“Pull your pants up! I can’t hear you!”
(Not a Stitch of Talent, and Auto-Tuned Up)
By Glenn Peppers 12-22-2015
Before you read this article, I invite you to click on the picture above with the Fake Rapper! Although its humorous, within its silliness come a reality!...
Not that you've seen the video, I'd like to say, fresh out of the starting gate! I’m going to be forthright and honest! Personally, I feel that this is one of the main reasons why our black youth today are drastically becoming lost and hopelessly ignorant! In view of these and many other real-life examples of children following stupidity. Don’t ask why our kids have an interest in guns and drugs and sex, so feverishly! I think the reasons are clear!
Not that you've seen the video, I'd like to say, fresh out of the starting gate! I’m going to be forthright and honest! Personally, I feel that this is one of the main reasons why our black youth today are drastically becoming lost and hopelessly ignorant! In view of these and many other real-life examples of children following stupidity. Don’t ask why our kids have an interest in guns and drugs and sex, so feverishly! I think the reasons are clear!
Although this video clip is a pun, or a joke, I feel it reveals in a spirit of fun some of these idiotic rap video senerio’s that I've seen on most video channels late night, on cable these past few years. This is pretty much what and how people with No Real Talent whatsoever sound like, yet get over and are pushed into the public eye as stars, and are someone for our children to admire and look up to! This clip, although satire, is a reflection of pretty much what has happened to black music, and black culture, as far as our youth is concerned!
The record industry has strategically and intentionally sabotaged R&B music with this rot, hitting the urban airwaves, and they have taken the rich soul cream off the top of urban soul! Stealing the butter off the R&B buttered popcorn, and draining funk-fueled classic soul music, right outta of black culture! They’re doing this by denying creative black recording artist like, Tyrese and many, many others, fair radio, and media exposure!
They’re doing this by refusing to promote music of substance, and true expression from most anyone in the black community! Speaking from the peanut gallery section of critical music listeners, and musicians, and singers. To all these record companies who push negative rap and hip hop music on our children. I say hands off! “All black people are not poverty stricken thugs, dope dealers, and Hip Hop infused booty chasers!”
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| Hijacked R&B |
From the look and sound of things, the record industry has pretty much hijacked Soul and R&B music for young white artist, like Robin Thick, who has basically built his career ripping off Prince's falsetto, and other black artist vocal stylings, such as D’Angelo (whose real name is, Michael Eugene Archer). Robin Thick as most recently been sued in court for ripping off Marvin Gaye's iconic Motown original material, with the help of Hip Hop producer and recording artist, Pharrell). Then there are the Mehgan Trainor’s Hip Hop “All about that Bass” miami heavy bass rip offs. And of course, the ever copying, Justin Timberlake. Who basically in a nutshell has ripped off Michael Jackson as best he can, without growing a Jeri Curl!
Then there's the Iggy Azalea Hip Hop types. The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Rap guys! And the actually, very talented, singing sensation, Tori Kelly! Whose kinda like a bubbly white, pop/country version of Beyonce with a guitar! Great Pepsi commercial though! I like!
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| Tori Kelly |
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| Beyonce |
The record industry now days apparently goes out and intentionally finds substandard black recording acts and features them, in all their gangster glory. And to be honest about it. Most of them now days sound awful! With or without Auto-Tune!
The record companies will spend millions promoting these lame artist, who as a result, spew pure shit for sound out into the world! And like the dutiful consumers that they are, our kids eat it up like fruit loops on a chicken wing!
I've seen some pretty awful, under-produced gangster style videos of black male artist on some of these video channels who can barely carry a tune in a bucket, when they sing. While others couldn't rap if you let them Lip-sync!
They lay down these elementary, and imperfect tracks, loaded with tons of special vocal effects, in order to hide the fact that they really, cannot sing a lick! The vocal tracks will have Auto-Tune so thick that they sound like Cylon Robots in a Battle Star Galactica TV movie reunion!
Big label record companies are taking they're brightest and best white artist and promoting them to the public, while taking black rap, hip hop and R&B wannabe stars with no real talent from the streets in our communities, and catapulting them into the limelight.
This is done mainly to capitalize, and at the same time, belittle and make fools of our culture, and our music, featuring people who poorly represent us as a whole, and make a mockery of our strong musical heritage, and soulful creative skills.
These are the ones who are most times (yet not all the time), who are sagging, or wearing their pants down around their butts. Cussing on live TV, and drinking and smoking weed at award shows. You name it!
And then in the same voice, will call you a sellout if you don't support the BS that they offer, or stick up for the rude way that they act in public, or among themselves. All a great many fake out rappers are doing is masquerading as iconic R&B stars! Most are One Hit Wonders, and gone within a year or two!
Some of them left broke, bankrupt, and owing money to the record company, as they've spent all of their contract signing bonus money on junk. Money largely spent on the typical Hip Hop crowning achievement and glory. A bling'ed out Bentley. Along with one of those cheap, prefabricated mansions (right out of MTV's Cribs) in Atlanta. Don't forget the string of bling-bling jewelry, and the 500 dollar bottles of champagne, spent on the homies, and all those sexy video vixens!
So yes, when I saw this clip. At first I thought it was funny. Then all at once, it made me sad, because as a man who basically knows his way around a recording studio, and plays more than 5 instruments, and can sing pretty well. I know the difference! And so do millions of other people!
