Zulu Nation emergency Meeting

How ironic. In the 1980s it was right wing activists who wanted to censor "violence and misogyny" in rap music.

Who would have thought the Zulu Nation would coopt right wing censorships campaigns?

this is good news... i think. i've always wanted more conscious lyrics than what's being force-fed through television. how much will they be able to influence what is being sold to kids these days, though?

Zulu Nation = PMRC

But hasn't the Zulu Nation in particular always been about taking small-time, internecine, gang-type violence and turning it into positive action.

As for the rest, today's mainstream hip-hop promotes some pretty conservative values. It's like they're Republicans with beats. When Chuck D talked about violence, it was against the system. Now, and I'm talking MAINSTREAM here, we have a sort of acceptance of the system and this idea that it's good to be even more the man, "My $100,00 car burns tons of fossil fuels, sorry your broke a$$ is in Iraq dying for it, window shopper! If you get reincarnated, remember to get yours next time."

It's a topsy-turvy world. At some point, youth oriented pop music became a tool of the system rather than a critique or rebellion.

this is cool, but it aint gonna do shit.

Wow, I'm really loving the cynicism. Things have certainly changed in the realm of hip hop blog fanboyism.

I don't understand council-member Clarke's call for an investigation into payola. How is that related to racially offensive comments?

It seems like what she is doing is using the police powers of government to punish someone for offensive speech. I don't think that's a healthy way to respond to speech of any kind. It's having the government say, "If we hear something on the air we don't like, we are going to launch an investigation into a completely unrelated area of your operations."

Talk about a chilling effect! Does Rosa Clemente think that if the government can do this when a radio station is guilty of an attack on Roger Toussaint they can't do it when a radio station attacks George Bush? Can't we fight racist speech without endangering free speech?

hey I am down with the zulu nation and ernie - but how can there are many leaders of this meeting who cannot even provide child support for their kids, moms who have abandoned their kids in other countries - so it's hard for me to look to them as leaders when we all know within the industry that they can't even unite their very own family. That's the sad part. The only person I know on that table who actually takes care of her child is Rosa - she has alwasy been true to the movment - but as reminder to all you activists - Hip-Hop at the core is about community - and it starts with your own family so get that straight before you go preaching to others.

Whats good with yall...I'm trying ta make a crunk CD for the car, could yall suggest a few songs that I should put on the CD...

It's about time something like this happens. I think people are misinterpreting what is being said here. They are calling for a "balance". Everything is out of wack. Only "sambo" type hip hop is being played on the airwaves. It's a shame that only the stuff that degrades and portrays the african american in a "silly" way is being played. It's just another means of keeping people "dumb". Let's put on a black face (gold teef) and act dumb (crunk). White people love seeing us act dumb. Thats why they allow it. They shut down PE, BDP. They were too dangerous. It aint about "bling" and greed, thats killin us. Lets unite and live peacefully.

You can't be 11703 serious?!?