Daily Lyrical News
Breaking down the lyrical lessons, to solve, converse, and, understand life’s learned and unlearned behaviors.
What the FUCK KANYEEEEEE?
Is he a foe or friend?
Over the last couple of weeks, Kanye West aka Ye has been the spot light of everyone's conversations, Normally, his rants and brief blowouts afterward seemed to take a backseat to his creativity. The African American populous has looked over, shoved under the bed, and even dismissed Kanye's behaviors since he let the world know of his Bipolar diagnosis. He has gotten pass after pass from disruptive outbursts, but when and where does society draw the line between mental illness and toxicity? How can one tell if someone has used their diagnosis and creativity to manipulate a situation in their favor? What is normal behavior in today’s society with the back-and-forth banter from supposed leaders boasting and bragging about how they can a lone help the American people? How about the abnormal behavior of crossing boundaries? When has it ever been okay to purposely hurt or defame to get what one wants, it could be money, power, or the complete opposite they want to be left alone, they are screaming for attention, self-sabotaging, ready to end it all sometimes. Is that what Kanye West is doing, to be frank Kanye,; well no one, will know what Kanye is up to except for Kanye West. What can be said is Kanye appears to have a plan in the works, now I don’t know if this plan is well thought out for the exit strategy from different contractual obligations, but what is known is that he has some behaviors that have always been called into question. Those behaviors backlash ( or what I like to call Black lash-being in the media’s reel when exhibiting deviant behaviors longer than the counter people.) For a while, he then goes on the record about what he was going through. Now, there was a real sympathetic outpour of support because we all know mental health is nothing to play around with, unfortunately at this point is it still an excuse to perpetuate non-productive mentalities against any ethnic group. I’m not going to say Ye is all wrong what I can say is he is wrong about how he is going about whatever situation he’s trying to get rid of. It’s not okay that hurt people hurt people, it’s not okay to displace one’s anger on a group of people. African Americans have seen, experienced, and still fight to this day for this maladaptive behavior to dissipate. Instead, it appears he is using the same tactics as the prior US President. Providing imaginary power to any bigot, or racist who felt unsure if it was truly okay to speak whatever came to their mind (out loud) with “I’m fighting racism with racism.” Slavery was a choice, how about white Lives Matter Shirts? Okay, Kanye we understand for one to wants to be apart of the game one has played the game, but is he playing too close to the fire? Kanye’s History has told us yes he’s dangerously close again but every time something saves him, ask yourself does that make him right?
The White Man Complex
Before you shoot the messenger white culture has been the epicenter of behavioral interaction. From how One shakes hands to how a person looks down to the color of their skin. Black men over time have appeared to act, do, and sound like white men, mainly for protective purposes eventually gravitating towards the sunken place. We all know it’s difficult to keep one self dignity, integrity, and self-efficacy intact when assimilating into a particular group of people. Why should a black man have to, anyway, because society has continued to defame, project, and misplace information which becomes a stigma to be black and a man.
Black people have struggled to find their place in a world that seems to throw them away when they are unable to provide some kind of service that they seem fit. In a society where being yourself was deemed illegal laws against dress, hair, and other things deemed black where put into place. The black fight to become another active person in society has yet to end.
Since this fight has not ended some black men appear to take the saying “if I can’t beat them, join them”, to a whole new level. They are walking, talking, and spreading maliciousness because that’s what they see/hear to obtain this power and respect their counterparts are experiencing. We can’t expect enough white men in power at this time to show up and show out, we can only expect the majority of them to be out for themselves, and how they can benefit from whatever opportunity. For Black men, this perspective does more harm than good. Pushing their homeschooling away while accepting to be the token boy. Don’t believe for one moment that all black men are leaning towards this White man Complex. There are LeBron James, Denzel Washington, Harry Belafonte, James Baldwins, Kendrick Lamars, Jay-Zs, and Lil Babys out here in the world more than the switcharoos. That doesn’t make the switcharros any more dangerous to the culture. It’s dangers because it opens a door that black people have been slowly closing for years, being bigotry and hate don’t live in these walls.
The door which I’m referring to is the door of the Freedom to be. Be whomever and whatever one wants to be with no red tape. Now, from the outside looking in, white males and people, in general, are treated differently versus people of color, it can be obvious if one wants to see it. There’s no excuse for why, fortunately, there are a lot of white people calling out their white culture's wrongness it’s unfortunate there’s not enough. Because now people of color have to deal with House Negro as Malcolm X would put it, people turning against a cause that’s been in play for over 400 years.
