HERESY said:
Get rich by exploiting nigger culture, sexuality, stupidity, labor and spirituality. It's the AMERICAN WAY.
Is it only black culture that is being exploited, or is it *anything* that can be marketed for a great deal of money. Your forgetting that it works both ways; for America to exploit a black man, that man must be willing to sell himself out for ("white") America; blacks have done this on a large scale. So it really makes no sense to place any more blame on America than blacks themselves. More importantly, we can not catagorize and label such exploitation to a specific race. Europeans forced Africans into America, but they did not force them into recording studios. Big business does not operate based on skin color, it's all about dollar signs. When music in America began, record labels were
built by white people, for purposes of attracting any form of musical talent that could be marketed in this country. This is the way business operates HERESY, corporate America will sell their own white mothers out if they knew it would bring them profits.
In the beginning the market world was built around white culture (various nationalities from around the world). Blacks became more and more equal in society (thanks to the civil rights era and affirmative action) and were accepted in such activities as music (on a much larger more mainstream scale) and the sporting world. The result of this is what you call exploitation. Do you think every African American should work under black owned businesses? This would cause much more trouble then it would relief.
Blackjack 1577 said:
That ain't no surprise, whites have been exploiting and stealing from Black culture for years now, while steadily making a profit from it. It's been goin on since way back, and this rap shyt could head in tha same direction.
Who do you think is to blame for blacks being exploited, "white people", or the black people who sell themselves and their culture out for (selfish) money. These black artists and athletes are not forced to do touchdown dances and cut super tight mainstream hip-hop albums. If this "black exploitation" is significant, and if there is blame to be placed for its existance, you would have to look past just the white race and into the black community if you are going to find out how things became so unbalanced. There are no laws or regulations that prevent African Americans from starting their own record label, and there certainly is not a lack of funding because a lot of these cats are sittin real nice.
I see (in the hip-hop industry) artists all over starting their own music business, so much so that it's nothing more than a couple of quality artists on each label. Why are they doing this, is it just to get away from getting ripped off by big record labels, or are these people trying to emmulate the very "white" race that is exploiting them. Is this not the act of selfishness?
Why don't these artists stop spending and start investing. Instead of trying to be "THE LABEL", why don't these artists come together and build. If it meant so much to the culture that blacks are being exploited; if this is such an immoral act by white people then it shouldn't be such a birden to at least try. Jay-Z is on the right track, but why are so many others reluctant to follow in his footsteps?
I'll tell you why.
People fail to see things in the long run, and care only for short-term self-pleasureable market spending. Why put my money into black owned businesses, when you can buy a brand new ferarii and get any bitch you want. Thats what people are after, "the life". Money, fast cars, and bitches. After they do this they write a song about it and everyone else follows.
Solution: Invest into black owned businesses. The only thing uglier then a white man "exploiting" a black man for money, is this black man taking his profit and puting it right back into the pockets of corporate America but spending it on material items.
DO YOU THINK ANY OF THESE MILLIONAIRE BLACK ARTISTS GIVE A SHIT ABOUT AMERICA EXPLOITING
CULTURES FOR MONETARY GAIN? IF THEY DID WHY DO THEY SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO SUCH EVIL.
ILL TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST. IT'S A MYTH. IMAGINATION.
A black man goes up to a white owner and tells him he has a hip-hop album. The white man listens to it and says, "okay, we'll hook you up". Then master it, distribute it, and it goes platinum. Damn that white devil, exploiting blacks for monetary gain. The black man is cool, he didn't sell his own culture out, his hands are clean. We are supposed to take the millions of dollars these hip-hop artists and professional athletes are making, blame the success all on "whites", but at the same time, lets label, stereotype, and put them down for doing it.
You see whites "exploiting" blacks as a problem.
I see it as a
solution to a much bigger problem, that being the crisis of blacks being forced into poverty.
Blackjack 1577 said:
whites have been stealing and exploiting Black folks since day 1. Just look at what happened when rap first came out, MOST white folks rejected it and were talking down on it thinking it was some fad that would go away.
What is your source for this. Tell me how it is that you know the "majority" of every person with white colored skin in the United States REJECTED rap music when it first came out. Did you take a survey when it hit the scene, did you read it from some polls taken in the early 80's?, or did you pick up that fake notion from some other black guy singing the same song, who also has absolutely no proof for his findings. What was the "black" public opinion on rap music, did they *ALL* accept it right away? Research that. Listen, no one is stealing anything. We're stealing hip-hop? Rap music? Whites owned it from the beginning son. We're stealing your slang and style? Your arguement would say that white people, by marketing it and spreading it, created this as well.
If half of what you are saying is true, then white people designed the African American culture as you know it today.
Blackjack 1577 said:
And now that it's a billion dollar industry they wanna jump on tha bandwagon acting they were down from the start. Fuck that, now it's controlled by a bunch of corporate white fools trying to water it down so clowns like you in the middle of nowhere can enjoy it.
Now that it's a billion dollar industry? White people made it a billion dollar industry genius, how the fuck do you think it got that way; you think rock-a-fella records and so so def are to atribute for the success of hip-hop? Please. Blackjack, please tell me who funded the rap game before corporate America got their hands on it. Answer: NO ONE. You want to know who is jumping on the bandwagon? Black artists. This whole "whites exploiting blacks" is such a sure thing, yet black artists are lining and begging record label owners to just listen to their tape. I see black locals at school and work trying to sell every white person in sight albums from his trunk, why is this? Oh thats right, hip-hop, as it sits today, is dependant on the white man for the extreme success it has. Without the white consumers, you can take away the gold albums. Take away the white owners, you don't even have albums.
And if your answer is that, without white record labels, blacks would start them theirselves and bring hip-hop back to the same level, then I will tell you, why the fuck wait?
DO THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW.