Chamillionaire….Babez… YOU SAID IT ALL. how i wish you could be on the show hip hop vs. america.

i think what chamillionaire always have a point at what he say he be real thats what we like about rappers these days he be strait to the piont he trying to make it hes a smart intellegent rapper he also speak his mine to him i just got to is keep it real and do yaour thang

I like TI but when he stated the the african america put things out there and the white took it first of all it was the Blacks that invented and the white take credit for it. Take that crack comment for instance the White put it out in quanities and and instead of being like the white men the young black brothers wants to sell nickels ands dimes and twenties then turn around and want to kill there own people over it. Know when the whites are out there shaking there A– it all fine and dandybut when a brother does it it like every one is saying that basically we are decrase to to black people. do you remember that all saying do as i say not as i do. We thend the judge people by whats on the outside and not whats inside. I am a single mother with 3 young adults. i adon’t want TV and video to raise my child. so it ip to us to install the values of our children and talk to them about what goes on in life not only what on video but life it self we would not have to worry about hip-hop ruining our young children mind so what i am saying is that if you take to you children and stop trying to blame the hip-hop gor your short comings the world will be a better puace and we as african americans can live together instead of trying to kill our own kind

I am 16 years old and I have never had sex, done drugs, or sell drugs and I have never been on the corner shaking my “goodies” I know the lord and no I didn’t grow up rich or in a stable home but yes my mom did provide for me and my father did also..my mom was a alcholic and my dad wasn’t even there to teach me how to ride a bike and yes i grew up on hip hop and rnb i have seen it all and i know it all. How can you blame hip hop for the worlds mistakes..hip hop is only a small part, what about people who love playboy that shows naked women, why don’t we take that or..why don’t parents teach their kids right from wrong..My mom(she’s a great mother from then and now) was a drunk but she always provided and put clothes on my back and raised us right but my brothers and sisters chose to smoke and drink and i haven’t..i chose to be a jehovah witness and still listen to a little kanye west. We praise rappers and everyone else like they are god because they are on t.v but what about god?? where does he come in? why isn’t he imporant..and oh yeah black kids, well kids in general are messed up because of their enviroment not the music! take us out of the ghetto and see how we turn out. Give us what the rich kids have and some good morals and values and a lesson about God and see how we do in society.Instead of ignoring us like most of you guys do(Oprah and Tyra and everyone else trying to help us, is basically ignoring us.)I don’t see nobody famous walking in my hood helping me out, so I am not going to buy a single album that drops and I am not going to give them money when they don’t give me anything and trust. I walk the streets of the hood everyday, people shooting behind my house but yet I don’t see nobody helping me or us. So don’t blame hip hop and a bunch of words that we society give meaning just blame America because America is a joke.

Chamillionaire I do understand what your saying, society at large is always trying to find someone or something to blame the problems of the world on, and at this time is just so happens to be rappers. As a young black mother my husband and I are making it our business to make sure we raise our sons not rappers, athletes, or actors. We are there role models and if more parents took on these roles then maybe America would not have anyone to blame for the kids actions but there parents.

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Hi everybody I am a young person 20yrs old, I love hippop, I just think it’s brilliant kind of music-when it have good lyrics, “like, you make me better”by Fabolous for an example& I tried, by bone thugshomorne and others.But there’s this thing about nakedness of womens,money f** words etc, I mean I ‘m not saying it brings a problem to our community, but it just have a great influence; I mean not just hip pop-but the whole music business-like r&b my favourate artist Beyonce,christina, and others- because it potrays things that should be embarassing as if they are okey in our generation, it’s okey to do this in your community, don’t be embarassed, that’s influence.It’s okey to dress like this, take your clothes off, cause it’s fine, you sexy when you do that,that’s influence, cause they act like that;and ask me? it adds a lot to the next generation, because it shows us in the videos that it’s fine,I mean if you hear a song that you like, you wanna see the video. To raise a child in such community it make it hard, because to be honest, if you see people praise every wrong move your favourate artist does, you mean no matter what your parents can say, you wanna say those things to be cool, you just wanna act like that, if they say it’s sexy to dress like this, you wanna do that,cause it’s inspirational, it’s praised, I mean even if it may not be me. so if something is inspirational, even if it’s entertainment, then it’s influencial. But at the end of the day, we don’t have the last word, because it depends on them -if that is the kind of BATAN/legacy they wanna leave to their kids and their generation , just for money, cause absolutely, your kids will say I wanna be daddy on tv. and still I can’t even blame those women , who work for them to be naked, cause they pay them-but if I was to advice or meet those womens before the video shooting, I would say don’t do it, try other options to live , just to respect yur self. even the female artist when I see them wearing clothes, if Iv’e seen them before naked, I don’t see those clothes at all.But people buy those albums like nothing, but I don’t think it’s parents who buy those things, cause I will say, support what you think it’s good. but hip pop do have influence to our generation, wether good or bad, they will decide themselves, where do they apply. but they are cooking something. whether tasty or trashy.about n movies,it’s different cause they not usually playing everywhere on tv, you go to see them, they don’t play on park street, or anyway in your screen, they are kind of privateadults entertainment, so it’s usually a log in. But these music video are evywhere,not only in their websites.
That’s my opinion.