This brings us back to the conundrum is Kanye West a Friend or Foe, well we don’t know, he says he doing this for the people and he wants the people to follow the right ways, he’s here to help the people but doesn’t this remind anyone of a manipulative friend. You know the one that says “I did it for us” but you don’t benefit at all.
All I know is Kanye West has put something in the air and friends don’t create more trouble for their friend intentionally. Friends also don’t let friends drive drunk, friends also need to know when to let the friendship go because it’s toxic. Whatever your relationship is to Kanye take a good look if his “out of the box” ideas are worth the egregiousness that sometimes follows.
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Beyoncé-Renaissance Album- Break My Soul
Now, I just fell in love
And I just quit my job
I'm gonna find new drive
Damn, they work me so damn hard
Work by nine
Then off past five
And they work my nerves
That's why I cannot sleep at night
The above lyrics tell a story most people know so well, bondage of situations that drains/burnouts because of peoples’ and places’ parasitic behaviors. Break My Soul represents the men and women who metaphorically believe they're handcuffed. The constant fighting against systemic conservative perspectives and ideologies ultimately manifesting into sleep disorders, negative self-identities, paranoia, and other self/communal sabotaging traits.
Currently, the fight to defeat laws like the ban on adoration -Heart Beat Bill, Don’t Say Gay, banning Critical Race Theory, attacks on school books seems never ending. For instance, banning books started in 1624 because an English businessman Thomas Morton wrote a scathing tell all book (English Canaann, published- 1637) about the Puritans. The book was banned do to harshly criticizing the Puritans’ customs comparing them to crustaceans as well as other things. Constructing current regulatory situations into a replay of what the conservative majority doesn’t want people to do- CRITICIZE while making people aware of the contradictions and fabrications.
The unchecked appears unchanging for minorities, contentious attack on minorities' way of life; limiting the constitutional freedoms (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) of a diverse and inclusive community. Over the past couple of years, the collective appears to have initiated breaking free from the continuous projection of conservative conformities. Eliminating the need for external validation, and code-switching, while telling the rest of society it’s their power and they are taking it back, from politics to home matters.
Beyoncé's ability to gracefully serenade this message to the world is what musical artistry is supposed to do; reflecting the navigation of societies’ situational constraints.
I'm takin' my new salvation
And I'ma build my own foundation, yeah
Got motivation (Motivation)
I done found me a new foundation, yeah (New Foundation)
I'm takin' my new salvation (New salvation)
And I'ma build my own foundation, yeah (Own)
Speaking of all the struggles, and leaving it all behind, rebuilding. Rapper Big Freedia's rememberable voice backs it up with a powerfully difficult word, RELEASE, leaving it to vibrate the conscious.
Each law feels like an attack on current cultural norms. These laws like“Killing being Woke” with an Act in Florida called Stop Woke Act materialize as containment against attacks the conservative norms. Instead of assimilating the culture norms, it’s created more divisive interaction and volatility among the people. Dismantling interaction instead of evolving it with daily toxicity. When the world began to open they were thrusted back into daily perniciousness instead of peace. The Foundation for a Better Life has tried to combat this reminder of being grateful with its Pass it On campaign. The people deserve better, their souls not to be broken. To realize, yes, your phone is broken doesn’t mean your spirit should be giving power and efficacy one needs to keep living their best lives.
Release ya anger, release ya mind
Release ya job, release the time
Release ya trade, release the stress
Release the love, forget the rest
Cleaning house your house so to speak, cleaning out all the negative. Release which doesn’t serve the greater purpose.Freeing you up to just BE, free to be who your really are a Rich Spirit.
Kendrick Lamar prolifically revealed this in his new Album Mr.Morale & the Big Steppers- Rich Spirit
Tryna keep the balance, I'm stayin' strong (Ooh)
Stop playin' with me 'fore I turn you to a song (Yeah)
Stop playin' with me 'fore I turn you to a song (Ooh)
Ayy, bitch, I'm attractive (Ah)
Can't fuck with you no more, I'm fastin', ugh (Ooh)
Bitch, I'm attractive (Ah, ah, ah, ah)
Can't fuck with you no more, I'm fastin', ugh
This is not just an internal mirror to what people want it’s an overall world view. People are tired and drained of society’s rules which bind them from succeeding. From a plane’s eye view, the majority of people are asking for change. Changes in the way negative perspectives have become the norm.
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Heart vs Mind
The Game’s new album Drillmatic- Heart vs Mind, he takes us down a road we all know well, the world of CHOICES.
