Black recording artist say's we've got to get kids away from violent music

[DigitalDrifter]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

 

[Asclepias]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

It was a main ingredient in the asphalt mix that paved the road to the ethical and moral destruction.

 

[ScienceRocks]

WE got to get away from ghetto culture and its music. Either that or we need to separate.

 

[Asclepias]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

It was a main ingredient in the asphalt mix that paved the road to the ethical and moral destruction.

White ethics and morals were always based on hypocrisy anyway. Good riddance. If you mean Rap destroyed that then bravo for Rap.

 

[Asclepias]

Here is one of those dangerous Rap songs you white people are afraid of. However, I think every Black man with a son should hear this.



A few jewels to my son...Knowledge is wealth.
First law of survival...preserve yourself.
Remember courage dont come from the gun
its what you made of
A coward is too scared to face what he afraid of.

I want you to walk strong in life and be a man.
You got to get from A to B den make a plan
Put your work in and grind hard.
Watch out for police in these streets
cause where they want to see you is behind bars.

Life is hard...you got to try hard.
Know yourself..Dont be prayin to no white god
Tell dem girls the truth...show respect.
If they cant accept you for you... then tell em step.
No regrets..

and that crack rock... as real as it gets
I dont want to see you smokin nor dealin that shit.
and if you got to get high then get weeded
and even that you really dont need
but we all go through it

I'm give it to you real...no gaa gaa goo goo
Cause if I lie to you what good thats gone do you?

 

[Godboy]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

 

[SAYIT]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Rap music didn't mold society ... it reflected it.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

Kinda hard to say rock and roll destroyed white culture.
Whether rap has done that to the black community is hard to say,but we do know black culture is royally fucked up.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

Kinda hard to say rock and roll destroyed white culture.
Whether rap has done that to the black community is hard to say,but we do know black culture is royally fucked up.

In the entire existence of this country, they are only on their second generation of children born free. And too many that remember and keep the hate alive, on every side, still exist. Black people will be fine, just like the Italians, the Germans, the Catholics, and every other group of people that have been hated in this country were eventually fine.

 

[EverCurious]

Yeah, sorry I'm not keen on theories that say music, video games, etc. influence violence in people.

I was an Ozzy fan who played every "violent" video game out there (and mostly ones where I specifically hunt and kill other players PvP) It has in no way made me violent. In fact, most of my gamer buddies are ex-enemy faction players; we have a grand time hunting each other down in games (yes even at my age of 40+ lol)

I think there could be some influence on violence from parents and peers, however, even then, I think there has to be a wire loose somewhere if you think it's alright to seriously hurt someone else (and yea that includes boxing/mma - it's just how loose the wire is...) Of course the other aspect, and perhaps the most telling, would be self control imo, as there /are/ boxing and MMA out there, one could /legally/ get their rocks off beating the shit out of others, but they oft end up doing it "illegally" because they lack self-control...

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Here is one of those dangerous Rap songs you white people are afraid of. However, I think every Black man with a son should hear this.



A few jewels to my son...Knowledge is wealth.
First law of survival...preserve yourself.
Remember courage dont come from the gun
its what you made of
A coward is too scared to face what he afraid of.

I want you to walk strong in life and be a man.
You got to get from A to B den make a plan
Put your work in and grind hard.
Watch out for police in these streets
cause where they want to see you is behind bars.

Life is hard...you got to try hard.
Know yourself..Dont be prayin to no white god
Tell dem girls the truth...show respect.
If they cant accept you for you... then tell em step.
No regrets..

and that crack rock... as real as it gets
I dont want to see you smokin nor dealin that shit.
and if you got to get high then get weeded
and even that you really dont need
but we all go through it

I'm give it to you real...no gaa gaa goo goo
Cause if I lie to you what good thats gone do you?

Every black man that has a son, or do you mean every black man that actually lives in the same house with his son ?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

Kinda hard to say rock and roll destroyed white culture.
Whether rap has done that to the black community is hard to say,but we do know black culture is royally fucked up.

In the entire existence of this country, they are only on their second generation of children born free. And too many that remember and keep the hate alive, on every side, still exist. Black people will be fine, just like the Italians, the Germans, the Catholics, and every other group of people that have been hated in this country were eventually fine.

