Ignorance Personified: Lil' Wayne Boasts That He Will "Murder Your Children"

A friend recently told me that all children dream. Children will dream whether you love them or not. You can hug them or beat them - Children will dream. Feed them or starve them-Children will dream. But who tells them what to dream? In a lot of cases, pop culture tells them what to dream. A whole lot of y'all dreamed of prince charming because Disney told y'all to. The problem is what do you do when the folks who are telling your kids what to dream are sociopaths? Our latest "Ignorance Personified " entry goes to Lil' Wayne for saying this:

If you are talking about rap and beef, I'm the wrong person to talk to. I am from New Orleans. Cut your televisions on. You know where I'm from. I'm from the murder capital, ma.

Beef is a different thing there. I have four teardrops on my face and I have to look my mom in her eye every day. I can't lie to her. F*ck what they think and f*ck what the world thinks, we real. My mom is real. The first day I got a teardrop I lied. I called her and asked her can I get a teardrop tattoo, but I had already got it." She said, "When you get it, come by me so I can see how you look with it, cause I was thinking about getting one my f*ckin' self."

"We don't play. No, I'm not gonna rap about you man, I will murder you, your family, your child, a newborn, I don't give a f*ck. I could never go to hell cause I'ma take over, b*tch. Hat Tip to Media Take Out.

Sweet dreams. And please spare me the "Its up to parents to tell their children what to dream" foolishness. It might be up to them, but they ain't the ones who are doing it. This is so not funny in light of Alexis Goggins, Daniyah Jackson, and Ebony Dorsey.

Comments

[clnmike]

Yeah that was stupid, but it is up to the parents.
You let your kids listen to lil wayne than what do you expect?

[La ~ msviswan]

Well they hear it on the streets, on the way to school, their neighbor blasting it etc.. some parents are the ones blasting it at home.

Rap crap nation at it's best. I don't understand why these angry little DBR's won't try "rapping" uplifting music or do something more constructive, like go to school. Something really needs to be done for our future sake.

[SheCodes]

clnMike...

You're missing the point. It's not MY kids that I will be worried about. I will definitely be a good parent, and my kids will not be allowed to listen to such poison.

My worry will be the good looking, poisoned boy who will take my daughter out on a date when she is 18. It's the poisoned girl with the bangin' body who my son could get HIV over, because she done tried to play the video ho role and didn't tell him about it.

It is the poisoned white male interviewer who believes black boys are basically dangerous pimps and thugs when my son tries to get a decent job.

It's the poisoned taxi driver who looks into the rear view mirror and sees my gorgeous daughter, and believes nobody will care if he drives off with this black girl and does christ knows what.

It's all of the poisoned boys who look good and act sweet in public, but turn into mercenary sadists the second they weasel a moment alone with her in a dorm room.

It's the poisoned black male teenager who will shoot my black son dead in the street over the color of his shirt. It's the poisoned, angry person watching my baby in a daycare that concerns me.

You can't just say that 'it's the parents' and walk away. We will always have bad parents in our communities. But we can't allow OUR CULTURE to weaponize unparented children any longer.

We can't pretend that these rap messages aren't a particularly effective arm of a greater organism called systemic, metastasized racism.

To use an analogy, just because we aren't the ones spilling the carbon in the atmosphere, doesn't mean that we aren't affected by it every time we breathe.

[clnmike]

Shecodes
You are right.

100% Right.

You can not run from this and jump on a boat and sail away.

The threat to a parent who raises their child right is the other child was not raised right.

How ever Lil Wayne and the producers of music like this will not change over night. Not as long as they have a fan base.

The problem is the access these kids have to the music. The media goes uncheck in what they show basically. And although I do not believe in censorship because of the double edge sword effect, their is no ethical or moral conscience being shown by the media. And they have no reason to as long as a dollar is being made off this type music.

What is needed is a red light district for these types of artists. There music has no business being played during the day when every one can get to it.

Their websites should also be goverment regulated. I remember when congress broached the subject of forcing websites to be listed instead of .com into .xxx if they showed adult content. Same should go for music on the web.

We can not rely on the parent next door to do their part. This needs to be a multi front attack.

The schools would also have to be used as a ground zero when dealing with these kids that is were they will be quickly identified.

And as unpopular as this may sound with some the church needs to be broughty back into the conscience of the black community. Say what you will when their were more people and children going to church, the less ills went on in the community.

I hate to think of turning kids lives into the movie 1984 but these are desperate times for the black community.

[iman]

What other celebrity with a major record deal, who's featured in the mainstream media, would feel comfortabe enough to talk freely about murdering children other than a rapper? This is an example of how coporate america continues to lower the bar for us and how we keep it there.

If your a hip hop head and you listen to Lil' Wayne albums and mix tapes with all types of profanities and negativity, than that's on you. That's your choice. But when you can no longer distinguish what is violent and profrain behavior with what is normal you have a problem. And trust me, there are plenty of people who can't distinguish the two.

I remember being in highschool listening to one of Cameron's earlier CD's with a group of friends and watching them sing along to a song where there's a verse that says "I'll make your brother eat your mother out after I done dug her out" with out missing a beat. It was like no one in the room (girls and guys included) noticed how violent and disgusting what he just said was. That verse sounds like something straight out of the Dunbar village story. It still sticks with me till this day, because I couldn't get over how disgusting that was.

But he, like so many other rappers can say anything and know they will still be accepted in the mainstream. You can't convince me corporations would be able to get away with this with any other group of people.

[clnmike]

I do not have anything personal against Lil Wayne's music some of his stuff is pretty good to me. But I am an adult who can distinguish fact from fiction. Kids are not able to make that distinction.
That is what I have a problem with, kids access to his music. With the lack of role models in the home and in some communities kids will take for gospel anything that is seductive to them.

[Carmen D.]

What hurts me is that I do not hear black men yelling out in unison against Lil' Wayne's comments and others making the same type of comment. We need black men warning Lil Wayne and others like him that there are black me who will stand against him to prevent harm from coming to black daughters, sisters, friends, mothers, neighbors. I don't know how exactly, but I do believe young men like Lil Wayne will only listen to black men who they respect. And sadly, I am not even sure of that.