NYC Mayor Eric Adams & The Problem With Hip Hop Becoming The Establishment | Hip Hop 50 Breakdown 

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great point

K.O.

This is the best comment.

right 🤦‍♂

Too much truth

Thank you, Free. I appreciate that sincerely.

Thank you BMW. That’s an I’ll double entendre btw. I appreciate you checking for the channel. It’ll be interesting how things play out in the city

And a prime example of why that sentiment is bullshit. Actions speak louder than words. And if your words dont match your actions. You're fake.

@@buckfastbjork6968 you already know!!!!!

Glad you like them! Thank you!

We need more FDRs. Homie flipped the script when he got in office and still got three terms. Thanks as always Rory.

Thank you 🙏🏿 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Thank you, Kobla.

Thank you, SJ

Been thinking about that for two weeks actually. Transformative album

THank you.

Thank you!

I appreciate you MM

Thats Peace my brother. This comment is spot on 👌

BIGFAXUAL analysis. Well said.

Harder today than ever imo

Thank you!

Of course he has the right to speak on it

Thanks for the analysis

Thanks substantial 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

I believe there’s a plan to have the revenue from the museum go to help financially strapped pioneers. Then of course there the city tax dollars. Let’s hope that goes to the community, even though that community has been supremely gentrified in the decades since

Now they're the powerful people. And they move just like the rest.

I wish him the best sincerely. I’m from brooklyn and so is my family and all these things look so familiar to eras past.

Why'd I think you were still in the bay?

@@TheCompanyMan Lol that might be a different Corey. I've been a fan for a minute though, keep up the good work. Also how can I get video ideas to you?

@@MR.FREEDMAN Thanks man. My bad. Sure thing. Feel free to DM me on twitter or IG.

Thank you!

It’s the establishment now

@@TheCompanyMan the establishment? as in the owners of labels? Or the entire system? Probably the later lbs…

I agree with you there. Artists stood up to the establishment. Now they’re all only concerned with getting the bag

@@TheCompanyMan Yes! And I hate it. Or they call OG’s dusty for not being millionaires. Well, at least a lot of the OG’s still alive.

Thanks, Jose.

I definitely see people compare Biden and Trump's "swagger" every day. They used to pick on FDR for being "a cripple" even though he's the most transformative president in a century and a half. there is something to the psychological connection to swagger even though clearly it's not the only thing.

I don’t think Adam’s is like sinema. Adam’s is over many more people and has a lot of varying issues in front of him.

@@TheCompanyMan They're both garbage

@@TheCompanyMan I was gonna edit my comment but after a little reflection aka food time I'll give some food for thought. We all know the essence of Hip Hop is those who are vulnerable in society punching up at existing power structures. What Adams is doing is using those existing power structures to continue to punch down on others. On the real, Hip hop is socialism, not the way the American right wing thinks that it is. Looking at it from that lens, the things Adams is doing isn't Hip Hop in my opinion. Always appreciate the content my brother. Nothing but love for everyone on the mission.

Thanks Ethan 😂😂😂

I remember hearing about him during COVID. He presented as for the people. Then I heard something about him flipping the script. What shadiness do you think it is?

​@@TheCompanyMan 1. Apologies for my delayed response here. 2. There's plenty of reporting by the Minnesota Reformer that's gone into more detail, but here's some highlights. In the wake of the killing of Amir Locke he announced an end to the no-knock warrants that resulted in that incident... but even that ban had so many holes in it that there was practically no difference. There was also the fact that the MPD has a long history of racism (one glaring example is how in 2018 officers in the fourth precinct dressed a Christmas tree in menthol cigarettes, Popeyes containers,Takis, and a 40, in one of the most predominantly black precincts in the city) There's also a scandal about millions in aid for feeding hungry kids in the state, and how one of the many charged in this scheme is a former Frey policy aide. That's not a direct indictment of Mayor Frey, obviously, but it speaks to someone with a lax attitude towards corruption. Or how his office is currently attempting to justify an environmentally devastating development in the East Phillips neighborhood right now. The mayor also has a habit of ducking away from tough questions at press conferences, and when he tries to make random public appearances he gets chewed out by residents. There's a lot more out there, and I don't think it's easily tied into hip-hop, so I understand not making a whole TBD or breakdown or anything. Its just something that this one reminded me of.

Love the analysis, Hawk. Thank you.

Thank you for you service

Thank you!

Well said, Tapiwa. Excellent analysis.

That’s why I put him talking on video music box in the piece. He’s saying what the drill rappers are saying now

Exactly drill is just a sub-sub genre of gangsta rap. Ice T is part of the reason it exists

They got a raise in the last budget.

Hip hop is the status Quo now

and know how to spell status quo

@@billyconnelly3568 I would curse you out. But, I'm not going to disrespect this channel like that. If that's all you got out of what I was attempting to say then you my feeble minded friend still need time to grow up.

