Written and Published by ~Andrea Franklin
Courtesy to The Arsenio Hall Show
Courtesy to The Arsenio Hall Show
When rapper KID CUDI stopped by THE ARSENIO HALL SHOW to promote his new movie NEED FOR SPEED which is now out in theaters the interview got very intense when Arsenio ask the rapper to look into the camera and tell his peers WHAT HIP HOP NEEDS TO DO.
I touched on this very topic in a prior post title "IS TODAY'S MUSIC LACKING TALENT?", where I talked about the state of music as a whole but more so in the African American community and culture and how some of the latest hip hop music and some of the artist are a disservice to the youth within these communities.
Check out below what Kid Cudi had to say as he express his thoughts about this very issue within the Hip Hop community and his personal story of battling suicidal thoughts....
"I think the braggadocio ‘Money, Cash, Hoes’ thing needs to be deaded. I feel like, that’s holding us back as a culture, as black people. It doesn’t advance us in any way, shape, or form. We’ve been doing that same thing for years now. It’s been like, four decades of the same ol’ bullsh-t.
And I feel like, if you’re gonna be an artist, there’s a time where you just have to embrace the responsibility and understand the power of music is something so special and to be able to do it in this magnitude where you reach millions of people, it’s like, why not use that for good? Why not tell kids something they can connect with and use in their lives?
Really, my mission statement since day one, all I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone and stop kids from committing suicide.
I dealt with suicide for the past five years. There wasn’t a week or day that didn’t go by where I was just like, ‘You know? I wanna check out.’ And I know what that feels like. And I know it comes from loneliness. I know it comes from not having self-worth, not loving yourself. These are things that kids don’t have music that can coach them and give them that guidance. I didn’t have that. I had to listen to Jay Z and take certain things from it and the other sh-t I just didn’t know what he was talking about. And now I’m 30 and I’m like, ‘Oh! That’s what Hov was talking about! I get it now!’ But what about the kids…you never had an artist where you connected with them all across the board, you know? And I think that’s my job. I’m just really just trying to guide people and help people because loneliness is a terrible, terrible thing, man and if you don’t know how to conquer it, it can eat you alive."
I agree with Kid Cudi, This to me is the right way music should be used as an influence to motivate in a more positive way using MUSIC AS A WEAPON to change things for the better.
Check out the interview from the Arsenio Hall Show below.
I touched on this very topic in a prior post title "IS TODAY'S MUSIC LACKING TALENT?", where I talked about the state of music as a whole but more so in the African American community and culture and how some of the latest hip hop music and some of the artist are a disservice to the youth within these communities.
Check out below what Kid Cudi had to say as he express his thoughts about this very issue within the Hip Hop community and his personal story of battling suicidal thoughts....
"I think the braggadocio ‘Money, Cash, Hoes’ thing needs to be deaded. I feel like, that’s holding us back as a culture, as black people. It doesn’t advance us in any way, shape, or form. We’ve been doing that same thing for years now. It’s been like, four decades of the same ol’ bullsh-t.
And I feel like, if you’re gonna be an artist, there’s a time where you just have to embrace the responsibility and understand the power of music is something so special and to be able to do it in this magnitude where you reach millions of people, it’s like, why not use that for good? Why not tell kids something they can connect with and use in their lives?
Really, my mission statement since day one, all I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone and stop kids from committing suicide.
I dealt with suicide for the past five years. There wasn’t a week or day that didn’t go by where I was just like, ‘You know? I wanna check out.’ And I know what that feels like. And I know it comes from loneliness. I know it comes from not having self-worth, not loving yourself. These are things that kids don’t have music that can coach them and give them that guidance. I didn’t have that. I had to listen to Jay Z and take certain things from it and the other sh-t I just didn’t know what he was talking about. And now I’m 30 and I’m like, ‘Oh! That’s what Hov was talking about! I get it now!’ But what about the kids…you never had an artist where you connected with them all across the board, you know? And I think that’s my job. I’m just really just trying to guide people and help people because loneliness is a terrible, terrible thing, man and if you don’t know how to conquer it, it can eat you alive."
I agree with Kid Cudi, This to me is the right way music should be used as an influence to motivate in a more positive way using MUSIC AS A WEAPON to change things for the better.
Check out the interview from the Arsenio Hall Show below.