Hip Hop Panel

all right last but not least a panel a. very important panel something that I've. been thinking about a lot lately and I. won't say what my answer is but is is. hip-hop helping or hurting the black. community Wow interesting. all right well we're gonna have a panel. on it so please welcome to the stage our. moderator anomaly Mike is a WA major.

Williams and will Johnson discuss it. interesting response thank you all right. well thank you guys for being here. give a round of applause for everybody.

tonight this is great I really like. connected with you guys and seeing. everyone in person but we're talking. about hip hop now I want to start it up. before I ask my questions I want to say. hip hop culture it started I don't know. that the year I should have wrote it. down but it started as good vibes it was. dancing over break beats a lot of. b-boying a lot of good energy and it's. taking a huge shift in many different. directions some good some bad. that's what we're talking about today. but I think he just lost a lot in the. sauce that it didn't start how it was.

nothing did it evolved but first. question is uh what do you guys think is. the positive impacts of hip-hop culture. I know I got to start on the positive oh. we so are we going this way. yeah so the positive part of course in. my personal opinion stores with the. positive messaging in a positive imaging. that hip-hop has done for a lot of the. culture so when you see people who are. like conscious rappers when you see.

people who are doing good deeds and. these videos and stuff like that those. aspects or something that resonated with. me early on and just like I said they're. just a positive lyrics clinging lyrics. that was passed. to do with like progression progression. in unity and stuff like that without. doing it to it down down women and. different things of that nature. yeah that's the next question so Mike I. mean I guess positives are like you're. saying just the original intent of it I.

think there's been a lot of perversion. in the hip-hop community just with the. music I'm Christian so my main hip-hop. influence was from rappers like lecrae. and Andy Mineo but when it came to just. hip-hop in general I didn't have I'm a. very negative view of what do you love. about it though you know a hip hop for.

me it has turned negative but in the. beginning was positive I used to listen. to like boogie down bronx. you know Big Daddy Kane you know all the. hairs like that that's one hip-hop used. to mean something they had a message and. today twisted it but it was positive I. want to get ahead of your questions but. one thing I like to do you know hip-hop. one thing by hip-hop you can stand up. and say how do you feel it are you happy. who should press it in okay thank you.

yeah hip-hop changed my life I do. hip-hop it actually brought me out to LA. a lot of people are like anomaly should. i've just talking about politics no rap. but if i didn't wrap it wouldn't it. brought me out here so there's. definitely some good aspects but now for. the question you guys want to hear what. are the negative aspects in your. perspective with hip-hop culture i think. the fact that a lot of young kids look. at a lot of these rappers and in regards.

to what they put out their image wise in. music wise is one of the negative. negative effects and honestly i had to. grow into that myself as well especially. becoming a parent you become more aware. you get more mature mature and. you begin to listen with a different ear. so to speak you start to look through a. different lens and once you identify. that you'd like hmm what I want my son. to have those kind of inappropriate. actions that's going to end him up in a. certain place or in detention in school.

and stuff like that and so you know I. just think it's evolved and I will say. this though some even like some of the. hardcore gangster hip-hop music some of. those things inspired me in different. ways and didn't necessarily aspire me to. go and kill anyone it gave me a. different kind of energy in Reverse it. made me want to work hard if I was. playing sports or working out or doing. work it gave me the effect as well but I. don't think that's universal and it has. to change growing up and I listen to him.

I'm like this guy's a psychopath. I don't Scott said literally he's like. talking about like eating his wife and. stuff listen to this when I was 15 max. yeah I mean there's there's a lot think. the main thing is is just the current. hip-hop culture the negativity for me. gives a very unrealistic expectation on. young black men to become music artists. I can't tell you I've moved to LA. recently and I can't tell you how many. young men my age that I know that I've.

met and talked to personally and they. every single one of them wants to be a. hip hop artist you know they don't want. to be doctors they don't want to be. engineers they don't want to be you know. going to the trade school they want to. be rap artists or hip-hop artists and we. all know that's very very slim the. chances of you making it is very very. slim another thing is just the the Toxic. it's like you guys saw the judge'll ad. right right okay so Gillette should have. made ad about the hip hop community. because if toxic masculinity exists it's. in the it's in the hip hop and rap.

