Dr. Umar Johnson make some interesting points about the 50th celebration of hip-hop. He feels the negative consequences that have occurred in the black community because of hip-hop are not being addressed in this video the details in thoughts on the genre and the impact it has had on the black community.
“Because my issue is this right now with celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop that’s the big theme right now all over the country all over the world 50th-anniversary hip-hop only got 60 (32) days left in 2023. Do you mean to tell me we’re gonna let this year celebration go by and nobody’s gonna have a serious conversation about whether hip-hop has actually been a benefit or not to the black community? I haven’t seen a conversation or YouTube Townhall meeting a BET special I don’t see anybody talking about the ramifications. The negative impact that hip-hop has had on the black community the first thing the hip-hop artist is going to say I’m only wrapping what I live but you don’t live it no more you stop making money you moved out the neighborhood so now you still rapping about drugs and death when you don’t live around that no more that means you’re a hypocrite. If you’re telling me you’re rapping what you live you don’t live it no More if you’re so dedicated to telling him the ghetto tail why did you move out the neighborhood? Why do you send your kids to private schools so you live in a white neighborhood who sing your kids to white private schools you moved out the black ghetto the minute you had enough money to do so but yet you’re telling me the reason you still rapping about death drugs, jail and homicide is because that’s the life you live Don’t limit no more so for me I’m looking at hip-hop and I’m saying it is the most influential music genre in the world years I multi billion dollar industry and 50 years hip-hop community has built a single relevant institution for the black community anywhere think about that for me think about that King his career with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. That means Dr. King 13 years look at what he did in 13 years let’s go to the Black Panther party the Black Panther party was founded in 1966. The revolutionary phase of the Black Panther party was pretty much over with by 1970 156 and look what the Panthers did in five or six years”