@@unkletwann6797 KRS-1 had many much better ones. No one should aspire to be part of the (capitalist) status quo. Sorry for the snippy comment

No problem. I was just making a point. As, with Ice T the same person who rapped about pimping and gangbanging. Is now a TV personality and giving an award to the mayor of New York city 🤷🏽‍♂️. That particular Krs quote was just insightful for this type of situation. He isn't the only one by far.🙏🏽

For the Gangsta rappers who indeed glorify it. Not all do. Drill rappers are more known to me literally glorifying it. Telling your story if your reality or environment is not glorifying it necessarily. Ice Cube and NWA and even a lot of Ice T isn’t necessarily glorifying it if you pay attention. “I’m in love with the co co.” Is definitely glorifying it.” He was ridiculed by a lot of people for that. And the video was a horrible influence! In Ice Cubes “it was a good day” he says some thug stuff like he isn’t get caught for crimes, but in the video at the end, all the police and helicopters are at his house. Lol. Accountability! Art of storytelling but he did not leave it at an unrealistic fantasy condoning the nonsense in real life. He also has a great song in defense of gangsta rap called “Gangsta Rap made me do it.” And a lot of the terminology was geographically regional. MC Lyte said she had never heard of calling someone a “Dog” until West coast rappers got on the scene, or “Bitch.” She now realizes that what was going on over there was different than what was happening on the East Coast. They thought 2Pac was insanely sexist and evil for referring to a woman as a bitch, but it was more regionally normal as a term of endearment, unless using it in the context of trying to be insulting. Eryka Badu said it’s a term of endearment in Dallas where she is from. 2pac has some of the most encouraging music for women, and told Biggie to make music for the women because they will buy your music, and the men will buy what the women like. C. Delores Tucker had our best interest at heart, but like Kendrick Lamar said in response to Fox News ridiculing Hip Hop “Hip Hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.” Poverty is the culprit of crime.

@@LeonaHeartYou really had me intrigued by your response because I rarely read long responses lol. However I believe we are actually agreeing to agree on most points, the only thing I have to disagree with is calling a woman a bitch (female dog) as a term of endearment. I wouldn’t call my mom, sister, or niece a bitch because I want to express my love. So I believe Erykah Badu can keep those sentiments in her personal circle and not teach our youth that’s that ok because it’s not. Overall you raised great points and really know your hip hop for sure. 💯

@@DJVeeRiche I never said that I think it’s a great term of endearment or that I use it as one. Lol. But it’s a fact that some people do. Whether it’s a good idea is a whole other question that I never addressed. Lol. No man is allowed to call me that, and they know it. It also isn’t a part of my personal cultural environment. But thanks! You made great points also!

all three are under the banner of the culture.

@@TheCompanyMan If it contradicts the 4 principles of the culture it can not exist under the umbrella of the culture.

@@biggcebo Does gangsta rap contradict the umbrella of the culture?

@@TheCompanyMan Yes, it is what it labels itself, its gangsta "rap" not gangsta hiphop. People label music "HipHop" just because someone is rapping.Drill Music is Drill Music, Trap Music is Trap Music, and HipHop Music is HipHop Music.

The same woman who keeps calling Kamala black?

HA!!!! It's all happening. All love for Kansas. No love for the JayHawks.🤷🏿‍♂️

So crazy.

Let’s hope he’s not a criminal too

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Wait. I don't understand that sentence. Not sure what you mean. Break it down for me again.

@@TheCompanyMan The people who initially funded what we know as Hip Hop today, the same people that C.Deloris Tucker fought went on to take control the Democrat party Mayor Adams is not the only Democrat Hip Hop Mayor there's Houston and Atlanta who has given Honor and protection even after high profile shootings, also the Governor of California wrote a law protecting Rappers from their lyrics being used as evidence in trials,why would you do that?

@@MrJojordan Because art shouldn't be taken as fact. Not every rap lyric is the same and not every bar is a confession.

@@TheCompanyMan The point was why would a Governor give Hoot about a Rapper being prosecuted because of his lyrics!

@The Company Man the problem with that is you have rappers who are under the radar who confess evil deeds in their songs. For example, a florida rapper was charge for murder after rapping about it (La’Darion Chandler)

Just googled it. Ordering the book now.

@@TheCompanyMan as a Brazilian fan of yours I highly recommend it. Freire is one of the most studied scholars in the world, not just the field of pedagogy. The most famous quote of his is: “when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.” Fits like a glove for this

People sleep on the subway everyday all times of day. It’s when they live on the subway that’s the issue

@@TheCompanyMan I suppose there is a line that can be crossed once you set up like a house situation good point

@@etotheipi42 that definitely happens. I’ve seen people get on what seems to be and empty train car. The doors close and then you realize you’re on the car with the homeless person who been camping out in the car with all their stuff for days and now you’re trapped in a rank metal tube til the next stop. That shouldn’t happen.

It's absolutely the same as rapping what you see in your neighborhood. It's definitely violent and full of taunts like you said, but it's absolutely what they see in their neighborhood.

Too much truth.