Loyalty, lawyer fees
Gas prices, oil fees
Passive aggressive pastors cheating you out your royalties
Whippin' the Fivio foreign
All offers show money
More money, more problems is better than no money
Your money is your money, it's not mine
So why would I rob you of your manhood and your grind?
Heart versus mind
Choices where everywhere during elections and pandemic; unfortunately the outcome of those choices led to 6.45 million global deaths ; 1.4 million in us according to The New York Times. The vaccine being beacon of light needed to move forward was short lived.Instead of freedom from death; society bent the corner right back into trouble. Over 300 Mass shootings reported by the Washington Post, fraudulently, unethical behavior-January 6th Insurrection, firing employees for creating a unions Starbucks and Amazon, deception-misinformation, and financial struggles-inflation. The cherry on top- global warming ( did anyone ever apologize to Al Gore). Continues to trend towards destruction impacting and displacing vast amount of people. It was a choice to follow the loudest voice and not the smartest voice in the room.
“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart."--William Hazlitt
The knowledge society receives through multiple outlets feeds the head, gravitating towards the heart, making whatever choice one believes is the best for their personal life. Unfortunately, sometimes forgetting the ripple effect. Would you choose to rob knowing in your heart it’s wrong, knowing it will harm?
JID on DiCaprio 2 - Westbrook- JID & A$ap Ferg Outro
The philosophical moment brings attention to watching someone else, becoming envious of what they have, rather than looking at what you have and making that grow, and no it probably won’t be easy.
You got two niggas sittin' down to eat, right?
Niggas sittin' down at the table to eat
And they got the same food, and they got the same utensils
One nigga let his food go cold watching another nigga eat
And that's how all this shit be starting, envy
Another nigga lookin' at what another nigga
Wanting what another nigga got when he got utensils
And a share of his own, you dig what I'm sayin'?
All this started, when a nigga get in power and a nigga be shittin' on a nigga
That where all this shit be stemming from
Would you choose to treat others disrespectfully if you knew in your heart whoever didn’t deserve it? These are all thoughts the choice you so choose comes from the heart. Society can choose to become separated with thoughts that align with biases, ego, and lack of love or choose to be a collaborative compassionate, understanding, state of peace. The wisdom (heart) will provide the long-term consequences I guess that’s why the Egyptians weighed the heart against a feather. When choices are only made from knowledge they can become corrupted due to wants, ego, and other materialistic means. Both must come together to make the best choice for the future.
Andre 3000 talked about choices in a new campaign for Supreme Clothing. It’s the choice of choosing to go on a path that’s right for you. The Heart vs Mind appears in so many other hip-hop artists’ music.
Clifford Harris Jr. aka T.I in T.I vs T.I.P. It’s a constant battle with self figuring out what direction to take in solving a situation; truly being a conversation with self. Self-reflection is a micro-level view that can also be applied to society as a whole, analysis, history, and societal empathy. In an accumulation of heart and Mind, there’s no in-between, if there is an in-between it still comes down to doing the right thing for the best long-term consequences.
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Can we say GOD DiD, the merge of hip-hop and spirituality seems seamless and Forever store. The intertwining spiritual teachings and street knowledge has not always been apparent in Hip-Hop. How did we get here? First, I don’t believe this was in anyway detrimental to hip-hop. It was bound to evolve into a new way of bringing the gospel. Before you get upset or start sending me hate messages hear me out.
Jesus, Muhammad, Abraham, Buddha, etc were all teachers who they got the people to follow they spoke the people’s language. If you want to connect with the people you must know their language. That’s only one part of the second part they lived with the people- of course, this was of a different time. For current times it’s the same as doing constant work in low socioeconomic neighborhoods. This is God, Dj khali is not the first artist whose hidden spirituality among their words, Jay-Z Kanye West, Wu-Tang, OutKast, DMX and so many others made it acceptable to speak about believing in a higher power.
They wanted us down, ooh-woah
But look at us now, oh
They counted us out (Time to say a prayer, M-M-M—)
They didn't think that we would make it, oh (May we bow our heads)
They didn't believe in us, oh (Huh)
[Chorus: Fridayy & Rick Ross]
But I know God did, God did (Oh, yes, He did)
Oh, God did (Oh-oh, Khaled)
Oh, yes, God did (Oh-oh, Khaled)
Oh, God did (God is great)
But I know God did
DJ khali- God Did lyrics are about if anyone believed God Did, as well belief in self. In hip-hop the meaning of God is more than external, something people of color have used to guide them through traumatic experiences. People of color have cared a Scarlett’s letter around for many centuries now. Fighting against biases, bigotry, racism, mass murder, among many other negative perspectives people of color hold on to the belief God will make it work if anyone hasn’t understood their troubles God did.
