Trap rap should be banned

I heard about this form of rap called Trap music which is all about guys who sell crack and live in trap houses. Its like crunk rap and has artists like Gucci Mane and Plies (I think). I watched a video by a guy denouncing it, and I agree, its all about glamorising drug dealing and the crudest ghetto stereotypes around, rims, hos, cash, guys with gold teeth and tacky pimp style bling. This video even said that these guys were paid millions by white racists to sell this lifestyle to young black men to keep them like that.
Does anyone else know about this form of crude rap and want it banned as well.

Huggiebear said:

"Who gonna check me boo?"

Boriqua1130 said: It's never too late, to be "Experienced"

Oh the video was by some guy called blackmilitant

Ayyyyy


Gucci!

Huggiebear said:

missfee said:

Huggiebear said:

I heard about this form of rap called Trap music which is all about guys who sell crack and live in trap houses. Its like crunk rap and has artists like Gucci Mane and Plies (I think). I watched a video by a guy denouncing it, and I agree, its all about glamorising drug dealing and the crudest ghetto stereotypes around, rims, hos, cash, guys with gold teeth and tacky pimp style bling. This video even said that these guys were paid millions by white racists to sell this lifestyle to young black men to keep them like that.Does anyone else know about this form of crude rap and want it banned as well.

may u live 2 see the dawn

a yo prince im really happy for you imma let you finish but Michael Jackson had one of the best records of all time!

Wow, you mean rap music has NEVER glorified drugs before?????

Huggiebear said:

Yes I know, but this artist and music was even more debased and deprived than gangsta rap. Why do people get into this shit?

vainandy said:

"This video even said that these guys were paid millions by white racists to sell this lifestyle to young black men to keep them like that.Does anyone else know about this form of crude rap and want it banned as well?"

Flippin through the channels last night I landed on a special about drugs and how the US Govt. during the Iran / Contra scandal employed the CIA to import coke into the ghettos of LA not just to fund Reagan's secret and illegal military actions in the middle east but to deliberately hamstring the black community by hooking them on crack.

They spotlighted a dealer named Freeway Ricky Ross who was taught by a CIA operative named Blandon' how to increase profitability (and thereby addict many more people) by turning expensive flake into cheap rock).

Ricky would sometimes make $3 million in a day!

And when the local cops were about to raid his locations Ricky would receive intel ahead of time so he could stay ahead of the law. Hmmmm... now who would would have that kind of insider information AND want to keep Ricky in business?

They interviewed Ricky (in jail now) and to his way of thinking he was just lucky to find a great source who would front him huge quantities of product so he could go to work on a grand scale. He never really thought too much about all these lucky warnings he was getting on a regualr basis.

But now that all this shit has been revealed aboout how Oliver North was at the head of all this evil Ricky sees that he was totally played as the key man to ruin a people and "keep darky down." The CIA was pushing Ricky's ego buttons (I'm the BIGGEST dealer that ever lived!) like an accordian.

There was some incredible footage of a scrupled (is that a word?) 18 year law enforcement vet confronting the national drug czar at a public meeting about this terrible scourge in LA attended by thousands of concerned citizens about how it was a deliberately planned act by the US government to create and release crack into the community.

Of course the main investigative journalist (a guy named Wade, I think) was found dead of "an apparent suicide" and the official congressional inquiry into Iran Contra and its downsteam by-products in the ghetto absolved the CIA of any wrong-doing.. Surprise, surprise.

So now Oliver North has his own show on FOX and so many brothers are in prison and so many other peoples lives have been ruined.

Many areas in LA were so devastated by the crack epidemic that once upwardly mobile people lost their homes on such a scale that entire neighborhoods were abandoned due to inability to make the mortgage payments anymore thanks to the effects of crack cocaine, either directly on their own lives as users, or because of the crime and dangers rampant on their streets they had to leave.

Now these same areas have been gentrfied by white real estate speculators who swooped in and picked up the burned out and boarded up properties for pennies on the dollar. Houses that were once affordable for the local people now run $300K, keeping the money in the hands of those it should be in, right?

A job well done thanks to Ronald Reagan and his thugs.

So do I believe that a powerful group of white racists paid millions to keep a certain demographic dumbed down?

Absolutely, but it was done as a highly sophisticated covert operation by the world's best experts who played guys like Ricky Ross as patsys. They built Ricky up as a legendary figure who many others then emulated and spread the epidemic even faster and farther to other cities. It was a brilliant strategy and it worked.

Local police forces were totally overwhelmed and kept busy picking up the small time players but the Ricky Rosses were being taken care of by the very people who engineered this evil mess.

So no, it wasn't a matter of a simple phone call from a white music industry executive offering million dollar contracts to anyone who would write rap songs glorifying drugs and the gangbanger lifestyle, it was far more insidious than that.
[Edited 10/15/09 9:05am]

The drug thing is bigger than hip-hop.

So they have put a label on it now...it's all ridiculous, but that is neither here nor there.

The message you are about to hear are not meant for transmission. Should ONLY be accessed in the privacy of your mind. Words are so intense so if you dare to listen.Take off your clothes and meet me between the lines.

Chic35 said:

So they have put a label on it now...it's all ridiculous, but that is neither here nor there.

vainandy said:

I'll say it again, the fuck is trap rap? lol

well since I'm of this generation and regularly socialize with people that enjoy this kind've music(and btw it's not only black people, I don't think i could tell you how many people of ALL races...except asians, who enjoy gucci mane & houston choppped & screwed etc) people enjoy this music because it is the "cool thing" simple as. Why did people 30 years like funk & disco & rock even though it isn't as musically sophisticated as classical & jazz? because it's the cool thing. It was the taste of the time. The only thing that truly differentiates between that kinda music and this is their is no real substantive or stylistic evolution in rap music atm. At least FUNK branched off into synth funk, techno, or disco, and disco became house, electro and pop music. I can't foresee what the hell rap like this with no original musical contribution could branch off into.

Timmy84 said:

Huggiebear said:

Huggiebear said:

are you like a crazy person?

Gucci !!!!!

I like his stuff, and no Trap shouldn't be banned, if anything, all this emo fucking electro pop bullshit should be.

ernestsewell said:

Wow, you mean rap music has NEVER glorified drugs before?????

JarviusLovesexy said:

ernestsewell said:

Wow, you mean rap music has NEVER glorified drugs before?????

Not the way 'Trap-music" is glorifying it.

O.K., so rappers making songs about selling drugs is wrong and should be banned.

But it's OK for countless rockers like Mick Jagger to make songs like Sister Morphine?

Or a funk artist like Rick James to have a Quaalude reference in his biggest hit?

Or pretty much every artist in Music history?

The countless Blues Artists.

Everybody!!!

So you're saying one genre of music should be banned for talking about selling drugs, but it's perfectly fine for ALL the rest of music to talking about using drugs?

So singing about DOING Drugs is OK.

But rapping about SELLING Drugs is not OK.

What I'm hearing is that you can talk about drugs all you want as long as you sing about it but don't rap.

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