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The law of attraction applies to everyone. You become your environment. You cant download garbage in your spirit or soul and not expect the same output.
This is not real hip-hop. Real Hip hop music was supposed to educate and elevate, not create confusion. Notice that his baby pic is used because in truth, he's in a regressive "childish" state.
This is not real hip-hop. Real Hip hop music was supposed to educate and elevate, not create confusion. Notice that his baby pic is used because in truth, he's in a regressive "childish" state.
Umm Illmatic is often regarded as one of the best, if not the best, hip hop album of all time with New York State of Mind being one of the most popular tracks on the album. It is real. He's talking about how growing up in New York City has got him living and thinking crazy because him and everyone else have the "New York State of Mind" which is basically being a criminal. I believe Nas was 19 when he wrote this song and it came out in '94, a time when crime was rediculously high in NYC. In '94 stories like this were still somewhat new to mainstream America so it was original. A song like this may not be the same if it came out now (although it's better then anything comming out today) because it's 20 years later and we've heard these stories a million times, but then, it was pure gold. I'm not sure how he's creating confusion. He's just talking about the way he thinks when he's in his "New York State of Mind".
The law of attraction applies to everyone. You become your environment. You cant download garbage in your spirit or soul and not expect the same output.
This. What you listen to is who you are. Don't listen to depressing crap then cry about being depressed...what do you expect?
This is not real hip-hop. Real Hip hop music was supposed to educate and elevate, not create confusion. Notice that his baby pic is used because in truth, he's in a regressive "childish" state.
Dude's a monster. Hip Hop legend. And he definitely educates. The street poet.
I tend to agree. I think the whole hip hop culture has done more harm than good for young, impressionable black youths.
And thanks for the education on Gucci Man. I'd heard the name but really didn't know who he was or was about. I don't need to know anymore!
I used to love hip hop and grew up on much of the old school hip hop (80's and 90's) but I tend to skip the local "urban" radio stations lately because anytime I tune in, all I hear is men begging for sex, hoods glamorizing seedy behavior, hood chicks crying over low-level men and they same old tired beats.
Half of the time, I'd rather tune into the pop stations cause at least its happier music that puts me in a good mood, instead of wanting to reach for my AK (sorry bad joke I would never own a gun ).
I think new reservations should be created, where violent felons would be segregated from the rest of us. Under my plan, violent crime rates would necessarily plummet.
Stop giving crappy people attention. Between low vocabulary rappers, Larry the cable guy and Reality TV in this country getting all the attention, we´re on track to having the dumbest population on the planet.
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