Mike and I talk about this on some other level shit about once a week. Our generation is falling behind. They're lazy, they don't want to work hard to get where they want to go and kids are still going out getting drunk off their asses every single night. It's odd to me. To us. I took shitty jobs out of school to get where I needed, but I'm not gonna turn this post into my own personal success story. Maybe this is a message to all of you who fit the description. It's an amazingly interesting article and I'm glad somebody backed it up with research.
Today's guys are perhaps the first downwardly mobile—and endlessly adolescent—generation of men in U.S. history. They're also among the most distraught—men between the ages of 16 and 26 have the highest suicide rate for any group except men above 70—and socially isolated, despite their image as a band of backslapping buddies. According to the General Social Survey, a highly regarded decadeslong University of Chicago project to map changes in American culture, twentysomething guys are bowling alone when compared with the rest of society. They are less likely to read a newspaper, attend church, vote for president or believe that people are basically trustworthy, helpful and fair. Meanwhile, saddled with an average of $20,000 in student debt and reared with a sense of entitlement that stops them from taking any old job, the percentage of 26-year-olds living with their parents has nearly doubled since 1970, from 11 to 20 percent.
and although he doesn't go as far to BLAME it on media portrayals of the "Single Life" a la the MAN Show or Entourage. He does have somewhat of a point. and you should know I'm the first person to say there's very limited brainwash affect from video games or tv shows. So that says a lot.
An excellent interview with Joseph Saddler in Newsweek.
NEWSWEEK: Describe your childhood obsession with records. How far did it go? Grandmaster Flash: Whenever dad would go off to work, I'd wait for the door to slam and I'd grab a record and turn on the stereo. Eventually, my dad would scratch his head and be like, "Have any of you been going through my records?" He'd ask everyone, and by the time he got to me, I was so terrified you'd think the word "yes" was written on my forehead. I'd get my brains beat out of me, sometimes until I was unconscious. Then he'd put my hands on the radiator and burn them, in hopes that it would keep me out of the closet. But it only peaked my interest more.
They go on to ask him about how modern technology has changed hip-hop and what he thinks about digital turntables. Read the rest at NEWSWEEK: Don't stop the beat.
An article in Newsweek today talkin about the new book from Terrance Dean. A former MTV employee.
(Dean's) new book, "Hiding in Hip-Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry," is a tale of life inside Hollywood's secret gay subculture, and hip-hop's place within that world. Though it doesn't name names, the memoir is a detailed (and graphic) account of down-low life, gay sex parties and secret societies, where some of hip-hop's major artists openly sleep with men, only to go home to their wives and girlfriends at night's end. (A person who is "down low" considers himself straight but regularly sleeps with members of the same sex; the term is frequently used when describing black men.) And though Dean's intention was never to out anybody, he provides just enough information for readers to go crazy searching Google. There's a New York R&B singer who often opened for Jay-Z, caught the ears of Death Row Records and has worked on Broadway. A member of a rap group that changed hip-hop with its "philosophical rhymes over hard-core beats" who then went solo to achieve chart-topping success, eventually landing the lead in a movie. (He's also married.) "Men who have secret love affairs have separate homes and apartments, and separate phones strictly for their romantic flings," writes Dean. "No one ever suspects a thing, and they go to great lengths to keep it that way."
This makes me remember the infamous Pimp C interview on the Atlanta Radio station where he says "I know which rappers are gay and I know who likes a finger in the butt" or something similar. lol.
Also: Any reason to post this video again. LOL
What What In The Butt!
Anyway. Leave some comments. Who do you think he's talking about. Is the rapper Scarface? But has he really "starred" in any movies? Or is it Andre 3000? I refuse to think so. Not that it doesn't make him any less of a Dope rapper. But He is a pretty fashionable dude, not that only gay people are fashionable or anything.
