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I take solace in the fact that the course of history was never changed by the many but by the few who risked exposing facts by written word reminds me always that the Pen Is Mightier than the Sword. When the self righteous is poked into undying rage the real personality explodes like dynamite and the self proclaimed veneer vanishes into thin air like the mist from dawn. Let the chips fall where they may.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

why do Black men love violent Music

Why Do Black Men Love Violent Music Posted in: Music Making by CRYSTAL EVANS on May 22nd, 2013 | 0 Comments I often wonder why Hip-pop, Rap and Dance hall share similar components. Violence, grimy lyrics, sexism and objectifying of the female body. It may present a perspective that all black people love violence and most black women have little or no problem with men objectifying their bodies and relegating their role in life to solely hedonism and procreation. It was 2012 and for that summer i fed on a diet of Tommy Lee Sparta songs. The truth is i felt like the “baddest” thing in my Jamaican Town, if a boy step to me…The truth is violent music often begets violence thoughts and behaviour. In fact i am not of a violent nature but lords know the only element that prevents most of us from committing a crime is opportunity. It is true that any human being, black or white, Jamaican or American, rubbed the wrong way, will if the opportunity presents itself murder someone, an enemy or oppressor.

I am not of a violent nature, i would sooner quell a fracas than run for my “shotty” and demand that someone pays for their infraction in blood. I believe for the most part that human life is sacred, a gift that should not be disposed off indiscriminately , at whim by another mortal. I also embrace a philosophy that i will treat, (try my best) another human being as much i would like to be treated. Now young black men from my observation, in my culture are automatically attracted to violent music because it transcend them to a realm of invincibility. The music provides the stimulus to perpetrate acts that would otherwise be stunted by christian principles or communal disapproval; it sanitises violence and glorifies the possession of gun. It tells young people it is ok, acceptable to end someones life if they offend you, be it slight or grave Read more: http://musicouch.com/music-making/why-do-black-men-love-violent-music/#ixzz2U3sA4E5S Read more: http://musicouch.com/music-making/why-do-black-men-love-violent-music/#ixzz2U3ryYEpP

I am finding my Voice!

Geoffrey Philps wrote to me

" The real journey of a writer – or any creative – isn’t to publication, rewards, acclaim, but to their own voice.

When you find your voice, you connect to yourself, and then through yourself to the world. Your work resonates. As Thoreau once wrote in his journal, “The whole is in each man.” (And each woman.)

I’ve always felt that your voice is twofold: not just how you write, but what you write about. They inform and shape each other.

You need to read, look, listen, absorb. You need to take the world into you so you can reinvent it through your own point of view.

You need to tune out external voices that speak in the language of the shoulds – you should do this, you should do that – and move into the secret life of your intuition. This other life has its own mind. It will guide you to places that, because they are yours, remain – as yet — unknown and uncharted. For all the self-help and how-to that fills our culture, success is, in the end, as unique to you as a fingerprint. You can only make that path by walking it. It unfolds in front of you. Sometimes it carries you along.

So you need to write.

And write.

You need to write past the point of self-consciousness. You need to quit trying to write: to be clever, witty, pretty, poetic. (Perhaps your true voice is none of these things.) You need to fall through the words into something else entirely.

(Blogging can be exceptionally good for this.)

We start by imitating the styles of others. That kind of mimicry – conscious or not – is like a trapdoor opening beneath you.

It drops you into yourself.

It’s when you lose yourself that your true voice slowly and steadily comes out of the dark. It might be raw and stark and naked. Or howling and slightly mad. Your soul is stamped all the way through it.

Your words on the page and your soul on the line.

Finding your voice – what to say, how to say it, how to speak up in the world – is about making your soul manifest. When you’re moving in the grooves of that soulprint, you know it. And so do others.

This is art."

1Love,

Geoffrey

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