I have a When I think of my own difficulties something keeps me going the belief what you are doing is right, if no one understands now God did. Music is a spiritual praise regardless of how it said it’s what is said that matters. How one praises or gives thanks through creativity is providing a piece of themselves to bless everyone with their triumphs and trials. To make it in the music
JID new album The Forever story was a look into One song in particular hit something that said to me God Did that in him.
Oh what a handsome gift, to live in a land of sin (yeah, uh)
Runnin' with bands and bricks, and my lil' nasty chick (uh, yeah)
That's what I asked of him, told me he'd grant my wish (yeah)
You dance with the devil, you never dance again
Dance now, dan-, dan-, dan-, dance now
Dan-, dan-, dan-, dance now
Dan-, dan-, dan-, dance now (I'm not a)
Dan-, dan-, dan- (I'm not a, uh)
Dance Now- bopping ditty with its not stop energy; putting something in ya feet kind of song but important song has a message of dancing with the “devil”, dancing with temptation when things are good or bad. The parts of one’s life that don’t believe it’s deserving self-sabotage outcomes that have been so tirelessly put in place.
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It all begins with an idea.
It was four in the morning and hoped into a Lyft. The young lady in the car was so nice, transportation, it made me think about how we ride and share; share and ride. The plethora of communication slung back and forth would seem limited being so early but instead there’s positive energy.
While in the car she playing Station on pandora it was vibbin I started to wake up now normally that early I would listen to my motivational mix to get me going. Instead I didn’t put my ear phones on this time. As I grooved to the music it hit me was that, The Baby, I had to confirm “ who is that playing” , “ The Baby” ,
“ oh yeah” I said astonished “okay, I can dig it” showing respect for the art. She mention some of the other artists she just getting into, one artist Kodak BLAC. Both artists have had controversy projected throughout their music, has this stopped people from listening, yes and n?. I limited my listening. Yes, it was some of the situations, but it was also about seeing what their response would be. As I’m listening the conversation switches to something I struggle with open- mindedness Usually it’s automatic, slip on my headphones and turn on one of my favorite artists. It had me questioning my ability to have na open heart to differences, it penetrated my psyche quickly because I never
I usually converse with people who have the same interest in a particular artist. It created images and negative publicity each artist has received in their current careers. I started to ponder as we talked about my judgements and perceptions of individuals. “How does one know if an artist is a good person, or should one even care?” Once I arrived at my destination she said something that I believe answered my question, artistry is an outlet away from the trauma. Now she didn’t quite say it in that way but it made sense. To be an artist is nothing but an expression of one’s trauma. If one knows how to disconnect from the trauma then relieving it through artistry is one of the best doses of medicine.
Not Talking about mental health in HIP-HOP
Hip-hop for the last decade has exploded and changed culture forever. As each artists expresses their pain and pleasures they also have a tendency to completely engulf themselves in those pleasures or pain, the repercussions are jail, death or decline/loss of career. Once an artist looses control they have many chances to make changes, the question is, why they don’t? One answer is their mental health is rocky. The inability to deal with the constant stress of being an artist, some may say well they asked for it, yes this may be true that doesn’t change each artist is human with stressors, problems and goals. When the person merges their personas together they become this person which they either need for protection or comfort. That persona doesn’t reflect the true nature of the person, unfortunately, media catches these actions on tape, hurt people hurt people like Kendrick Lamar states in Mr. Moral and the Big Steppers. All the pain, and trauma bubbles to the surface projecting out asking, begging for help. The problem is people don’t listen hard enough all they want to do is vibe. There have been so many incidents in the present day and the past that could have been stopped. Instead, the situations transpiring are perpetuated by constant speculation thrown back and forth. Like with Kanye West, the black community knew something was off with Kanye with is outbursts and unpredictable behavior, years later it came out that he was bipolar. Once that came to the surface communities joked but also accepted his behavior, does was the turning point in hip-hop, after the realization of Kanye’s mental health, gradually other artists would mention they have received the services of a therapist. Even though this is happening within the hip-hop community it doesn’t appear like it is happening fast enough. It still too many hip-hop artists who carry a negative stigma regarding mental health wellness. Bring the idea back to hurt people, hurt people