Jay-Z has done what no other rapper will! He has told the truth about "the hood" in an interview. Like to read it? Here it goes:
‘I think it’s more important for me to be in touch with who I am than in touch with the streets, per se,’ he says. ‘Being in touch with the streets, keeping it real, that’s become a lie and a cliche. I’m not hanging on the corner in the Bed-Stuy. I hate it when rappers say, “I’m keeping it ‘hood.” I’m like, “Why? What do you mean? No one’s there by choice! You’re in the hood, by choice?”‘
Bling he feels was misinterpreted by the media as tasteless showing off, when really it was a celebration of success by people who had enjoyed precious little of that before. ‘These people came from nothing,’ he says. ‘No-thing. The bottom. And when they got money and cars and houses it was a party. Like, us being here, at the Lanesborough, eating caviar? That just didn’t happen before. Why not celebrate that?’
I couldn't agree with him more! It's not about forgetting where you came from but, realizing that certain areas don't have you best interests at heart! If some of these rappers would give back to the impoverished areas they came from, that's all people can ask. When (notice I said when) I get rich I will build rec centers for kids! Performing Arts buildings and playgrounds. That's keeping it "real!"
‘I think it’s more important for me to be in touch with who I am than in touch with the streets, per se,’ he says. ‘Being in touch with the streets, keeping it real, that’s become a lie and a cliche. I’m not hanging on the corner in the Bed-Stuy. I hate it when rappers say, “I’m keeping it ‘hood.” I’m like, “Why? What do you mean? No one’s there by choice! You’re in the hood, by choice?”‘
Bling he feels was misinterpreted by the media as tasteless showing off, when really it was a celebration of success by people who had enjoyed precious little of that before. ‘These people came from nothing,’ he says. ‘No-thing. The bottom. And when they got money and cars and houses it was a party. Like, us being here, at the Lanesborough, eating caviar? That just didn’t happen before. Why not celebrate that?’
I couldn't agree with him more! It's not about forgetting where you came from but, realizing that certain areas don't have you best interests at heart! If some of these rappers would give back to the impoverished areas they came from, that's all people can ask. When (notice I said when) I get rich I will build rec centers for kids! Performing Arts buildings and playgrounds. That's keeping it "real!"
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