During my coaching years I began to notice how too many of my athletes were coming to practice intoxicated, or they were suffering the ill effects of addicted family members. This led me to write Message N/A Bottle: The 40oz Scandal (BWORLD@yahoo.com) in 1996. My latest book, Hip Hop Hypocrisy: When Lies Sound Like the Truth, exposes the seduction of an entire generation by an intoxicated, violent, misogynistic subculture that arose out of gangs and prisons. I work with young people, as well as parents, educators, ministers, social workers, and counselors around the country to help improve academic performance and classroom management. For more information on our services, visit www.ACoachPowell.com. To participate in the dialogue, visit here often and share your ideas, questions, comments, and strategies.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Hypocrisy sightings

In the current issue of Source magazine, Snoop Dogg (Calvin Broadus) calls himself a former gangsta. Whatz up with that? According to the gangsta creed, a gangbanger (G) swears to be a gangsta for life, and even the Old Gs must continue to rob, kill, rape, and hustle.

In the National Enquirer, Ice-T (Tracy Marrow), the lyrical cop killer now turned TV cop, admits he’s a hypocrite, a “big hypocrite.” He says he used to hate the cops when he was a Crip, but now that he’s gone “legit” and needs the cops to watch his house, he doesn’t hate them anymore. Ain’t that a trip?

You can't just up and quit being a gangsta. Only spies can move in and out of the game with such ease.

I've been telling you for years that the children of the hood are being set up by the PTBs (powers that be) and professional entertainers disguised as gangstas. After leading thousands, maybe millions of young people into the life via their music and public personas, these entertainers conveniently turn their backs on their creations. Not so simple for those young people who are now trapped in a lifestyle of violence, crime, thuggism, and incarceration, thanks in part to these Hip Hop pied pipers.

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