Charleston White: DJ Akademiks Did Nothing For Hip-Hop, Came Up Off Chiraq, LL Cool J Is Right 

I think Akademiks needs to sit down and talk to Charleston because Ak respects him. Ak was trying to be disrespectful to a rapper (I think it was Mysonne) who has been trying to get him canceled and he made the statement a little too general. He was trying to say that the particular person is condemning the new school and telling them what to do while never guiding them or trying to help them know the ins and outs of the record industry, therefore, continuing the cycle of many being exploited due to their ignorance. He was trying to say the guy wasn't as much of a mentor as he is presenting himself. I wish Charleston had been presented with the context (this was a small clip out of an hours-long podcast) before he responded. DJ Akademiks helped to promote certain upcoming rappers especially in Chicago. Anyone that disagrees with this doesn't follow his career and know about the relationships he has built with those same artiste due to that fact. Also, if his platform isn't relevant and any promotion by him wouldn't have mattered then I don't get why huge stars are ALWAYS going at him (At one point a couple artistes went at him for not promoting their album release). Also, saying young kids follow Ak is not a diss as any big established star will tell you that it is hard to remain on top of hip-hop billboards as it's generally youth culture.

O.C and Crazy Eddie, Jeckle and Hyde, The Bubble Bunch, The Boogie Boys, The Treacherous Three, UTFO, Funky 4 Plus One, Grandmixer DST, Kevy Kev, Count Coolout, Blowfly, this is just to name a few, and this doesn't count the women. Too many to count, and this is 1980.

Charleston White is 100% right. Ak shouldn't had said what he said neither. I have never heard AK sound so illogical before.

Anton, I ain't like the way you came at passport bros, but no hatred, this interview was IT!, could you please try and understand the plight of your brothers, it's virtually the same principle as what he talking bout with AK, we rocks with you, but a lot of brothers felt undermined (including myself) the way you couldn't relate to what's going on in these single parent households, I can honestly say until I found manosphere content I was completely lost out here, and I know it's the same for a lot of brothers, either way, great interview my guy 👊🏽

@@tyronewilliams2007 Dont Forget The Cold Crush Bros, Sha Rock, Sparkie Dee, Salt & Pepper, DMX Not Talking About Earl Simmons Either The Original DMX. Just- Ice , Whipper Whip, Charlie Chase, Force Mds The Battle At The World In Harlem Kool Moe Dee Vs Busy Bee. These Kids Will Never Know

Can you imagine how much harder it was,if you were not a well known artist,,,to get your stuff out there without all this tech we have today back in say,,,the early 80's

@@gsprings43 I know exactly what it is. I worked in the music business in the early to mid 90's... Imagine having to actually go to radio stations and clubs to promote artists, passing demo tapes to A&R people, praying they will listen to your music...it was way different back then.

yeah,,,you don't even have to leave your house to send music to someone,thanks to the net,you can just email music files to someone

And made it possible for EVERYONE to eat as well

@@PicklezTV Unfortunately, a lot of people today don't understand that...

I did I literally went outside that morning on the first lockdown day and what do I see.. niggas and migos putting up 5g towers 🤔 I thought that was real funny....

Right mfers was told they had to take a vaccine just to keep a job and these mfers folded, now you don’t even need it

@@supatay1181 proof or it didn’t happen

It’s true people were shaking like frightened children over a cold and think they would’ve done something during slavery or Jim Crow. Please… this is the weakest generation of all time.

@@luism8130 Over 1.000.000 fellow Americans didn't die because of multiple mutations of a coronavirus detected first in Wuhan, China? You serious?

he hates gangsta rap

@@ballybrad504 😮

It’s gangsta street rap he doesn’t like..the negative content in the songs

That's because the conversation became old versus new rappers and he wants to side with old Being that he is an old bag

He loves the music, he just hates what its doing to us.

It was booty u can still find art today lol

@@flawlessbutdysfunctional7787 exactly.

@@flawlessbutdysfunctional7787 everybody sounds the same following trends like sheeps. Bling,opps,drugs, and guns. Yall are all fake sims characters.

