Lupe Fiasco Says Hip-Hop Is Partly To Blame For Derrion Albert Killing

@greywolf5…I COULD NOT HAVE THAT SAID THAT BETTER MYSELF..YOU TRULY HIT IT ON THE HEAD..

“The fact that alot of blackwomen on here, only comment on gossip, reflects why these young boys and young women act they way they do. Once the mothers sense of character is lost, the whole community suffers”

Your statement is nothing but the truth!@Ramses_NY

i m behind lupe 100% every since i heard the cool i been a fan his music compared to most rappers no is a breath of fresh air

if someone says black people need to be more responsible they will be attacked by many ignorant blacks who just want all the blame to be on white folks shoulders.
if you notice davettalashley, which is a couple coments down wants to bring up that we are being lynched and murdered by hordes of white mobs as if its 1850 and we are slaves, he doesnt see a difference in that time and the progress we made because he wants a permanent excuse which is the white man.
he will ignore hundreds of cases on black on black violence until he finds a white on black crime to exploit,DO YOU THINK HE CARES ABOUT HIS COMMUNITY OR KIDS OR HAVE HIS OWN AGENDA. BLACK PEOPLE WAKE UP THIS MENTALITY IS NO DIFFERENT THAN A HORDE OF RACE HATERS

In 1969 The Temptations came out with a song entitled “Cloud 9″ I remember it being the backdrop of my life at that time. None of those lyrics applied to me but if The Temps said it was coool to get loaded, then it was cool. When Superfly and The Mack came out I saw guys want to become drug dealers and pimps. Despite all of the positive music and cinema that was out at the time people ALL PEOPLE have an affinity for the BS. What artists need to r4alize is that they are the prophets and voices of their time and generation. There’s no escaping this. If you are being heard you are also influencing the one’s who are hearing you. The whole movment of the 50’s,60’s and 70’s was fueled by the music and the artists of that time. The wisdom of Sly, the spirituality of EWF, the truth of Gil Scott Heron, the radical conscious raising of Coltrane. Those of you who don’t wanna recognize this missing a great truth about art and its affect upon people. We are a vulnerable people. Yes we have parental problems and if any of you have ever rasied soemething besides hell you’ll know that when children reach a certain age ( around 14) they begin to rely uopn their peers to determine and test the wisdom which was taught to them by thier parents. If the mantra of that time is to smoke weed and get laid…That is gonna compete with the message of stay in school and keep your dress tail down. And if the mantra is “Reached back like a pimp and slapped the ho” or ” Nobody moves nobody gets burned” or pick the damn song, then that will be competing with whatever good that child has been exposed to…And until that child has a wake up call, it will be a major impact upon that child’s decisions. Lupe isin’t blaming all of this on Rap…But Rap needs to be held accountabel for its BS just like the makers of Superfly and the Mack need to be held accountabe for theirs

In a country where black people are STILL being lynched and murdered just for being black, race haters don’t NEED an excuse to hurt or kill black people!!!

Don’t you get it??? Are you that damn obtuse??? It’s like Bruce Lee said in that movie – it’s like a finger pointing to the moon – DON’T WATCH THE FINGER OR YOU WILL MISS ALL THE HEAVENLY GLORY. Don’t waste your time arguing over the REASONS why black people are being attacked and killed – STOP THE KILLING!!! WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You hit the nail on the head MAJESTIK, we’re so brainwashed, that we think graduating from college means being educated. Commonsense, and a desire to seek out higher than financial growth, is the major reason why we’re lost as a people. The fact that alot of blackwomen on here, only comment on gossip, reflects why these young boys and young women act they way they do. Once the mothers sense of character is lost, the whole community suffers. As far as where are the parents Soco_nest12, we’re a village, who’ve been brainwashed and co-opted to think like crabs in a barrel with that way of thinking. The whole community is to blaim, from the pimpin reverends, to the mediocre educational system-that fails to teach anything afro-centric. To the fathers that are no where to be found, and the women that seem to only open yall legs to the men that wont be around next year.

I’ve noticed something, Ya’ll. Correct me if I’m wrong. But everytime there is a ‘Conscious” topic such as this, it’s mostly the Brothers that comment. When it’s some petty celebrity dating/relationship drama, the Sisters chime in, in abundance. Wassup Wit Dat?

Is that part of the problem? The mentality of a lot of Our Sistas that are raising these children by themselves? -hmmm.

I think all of these “roots to the problem, ie Rap, Absence of the Black Man, Single Parent Sistas, etc” are actually just symptoms of a greater problem…that is BLACKS/AFRICANS are colonized. Meaning that another people control Our institutions, economics, media, etc. for their own gain. We haven’t known true Freedom, which is Self Determination, in over 500 years.

Blacks/Africans, get Our heads right, take control of what belongs to Us in our own interests, and get from under the influence of White Power.