culture it's. why are we surprised about the me to. movement when hip-hop and rap culture. were leading it why are we surprised. about our Kelly why are we surprised why. are we surprised by you know these these. black leaders coming out sexually. assaulting women in the workplace we. shouldn't be surprised that because the. hip called. hip-hop culture was right there leading. it with Hollywood I want to talk about. real quick we'll go to will I go to. Marcy Brooklyn not so much anymore but I.

used to I'm from New Jersey and there's. this kid there thank you guys there's. this kid there named Ronald he's like 11. 12 years old you know his parents he. just kind of roams around super smart. kid and I bought him a camera I just. sent it out to Brooklyn and he changed. his name on Facebook to coke boy. Ronald's after a French Montana which is. the coke boys I appreciate French. Montana's music you know I love them but. it's like this is the effect it's having. on the kids in the bra and Brooklyn. excuse me and it was just sad to me to. see an 11 year old or 12 year old change. his name to coke boy and I think even if.

you are a rapper like a lot of drivers. say I don't even do these drugs you got. to think about the effect like all of us. do what we have on people and that I. don't think they take it very seriously. you know one thing about hip-hop they. they've taken hip hop and they've. weaponized it you know we're even within. politics you have Snoop Dogg coming. outside myelf Trump and you know I used. to like Snoop Dogg you know the Westside. you know but I just lost all respect for. him when he when he started turning into.

talking about President Trump instead of. just making music you know so the the. negativity they're using it to. manipulate our children and one way to. do that quickly is through music in. hip-hop absolutely I want to say to two. people trying to read pill hip hop. artists they all love guns and I think. they don't like taxes so I try to say. out all my rap friends I'm like do like. taxes do you like when the government. sells your money no do you like guns yes.

then why do you vote Democrat why aren't. you Republican we got you. what are you doing they want to take. your guns very easy how big of an impact. on how big of an impact does hip-hop. culture have on the black community and. what impacts do you see it having on. your come. I think it has a huge impact you know. just from just how people cultivate and. follow just from a culture standpoint. you know when you see we see come when. you go to concerts and you see how.

people are so receptive to the music and. they're really into it they enter the. vibrations of it and then you look at. the message behind it too and and what. happens is there's complexities when it. comes to hip-hop even now if you think. about it you know you may have a. hardcore beat but in the midst of all. those lyrics there are still some good. Jews in that as well too and so that. makes it hard to really bash it 100%. because we we are as people we're not. ignorant we're not dumb right and so.

naturally 100 percent of us not going to. go out and do a certain act when it. comes to that but the ramifications as. you said you know for easily. impressionable kids it's a different. story especially coming from kids that. have nothing else to pull from as far as. imagery I remember growing up we didn't. have a lot of imagery of good things. happening and I was telling my wife this. I said one of the biggest things that I. did in high school what that was and I'm.

sorry for taking so long but I want to. say this is that what made me successful. feel successful in high school was how. many women I slept with our girls I. slept with for the year and that stem. from music and the collective people. that I was hanging around I was. listening the same music and so it was a. very negatively affective that I had to. get past that years and years later that. I had to deal with that so it was it was. a real negative affect but it had good.

things but it definitely had some. negative effects that now as a grown man. I was able to look at and say you know. it was horrible no you're right I love. JC I know people here I don't like his. politics but he has a lot of wisdom and. knowledge and people tried to say oh. he's talking about paintings now but. he's like I'm rich I like paintings like. what you know I appreciate that it's. like it's better better talk about. evolution thank killing someone Mike. yeah I think I'll just go back to what I. was saying before which it. it just gives us unrealistic expectation. you know. hip-hop artists especially like major.

saying you know people these. impressionable kids who they don't have. good black leaders out there right now. especially like now we have Candace. Owens you know Kennesaw whoa whoa shout. out Candace but for the most part is. like we have you know Beyonce jay-z all. these people there they're the black. figures that these black kids are seeing. the most so they want to become like. them and be like them which is a very. slim chance and we know that to overcome. you know oppression hardship whatever.

your circumstance is you know we know. it's you know get education graduate. high school don't have a baby till. you're married for the most part and you. know keep a job and the hip-hop. community is not pushing that because. you if you drop out of school you know. to make music that's all you do or. hip-hop promotes the glorification of. sex she knows like you like major saying. you know how many girls I see what this. year you know and then so how many baby. mamas do we have we have tons you know. the single motherhood rate is 70% and I.

think that's directly correlated with. hip-hop culture good answer. well one thing I should have said in the. beginning during a positive part is we. need more people like Kanye I mean. seriously. Kanye's in a position where he can he. can reach a lot of people a lot of these. kids and that's the positive note on the. negative note we have people like more. ice cube where he originally came out. with saying everyone wants to be like.

