RE: The Psychology Of Control: The Manufacturing Of Gang Culture & The Drug War
In many ways the earlier hip hop artists were the first truthers, firing lyrical truth bombs that verbally destroyed the targets of their rage.
Being born in 1980, I have great memories of when rap was fun, when it told a story, there were disses but they were well thought out, and sometimes you had to think about it a bit to 'get it'. And like you said...there was TRUTH being spoken, and we were dyin' to hear it.
Music and media does change our brains if we let it, I remember enter in the mid 90's and suddenly I think women are shit. And we're calling each other ho's all the time and garbage like that came directly from the rap at that time. It became cool to degrade women, and a lot of us fell for it!
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Hey @lyndsaybowes I really appreciate this heartfelt comment thank you!
Yes, the early days of rap were indeed fun .. it was fun and exciting, you never knew where they were going to take it next and I was constantly amazed by the range of their vocabulary and their linguistic acrobactics .. in musical terms they were creating new frontiers and kicking down the doors of perception and questioning dogmatic societal misconceptions.
In terms of music and media .. both music and comedy are a incredibly powerful form of propaganda, they are instigators of societal change and they are being increasingly utilised for this purpose. Like you say with youth, it's scary how maluable the mind is at that age and indeed messages absorbed by the subconscious increasingly play out in the real world. Thanks again for the great comment my friend.