African-American Appreciation Thread - Highlighting contributions from our most productive citizens

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I’ve posted about this group before, but today I received good news that A Tribe Called Quest is officially getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, even after getting nominated for three years and getting in on the third time.

I know no one cares, but I now have an excuse to post this song:

 
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
This shit makes me tophat I dont care. Why do ANY coon tune groups get into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME? It'd be like Charlie Daniel's Band getting into the Hip-hop Hall Of Fame. Y'know, silly shit like RunDMC getting into the Rock- OH WAIT THEY DID AND FUCKING EMINEM INDUCTED THEM(Not even anyone from Aerosmith which at least would have made some semse). The same EMINEM who wanted to do a song with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. And when asked if he wanted to do the collab, Iommi said "idk who that is".

I'm willing to pretend that niggos made large enough contributions to folk and gospel to be considered the OG soul spillers. I'm even willing to pretend that Blacks using a white man's invention(electric guitar), playing white man's music(southern gospel mixed with folk influences and personal experiences) are the OG Rockers.

I'm not, however, willing to LARP that Hip-hop groups have ever made any significant enough contribution to the Rock genre to deserve a spot in the Hall next to greats of the overall genre like Zeppelin and Sabbath etc
 
This shit makes me tophat I dont care. Why do ANY coon tune groups get into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME? It'd be like Charlie Daniel's Band getting into the Hip-hop Hall Of Fame. Y'know, silly shit like RunDMC getting into the Rock- OH WAIT THEY DID AND FUCKING EMINEM INDUCTED THEM(Not even anyone from Aerosmith which at least would have made some semse). The same EMINEM who wanted to do a song with Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. And when asked if he wanted to do the collab, Iommi said "idk who that is".

I'm willing to pretend that niggos made large enough contributions to folk and gospel to be considered the OG soul spillers. I'm even willing to pretend that Blacks using a white man's invention(electric guitar), playing white man's music(southern gospel mixed with folk influences and personal experiences) are the OG Rockers.

I'm not, however, willing to LARP that Hip-hop groups have ever made any significant enough contribution to the Rock genre to deserve a spot in the Hall next to greats of the overall genre like Zeppelin and Sabbath etc
Honestly, as someone who has an Illmatic avatar and listened to Tribe over the years, I also like to question if they replaced Iron Maiden and Soundgarden with Mary J. Bilge and Dave Matthews Band for this years inductees.

I even saw Mariah Carey fans straight up get mad and block anyone on X if they dare say anything bad about how Mariah Carey is not a rock musician.

Even more shocking is finding out that Oasis was nominated for six straight times, yet they didn’t make it.
 
I recently read this article titled, "What I like about Blacks", by huwhite advocate Jared Taylor.

In it, he lists the following pleasant experiences with the world's great innovators:

- A man helping him after he fell off his bike ("Falling off yo bike fucks wit yo mind, man")
- Strangers complimenting him on his hat ("Nice lid, man")
- A woman showing him her huge tits and then hugging him
- Two hotel maids purring over his physique as he strode down a corridor topless
- Listening to his favorite jazz musicians


Food for thought.
That's the whole point of the article. It's (mostly) dry humor.

The way blacks speak English is entertaining. A black man once explained to me the difference between “He sick” and “He be sick.” “He sick” is chronic—someone who is bedridden or in a wheelchair—while “He be sick” is a temporary condition like the flu.
I know I’m late on this, but this was the funniest thing I’ve ever had to read, and it was so unintentional, too.
 
Mariah Carey
I'd be surprised if more zoomer/millennials knew her for more than just the diss track tbh. The fact anyone could possibly consider her rock is beyond any sort of lunacy and straight into Great Old Ones style Madness for me.
Which I guess just shows how far Rock has fallen as a genre more than anything.
 
Off topic, but I went to the Hall about a year ago and went to the area where they have the instruments set up and you can jam.

Got on the drums and got into a groove with some randos, until the black guy playing bass (lol) had to go and was replaced by a 6'2 troon who just started slap soloing (poorly) over the actual music we were creating. Incredibly embarrassing.
 
You can't just drop this and not tell what coin he was planning on. What was it? For research purposes
He just said "Bitcoin" as far as specifics are concerned. I think it's just unwarranted nigger confidence since he said he's also more or less a lawyer.
 
The pro-Palestine activist who attacked Alec Baldwin went on Piers Morgan and called him a White devil.
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look at all that coke/cornstarch!

But why the fuck would you continue interviewing someone after they appear on your show, tits hanging out with tap on their nipples and screeching like a downie banshee? This is downright embarrassing.
 
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