So yes, when I saw this clip. At first I thought it was funny. Then all at once, it made me sad, because as a man who basically knows his way around a recording studio, and plays more than 5 instruments, and can sing pretty well. I know the difference! And so do millions of other people!
This mess that they are releasing out into the black community is not representational of true R&B or Soul Music... At all! When you can really sing, and the radio stations won't play your music, that's called control! Anybody who knows music knows that, Jill Scott is Music! Tyrese is music! Esperanza Spalding is pure jazz; but I've yet to hear her music played, even periodically on local jazz radio. Barely on satellite, digital or analog! The likes of a powerful soul singer like Miss Leela James goes largely ignored by the industry! Why is this?... You tell me!
Even the television singing contest shows like Idol, and The Voice always seem to find a way to eventually eliminate most all of the african american singers off it’s shows here of late.
The caliber of african american singers they pick from some urban areas (not so much find, but pick) are good, but believe me, I hear singers just as good, and even better most nights at any local club, and even some diehard karaoke spots here in Detroit!
Detroit is the hub! It is Motown! The children and grandchildren of Motown (in spirit) are here! And a good many of us (as the slang goes) can SANG!!!! And many of them can even Rap, for real! Poetically and enthusiastically!
I'm talking people who are so good, they should be making records and performing on stage, but are denied access to national record deals, because of age, work inconveniences or family responsibilities. Or maybe it is because some of us just do not fit the bill as far as the music industry's 22 year old age limit/Perfect size 2, Sexy body requirements.
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| Video Vixens |
Most real women out here are not, Lip Botox candidates, and do not have butt implant-injections like Video Vixen Queens! Or if you’re a guy, you may not have that pant-sagging, gangster look the industry continues to push on our young black boys, for whatever reason!
Either way, in the end, its all about airplay! Be it audio or video! Whomsoever controls the airwaves, and television coverage, controls what people will see, hear and eventually listen to! In other words, True, heart and soul R&B music coming out of the black community is being purposely phased out in america!
So much so that the industry is even willing to place no-talented, common criminals up close and in our children's psyche and ears; pumping profane lyrics over the airwaves, and cable outlets that’s telling our children that it is cool to do things that are illegal, and immoral!
Some of these individuals that you see, hear and read about, are the same ones who refer to black women as Bitches and Hoes. These are your children’s heroes and mentors! The rap artist who preach gun toting, drug dealing, as well as drug use; and chugging alcohol are now your children’s heroes!
So don’t ever wonder why your young boys want to get their hands on a gun! Or why they play with toy guns, and then on a fluke, get gunned down by rogue police officers, just waiting for a reason to blow you or your children away!
Do not wonder why young black children will go rummaging through your closets, to find your gun somewhere in the house, and play with it. Then mistakenly kill him or herself while lost in fascination over this death instrument he’d heard told of in a rap record!
A gun without a gun lock on it is like metal to a magnet, for a child! Try listening to what they are listening to. When you do, you will know in part why they want an AK-47! Children (just like we did) will always emulate what they see, hear, and admire!
So as a result. Gone, are the sweet songs that cherishes the love of a woman. Gone are the creative instrumentalist in soul and progressive R&B Jazz! Gone are the future Peabo Bryson's, and gone are the Luther's, and Penergrasses’ and Gerald La-vert’s! 100 years down the road, will Motown eventually be remembered as a company that a white auto worker started, with the help of a black man named, Berry Gordy? Will the Hijack ever get that deep?
150 years from now, When the promo pictures and the videos of classic black recording artist start to disappear, and the images are stolen away, or become cloudy and fade from age and time! Will people in the future ever get a chance to know who laid the foundations to soul and R&B music for the world to see and hear?
Or will soul and R&B in its truest form, simply just die off! Existing only in some ancient sampling program within a broken down computer workstation keyboard, in some inner city digital recording studio. Being performed by Pat Boone type white artist, claiming the original rights to music and songs not earned. Minus the soul and depth, and impact that dynamic soul and R&B had in its creative heyday!
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| Broken down piano keyboard and computer workstation containing soul archive musical history |
Decades of music, and soul, and creativity, condensed down to being sampled and pirated by fake rappers and singers, and first year, Specs Howard broadcasting school graduates, playing recording engineer; tinkering on his Teac digital recording gear? Just like the hidden and destroyed histories of Egypt, and northern Africa. Will the soul of true R&B music one day fade into oblivion or obscurity?
How long will decent young recording engineers waste their time recording the likes of someone like the guy seen in the video clip? Someone who clearly has no real talent to offer the world, yet a national recording company will actually sign and back someone like him, just to make a mockery of R&B music, as represented by individuals in a modern, gentrified world. A world where all that we as a people have is being stolen and claimed as belonging to anyone but us!
R&B is dying in the arms of our young, who could care less about musical integrity in sound! The art of true R&B music has been benched and replaced by people who know absolutely nothing about Soul. Our music is being reproduced, repackaged, and portrayed and promoted by those who have no clue what its like to sing a song with soul! They’ll never know what it is truly like to play a musical instrument with skill, and emotion, from the heart, unto soul!
All most young people want today is to be... famous! And they don’t care what it takes to be famous! They see the videos, and see the various Hip Hop stars sporting bling; and because of what they see and hear, they think that they can be rappers too, no matter how awful they sound.
Good or bad! They just wanna be famous!... They just want to be, Rappers! And you know. That’s fine!... I say, sure!... Go ahead! Be a rapper! But why not be a Good Rapper!
Glenn Peppers
Glenn Peppers
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