Unfortunately they appear to be going backwards.
All the immigrants you mentioned improved with each generation while blacks have taken a step back.

 

[MaryL]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Rap music is akin to porn, no other way of putting it. Secondly, Auto tune, Did Beethoven or the Beatles need a computer to tweak a inability to harmonize? A prolonged mindless beat driven by massive woofers can't hide talentless hacks. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and people saying F*ck and N*gger and Bitch over and over again...really?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Rap music is akin to porn, no other way of putting it. Secondly, Auto tune, Did Beethoven or the Beatles need a computer to tweak a inability to harmonize? A prolonged mindless beat driven by massive woofers can't hide talentless hacks. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and people saying F*ck and N*gger and Bitch over and over again...really?

I pretty much listen to everything from rock to rap to country and some reggae thrown in for good measure.
It really has to do with having the ability to understand it's just entertainment and not a life map.
Anyone who takes music to seriously is a moron.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Only a retard would think Rap led to social decline. If you meant being white became less attractive you may have an argument.

It was a main ingredient in the asphalt mix that paved the road to the ethical and moral destruction.

White ethics and morals were always based on hypocrisy anyway. Good riddance. If you mean Rap destroyed that then bravo for Rap.

Well white liberals certainly snookered your community back in the 60's when they put the black family unit on the road to ruin by creating programs that made the government the man of the house.
Your community followed the liberal pied pipers right to the edge of the cliff, and the black family structure went right over. The results today, are the places like Baltimore.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to know what she's talking about.

I think someday future Americans will come to their heads and realize that Rap music was the modern day Trojan horse that led to a massive societal decline.

Back To Baltimore And 'Back 2 Love' With R&B Singer Maysa

Baltimore is struggling with record violence: Last month the murder rate hit a 40-year high. NPR has been talking about this problem with law enforcement officials and politicians — and now, it hands the microphone to one of the city's artists.

Maysa is a Grammy nominated jazz and soul singer who has spent 20-years in the music business. She's sung backup for Stevie Wonder, fronted the band Incognito and recorded around a dozen solo albums, including the new collection Back 2 Love. She's also a Baltimore native, and was in town when protests and violence erupted following Freddie Gray's death, a week after being taken into police custody.

Maysa joined NPR's Ari Shapiro on Morning Edition to talk about her music and her hometown. Hear their conversation at the audio link, and read an edited version interview below.

Ari Shapiro: What went through your head when you watched the Baltimore protests turn into riots?

Maysa: I was disgusted and hurt and disappointed. Because I know that we all know we have to fix the problem. We have to fix police brutality and violence and all these killings. We have to fix all of that. But we have to find a humane and mature way, and a different way, to do it. We also have to teach our children that we got to stay out of harm's way. By that I'm saying, sometimes, even when you're confronted with a situation that your emotions want you to react a certain way to, you have to think with your mind to react a different way.

MORE: Back To Baltimore And Back 2 Love With R B Singer Maysa NPR

Rap music didn't mold society ... it reflected it.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

 

[MaryL]

Rap I might tolerate, On a rare occasion, but the fact is , the driving force coupled with the nemesis of music itself is AUTO TUNE. You can get a yelping dog to sound like an angel, deceitful, inartistic and fraudulent. Like Milli Vannili. Lip syncing, stealing riffs from other musicians. Originality, and art is lost here.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I hate to say any music is bad, but you can't deny that rap ruined black culture. It's not just the violence either. It promotes promescuity, irresponsible spending habits, sexism and a complete disregard for authority figures.

Exactly what people said about rock n roll and jazz. Hell I think I've read they said similar things about Mozart.

Kinda hard to say rock and roll destroyed white culture.
Whether rap has done that to the black community is hard to say,but we do know black culture is royally fucked up.

In the entire existence of this country, they are only on their second generation of children born free. And too many that remember and keep the hate alive, on every side, still exist. Black people will be fine, just like the Italians, the Germans, the Catholics, and every other group of people that have been hated in this country were eventually fine.

Unfortunately they appear to be going backwards.
All the immigrants you mentioned improved with each generation while blacks have taken a step back.

The immigrants I listed also weren't discriminated against by law for 200 years.