Top 10

I'm my favorite MC by default, I'm my favorite Griot by default, but there's those that influence ME that find the best midpoint between the two, the ones that I revisit the most, because their material, whether its flow or substance or both, gives me the most of what I enjoy and need on some level. I'm not doing a top 10, because hierarchies waste time and energy, the only hierarchy that is constant is age.

 No particular order


Solo Acts:
Ice Cube
2Pac
Biggie 

Kanye West
Dr.Dre
Andre3K 

Big Boi
Lauryn Hill 

Krayzie Bone
Bizzy Bone
Twista
DJ Quik
Big K.R.I.T. 

Lupe Fiasco
Busta Rhymes
50 Cent 

Missy Elliot
Snoop
Common
Eminem
Kendrick Lamar
Jay-Z
Nas
Erykah Badu

 
Groups/Collectives:
Bone Thugs N Harmony 

Outkast/Dungeon Family 
Little Brother 

Wu-Tang Clan 

N.W.A. 

Cash Money Records 
Crucial Conflict

Perspective

 

Policing

The law is determinant upon whether people choose to follow it or not. The consequences of not following the law are also determinant upon compliance. Its not a given, nor is following court protocol. Most Police follow peaceful protocol. When they don't, the penalty isn't severe enough, hence the protests and the contemporary issues of Police Brutality and abuse. Any unnecessary infraction of aggression by Police should be treated 10X as harsh as a normal crime. These infractions have largely have been ignored or even encouraged, which is unacceptable. When the courts can't discipline our public servants, its up to us as citizens to step in where they have failed.

The Gay Agenda

I hope there is a Gay agenda and it gets fully implemented, just because the way people whine about it is disgusting. Insufferable. 

Even if you're religious, I assume God assumes you know the difference between a deviation from the norm VS an actual existential threat. 

The Silent Uncool

In this Western society where nonstop hedonism is celebrated and promoted, Who advocates for "the silent uncool"? 

One who lives their life with a strong moral compass who doesn't participate in the unfettered hedonism of the day is often made a pariah. 

The behavior towards them can be mean, insulting and nasty. 

Subsequently, we go out of our way to protect and coddle people who may have done foul, mean, nasty things. We want them to not feel embarrassed, we care about their feelings. This is not a bad thing, everybody deserves to be cared about. It's a virtuous act to have empathy and compassion. 

....BUT, what about the silent ones? Who cares about them. Who reaches out to them to see how they feel?

CONservatia!

As a conservative, I'm appalled at how the conservative mind set has become so knee-jerk in it's approach, that it's automatically set up to KNOW how things are going to go, that it doesn't even give the room to brainstorm and use creative skills to give equal footing in thought of how something could succeed in the best case scenario, VS failing in the worst case scenario. The thought process is instead guided by a set of unchanging values that leads one to half-think.


Instead of considering the options , it's much better to react like a petulant child, covering their ears, repeatedly screaming "NO NO NO NO NO NO!!" in a stunning show of self-righteous authority, even when said authority is not based in any reality what so ever.


Can't expand that knowledge now! Wouldn't want that!

The dominant conservative mindset is of one where conservative values exist in a vacuum, apart from all other conditions, and all other factors. The solution is to separate yourself from the World around you and apply those values.
#Winning!

I take an "If it works for you, then it's legit" approach to religions and spirituality, whether it be God, Allah, Yahweh, Brahma, Spirit, the Universe, the Eggun, or Eastern concepts such as Zen and Tao. For a strictly scientific mind, those beliefs can be easily and righteously grouped in the category of things than cannot be proven empirically. On the other hand, I've heard representatives of the "empirical crowd" say that belief in these unseen (often sentient) forces is akin to a mental illness that must be addressed and perhaps cleansed. I think such a cleansing would be an undertaking in futility. I am a believer in spirituality and religion.  If I'm crazy, then my crazy is bothering nobody, so to be so adamantly against a crazy that bothers nobody, is well.....crazy.