call to end violence in hip-hop without making a call to end gun violence in America, period.
Takeoff’s death was this week. Now is not the time for discourse and damnation. I do earnestly want the hip-hop community to take a step back and examine the use of violent imagery in the music, but not at the expense of blaming other artists for their deaths. You can’t have a call to end violence in hip-hop without making a call to end gun violence in America, period. Yes, we can grieve. Yes, we can hurt. #BlackMenDeservetoGrowOld.
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