Only a bunch of sexually confused brothers disagree with this

@@flawlessbutdysfunctional7787 where? All that ABC 123 ass shit. Stay n ya lane Kid.

Charge White ain’t nothing but a country azz Bama we got out off slavery 1970 that’s when the civil rights bill was passed you couldn’t even ride the front of the bus or use a bathroom 🚽 he wasn’t here

Precisely

Ancestors fought to get out of slavery. Why would it be impossible to think people today would be comfortable being slaves?

@@ingraham561 ppl are there’s lots of distractions going on now and subliminal stuff as well, it’s just slavery just expanded to basically everyone, plus there’s a lot of “underground” stuff we don’t see nor gets reported but it’s happening

@@ingraham561 cause ur dummmm azz right now is a slave still

Reallllllllly?

This is a closed off perspective. It just sounds good in theory. Real quick, how do you grow if you don’t recognize what came before? Recognizing slavery and the fallout since doesn’t make you a slave or weak. As a matter of fact, understanding the institution of slavery wakes you up to the depths the powers that be will resort to. Conflating some opinions (people saying they would buck) with the overall impacts of slavery is really weak.

@@adgee5401 better yet understanding that *NO 1 KNEW ABOUT S14VERY UNTIL WHYTES TOLD US IN SCHOOL, OR UNTIL THEY SHOWED US THE ROOTS MOVIE,* THEN ITS A BETTER TOPIC.

So we gonna forget all about the slave revolts! Okay, White, you lost me here. lol

Which is why you RESPECT OUR PIONEERS,CONTRIBUTIONS,innovations ,and so on. LL cool j was right 💯💯💯💯💯👑👑👑👑

Tell her to wash up. I left that thing moist

​@@ogbreeze1081 cold piece

Where can I go to watch the whole interview?

@@ogbreeze1081 you don’t get no play making comments like that on RU-vid cornball

But.....u already watched it with out her

👁 👁 👄 FUCKK them celebrities who did NOTHING for fans/PPP( poor paying public) in the PANDEMIC who made them RICH 💰💰💰💰😡

This about the only thing, and this particular delight that agree with that he's said. Most times he real ignorant. And his point gets lost.

@@gregb1374 He has his way of staying relevant with his "character" controversy stirs interest the "misunderstanding" as we see it because our capability of understanding is different than the intended crowd.The "ignorant" shit he does is for them the "ignorant" ones who understand both sides but it's the delivery they like.It's not always what you say it's how it's said and that's the grey area he's filled in.

FACTS !!!

The pioneers had to get out their bedroom and hit the street. They had to convince white people that rap was the future. DJ AK sat in his Mommas bedroom and used RU-vid. Huge difference.

What pressure in the hood? I remember knowledge, story telling, dance ish. That woe is me shit started in the 90's really.

Go and watch Dj Akademics breakfast club interview. He definitely planned and set out to do exactly what he’s doing…And i don’t hate on his success. Charleston White is the one who lucked up on becoming famous..He the one didn’t plan or set out. They saw a clip and following the rest of the world

@@rizzrizz2291 You can't "plan" to have a gross fascination with a bunch of young cats killing each other. That's Chicago street culture, not the Chicago music scene that he was following. He was the first so he got known for it but hip hop as a culture was literally planned out. Cats like Joe Budden are complete hypocrites for trying to call out guys like Vlad for selling these young rappers pain off on their platforms while not going hard on Akademiks for it, who's the biggest from it.

Go watch “The Saint and the sinner” roast DJ AK he did so much research on that man it’s crazy he really read tf out of him 100 times more than CW

Charleston White is correct overall but AK definitely set out to have a media empire. Love it or hate it, that’s what he’s been building.

@@dawb86 man I’m so tired of people’s fake outrage with the war on Shiraq…

Bro, I loveeee that movie. So many hidden messages in it that applies in society today

I literally died when he said that 😭 💀 😂 because he absolutely right. 😂😂😂

@@NoAbsolutlyNot Yessir

I don't remember that movie I just know the kids were crazy af 🤣 can you explain what he means by that

🎯

Theres alot of rappers in the industry who checked DJ Akademiks.

