MUSICAL FACTS: the inFILTHtration of our minds

Take a look at these two videos I got linked in to from the 'Grow The Heck Up' Blog here on Blogger, hosted by  Lavoisier Cornerstone and St. Joogs


As an introduction here's the snip-bit FACT about the making of these videos, as Lavoisier Cornerstone puts it: "...24-year old film-maker Andrew Jenks has a new show on MTV in which he (along with a small camera crew) embeds himself in various worlds and lives in the shoes of people his own age from all walks of life. He says his goal is to try to understand what is at stake in their world, and ultimately, what is at stake in their lives. Over the course of six months, he's lived with an MMA cage fighter, a young man with autism, an animal rescuer, a poker player, an NFL cheerleader and, yup, you guessed it...a rapper. Enter Brooklyn-bred rapper Maino: A hood dude with a hard past, who began to write music during his 10 year jail bid. He's most known for his hits, "Hi Hater" and "All the Above" feat. T-Pain."







SO DID YOU CATCH THOSE SUBTLE FACTS? Firstly, these scenes are staged, which immediately alerts  my inquiring mind as to the "media spin" that's about to go down. In the first video Maino points to a scar on his left cheek. In the second video, when you get to the same scene as the first video, where Maino is pointing to a scar on his face, he points to his right cheek.

But we shan't go into the dramatic 'stagings' of reality shows and documentaries that give us those lovely 'ratings' that don't always come with truly real-life shenanigans. After Jenks seems to have almost got his daylights choked out of him by Maino, in that jack-slapping/choking scene, for having challenged the rapper to be a more positive influence than the partying, drinking, womanizer that Jenks thought he was from his actions, the second video ends with an eye-opening visit to the hood for Jenks, who later states: "I realized how far Maino has come. Everyone Maino grew up with is either in jail, dead, or still lives in the projects. Only Maino got out. He is an inspiration". Jenks' hood experience leads him to change his stance and portray Maino as a positive influence for people from the ghetto, because Maino is not typical of his hood counterparts - he no longer lives in the projects, he shops at Bloomingdale's, picks his kid up from school and has 'legal money' - though not the kind Von Won was talking about.

Yet, FACT 2 is this: rappers, like Maino, perpetuate the very crap that holds people in the hood in mental enslavement and enhances racist stereotypes of Black people among those who buy, listen and observe their lifestyles and media personalities. And we are supposed to consider them a role model for our kids? Most of them can't even pull their pants up, going out in public with their derrière exposed in that jail-time dress-code created to solicit homosexual sex, while clearly engaging in illicit sex with women, oh, I mean "b*tches", as they call them! Hmmmm...I guess it is acceptable for our kids to learn how to be on their "g-sh*t" towards rapper stardom and fame, so long as it keeps them out the hood, right??? ...smh

FACT: JUST BECAUSE A SECULAR RAPPER COMES OUT WITH AN INSPIRATIONAL HOOK OR VERSE within a cursed-filled, women-demeaning/man-dogging SONG OF SURVIVAL AGAINST THE ODDS, DON'T MEAN HE/SHE IS 'ALL GOOD' AND ALL HOOD-POSITIVE. Most secular Hip Hop rappers, by their perpetuation of thug life and materialism, are far from a good role model for anyone, much less a kid living in the hopelessness of the ghetto. Sure, it is wonderful that many used their talents to propel themselves out of the hopelessness of the hood, but HOW they CHOOSE to use their God-given talents is a perpetuation of NEGATIVITY and EVIL. LET'S CALL A SPADE A SPADE AND AN ACE AN ACE.

The devil disguises himself as an angel of light to seek whom he can devour (2 Corinthians 11:14 & 1 Peter 5:8), and the FACT of the matter is that this seemingly inspirational story of a thug-come-rapper-superstar is the devil in a blue dress with a halo, seeking to inFILTHtrate our minds with the notion that you can translate the street hustle to 'get money' by any means, into a hustle to get money 'legally', regardless of the moral and ethical implications of how you choose to make that money (somebody tell me the difference between hustling crack for cash and hustling a thugged out gangsta lifestyle that clearly leads to psychological/cultural and spiritual degradation of people who are sold the real and imagined pursuit of it)



AND TO THE PARENTS WHO ARE BUYING & PLAYING THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT GLORIFIES VIOLENCE, ILLICIT SEX AND 'GET MONEY' MENTALITY TO YOUR CHILD, EXPECTING SOME POSITIVE DESTINY FOR THEM - WAKE UP! Your kid gains nothing positive from following these rappers out the hood listening and learning how to get his/her "g-sh*it" on. By continuing to buy this kind of music we perpetuate the spiral into a self-fulfilling prophecy of being thugged out gangstas, b*tches, hos, pimps, and rappers with no moral conscience...all in the glorious pursuit of money and getting out the hood...


HEY YOUNG WORLD! Fact: THE WORLD IS YOURS...because you are HEIRS to a promise (Galatians 4:28). DON'T BELIEVE THE LIES...HERE'S A REAL MESSAGE FROM A REAL EX-THUG WHO FOUND THE REAL WAY TO GET YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT OUT OF THE HOPELESSNESS OF THE GHETTO...