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Originally posted by gottago
Originally posted by vcwxvwligen
reply to post by gottago
Sorry, but Rapture wasn't the first hit rap single. The Sugarhill Gang beat her to it 4 years earlier.
Yes, you're right, but so am I. I said that Rapture was the first rap hit. It was the first to go no. 1 on the charts and, just like with Elvis, white singers popularized a black genre, opened the door to the big white heartland via top 40 radio. Very important distinction.
Blondie was a NY band. Debbie Harry and the band members were kicking around in the NYC club scene before they became big, and after too, and picked up on the rap movement. I remember, because I was just out of school, in NYC then, and going out a lot, and she'd pop up everywhere, like Madonna and Warhol and Keith Haring. They all knew each other. Haring picked up on graffiti, for example, and did pretty much with it what Blondie was doing with rap and reggae.
There's also the Chic "Good Times/Le Freak" side of rap too, from disco, of all things. So as soon as it popped up, it was already being co-opted or "sampled" by other "inauthentic" but perceptive musicians.
So, if you want to follow the paranoid logic of the OP, then it's Blondie and Chic who are the CIA disinfo agents he/she posits, because they were interlopers, sampling a genre that belonged to another world and bringing it mainstream.
But this is ludicrous. They were just doing what every artist does--taking what was new, in the air, and playing with it and making it their own. Or exploiting it, if you want to be cynical about it.
[edit on 24-2-2009 by gottago]
Originally posted by M0n0lyth
Originally posted by Afrosamurai
reply to post by Stormdancer777
Drug Cartels like... the CIA! They've done every thing they can to destroy the black community. Why do you think a black kid who does well is called an Oreo? Why is it when a black person does well in some thing other then sports or rap or drug dealing he's betrayed the life? Also, when white kids listen to this music do they then go out and shoot people? No. Because they haven't been brainwashed into believing that is how they should act. They aren't called Oreos if they go to school read a book, do well. They aren't told from a young age that if they don't shoot some one for stepping on their shoe that they aren't really white.
And this is where I tell you how wrong you are. When a black person is called an "oreo" or "uncle tom" it's usually said by another black person (lord knows whites are afraid to say anything these days due to anything they say being considered "racism"). Blacks are not betrayed for life if they do well for themselves by whites or any other race than their own. I know I'm leaving out a lot of other races but honestly lately whites and blacks have completely segregated themselves into two completely different cultures.
What's this mess about white kids not shooting up people. Look at school shootings. The difference here is instead of it being over petty drug and gang related crap they kill due to the crap they have to put up with because of bullies and the like. They make one big statement that's heard around the world (the Asians have recently caught on to this as well).
Now honestly look around and tell me why it's the "CIA's" fault for issues plaging the black community. Once again, the blame is placed elsewhere and because of that, things will never change.
Originally posted by MattMulder
Yeah, Yeah, right, and the NSA destroyed the basic teachings any normal kid would be granted so wannabe conspiracists like you spell " TOO" instead of "TO"
I'm so pissed off my English doesn't allow me to be more acid. I'm said to be weird, but man, I owe you a beer for that crazy theory.
Originally posted by GEORGETHEGREEK
I do not know where this head is heading.
One thing i know is for sure:
White people have not the eager against black as predecessors have.
We now lieve in a better more open society.
Proof ? You now have a black president who is admirable too.
Now no matter how much WE the people have improved i cannot say the same about politics and the people above our heads. Whoever people are in control. All the care about is milking us while having put the reallity they want into our minds.
Its not a matter whether they milk a black or a white cow...
They all produce the same milk.
Now i may live in Greece and be a bit different culturally but the thread tittle sounds rubbish. -No offence but:
CIA Invented Rap Too Destroy The Black Community! ???????
Come on! Get on your feet. Life is not easy and nothing comes without great effort.
I am here with you in the effort side of things.
You know something else?
The system sucks too! But it is what it is.
If some of us do not stand tall enough it will just be like that.
So move your efforts to where it counts.
Originally posted by neformore
I had to chuckle when I read the thread title.
Did MI6 invent Ska and proper Heavy Rock to destroy the white community?
Maybe the CIA also invented skiffle and rockabilly? Or punk and goth?
Fact is, supporters of different styles of music have been taking pot shots at each other for years. The genre doesn't matter. its purely a throwback to tribal living, where groups of people who identify with form rivalries with other groups of people.
Its nothing new at all, and if you don't believe me, watch Quadrophenia, or talk to some old school rockers. Violence was as much a part of those scenes as it is the rap scene.