That same lame had him on his podcast😂

@@voices1156 it’s just business

Yeah ok he was on his podcast twice Foh lol

@@4488656 so he worked with a lame twice n talks shit about him? Nah but Charleston a real one right??💀

You ain’t lying

Facts

Right tupac had keep your head up, queen latifah had ladies first, bone thugs had first of the month, public enemy had 911 is a joke..we’ll never get song’s wit a message again. Everything now is about killing

All day errday, 80s-2014. Everything after 2015 was trash AF! That’s when all these cross dressers /mumble rap ruined hip hop,

If you listen to his breakfast club interview, he kinda explains it

Irony because most of them n!ggas look more dusty than the old rappers.

they would put a machete to his behind

Why would he. It’s a legit genre of music.

But first there was Zack TV.

Chief keef biggest years was like 2012-2014 Ak didn’t even start becoming popular until like 2015

I never heard of them people til I heard of that fast talking nerd DJ Akademiks and the rest of my homies are the same way.

@@RocketLove4 Zacktv actually gave back to his people. Still think he was set up

@@feesemass7895 niggas say that like it's a bad thing. are you supposed to celebrate niggas killing niggas

thanks for this info

any man dat does a podcast with someone then disses them behind they back is a snake. charleston white is a snake

No money!!!🤣🤣🤦🏾 Do you people even know the real history of slavery??? I was just talking to my lil brother about this the stuff they don't teach in public schools but I see you a yes man and not a leader of men

@@supatay1181 I could tell he a yes man money his first priority

@@supatay1181 Shut up! U should reread the dam post. The money comment and the slavery comment was 2 different subjects. I'm not gonna break it down to you. Just slow down, grow up, and reread the original comment.

@@supatay1181 It's not that difficult to comprehend that by "no money" he means that most of the hip hop pioneers had the talent to birth the movement but didn't have the knowledge and/or resources to capitalize i.e. get real money off of it. You think that Jay-Z, Diddy and Dr. Dre become super wealthy if they were those pioneers and not apart of the hip hop generation having come behind it having learned what to do/not to do? 🤔🤔

@@supatay1181 all music genres are started with no money lmao you that slow u cant understand humans play music for fun...it became a business but music still is played for no money even now

That is so true and when you get right down to it, what is hip-hop today is certainly not predicated on talent anymore or ability They are very few unique or or original standouts they’re all just a bunch of cookie-cutter rappers that makes the same noise no to mention most of them, nowadays seem to get rich, and then find a way to get themselves, locked up and steal, playing into the white man’s hands or they bring the street element into their rap career with all of the self sabotaging self-destructive things that are not conducive to a long and healthy life. What difference does it make if today’s rappers make more money than the old school rappers when half of them don’t even live long enough to enjoy it.

@@dro2real836 Look at it like sports, only the best players will play for your team. you may at some point play but we do have to start the starters. Every team's goal is a Superbowl so, it's not about who looks good in their uniform, or who has the most rediculous tattoos, and lastly who makes the most money, us being 5-11 every year will get you cut or traded. Being the flashiest used to mean you're the best, now it seems to be just to distract for a lack of talent. If we look for our rappers to rap and our singers to sing, it should never be the beats that dictate a good song...................what the hell are they talm bout?!!!!

@@stephenjackson2912 facts

@@outfishu4863 shut up

@@outfishu4863 Hip Hop comes from Rap . I am talking Hip or Let me Rap to you . Rapping and Talking Hip are street slang with rhythm words . Those are words using in AAVE language not Caribbean people . Stop acting like y’all taught black Americans how to dress , dance and talk . When practice voodoo in Louisiana and other southern states . We practice Hoodoo in the Carolina’s and other southern states . Every state in America blacks people have a different culture. New York State culture is not the same as Mississippi culture. Haiti 🇭🇹 and Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 don’t have the same culture and they on the same island. Jamaica 🇯🇲 don’t have the same culture as Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. The blues started in the south now every southern and Midwest state has it own sound . Every state cook BBQ different. Stop thinking we all the same . Some people in South Carolina, south Louisiana and even south west Mississippi have a African or Caribbean sounding dialect . But those folks who speak it dying off . Once they integrated they was told to stop speaking like that or else they want be able to get a job .