I think that all this is true. Something that I’m not seeing anyone put out there though is the roll that the media is playing in all the negativity. There are rappers that do so much for the community but that’s not what the media shows. You wouldn’t know that alot of rappers have brought back their old projects and things like that because all the media, (radio, tv, mags), puts out is the negativity so the community is only getting one side. The media had a HUGE part to play in what’s going on in OUR YOUNG COMMUNITY….

Dope drop, Cham and props on the album.

Censorship is definitely not the solution because all sides of the story must be told. “Banning” or “burying” words isn’t going to make the problem go anywhere.

You bring up a great deal of valid points; instead of two sides yelling at one another, discussion needs to take place to establish a common ground. Once this discussion takes place, a plan of action MUST follow in order to change the situation for the better. I think far too often we get caught up in merely talking as opposed to acting. The media is always going to feed off of negativity, but if we as a people establish our own plan of action we will be better prepared to combat that negativity with a course of positive change.

I feel Chamillionaire has some sharp points in the above blog.These rappers aren’t role models, they bleed like the rest of us, And I don’t even consider the music as Hip-Hop anymore. It seems like the White kids know about REAL hip-hop more than the blacks who bootleg the same music that defines their lifestyle ..

(This is all from the heart and it’s exactly how I feel at this moment)

The problem isn’t hip-hop, it’s us. 70% of us are Niggas, and Niggas are just crabs in a barrel. As soon as we make progress, there’s a ##~@? waiting to disparage your accomplishments. We have come so far with having access to media outlets, more equality, social acceptance, opportunities, and so forth. However, this doesn’t mean everything is peaches; there is still work to be done. We spend an abundant amount of time complaining about the ills and the wrongs of our race and not enough time congratulating our achievements. And somehow we put the blame for our setbacks on the shoulders of hip-hop artists, as if they are the fabric that makes black people.

Does hip-hop really have that great of an impact on our society, on our people? Not really. It has a powerful secondary impact. If a kid idolizes a rap star so much to the point that their lyrics becomes the code for which they live back, the real impact is that kid’s parents, because they are obviously giving the impression that they don’t care, so this kid relies on TV. It doesn’t matter how many panels you put together or how many rappers you blame, if we don’t start focusing on our homes, the problem will always exist.

I mentioned that it’s not all peaches, and because our attention is so focused on what hip-hop artist say, we are not talking about what the government isn’t saying or doing about poverty in America. How many of our people live in horrible conditions, which may make a young person seek the quick dollar to get out of their hell, which some rappers have been through. But we have all this money to throw away in Iraq, why can’t those monies be allocated here? We shouldn’t even waste our time talking about hip-hop versus America because that shouldn’t be our number one priority – making strides toward our cultural well-being should be first. Our cultural well-being doesn’t begin and end with hip-hop, it begins and ends with US.

We need to stop finding the convenient scapegoat and ask ourselves what we are doing to serve the greater good of our race and culture. It’s true that hip-hop has an effect, but it’s not the only effect. We put so much emphasis on these rappers, but how many of us put that type of energy into seeing what’s wrong with our public schools.

It’s bigger than Camillionare staying he doesn’t curse, good for him. It’s bigger than Don Imus, because when we were calling our black women nappy-headed no one forged a united front, but it had to take an old white guy to tell a crass joke to make us realize how degrading we are to one another. It took a Jena 6 to realize that we still have to fight for equal justice – remember, we have come a long way but it’s still not peaches. It took Bill Orielly to make his comments before we realized that we have put these images out there of ourselves. We are more than booty videos and I love New York type of shows.

White people stopped holding us down awhile ago, and now they just sit back and watch us do it for them. They throw some hurdles at us, do some undercover stuff, and let a few of us in the door, but when those few get some success, they forget to help someone else. So begins the disconnect, so begins the generation gap, and so begins the crab mentality. That’s why it is so important for us to help us and for us individually to better ourselves and strive for greatness and not become complacent.

I just love u so much words cant tell u how i fell

great topic cham, but rappers need to be more creative since its an Art.AS we know hood gone be hood at the end of the day.Its all abou tmoney people.BET NEED to step up before the goverment those. and censor som eof this garbage. I love me some Pac, nas, common, biggie and the whole nine/ But right now the game is polluted , we also so get on the WOmen whpo gets in the video who tyrin gto make aquick buck also, WOMNE u should challenge these women who on the screen hal naked and let men degrade them

im in love with rapers

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I understand the whole cursing issue. I really dont think it is funny the way the white kids try to sing the song the way you(Chamillionaire)do but to me cursing in a song is just how the rappers feel. If they feel the need to curse in thier song to have a hit then so be it. Honestly i would like a rapper regardless if they curse or not. Its just if you sing the song right or not. But other than that Chamillionaire is so cute> LOL. hugs and kisses ya gurl frum da bluff, Arkansas.

I agree that I should not ever have to see “Gay people kissing each other on shows.” That is just ICKY!

But I’m fine with “reality shows where people are running and jumping and breaking their bones.” That’s pretty cool.