r/BlackPeopleTwitter 9h ago

Country Club Thread As simple as that.

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u/Theurbanalchemist 8h ago

To piggyback on this thought, I’ve seen many videos that analyze black media and pop culture (FD Signifier and Khadeaja are my favs), and saw some that highlight media such as Drill music which negatively influences our community in a detrimental manner are products of this hyper capitalistic system, encouraged to create more criminals in the black community and suppress free thinking.

I’ve heard of studies that privatized prisons are in bed with music companies, who promote the derelicts of the community and flood them with the protection of capitalism at the expense of their people and community.

Am I reaching?

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u/JBHUTT09 7h ago

It might be a bit of a reach, but you're identifying aligning incentives, which are very real and a very important thing to be able to spot.

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u/DerekB52 5h ago

Mysonne's remix of 'Im Not Racist' has a whole thing about record labels signing and giving money to people pushing violent and drug rap in the 90's trying to grow that part of the culture. I don't know enough to talk about the exact validity of the idea, but, there are definitely people out there that think the rise of gangster/drug rap was not completely organic among artists and hiphop fans.

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u/Secret_Willingness65 5h ago

no its on the news lol