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As you all have probably gathered by now...music is a huge part of my life. 😁 I know enough about black music to write a book but I'm just a musician.🤭 Black music has always documented our plight...peace, joy, happiness, love, sorrow, sadness, despair, etc. Music reflects the environment and conditions in which it was created. Listen to black music from any period of time and you'll get an idea of how they were living and saw the world around them. Once music became a profitable form of entertainment, capitalists scoop it up and eventually dictate the narrative according to what they believe will sell. Every generation believes music is *worse* than the soundtrack of their lives. But, the reality is there's always been *good* and *bad* music. I remember when older folks thought 1990s Hip-Hop was a bunch of noise being made by n8gglets who couldn't sing or play real instruments.🤣 Today's music isn't any better or worse than the music of yesterday. It's just reflective of the environment in which it's being created. No shortage of talent either. For example, Kendrick Lamar is a throwback to early Hip-Hop lyricists. The older we get, the further removed we are from the folks creating music. The folks whose music we listened to have gotten older too. They have branched off into other aspects of entertainment. It's harder for Ice Cube to make gangsta records now that he's a multimillionaire. His environment and circumstances have changed as well.😎

It's no secret that white folks have been stealing ideas, knowledge and information from non-white folks forever. They didn't know sh8t when they stole America. Native Americans taught them how to survive in it. Slavery built the American economy. AfroAmericans through slavery taught white folks how to cook and build and make things. That's before we were allowed to read and write. White folks study, imitate and codify everything they steal from others and they capitalize on it. Black folks are divinely gifted and talented. We bring style and flava to everything we do. We are so creative and prolific that it's like a positive form of attention deficit disorder. We come up with stuff, enjoy it for a while and move on to the next episode. As a result, black folks don't get stuck on thing. Unfortunately, we do not commodify and capitalize on our gifts, talents and intellectual property. Lost generational wealth. Take music for example. Black folks created Blues, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Gospel, Hip-Hop, New Jack Swing, Neo-Soul, etc. White folks have Classical music which is hundreds of years old. They stole from black music to create Rock and Country. They've been recycling the same music for many decades. But, white folks know that it's important to own everything that non-white folks produce. So, white folks feel entitled to stealing the truth from non-white folks and peddling it . 😎

Sh8t...I hope you're not working for Herschel Walker. That n8gglet is leading in the polls.🤣😎

@Delano, you're right...beliefs are harmless. It's when folks start acting on their beliefs that all h8ll breaks loose and they go broke or hurt themselves and others and/or enrich others too. 😎

Hey @Pioneer1 Cube's rap was creative but I could not help but thing of one of the songs that was sampled, You Can Make it if You Try by Sly and the Family Stone Both songs are in reaction to oppression. Which song serves us better?

Daniel No. That's because during Trump's admnistration the nation was on lock-down and half the population wasn't working. Infact, hundreds of thousands were dropping dead. We didn't have inflation but we DID have race riots and racist White men marching around threatening people. Wanna bring THAT bag if he promises to bring the price of bacon down?

Pioneer consider the set of everything you believe. Lets say you are provided with additional, new information, outside your set of preexisting beliefs that says none of your set of beliefs are true. I already know what you will do. You will reject the new information and hold, even more firmly, onto you previous set of beliefs. Consider your stance on multiple races and the genetic basis for it as an example. But lets dispense with with your argument for a moment; do you understand the spirit of Del's question, or do you reject that notion too?

I didn't know sista Jenifer Lewis was a musician too. Black don't crack unless it's been rode real hard. 😁 Being able to identify fake news and staying informed requires reading multiple news sources.😎

Human design came out a couple of years ago. It's the new flavour that some folks arerabing about. People talk about what category they are and that's about it. Perhaps there are some practitioners out there are teacher's that can shed light on this diagram. I am not that person. It's a cool design. There personalised a chart by using a person's silhouette. And made it look scientific with some numbers and futuristic by use of shape. From a marketing and design standpoint it's a hit. And while I appreciate innovation I'll pass on this one. I went to the page it says that it will give you a user manual for your life. Could be but it's not in a language I understand.

Inflation is making it harder for ALL Americans to survive. Neither side of the political aisle is doing much to stop it. Probably because most politicians are already rich.😎

White folks have been manufacturing diseases in labs for 50 years or more. Every now and then, they unleash them on certain populations. Biological warfare.😎

@Pioneer1, bro, you've been MIA long enough...its great to have you back in the seat. Handle your BI out there. The fat to chew on will be here whenever you return. I know you're old enough to stay away from the race soldiers. 😁😎

@Delano Ii hear ya. Actually it was a very provocative question you posed and i appreciated ProfD and Troy's thoughtful answers. I would be interested in hearing your response. I am pondering the question and i don't think i would be greatly impacted, because i am a skeptical person... I connect with the caveat that cautions if something sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.