Trump he admitted to it now he's coming. out with a song against President Trump. and I'm pretty sure I love you have. heard the other song with you know the. diss on the elf trunk elf Donald Trump. has a good tune to it good beat to it. but if the kids relate to it because you. know as they're being told a certain. narrative and and it's manipulating. people and personally like I'm a. religious man I believe in God and I'll. say it loud in the name of Jesus and I. don't have a problem saying that either.

they are using hip-hop to manipulate in. a Satan that is doing this we are in a. different time in this different nation. where people don't even read. in the spiritual war in hip-hop is a. tool that they are using to manipulate. and destroy the people's minds amen and. the left wants to take your guns rappers. why do you support the hell they want to. take your guns my goodness I was reading. a passage from history and I was I was.

reading Booker T Washington and I was. like oh my god this guy is smarter than. everybody of every race today I'm like. did we get Dumber on that note from. leaders like Booker T Washington Marcus. Garvey MLK Malcolm X and others how did. black America get to its current state. of what it means to be black and pop. culture and it's hip-hop a part of that. whoa I got I got haters Candice Candice. lobbed it up I had to go okay so imma.

treat this like a spelling bee bear with. me could you please repeat the question. yes how did black America get to its. current state of what it means to be. black in pop culture because now if you. talk to people you know they'll call you. names if you're not black so how did it. get to that point of like what it means. to be black and is hip-hop a part of. that lifelong you know what I truly.

don't have a good answer on that like. honestly yeah I don't we may never know. but I got I got some haters so get ready. that was a great question but um yeah. I'm gonna piggyback off one more Mike am. i scaring everyone no you got you got. here that was a Jenner like the leaders. that you like Booker T Washington you. know just like do we get did we get. Dumber and I honestly think as a culture. we have you know it's and obviously.

we're talking about hip-hop so hip-hop. has a huge influence in it and like I. was saying you know if you're not going. to school to become a doctor why don't. we have more black men as doctors black. women as doctors why don't we have more. black men as engineers you know why why. is it that they're all hip-hop artists. like it that doesn't make sense you know. there's other professions so it's like. if we're to how is it that frederick. douglass could become a freed slave. how to read read the Bible and the. Constitution and come to the conclusion. himself as an individual as a free.

thinker that the Constitution and the. Bible is for the black man but yet. people but yet we have young black men. today who are incapable of doing that so. if we're not if we're not educating. ourselves and we're not seeking leaders. you know I can said Candace Owens great. leader for the black community. Brandon Tatum great leader for the black. community people who are not great. leaders you know Shaun King Maxine.

Waters are Kelly these are these are not. these are not good black leaders Charlie. Kirk is a better black leader than Shaun. King for the balcony that's white. chocolate that's gonna more black than. Shaun King that's gonna be a CNN. tomorrow the headline he said that so I. could kind of touch on that so my. opinion is that black people are being. told not to be better and that's what's.

happening in the community there I'm. pretty I don't have how many you seen. this mean where there's a black guy he. has on a cape and gown he just graduated. and then it's a guy another black guy. looking like a thug and he said you. trying to be white I mean I've heard. that throughout my life because I don't. speak or act a certain way I'm trying to. be white and I'm like how do you try to. be white you know but so they're in the. community it's making it difficult for. people to try to excel when they're.

telling them not to and that and that's. going to in the black community an. alarming rate and it's and it's terrible. I mean to the point to where you know. I'm on social media a little bit and and. I've had I've had white liberals tell me. that I don't know what it's like to be. black. and I'm like I don't get it so it's a. mindset and like like I said a minute. ago we were in a spiritual war and they.

are on the attack and we've got to wake. up to it absolutely amen people like. Brandis and canden Candice excuse me. that they hate the fact that their self. accountable self responsible strong. empowered and they love this country and. they can't stand that that's a huge. threat to them because if you're all of. those things you're not easily. manipulated. on that note man that was a good segue. do you feel like this progression of. black culture is natural or do you feel. like it's been engineered and.

manipulated from where we've gone even. you know you guys talk about the rates. of families staying together in session. and stuff like do you think it's a. natural progression or it's been like. manipulated in some form just like I. guess more like black culture because. even say like in the 50s 60s you have. rock music you know and then you had. like black culture has impacted a lot of. stuff and even hip-hop was born out of. dancing and you know good vibes like it. then it just changed and then everybody.

