Thug Life!

Though I am an urban music fan, who appreciates rap, reggae, R and B, jazz and other urban music and genres, I think that when young people on mass has aspirations to become involved in the entertainment industry it sows the seeds for social problems in the future.  If one is a talented and aspiring rapper, reggae artist, singer or instrument player, this is not conducive to success.  What is relevant for success, is not merely originality but market forces.  Supply and demand is the most relevant issue because if too many people attempt to sell music to too few, then this reduces the unit price of each song and makes it difficult for the music producers to retrieve their investment.  Musicians are a brand, like the Coke brand, and their conduct, virtue, image, ethos and morality, is much more important to an impressionable fan than their musical content.  The company thus has to promote that image or persona, in marketing and promotion.  In some cultures a negative image will sell more music units than a positive one. 

When the market is saturated with musicians of the same genre, there is sometimes fierce competition.  Having been a former business student I know prices for products and services and also improves customer service.  This is to try and gain loyal customers, who will return.  In the music industry some genres of musicians compete with each other by building wells in Africa and Asia, by campaigning to end global poverty and to curtail the HIV problems.  In some genres, from whence came the product of oppressive society, the musicians are marketed in a way to conform to the negative stereotyped classification that is important to their main consumer.  The musician thus might promote a stereotype that indirectly stops social mobility. 

When the industry is full of people competing with each other to sell the units, it is difficult for there to be a sub-cultural positive revolution because society has grown up in the sociological geographical sphere that is the core focus of the genre.  It cannot be defined as the musicians fault when, operating under capitalist representativeness by defining sociological, youth cultural and psychological realities, on a free market which promotes freedom of expression in the legal protocols.  Sociological, economic and sub-cultural abnormalities, when contrasted with popular cultural can only be defined as the government’s problem and making.  When they view the citizens, who entrusted them to lead at the ballot box, as the enemy then such problems cannot be resolved.  So can the musicians who operates under the free market, be blamed for defining sociological realities?  I think not.  They are not politicians or academics, ‘some are,’ so how can they be blamed?

When those who are entrusted by the franchise to enhance egalitarianism, yet when they see problems they shout, ‘Go to the church, be gay, work for free to be good!’ the problems will never be resolved.  Two of the advice are reasonable, when one decides from one’s own conscience because church and charity can be a force for good.  The resolution of these problems are trade, business, family values, social cohesiveness and conservatism.  If the young thinks that the only business they can do is to enhance their creativity in song, then they will largely not have a contingency plan and not educate themselves for the important jobs of tomorrow.  When they cannot earn the money to support themselves and their family or just themselves, their only focus in life is to make money.  Earning a good amount of money is very important for aspirational psychology, but virtue is far more important than money.  When such financial problems arise, this may lead to social problems which enhances problems.

It is therefore important for education to be held as an important entity, whilst holding on to sometimes creative aspirations.  When one is creative, it can be used in many ways, other than the stereotypical ones.  When I was sixteen I had dreams of being a rapper called MC Toothpick, I couldn’t rap, I never attempted to rap and I did  not understand what I would have to do to rap, but never the less, I wanted to be MC Toothpick.  When government does not look at some sub-cultures as impressionable good people who only wants to live a happy life, their negative views sometimes creates negative behaviour. 

When they view people of that ethnicity to be evil, for no reason other than they are not strong enough to advance their political mandate in a lawful egalitarian way, they may declare war on them instead of leading them.  This criminal attitude does nothing to resolve the social ills and defines a lack of respect for the rule of law.  To resolve the social issues what is needed is an advancement of the utopia values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law, what are needed are businesses and what is needed is community spirit.  This does not threaten the core values of pious, conservative modernity, this resolves the problem of the sex pot despots and their fantasies of libido scientific dictatorship!

Though I am an urban music fan, who appreciates rap, reggae, R and B, jazz and other urban music and genres, I think that when young people on mass has aspirations to become involved in the entertainment industry it sows the seeds for social problems in the future.  If one is a talented and aspiring rapper, reggae artist, singer or instrument player, this is not conducive to success.  What is relevant for success, is not merely originality but market forces.  Supply and demand is the most relevant issue because if too many people attempt to sell music to too few, then this reduces the unit price of each song and makes it difficult for the music producers to retrieve their investment.  Musicians are a brand, like the Coke brand, and their conduct, virtue, image, ethos and morality, is much more important to an impressionable fan than their musical content.  The company thus has to promote that image or persona, in marketing and promotion.  In some cultures a negative image will sell more music units than a positive one. 

When the market is saturated with musicians of the same genre, there is sometimes fierce competition.  Having been a former business student I know prices for products and services and also improves customer service.  This is to try and gain loyal customers, who will return.  In the music industry some genres of musicians compete with each other by building wells in Africa and Asia, by campaigning to end global poverty and to curtail the HIV problems.  In some genres, from whence came the product of oppressive society, the musicians are marketed in a way to conform to the negative stereotyped classification that is important to their main consumer.  The musician thus might promote a stereotype that indirectly stops social mobility. 

When the industry is full of people competing with each other to sell the units, it is difficult for there to be a sub-cultural positive revolution because society has grown up in the sociological geographical sphere that is the core focus of the genre.  It cannot be defined as the musicians fault when, operating under capitalist representativeness by defining sociological, youth cultural and psychological realities, on a free market which promotes freedom of expression in the legal protocols.  Sociological, economic and sub-cultural abnormalities, when contrasted with popular cultural can only be defined as the government’s problem and making.  When they view the citizens, who entrusted them to lead at the ballot box, as the enemy then such problems cannot be resolved.  So can the musicians who operates under the free market, be blamed for defining sociological realities?  I think not.  They are not politicians or academics, ‘some are,’ so how can they be blamed?

When those who are entrusted by the franchise to enhance egalitarianism, yet when they see problems they shout, ‘Go to the church, be gay, work for free to be good!’ the problems will never be resolved.  Two of the advice are reasonable, when one decides from one’s own conscience because church and charity can be a force for good.  The resolution of these problems are trade, business, family values, social cohesiveness and conservatism.  If the young thinks that the only business they can do is to enhance their creativity in song, then they will largely not have a contingency plan and not educate themselves for the important jobs of tomorrow.  When they cannot earn the money to support themselves and their family or just themselves, their only focus in life is to make money.  Earning a good amount of money is very important for aspirational psychology, but virtue is far more important than money.  When such financial problems arise, this may lead to social problems which enhances problems.

It is therefore important for education to be held as an important entity, whilst holding on to sometimes creative aspirations.  When one is creative, it can be used in many ways, other than the stereotypical ones.  When I was sixteen I had dreams of being a rapper called MC Toothpick, I couldn’t rap, I never attempted to rap and I did  not understand what I would have to do to rap, but never the less, I wanted to be MC Toothpick.  When government does not look at some sub-cultures as impressionable good people who only wants to live a happy life, their negative views sometimes creates negative behaviour. 

When they view people of that ethnicity to be evil, for no reason other than they are not strong enough to advance their political mandate in a lawful egalitarian way, they may declare war on them instead of leading them.  This criminal attitude does nothing to resolve the social ills and defines a lack of respect for the rule of law.  To resolve the social issues what is needed is an advancement of the utopia values of liberty, democracy and the rule of law, what are needed are businesses and what is needed is community spirit.  This does not threaten the core values of pious, conservative modernity, this resolves the problem of the sex pot despots and their fantasies of libido scientific dictatorship!