Maturing is realizing when you wake up randomly at 3am or 4am youโre supposed to pray. Over your home, over your children. Then sit and listen to what God tells you to do next
Willie D and the Geto boys frequently called out the government, particularly focusing on the war on drugs, over-policing and systemic neglect of Black communities during the 80s and 90s. Hip-hop has lost its backbone sadly
Listening back to old southern rap albums the last couple days is crazy cause idk when street rappers stopped being aware of systemic issues causing their situations in acute ways. Juvenile was calling out Bob Dole and Medicare reform policies by name
When Huey Newton realized he was about to be murdered, even as an addict of crack cocaine, he remembered who he was once, and still was, somewhere. He told his killer to โgo ahead and make historyโ. A sick Panther is still a Panther.