thought what it meant to be black was. that one thing that you guys are. speaking out against so do you think. that was like a natural progression or. it was I think like for a lot of music. artists that I'll talk to especially in. the past like you can look at the type. of music artists they're under a lot of. pressure because even with like with the. record labels they can't get signed by. certain record labels because they don't. make certain types of music so you may. have artists that start out they're. making this great music they're. impactful they have good stage presence. they look good they do sit-ups they got. six-packs they have the muscles they.

have all these great tangible things. until it doesn't happen for them until. they dye their hair they put piercings. all over tattoos on their face and then. I say oh you're good right and so. psychologically that can be very. damaging right so you so there's a lot. of artists it's harder for them to. create those those imageries that we are. looking for that we're yearning for and. honestly a lot of these artists that we. see that are making this kind of music. they are good guys that's why when you. see all these different world star.

videos and somebody run up on them they. not as gangster as they really say. right they running for their lives. because they're like you know they're. not that tough but they're creating the. music that these machines are telling. them that they need to make in order for. them to be successful at their craft. great play that's a great plan I got a. little bit of history real quick. Grandmaster Caz he's an OG in the. hip-hop community Grandmaster Caz he. actually got the first song in the hip. hop hippy did hop he wrote that they. stole it they didn't even change the.

lyrics where he they say his own name in. the lyrics they stole the song he. actually said that once the NWA and. stuff came out that they weren't trying. to look for conscious rappers like. himself they were like do this or it's. not probably gonna work out for you so. that's that's a good point. Mike yeah I definitely think it's. orchestrated I think hip-hop culture now. teaches again young black men to be. and there's a difference between. a black man and a and white white.

plantation owners used to tell they had. a saying I said if you teach a. how to read he's no longer a and. when it comes to the black community and. the provocation of education are we. going to education like I'm saying where. are the black doctors where the black. engineers where you know the black. whatever why aren't we have more black. men black women are actually doing. pretty good a lot a lot better than. black men it's not to the black women. but black man I think black men is what.

is what keet is what is keeping the. black community down because they're not. present they're not there and until we. understand the difference between a. black man and a until the black. community grasp that and say well I'm. I'm a black man if someone calls me that. I saw I look I've looked at them and I. said do not call me that I am NOT that. I'm a black man. I think it is by design even when you.

know the Democratic Party was started. they by design. LBJ came out said he's gonna have every. voting Democrat within two. hundred years and did it within sixty. that was by design to keep black people. down just like they're using hip-hop to. keep black people down is all by design. just like now in the year 2019 the new. design from the Democrat Party is to go. after white people you know I mean and. they're even doing it in hip-hop they're.

not excluding it from hip-hop but. they're going after they're demonizing. white people as if white people are the. problem in this country is specifically. white men I mean I'm pretty sure you've. all heard it so there is all by design. for them to control people and. manipulate people as much as possible. that's a society with strong men who. want to keep the first two amendments. that's not what they want what message. do you what message would you like to.

hear more in rap music that you don't. hear enough I think one of the good. message is this happening now this is. the boom of entrepreneurship so the fact. that you have a lot of different rappers. that are starting to in certain small. backpack areas are starting to talk. about entrepreneurship that are actually. talking about education but also talking. about unity I want to saw here more more. records and music that talks about unity. and talks about actually putting towards. actions like you know you can talk about. the facade and the fantasy of things but.

I also want to see them start talking. about things on how they actually put. things in actions to make a plan and. actually create the action from that. plan as well too I think that a lot of. times when you hear a lot of music is. just like robber I rise clubs dancing or. whatever but I wouldn't be mad if I. heard some records that actually you. know help them start a business there's. there's some but it's like some of these. concerts where we have a huge opioid.

problem in a suicide from I wonder why. you got 100. have the kids talk about killing. themselves it shit's ridiculous sorry I. might not supposed to curse Candice is. laughing we're good what what I think. black hip-hop needs is God I think it. needs a message of hope like I said I'm. a Christian so I've I grew up listening. to Lecrae Andy Mineo just if the black.

community continues to push God out of. its you know its core it will continue. to fall you know and it's funny I was at. the woman's March you know and me and. Davey J Harris were you know debating. some black blue world girls and and. Candice's even talked about this as well. when she was speaking at Dillard. University it's like there's this. there's this illusion of morality within. the black community or it's like Oh F. Trump you know you know they were saying. F Trump but then there is also saying.

