Black Culture [Hip-Hop&RnB] is being appropriated heavy.. The subject of Culture Vultures is the topic of choice behind the scenes. What makes the hardship of black poverty so inviting?? Not only a race factor, but also class factor. The ghettos no one wants to live in, has been the focus of the lyfestyle dialect and philosophy of people whos never lived there. We will exchange these practices from region to region. The more authentically ratchet it may come across as, the more people will support and share and sometimes die by those standards. But given the chance the originators of the lyfe or natural born citizens of garrison lyfe, with the right opportunity will live the Ghetto behind them, and it having enough funds will try and erase all trace remnants of being from such humble meanings. Especially when it comes to the music and philosophies of Ghetto Poets & Street Scholars. CULTURE VULTURES..... Even in the Black Culture.. Being Ghetto is a Sub-Culture of the whole entity of what it is to be BLACK, but its the standard consensus of judgement when looking at blacks on a whole. Being Black has become popular without Being Black... The subculture of a subculture HIP-HOP has invaded infested itself to be Americas POP_CULTURE.. Why? The suffering of ignorance has become the mean of what we judge is Real. Not ignorance in the term of brute manifestations, but the approval and co sign of savagery. Not just in Hip-Hop but everyday lyfe. The I dont give a F_ck about nothing, Opulence without value. To live our days and nights the 24 hrs given to us on pure desire. My time is now!!! and No one will stop me and I will stop anyone trying [by any means necessary]. No matter the consequences, Y.O.L.O... Life iz Short.. When I was young a long long long time ago, the motto at the Time was Young Gifted & Black.. Times have changed and longer than I like to remember we [Collectively as Whole Nation] have dawned the new mantra of GET RICH OR DIE TRYING, missing from the term, is on the backs blood and souls of the innocent guilty and indifferent. I picked Iggy Azeiala four years ago with Kreayshawn (Asher Roth also) to Dominate HIP-HOP... Not because I was enticed by the lyrical abilities, or the authentication of the stories they told. But it looked good. Its showed this Subculture is has come about, Never knew then that 2 out of my predictions would make it (Asher Roth is not Main stream but Mac Miller did So I win by default being they the same person) But Iggy is from Australia who raps like a Girl. from Texas Dances like she from ATL but looks like a runway model. I couldnt make that shit up in a lab. I thought I supported the CULTURE VULTURE!! I brought attention to this... How or why would I do such a thing until I reviewed closer? Me myself is a culture vulture or class imposter. I think about how My Mother Bust her Ass to Bring me out of NYC b4 HS age to give me a chance at suburban life. We wasnt poor.. but were werent rich. She wanted a back yard and streets I could ride my bike without seeing the multitude of crack vials on the sidewalks. But did I unconsciously sabotage, futures planned or orchestrated by my parents. Wanting to be apart of activities outside of my upbringing? Am I now a Culture Vulture also... Secretly enchanted by the organic savagery being displayed by some of my peers, could have went other routes that would have been more feasible more appropriate to my middle conservative upbringing, but living vicariously thru the lyfe was exciting and thats where the women and champagne was. But I was stupid enough to feel I could live one foot in one foot out. Thats never acceptable. I was smarter.. I could always go work my record was clean and getting a job was never hard for me. But when you participate in street culture you gotta go ALL IN.. Aint no place for Have Way Crooks... Anyway I digress I was a Culture Vulture for a time being because I was fairly good at it. But I look back now on the my peers in jail dead or deported or still in the lyfe. I did them an injustice... Instead of appropriating and vicariously living their lyfes of savgery. I should have pulled more of them into the Light instead of Dancing in the Darkness behind them .. Maybe I should of Listen to my Grand Aunts that told me Lord Jesus Christ can save me from my sins. But Hip-Hop had they Baby Boy... The samples and boom bap had me trapped no escaping.. I pledged allegiance to Illmatics Ready to Die Reasonable Doubt Only Built for Cuban Links.. My alliance was with the words of a world I born of, but not apart of. As Ive gotten to be a Man of a Certain Age. The suburbs not so bad compared to Project Hallways. Marriage is on the table more than being a pimp player for lyfe. and My 3 member Family is more important to me than any Crew or Set could be... I was a Culture Vulture... But Now I rather be a Student of those Philosophies than be Imprisoned by them... --Richie Oliver II if you read all the way thru Woah.. I salute U and Humbly want to thank you... Peace to Gods & Earths...
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:52:39 +0000
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