Why can't we have rappers of today come together like back in the day to help solve the problems of today, instead of glorifying and making it worse?:

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Hmmm, didn't KRS One and his crew jump PM Dawn while they were on stage performing?

JabarR74 said:

Why can't we have rappers of today come together like back in the day to help solve the problems of today, instead of glorifying and making it worse?:

They will never let that happen again. It is the reason they chose to promote N.W.A. as a counter to Public Enemy. They don't want a unified message. Those of us from that era remember the weekends after a New P.E. project was released. You would see fellas in the library looking up the names dropped in the verses. "The Prophets of Rage" caused many a discussion on the steps of the Chatam County Library about "Vesey, Prosser and Nat."

Two centuries ago, Frederic Douglass summed it up nicely.

"Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress. If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness, he conforms to the popular belief of his character and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence. In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice...."

Taking that statement, look how the dynamic played out within Public Enemy itself. Do people really understand what Flavor Flav's role was in that group? He was the visual Trojan horse distraction that allowed the audio message of Chuck D to be delivered. So yes, we will be allowed to have Lil John, and the rest of his ilk, but true educators and unifier's will be relegated to the underground and sidelines.

The also very rare MASTER P Presents WEST COAST BAD BOYZ "Peace To Da Streetz" record. This put P on the map way back in the summer of 1994 when he was still setting up shop out in Richmond/Bay Area.