love Trump's hate and there's like whoa. well you're saying you want to preach. love but then you're saying F Trump and. then you're harassing me and David it's. like I don't understand that it's also. okay you hate Trump you think tomorrow. it's like what about your morality. you know why is the single motherhood. rate 70 percent you know you don't you. don't like the way the white man raises. his family are you raising your family. you know it's it's things like that and. and if we don't put messages of hope and. God and love back in our music that. challenges our morality challenges you. to look at yourself and say okay what am.

i doing as a person if we don't do that. then you can't move forward as not just. as a society but as an individual. you know what I would like to hear more. in hip-hop is I want to hear how. beautiful and how strong women are. that's what I want to hear I went to the. meet to movement yesterday and you know. they're they're all about women and they.

want to exclude men but in the hip-hop. songs you don't every hear them saying. you know I think women personally should. be put on a pedestal I think women are. the best thing that happened to men on. his planet and that's what we should. hear more in hip-hop because I'll tell. you this much I don't want to be on a. planet with that women I don't know. about you to my hell on earth. I'm not going to work tomorrow just. straight up but seriously I want I want. to hear you know and not be not be nice.

about it be a lot of people gravitate to. hip-hop songs when they're like being. all tough and you know they're in the. streets and doing this how about how. about we be tough for the men and women. in this country how Brown would be tough. for the police department how about we. be tough for the military how about we. be tough for the President of the United. States Donna's a trauma. that's where we should be we should be.

tough for each other you know and mostly. we should be tough but Jesus Christ. thank you we'll stop in bars there they. hate the American flag now it's like a. hate symbol because no matter your race. religion or gender if you're an American. citizen you're you know that's something. we can all come under that's why they. hate it so much man will dropping. heaters here last question thank you.

guys so much for the love how can we. help steel steel steel er steer steer. not still we don't we don't want to rob. them but how could we help steer black. culture hip-hop music and all the people. who follow it in the right direction how. can we do that I think your story was. just us advocating to do that like we. know all the artists like we all. collectively know people who do music I. just think we think the story advocating. for that and tell them that they were. going to support them that's the biggest. thing like let them know that you are.

going to support them 100% if this is. what they're going to be doing it. advocates share their music buy their. music tell a friend tell a friend tell a. friend have your family members involved. show up to their shows buy their tickets. buy their merchandise because if they. don't like they're gonna run back to the. same systems that are okay with it being. the way it is absolutely yeah and people. like Jay Cole really do well you know. people love Jay Cole so even us like. when we do well it shows that you can. actually tell the truth and do well.

black Mike I said black Mike that's. synonym I think honesty I think we need. to be honest with ourselves and people. we know who want to be hip-hop artists I. think it's fine if you have a dream you. know if you have something want to do. and you're good at it go ahead do it. I have friends I'm sure you have friends. who you know make music you know they're. trying to push their mixtape be honest. with them if it's crap tell them it's. crap don't lie to them I have friends. who they've given me crap and I tell.

them why all this is bad like this is. really this is really bad. and if they really want it you know what. they're gonna do they're gonna go get. better if that's because that's what. happens when you're you don't know one. starts off just the. that's something if music is truly their. passion and you and you're really you. know being a friend and criticizing them. you know the Bible says like iron. sharpens iron you're you're sharpening. them to be better then they will go back. work harder educate themselves on on. what they're doing and they'll come back. say hey what about this I'm like oh this. is definitely better you should do this.

you should do this you should do this. and they'll take it and they'll listen. to that people who don't do that they. have like I was saying before. unrealistic expectations I was trying to. be a hip-hop artist well I know you're. gonna end with a banger I know you got. it in you how can we steer it in the. right direction you know one thing that. we can do and I try to do this myself is. I support Kanye and that's one thing we.

can do and we need to do to our support. cut I support Kanye I support Candace I. support Charlie Kurt I support Brandon. Tatum I support turning you a turning. point USA by us supporting each other. that's Duke that's putting out positive. messages is how we do it but it's going. to take all of us as a community how you. know the leftover some of the community. it is it's going to take us as a. community a community that is righteous. to do it that's right that's all we got.

thank you guys so much you guys showed. up and showed out like he's talking out. God bless you god bless america. god bless your family and god bless the. world.