Eric Benet has urged music lovers to beware of black artists who normalise anti-black violence with their music and visuals.
Why?
Find out below…
His comments come after the music industry power player Lyor Cohen was criticised for the part he is said to play in polluting the minds of impressionable black children and teens.
I turned that Lyor Cohen interview off at the beginning when he implied that Black people don’t know the history of our own music…like how don’t we know about The Gap Band, Lakeside, etc. ???
— Japanese Toe (@Tee_Toe) August 1, 2018
That Lyor Cohen interview on Breakfast Club only supports what I was saying before in regards to the music industry and youth violence/drug proliferation. Look at his response… Labels endorse acts who rap this way by providing the rope to hang your culture. #Complicit pic.twitter.com/sB9EVhp61V
— HYPNOTIC OUT NOW! (@FunkButcher) August 2, 2018
Every time you hear a “black” rapper calling black people N****rs , or women B***hs, please remember this man #LyorCohen . He is one of the music executives who promote this negative portrayal of black people,.. https://t.co/2P5cS2e9Nq
— Tony Cipriani (@tony1977tony) August 4, 2018
Let me know when the music industry stops promoting the n-word, (that slave word) and killing Black people. Then we can say the tide is turning. @lyorcohen Imagine the outrage if the music industry defamed & promoted killing Jews and gays. #BlackTwitter #ADL #NAACP @NBCNews
— Charles Brister (@MrUniteUs) April 28, 2018
"Did Lyor Cohen break a rock group that you know of?….There's always some white man in charge of black people." – Dame Dash
— Brittany Lewis (@Buttercup_B) March 13, 2015
The move Lyor Cohen pulled on Chuck D and Professor Griff to destroy Public Enemy is the same 'divide and conquer' tactic he pulled on Jay-Z and Dame Dash. Griff and Dame were field negroes betrayed by house negroes Chuck and Jay for a piece of the pie.
— Majestic Mystic (@NelsonEmpowered) August 5, 2018
I learned a lot watching that Lyor Cohen breakfast club interview. One thing being I dont trust him…at all.
— RST:LSS (@MicCapes_Music) August 3, 2018
Lyor Cohen went on the Breakfast Club and said rappers promoting drug use are junkies. Nothing good can come from them.
When asked, isn’t it hypocritical, that he continues to sign these rappers & promote their music?
He said, “No”
???Dame Dash never lied. #CultureVultures
— maktuub (@itsMaktuub) August 2, 2018
It’s the truth! You can’t criticize commonplaces about black people if everything you see or listen on radio , tv , social media it’s exactly that!
Say it! That’s why so many of us are lost. The people behind the content we consume want us to hate ourselves.
Are we that f in dumb then we deserve it. We are always complaining about getting manipulated by some outside force. Are we f in babies that can’t change the damn channel or discipline our kids. I know plenty of successful black children whose parents don’t let them watch BET or listen to this sh!! rap and nasty music. This site covers nasty artists like Cardi B etc. turning little black girls into h***. Nobody to blame but ourselves, my kids doing great, I follow this sh!! but don’t listen to Migos etc and filthy music or movies. I see parents listen to this sh!! with their kids in the car, Lyor gives people what they want, nasty hot chips and soda. Fried chicken. You better go after the Colonel next. Like Kanye said we got a choice.
That JEW has made MILLIONS of robbing Black Artisit. He is Disgusting. Eric is looking pretty good in that pic….a total “meal”
Well he’s right in a sense of that.. some rappers talk about what they know. Sometimes drug and violence is what they know and see. How am I gonna talk about love and respect and I don’t know what that is .. but the issue is who is signing these clout chasers? Who is buying and streaming that garbage?
That’s the problem. They’re only interested in signing those guys because they’re desperate and dysfunctional.
I agree with Eric 100%. I could never understand why people glorified being a lowlife and negatively. American blacks is the only race that does it. They always make hairy back crook nose Jew rich.
Don’t we all?!! It’s sad that drugs and belittling WOC especially to become holier then thou artist. I didn’t mind the music growing up but folks music should mature as they AGE!!
Oh yeah blame white people..easier to do that. Might as well blame earthquakes on white people as well.
Don’t get me wrong if people want to listen to this stuff it’s their choice. However, don’t get mad if a white dude gets to make money off of managing and distributing Filthy music you like. He is acting as a liaison between communities of different socioeconomic & ethnic backgrounds. He is not going to promote an artist that is not going to make him money. If people were consuming artistry of positivity and he can make money from that then maybe he would. With SoundCloud and YouTube and all the other platform for distribution music why are not more positive artist more popular Among Us? That is because we do not want to listen to that. We love this filth just like we love nasty Fried Chicken, pickled sausage, and all forms of hot Chip snacks. Unless we change our mentality this is the kind of garbage music is going to continue to be made for us in the same type of nasty snack food and drinks or going to be prevalent in our communities. It is not mr. Cohen but us who create the conditions around us.
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