This is a hard one to talk about, simply because words, alone -all by themselves- are innocent.

They don’t do anything to us, it is what we do to them that makes them either a weapon of release and healing, or a weapon of death and mass destruction and verbal abuse. Words can actually terrorize a mindset or mentality if wielded wrongly.

The words of X-rated and “mature” hip-hop and rap lyrics are not the problem, but the progressions of phrases and cadences which form the ideas and memory tracks in our brains create the issues.

The way words are strung together and flung at us often become wildly irritating and offensive to the ears.

To say the least, fresh water cannot come from an unclean well and life-giving fruit cannot be plucked from a dying tree.

Those who “rap rhyme” this degradation are literally speaking death to our souls. Curse words, expletives, in these phrasings and verbal combinations, are a curse … the speaking of death over life.

As a writer, it is hard to isolate a single word just because someone chooses to use it in a twisted manner for shock value, but the vast majority of today’s Hip-Hop (or ‘rap rhyme’ music) is the literal Landfill of poetical, lyrical and creative license.

Far too many of these lyrics consist of the most degrading, degenerative, overbearingly nauseating language that we can manage to pronounce in the American vernacular of English. There is nothing uplifting and spiritually healing or life-giving about it.

I can think of at least 100 different reasons why the Black community should be outraged over such demonstrative spew that is picked up out of the trash can of the American vernacular of English and dumped into our lives, but for the sake of brevity (short internet attention span), I will list only the Top Five Reasons Why Black People Should Be Outraged Over Hip-Hop Lyrics and Artists, if you can call it “art.”

Reason Number 5: The lyrics and ape-ish antics and behaviors perpetuate the racial and social stereotypes of ‘some’ Black people as severely mentally incapacitated and emotionally stilted.

When Black people are depicted in the media and other such places as “monkeys,” and other animalia, it is basically because we willingly and haphazardly mimic the bad habits and filthy traits borne of murderous and thieving pirates and their Anglo ancestors who reared their own women as “bed wenches” and “bitches” and “whores.”

Reason Number 4: It is a feeder vein into the Black community that operates like a backed-up toilet.

The cycle of destruction in foul lyrics and actions in these “rap” videos are spilled sewage. It shows us and our children that certain Black people will lap up any dog vomit that comes out of someone’s mouth.

This is not the language or attitudes of our forefathers and ancestors, it is the teachings of hog slop ideologies that are  best enjoyed by a bottom-feeding creature such as a swine.

Reason Number 3: It brings the social perversions of others into our lives, homes, and futures.

These perverted ideas and attitudes and ‘gruntings’ of animalistic cave-dwelling personalities are the fruit or outgrowth of the same types who have nothing worthwhile or constructive to offer Black people.

If we open the door and allow ourselves to be maltreated in the greater public arena, it is because we have the characteristics of a sponge.

As a holistic group, Black people absorb teachings easily and quickly. There is nothing that is overtly-complicated for Black people, whether we follow the analytical functional rules and modified theories or not.

Once we catch on to something, we tend to take off with it and explode.

We often prefer our learning simple, short, and uncomplicated. We only get confused when people try to make things harder than they really are. 

Being a “sponge” can be a good thing and bad thing, depending on how knowledge is received and used; but suffice it to say that social perversions, such as those demonstrated and glorified in hip-hop culture and lyricism, are never a good thing. Ever.

When we absorb these perversions, it is the same thing as taking a stick and whip to our own backsides and beating ourselves to death with it — and then self-lynching.

As we have learned from Nicki Minaj’s selfish “rent-a-nigga” (her n-word) sludge-mongering rap-stylings, self-deprecation is nothing more than us telling ourselves and our children that the racists are right — we will never be good enough.

This is not the message they give us, this is the message we tell ourselves that they agree with.

Reason Number 2: The need that some of us have to admire and co-sign that which is wrong, and even indulge in it ourselves, is a danger and a tremendous jeopardy to what we are trying to build for the future.

For one example, porn -like the kind so sloppily indulged in on WSHH (worldstarhiphop.com), or any of the other places like it – was made for, by, and about white people. So when we “talk black” and “act white,” the two ideologies are consistently at war with one another.

These activities drain our time and economic resources from that which is needful and helpful to feed and nourish and nurture us. It enriches the at-will market who will sell us anything that we will buy just to make a quick buck. We shouldn’t wonder why we are cash-rich and asset-poor.

If we don’t care about our souls, or our futures, why should they?

When I use the words “acting white,” I don’t mean to say that all white people are wrong all the time, or that they all feed into these perverse behaviors. But the ones who do know who they are, and they know why they finance and endorse such crud.

However, when we wear the Pride of Africa emblem on our shirtsleeves, as a tattoo almost; or even as an emotional swell beaming in our souls, then we turn around and simultaneously “heart” and idealize European-oriented fanatical ideas, including the thoroughly inhumane, then the “Black Pride” is MIA (missing in action).

We become AAINOs — African-Americans In Name Only, instead of Life-Givers and Healers, with our words and actions.

Reason Number 1: It kills the spirit and soul and heart of a Black man and a Black woman.

You don’t have to “believe in the Bible” or God, or have any spiritual inclination whatsoever to know the truth behind the words “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” The spiritual heart works the same way as the physical heart.

Words, attitudes and values pump life into our spirits and souls like blood pumps nutrients and water into our veins, arteries and capillaries. What we see, speak, and hear filters into the unseen soul system and the memory keeps it and files it away for later use; or rebukes and rejects it and throws it away.

We should be on auto-reject with these so-called “rap” lyrics.

The degrading and demeaning phrasings and verbal mental pictures are nothing more than a contaminated virus that kills our spirit, our drive and determination to truly value ourselves and process that value as self-love.

The same thing happens when we watch television or read a book.

Our spirits actually absorb these ideas and thoughts and use them like our bodies use stored nutrients from the food we eat and the water we drink.

As these things take hold and filter through us, they become a source, a wellspring if you will, of motivation and fulfillment; or the poisonous ingestion of want, lack, need, and spiritual starvation.

The more we verbalize perversion into the universe around us, the more it becomes part and parcel of who we are.

The more ‘who we are’ becomes the leftovers of someone else’s belief systems and habits, the more it spills over into the way we live and how we act, and treat one another.

GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. 

The lyrics and antics of the hip-hop culture and rap industry are a curse to us, just like the inflammatory cursing and swearing language used to personify it. It is “the curse of Ham” in a sense, because he, too, chose to laugh at his father Noah rather than doing as his brothers did in making the choice to ‘cover’ their father rather than ridicule him.

Ham was cursed to serve his brothers, Shem and Japheth, because he did the wrong thing with regard to his ancestry. He disrespected his father, and this culture disrespects Black America.

It is a method and mode of self-destruction; and we should be appalled rather than accepting of it as “creativity.”

There is nothing creative, or good, about it. 

Receiving “big money” from the industry moguls who rent out and use these hip-hop clowns and rap actors for theatrical comedy means nothing. The lyricists are the Bamboozled of Black music, Mantan-style hucksterism and Mandingo-style porn to go with it. To their credit, they do make sure they take care of their chained slaves on the way back out to the first food stamp line they can find. If any of those are left.

They are still ‘zero sum game‘ playa-playas, even with the money, which really doesn’t belong to them anyway.  

Outraged now? You should be.

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The Destruction of Black Civilization