Big Ups to All My Haters...

You're a hater. Don't hate on me. Stop hating. Recently a couple of my friends and I had a discussion about haters. We thought about most of the people who talk about haters and we realized something. We as Black people only claim that people are hating when they critique us while we're doing stupid shit. Think about it, most rappers complain about getting hated on because they drive a "car the color of watermelon with the bubble gum inside" or some such inane statement. God forbid someone suggest that you spend that money on your family who're still stuck in the projects or yourself so that when your bubble bursts you'll have legitimate investments and not just that magical combination of jewelry and debt. This doesn't only apply to rappers though, we have allowed ourselves to fall into cultural and intellectual sewage because everyone is scared to call dumbness exactly what it is. Beyond that, we have developed this strange moral relativism in which the ends justify the means so much that we celebrate people who are (or were) legitimately evil all in the name of not hating. Men who use womens' bodies to collect payment should be hated on. Dudes who sell concentrated, addictive death to their people should be hated on. People who shoot other people over blocks that belong to no one but the US Government (it's not your block, stupid, you just live there) should be hated on. These people are in many cases the equivalent of urban terrorists and they need to be hated on! Look, there are differences between people in their situations that make drastic and morally abhorrent actions seem necessary and I can understand that. It's only the grace of God that kept me from those situations but that doesn't justify people who can avoid it engaging in those activities or seeing something stupid and saying it's cool because they don't wanna hate. To combat this, I'm starting the "hate-on-em" movement. If you forever rap about selling drugs and killing people and then get all shy or angry when someone asks you why you portray negativity, then I'm going to call you on it, not because I'm a hater (what do you really have that I would need to hate on?) but because you are being a dummy. I grew up in the hood too so all that "i rap about what i see" garbage is not gonna fly because let's be frank, you were not that dude (the killer, superhustler, pimp, etc.) if you made it in the rap game because you'd still be in the hood right now if you were. I'm not only going to go after rappers, this applies to intellectuals and politicians as well. I'm hating on Marion Berry for smoking crack. I'm hating on Cornell West for wasting his monstrous talent on Rap CD's and strange misguided attempts to be a rock star intellectual (aka pretending to reach out to the youth) . I'm hating because it seems like no one else will. Everyone is so concerned with the concept of being a hater that we've allowed our standards to fall to dangerous levels in many areas of Black life. Now suddenly, entertainers are our intellectual standard bearers and anything that requires more than 2 minutes thought is "deep". Enough is enough. It's time for us to take back a culture that has been hijacked by greedy, sellout Black people and large corporations. We have become slaves to the almighty dollar in so many areas and now that Blackness is a commodity, "hating" has become public enemy number one. Everyone is a hustler nowadays and by suggesting that what they do is illogical, stupid, morally wrong or anything other than "their unique hustle" is hating. Sorry y'all, but if y'all think that this craziness is justified and that calling it craziness is hating, then I am a hater to the bone gristle. And if you are busy worrying about being a hater with the AIDS rates in the Black Community (comparable to third world countries), the homicide rates among young black men (15 times more likely to be killed than any other group), and the fact that many other ethnic groups have come to this country after we did and surpassed us in terms of measurable progress (not all our fault but a problem nonetheless) then I AM HATING ON YOU!