Originally posted by Afrosamurai
reply to post by Trolloks
Its not racist! They've been brainwashed by the government for years now! You can't do well in school that makes you like whitey. You can't go too college for some thing other then sports that makes you an Oreo. You have to do drugs, be in a gang, act like an animal or you're betraying your race. That is what they have been taught. It is all part of the CIAs plan to keep them down! Much like with the drug smuggling.
Originally posted by redhead57
I must agree with one of the first responses.........most racist crap I have read on this site. How many of you here are familiar with the rap culture or the history of gansta rap. I really don't think Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Snoop were planted by the CIA. I can just imagine a headline like this, "NWA has links to CIA". LOLOLOL
My kids listen to this stuff and I have heard tons of interviews with rappers where they complain that the promoters and record companies won't even take seriously any music that is not full of that garbage. Unless of course the rapper is already a huge star and will make a ton of money on name recognition.
I guess this is a conspiracy site so I can see somewhat the reason for the OP,but really this is quite ridiculous.
Originally posted by ProfessorRusso
To destroy the black community? Well that sure backfired, it's destroying the white community more than it is the black community. Thousands of white women are raped by black "gangstas" every year as well as thousands of white men who are also killed by the so called "gangstas".
Rapping was invented in Scotland long, long ago (even blacks know this, the rapper Snoop Dogg can be seen wearing a scottish kilt below) so if you ask me rap wasn't invented to destroy the black community, it was invented to destroy the white community in scotland!
Originally posted by pieman
yeah, so who the hell goes around calling kids that study oreos? other black people.
who calls them uncle toms? other black people.
is there a cia plant in every black classroom and on every street corner?
who sells white kids drugs?
did the cia invent teeny bop pop rubbish to rot white kids minds?
white kids are called nerds and beaten up for studying, who organised that?
take some freakin' responsibility for the problems in your own circle, encourage others to do the same and work to change the cancer in your culture instead of looking for spooks to blame.
and as for MLK, well the CIA probably sht JFK aswell, so what? the CIA don't like any anti establishment group, it's not that he was black, it was that he called for equality. get over yourself.
Originally posted by vcwxvwligen
Originally posted by redhead57
I must agree with one of the first responses.........most racist crap I have read on this site. How many of you here are familiar with the rap culture or the history of gansta rap. I really don't think Tupac, Dr. Dre, and Snoop were planted by the CIA. I can just imagine a headline like this, "NWA has links to CIA". LOLOLOL
My kids listen to this stuff and I have heard tons of interviews with rappers where they complain that the promoters and record companies won't even take seriously any music that is not full of that garbage. Unless of course the rapper is already a huge star and will make a ton of money on name recognition.
I guess this is a conspiracy site so I can see somewhat the reason for the OP,but really this is quite ridiculous.
They tried to get gangsta rap shut down, but then they saw that it was good for money, and so the gangsta rappers sold themselves out. Ice Cube and Ice-T have since played the stereotypical black law-enforcement role.
Tupac Shakur had a very rough life in NY, and so he moved to the west coast.
Yes, the record companies refuse to promote any rapper who doesn't toe the line. There are plenty of good rappers who have never gotten the same airplay as artists like Flo Rida and Xzibit, who both produce absolute garbage. Flo Rida sounds like a damn 45-year-old butch stuck in a young man's body
Originally posted by jibeho
This is quite the amusing thread. I never would have suspected that Flavor Flav was an agent for the CIA. Those clocks around his neck actually contained sophisticated recording devices back in the day. Some of those clocks actually broadcast low frequency subliminal messages to the masses.
Come on. Rap in all of its forms evolved out of Hip Hop which began in the early to mid 70's in New York City. I grew up watching the evolution on MTV. When I was a kid it was Grandmaster Flash, Kool Moe Dee and Run DMC. Remember break dancing and the movies Beat Street and Breakin. Unfortunately, that innocent music evolved into the current mix of crap they call Gansta Rap. IMHO these gansta rappers have no talent and are certainly not musicians.
All music evolves. Some forms die off along with the bands like Winger, thank God or simply morph into something else. Early Rap/Hip Hop was great at sampling and mixing of other songs into modern tunes.
If the CIA is behind Rap then they must be behind Punk and Death Metal too. Sounds rather strange doesn't it?
[edit on 24-2-2009 by jibeho]
Originally posted by taybes
So how exactly did the CIA invent rap? It's pretty hard to just "invent" a new form of music. I guess they could of had some suits in an office beatbox and freestyle until they came up with something catchy I SPIT HOT FIRE!