clarity within chaos
Phillip Buggs
being. When we
murder, we tap into our animalistic instincts and succumb to our
instinct to destroy. Let's face it
folks. We are the only animals that
enjoy killing ourselves. We create games, movies, and mechnisms that
are monuments to our self destruction. This state of our human nature is
the base that we must transcend to becaome human beings. In reality,
this
issue does not deal exclussively with european, african, asian, or latin
individuals. This is a
human issue. The fact that the Columbine shooting took
place is a tragic reality, but c'mon people have been getting murdered
since
the beginning of time. Some murder their father and rape their mother.
Some
murder their sisters and brothers for a parents affection. Some murder
for sheer enjoyment. The
Columbine boys were in anguish and decided to let
go of their humanity. They cannot be considered human. Their act was
animalistic. They are
animals.
The media tries to make us see otherwise. They try to make us sympathize
with these animals.
Yet, they draw much attention to and judgement to
blacks that kill. It is wrong to sympathize with either of them. You
must understand that we all
are killers. I have a recommendation for anyone who is interested:
Check out anything you can on SOCIAL DARWINISM.
Rap Facts4U
Listen to what I am about to say. Rap is one of the primary components
of hip hop. Within this
component system there is breakdancing(which is related to brasilian
capoeira), DJing (related
to 70's disco), and graffing (the visual art component). If looked at
closely you will see that hip
hop
is a culture that being developed rather quickly. There is only one
problem though. Hip Hop was
developed in America and america is founded on the
capitalist system. As we all know, any culture that is revealed as being
lucrative or marketable
will be exploited by this system. TRUE hip hop
was about the togetherness and joy that people can experience. Hip hop
was
all about reaching the summit of that joy. Disco started it, but it was
hip hop's purpose to finish
it. Sadly, hip hop had become highly commercialized in its infancy. Hip
hop soon grew into
mirror image of the american values that it resented, since many of its
originators were in
poverty. Anyway, hip hop as it was known in its beginnings has died. You
can argue with me if
you want, but it is a fact.
Two factions were created within the hip hop reality of the world: the
artists and the mass
producers. The artists are a breed of rappers that use artistic
sensibilities while creating works.
They fully understand the negative ramifications that could come to pass
if their work was
misunderstood. These artists, having this knowlegde, strive to produce
work that lends
itself to the positive aspects of the human nature. Though their work is
the strengthening of higher human nature, it does not sale very well.
Also, the commercial
system serves to undermine the progress of any work like
this that is of real value to the discovery of being human.
Now, we have the mass producer, who creates work strictly for profit.
They
can care less whether their work is enlightening or degrading. They are
happy as long as they
gain money for their label and themselves. Their only
goal is money. Their God is money. In reality they are capitalists. Mass
Producers are the bane
of hip hop yet many people blindly view them as representatives of hip
hop culture. Many of the
mcees that receive much airplay on the radio fit this description. The
way to fight this is to not
pick up the album. Actually, I wouldn't call mass producers rappers. I
call them
pop artists, because they stick to the issues that are familiar and
popular. They never raise the
bar of intellect in hip hop. They lower it.
Hip hop was never meant to be a source of consciousness or rage. It was
created to be an escape. All humans want to escape themselves at some
point in time. Think.
Aren't you sometimes fearful of the true freedom that
you posess as a human being. Remember, the artform developed within
the impoverished class of america. They wanted to escape reality. They
wanted to reform their reality through visual, audible, and dynamic
objects.
In human history, the greatest art has come from those in anguish. Hip
Hop
has a long way to go before it reaches the level of a "genuine" artform
such
as baroque music, impressionist painting, and ballet. Hip hop has to
heal from its exploitation.
On a good note, there is hope. The marriage of hip hop
to its parent genre of disco has created a new genre
called.............Electronica. Though much of
the sound experimentation in this artform is borrowed directly from the
early german 20th
century composers such as Stockhausen, hip hop has influenced it's
sound completely. There are
Goa, House, Techno, Trance, and Jungle styles that have been created.
But, as you may have
guessed, commercialism has tainted this flower as well.
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IT ACROSS AS AN EDUCATOR.
MY RESPECT AND COMPLEMENTS.
SURE ENOUGH !!
Phillip Buggs
"We bring the gasoline to the fire" - 1950's Situationist Artists