#snes ft. El Chapo

\\ Escape Plan// The case of El Chapo LIVE

I just want to know why we pedestalize criminals and criminal activities. I understand the hustler spirit and I'm not knocking that at all. Yet 1, hustles aren't supposed to last forever. And 2, we don't give the same praise to doctors or lawyers. People who work hard in schools or businesses, but you that guy if you take the law into your own hands. Plus we get mad when we break rules we KNOW are rules and get in trouble for it. It almost if you don't do something illegal, you're not all the way black.

It's like our communities don't matter if white people don't fix it. So we perpetuate the same cycles we mad about because we don't want to put our money into our community or people. As long as me and my momma make it out, Fuck y'all... all praise be to the trap. I personally don't get involved in things that start with the "Trap" handle. I got tired of mainly seeing black people come out in droves for art and new experiences when the same handle is used and the biggest party favors or selling point is that weed or alcohol is going to be involved. Is it bad to go out for a drink with a few friends and paint something? Absolutely not. My point being that is seems complicated to get us outside of our comfort zones without being able to be under some kind of influence, or the influence of new music. There are NUMEROUS black artists that don't just make pop, hip-hop, R&B, Trap, or Gangster media. We all know this of course, but in my community, the Black community, you have to dig and search for people that are similar to you yet don't make music to BE popular. I said all that to say that due to some of the lifestyles we choose to live and the role models or figures we tend to follow, we have a tendency to aim for higher outcomes yet perpetuate the same stereotypes we want to be rid of. How do we want our image to change if we don't change our image?

Many young black men and women born in the late 1980's and going into the 90's were not supervised as well as we should have been in our adolescence. The world was changing so fast around us and nobody really knew how to take it all in at once. Video games and explosion of media during these times was astounding to say the least. In my personal youth, I remember games like Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat, and Leisure Suit Larry being played by adults who understood the content, but mainly by kids who didn't. Movies too like Scarface, Menace II Society, and Belly gave young adults the impression that these people were to be revered due to their lifestyles and acquisition of money, women, fast cars and exclusivity. Since the mid to late 80's gangster rap has been beyond pervasive in modern media and the biggest victims of its range is our own people. We have allowed this to happen to our culture. And when too many young black men without fathers and too many black women with better understanding of who men are, our race has turned to the media as to who black men should strive to be like and how they should act. Now that we have more players on the field than what we did have, why is it that the same ideologies that we saw in movies, we heard at home or in music, we interacted with using technology, why does it seem like we're stuck in that same place we were in?