Sunday, April 26, 2009

Hip-Hop Hijacked by Freemasons



Back in the late 70's and early 80's when hip-hop was in its embryonic stages, most rap and hip-hop tracks had a happy-go-lucky vibe, with lyrics that talked about such things as who was the best MC or DJ.

There were more serious rappers, like Grandmaster Flash, who rapped about life in the ghetto. But even then, the songs had an overall positive vibe and the lyrics, although sometimes a bit deep and serious, usually tried to positively educate the young listener by speaking to them on their level and using terms that they can relate to. It was when we reached the mid 80's that hip-hop really started to evolve and many sub-genres started to develop. There were artists like Rob Base, Ice-T, Public Enemy, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, Tone-Loc, De La Soul, and countless others.

Whatever you thought about any of these artists, hip-hop had a sense of honesty and integrity about it. For the most part, it appears that the genre sprang out of the grassroots. A lot of rap artists had actually lived the kind of life they rapped about. To some extent or other, many of them had already gained first-hand experience of the guns, drugs, racism, gang warfare, and the general despair of living life in the ghetto. For example, many of these issues were covered in a song called Colors, by Ice-T. In this song, Ice-T plays a character who lives this kind of life. Ice-T admits that he didn't personally live that kind of life but the character is based on the kind of person who does. Then a couple of years later, a rap outfit called NWA started rapping about the same issues in their debut album, Straight Outta Compton. And although the music was very good, they gave the misleading impression that they were actually living lives as gangsters in the ghetto. But in reality these guys were living millionaire lifestyles in the lap of luxury. I personally found this to be somewhat hypocritical and it was at this point that I realised that hip-hop had been taken over by the marketing gurus, who weren't just selling a lie, they were selling it to kids under the pretence that artists like "Vanilla Ice" had actually tasted life in the ghetto - yeah right!

Now hip-hop has reached the stage where it is being used to predictively program the minds of today's youth. In addition, many of today's top hip-hop artists are clearly involved to some degree in secret fraternal orders. They even have the audacity to flash masonic symbols all over the place. To me, this is an insult to the people who buy their music, and it shows that freemasonry has infiltrated just about every part of society, right down to the grassroots levels. I mean, if you can't even buy an album from your favorite rap artist without being predictively programmed and bombarded with masonic symbols and terms, what is the world coming to?

Don't get me wrong though, there are still plenty of great rap artists out there who haven't been compromised by the elite - such as Immortal Technique. And even the ones who have been compromised in some way, are not necessarily bad people and they may not even know that their strings are being pulled. All I can advise people to do is be aware of the symbolism, and be aware of how the music and film industries are being used to alter our behaviour by influencing the way we think about things.

1 comment:

  1. You know I'm commenting on this one...
    Interesting article, but as usual I'm compelled to fix the errors. The truth about NWA was that they were not living as millionaires. They were being screwed by Jerry Heller and if you want more details about how that relationship was, just watch their documentaries or listen to the Ice Cube song called 'No Vasaline'. I've seen Jerry Heller admit that all the money was going in his pockets while NWA remained in the hood until they broke up, dropped him and started their own labels and companies.
    I think the point of the article is off too. The point seems to be that rappers aren't real, and that they should only be rapping about being a thug if they actually are one.
    The truth is, most of these rappers actually are thugs and actually do the stuff they talk about in their songs. The problem is that they glorify it instead of condemn it.
    That's why rappers like Tupac get respect in the hood. The problem with Tupac? Tupac was rapping about being a thug and people think that's real. He actually was a nice kid who didn't get in much trouble and joined a non gangster group(Digital Underground), then suddenly decided to become his character in 'Juice', and turned himself into a thug, not because he had to, but because he wanted to. I've done more jail time then Tupac and I'm a white kid from the suburbs. The other rappers that rap about how much money they have got less respect than Tupac because they were more obviously fake. So the real rapper gets more respect than the fake rapper. But the real rapper is a much bigger detriment to society if he is glorifying violence.
    50 Cent got shot 9 times because he actually was living that life. So does that mean he should get attention and record sales for glorifying it? Not in my opinion. He is as real as it gets though.
    And as much as liked Immortal Techniques first 2 albums, he is a fake rapper. Listen to how violent his lyrics are, and how he glorifies guns. You think he ever killed anyone? Sure...

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