EXACTLY!! 💯

@@outfishu4863 Then why wasn't it done in the Caribbean then?? Dude stfu

😂 because he is saying common sense ?

@@theelovelydarkhole7556 y’all love tryna downplay some shit. If it was common sense, the rap game wouldn’t be in the position it is now & these kids wouldn’t popularize all this dumb shit

Common sense is high intelligence lmao Gangbanging is bad bro murdering each other isnt cool YO THIS BROTHER SPEAKING STRAIGHT FACTS

I remember when we had a 3 min block called the rap down. Which was still only around 4 or 5 songs

Yo I'm 54 my dude,grew up at 624 e 169 st back in the 1980s.Awesome 2,DJ Red Alert on then KIss FM,Late Mr Magic on WBLS was playing early rap legends.LL was with Def Jam,he was on Soul Train,American Bandstand,Video City Music Box.I remember as a young cat as messenger in late 80's used to see KRS One,Kane on 7th av off 53rd st.Uptown Records used to be on 7th av off 57 st.To me the real rap beefs that set it off was Cold Crush Brothers vs Treacherous Three,KRS One vs MC Shan.Cmon now I was there at old spots like Latin Quarters,Rooftop,Skate Key,Red Parrott,Paladuim,Club Speed,Homebase,The Shadow when NYC hip hop was on the move.The Tunnel,Act 3 in the Bronx,Boston Ballroom.I was there at River Park Towers when DJ Red Alert was set up turntables.Rap back then wasn't about money,it was about the culture.Boys breakdancing,tagging on trains,MC's going at it freestyling,cmon n ow I was there durig the golden era in 1980s

@@ltod2 We walked the same streets brother, I grew up in the highbridge section of The Bronx. I used to hang out in highbridge projects by the white building. Then we moved to Kingsbridge road not too far from Fordham road. I went to all the park jams starting with Cedar park to check out kool herc. Then eastTremont to check out grandmaster Flash. Then to Bronx river houses with my Zulu chapter to check out red alert. You forgot one club that was popping back in the day, bentleys. That's where I met LL Cool J. And don't forget hot Trax 1130 Friday night on channel 7. Great times👍🏿

@@ltod2 And I used to work at the tunnel and the palladium, Sunday nights mecca was crazy. Got to meet all the legends of nineties hip hop🎤🔥

Ok so what about the 80s when the crack head and gang bangers kicked it off sound like a blame the generation game and no accountability being held

Give Charleston his flowers too

Fr and it pissed me off when ppl like Lord Jamar shit on him without recognizing his full contributions.

@@CPAClass2010 We would have never seen LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys meteoric rise without Rick Rubin. It was perfect, perfect, perfect timing! Rick Rubin started Def Jam records from his dorm room in NYU... Charleston said it right! "The did it without the machine".

@@dex.cameron1855 Hip Hop was thriving and a GO way before Rubin. But if you feel comfortable giving that white man credit, go ahead.

Really? The white boy. Lol

@@DC-xp4bl He had his hand in bringing forth some of hip hop biggest acts back then..yeah, give the White guy his due. He brought the legendary LL Cool J to the mix, miss me with the white boy nonsense, please.

This means nothing at all Jamaicans are aware of the african American culture dj red alert is Jamaican biggie smalls was a Jamaican heavy d you know how many Jamaicans live off hip hop the actually helped too start hip hop with sound clashes akademiks is just slow 🐌 bro has nothing to do with Jamaicans

Charleston White isn't consistent with his views that's his problem. He will say some real shit now and contradict it later

@@kfreckle5453 Example?

@@organikmack3975 When he be trolling. He does it all the time. “Fuck King Von. Fuck PNB Rock. Fuck Nipsey” etc etc

Dam steady B you brought back a memory. Poor righteous teachers , Kwame, just ice ,Jungle brothers etc etc. I miss those days

U sounds dumb as fuck!!! White people make y’all hate y’all own black ppl tf

they wouldn't get it

Being Caribbean don't mean ish. He a plant to drive dumb ish.