I only read Tailo' post because i am lazy, but i totally agree with everythinge has said. Here in California, especially the bay area ( since that is where i live) i have noticed many races trying to act "black" (which is pretty wrong in the first place). I do thinks it has to do alot with the parents buying their kids all kinds of crap, letting them get the popular cars, giving them rims, credit cards and all. I mean kids wanna be like there mtv stars, so what do they do with there "cool" parent bought crap, they go to the mall or local movie theater, and crowd the sidewalks, mugging everyone that passes buy. Or they all crowd around there riced out or pimped out cars bumping new school crap, with there bandanas and scullys and other forms of pantyhose on their heads, thinking that they look real cool.
I myself used to fit this stereotype. I was a wigga. lol. But alot has changed since i was that way. I mean a lot more kids are doing it now days. The sad thing is that they are gonna get hurt one day, and there parents wont really know what happened... infact i know a kid who got shot and no one knows why. Or at least i dont. I am sure the thugs who shot him have some reason.
I think another reason y things have gotten worse is due to the ways in which hip hop itself has changed. WHen you listen to oldschool anything before gansta rap, the songs were about having fun and partying. Then with gansta rap... which i still like... they got more violent ( which encouraged alot of thugs to become more thugish and find more thugs)... I mean a lot of this thugs stuff is relatively new (at least the scale in which it is today among younguns). But after tupac and b.i.g. were shot things got even worse in my opinion. I mean at least at that stage you had the fugees and coolio rapping and writing songs that were balancing out some of hte more violent types. (even alot of hte violent rap wasnt that bad). But what do we have today, thongs, breasts, ass, sex, drugs, rims, cash, bling blinging, etc. This is the focus of hip hop and pop culture on tv and in the songs they create. There are a few good artists who dont conform to these ideas, but hte majority do IMO. This has made alot of young people really stop giving a rats ass. Its no longer just the people from teh ghetto who become thugs because they dont really have any options, but people from all over stop caring about themselves by only caring about being cool. This is the new "thug."
What we need are some real scary Fokkers to really scare some of these kids. Like triple six... They need to go around the nation and scare these little kids...
i know that wouldnt do anything but make things worse.
Y cant we have more outkasts, mobb deep, e 40's, and people like this. Y must we all want to live in a pop culture.y.y.y...
it is a shame