Again, can we please stop generalizing entire diverse musical communities as if they are all the same? You have no way of knowing how much of the Rawkus crowd is/was Hotep, and assuming all of them are is foolish and inaccurate. Fucking El-P was on Rawkus with Company Flow. Do you think white guy El-P is a Hotep? No?…

“TROGLODYTES!”
I can’t hear or think about X-Clan without that immediately popping into my head...

Oh shit! Yup.  But abortion is not a rating winner.

Wait, is it really fair to compare Gillum to Kanye, Torry, and Talib?? The actions of those three have not caused harm just to themselves but to others either explicitly (and possibly severely in the case of Torry assuming the rumors are true) or implicitly (like the descendants of Harriet Tubman having to defend their…

He looks great and I wish him well. 

Hunh?! Arguments do go off on tangents but let’s go back to the escalation: This rando chick can’t make a general statement about a long-discussed trend without this middle-aged man, wealthier and more powerful man stalking her and her family, harnessing his followers to harrass her and retaliating like it’s his…

“Meg and Cardi get way more shit and you don’t see them losing their gord over it.”

You’re absolutely right on that. It could still be his being-an-asshole-thing coming out unplanned during his campaign-rally-stunt-thing. I just can't believe anyone would take this bullshit seriously except to make a few bucks. 

He still is.

Yep, I loved black star but then listened to the lyrics and now I understand what hotep is and he is the literal definition.

Who on the right sent out the memo saying comparing BLM protestors to the Confederacy was a good idea? Matt Gaetz took the same position earlier and neither he nor Cotton have the capacity to come up with independent thought.

Absolutely. I still hate mentioning to people that I was institutionalized for years, but I’m an open book about everything else. I partially blame the media for that, as the common portrayal of institutions is still stuck in the 50s. I’ll talk about my self-inflicted scars to people well before I discuss my teen…

He still is.

So I guess what he’s saying is that we should build statues recognizing Black Lives Matters since it’s a part of our heritage.

Be Like Elsa: Let it go.

Except I’ve been there. I’ve been nuts and refused treatment, I’ve been stable and gone off my meds with the certain knowledge it would train-wreck my life, wasting the work I, my loved ones, and medical folks had put in.

Your last two sentences sent shivers down my spine. But you’re probably right. GodDAMNit

I’ve always thought of Talib as a bit overhyped for his lyrical ability. He’s an okay poet, but rap is supposed to have rhythm and rhymes. Regardless, on Twitter I got excited about him because he was taking down those ADOS clowns (a Russian psyop scheme to co-opt black people in our fight for equality). Those tweets…

Yes, to all of this.

My favorite track on the album. I feel like it is a lie that it is 20 years old though. I had a job and purchased the CD with my own money days after it was released. That cannot have been 20 years ago...