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The Movement Will Not be Televised

If I hear one more rapper talking about leading a movement, I'm going to tear out my hair. Everybody and their mother seems to have a "movement" these days and it's ri-got-damn-diculous.

For the record, I'm not hating, just speaking the facts.

See, a movement, a REAL movement inspires some type of change and not just a change in the amount of zero's in one's bank account.

Martin Luther King and Malcolm X helped lead movements. The Black Panthers helped lead movements.

Civil Rights? Black Power? THOSE are movements (and while their success or failure can be debated based on the state we're in now, that's another matter).

Young Jeezy and CTE? That's not a movement. Dipset? Sorry, that doesn't quite qualify either.

If the only thing you as a fan of the music are "moved" to do is buy an album or some other good for sale, THAT THERE, is just business.

I believe that Hip Hop has the power to have a movement GREATER than the Civil Rights movement. Neither MLK nor Malcolm X EVER commanded the attention 50 Cent has (or even Nelly in his prime). If you talk and ten million people listen, that's power and emcees have the power to help or the power to hurt. If a million people are "moved" enough to go buy your record, perhaps an emcee could move some people to vote.

Or get off drugs.

Or raise their kids.

Hip Hop has a bunch of wasted potential because the 6 figure slaves would rather act helpless instead of standing for something.

Last I checked, there weren't too many movements that didn't have role models... and most rappers say they're not role models... Hmmm...

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