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Bill Cosby's harsh words on the condition of many of today's black youth have evoked many responses. I thought that I should get my two cents' worth on it as well. I wholeheartedly applaud Bill Cosby for saying what he did, and I completely agree with his views....

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posted 5/16/06 @ 12:12 AM EST

I dont think Mr Cosby have heard that much Rap music in his life.

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posted 5/16/06 @ 11:13 PM EST

Vivek,you said what is right, especially when you stated" If today's black youth aren't educated...all the struggles of the civil rights movement would have come to naught."
I don't think most kids understand what it was like for those people, how badly they wanted the best for the generation to come.
I hope this wake up call will bring some change.
Anonymous.

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posted 6/09/06 @ 1:44 AM EST

How much rap do you actually need to hear these days. IT'S ALL THE SAME. Are you stupid or are you just mental retarded that you can't see that mr. anonymous. It does not send a construction or positive message. It sends the same message, drugs, money, sex and women as sexual objects. It honestly just portrays how ridiculous and embarrasing the black culture wants to look nowadays. I think they got too much of what they wanted. Go anywhere over seas from America and you will see a huge difference of perspective and culture within the black community. People are a lot more mature. Here the black culture has ridiculed itself into being the epitome of the laughing stock. It doesnt matter how much rap you have listened to. Listen to 1 or two songs and youll get your majority vote as to what rap is. Its violence and negativity. These guys seem to be so horny for sex that they will explode with seman. They seem to have so many problems and need drugs but they make millions of dollars on making lifeless and meaningless music while the producers who actually struggle to send over a positive message make nothing.

"Only sick music makes money these days."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Mike C

posted 12/28/06 @ 4:55 AM EST

Originally posted by How much rap do you actually need to hear these days. IT'S ALL THE SAME. Are you stupid or are you just mental retarded that you can't see that mr. anonymous. It does not send a construction or positive message. It sends the same message, drugs, money, sex and women as sexual objects. It honestly just portrays how ridiculous and embarrasing the black culture wants to look nowadays. I think they got too much of what they wanted. Go anywhere over seas from America and you will see a huge difference of perspective and culture within the black community. People are a lot more mature. Here the black culture has ridiculed itself into being the epitome of the laughing stock. It doesnt matter how much rap you have listened to. Listen to 1 or two songs and youll get your majority vote as to what rap is. Its violence and negativity. These guys seem to be so horny for sex that they will explode with seman. They seem to have so many problems and need drugs but they make millions of dollars on making lifeless and meaningless music while the producers who actually struggle to send over a positive message make nothing.

"Only sick music makes money these days."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich,
I don't know, but generalizing rap/hip-hop as an element purely of a "black culture" seems exaggerated to me. I mean I am mexican and I enjoy listening to rap. And I know I am not alone. Out of personal experience, I know that this "type of music" caters to a lot of different "races," especially those low income areas where their realities are not fabricated through hip-hop, but hip-hop through their realities. And hip-hop is NOT all the same. There are rappers out there that are actually delivering a positive message like the song "college dropout" that encourage kids to go to school and get an education. I do agree however that a lot of the stuff that is coming out right now is pretty generic and songs are clones of each other, but hey its all we got. If the song is catchy well, all we can do is dance to it. But every once in a while, we are reminded that we can do better. And I can assure you that not all black people like rap. I have plenty of black rocker friends to know that. So I ask you to please be more aware of the facts before making such a widespread generalization. Either way, I love Cosby and think he is totally entitled to have his opinion

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posted 7/03/06 @ 2:44 AM EST

I know this comment is late, but I think John B. Watson said it best.

"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select ? doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years." (1930)

-Jona

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Anonymous

posted 8/22/06 @ 8:47 PM EST

Learn how to speak English before you post a blog on the internet. Honestly, half of this blog doesn't make any fucking sense.. For example, your first sentence "Bill Cosby's harsh words on the condition of many of today's black youth have evoked many responses." First of all, WHAT CONDITION?!?! The poor social condition? The fantastic social condition?? What??!?! Then your "on the condition of many of today's..." I mean, fuck, scrap that and start over. Finally, "evoked many responses" just to start could you tell us if these responses positive or negative? Elaborate, and work on your English a little more before you post a blog..Ass...

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juicy fuckhole

posted 9/05/07 @ 10:43 PM EST

Originally posted by
Anonymous
Learn how to speak English before you post a blog on the internet. Honestly, half of this blog doesn't make any fucking sense.. For example, your first sentence "Bill Cosby's harsh words on the condition of many of today's black youth have evoked many responses." First of all, WHAT CONDITION?!?! The poor social condition? The fantastic social condition?? What??!?! Then your "on the condition of many of today's..." I mean, fuck, scrap that and start over. Finally, "evoked many responses" just to start could you tell us if these responses positive or negative? Elaborate, and work on your English a little more before you post a blog..Ass...

stfu nigger

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anon

posted 9/01/06 @ 10:13 AM EST

leave bill cosby alone u fools he is one of the comedic people in history!!!

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anon

posted 9/04/06 @ 5:46 AM EST

if any one wants to argue with send me an email and i will rip ur heads of and shit down it

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Mike C

posted 12/28/06 @ 4:44 AM EST

"far more black youth today seem to emulate the thugs who pose as music artists"

I would say they are music artists posing as thugs, with the exception of a very few pioneers like 2Pac and Biggie Smalls. Listen to some of that. Now thats real rap music. I do agree with you that today a lot of Hip-Hop is pre-packaged, nonesensical in their lyrics, but regardless of that, it caters to the realities of the youth in "the ghetto." I mean, even though I have gotten my education, I still live in the ghetto and still have to deal with seeing drug deals go down right in plain view of the cops, and no one does nothing. (Try it and get shot out here.) I beleive that there are some good rappers out there that started out feeding the public that processed generic hip-hop before they could deliver a real & meaningful message.

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david

posted 6/11/07 @ 12:40 AM EST

sup fellas,

as a 20 year old white college student i dont know how seriously you all will take my comments, but I just felt like adding something here: Some rap is good and most of it isnt but honestly, its pretty convenient, and unconstructive, to blame a deep, historic social problem just on music. Its pretty goddamn shallow to think that the lack of ambition possessed by SOME inner city people (not just blacks; virtually all people living under such conditions will end up in a similar way, and its not dependant on race.) Yes this music can glamourize the club scene, particularly the strip club scene, and, in the case of gangsta rap, always seems to carry the message of how "you n---as aren't the real deal, like my n---as are, so rather than coexisting, we're gonna beat the hell out of you or kill you", but realistically, people know thats just talk. I guarantee you, if somebody shoots and kills somebody else, its not gonna be because DMX said "X gonna give it to ya".

The other thing is that it seems a bit racist to put the magnifying glass on blacks. Inner city Latinos, Whites, and Asians dont do much better, but nobody seems to be talking about them mearly as much. And I think thats just because its "black music" that self-proclaimed "social experts" happen to find offensive, so they try and say, "THAT'S IT! THATS WHATS WRONG WITH THE INNER CITY BLACK COMMUNITY!"

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j davis

posted 5/12/08 @ 2:47 PM EST

Calling these (c)rappers 'artists' bugs me to no end. They are all quite simply, scum of the lowest order. If these people are artists then our civilization is in serious trouble and probably does not deserve to survive.

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