I remember listening to Careful by Cardi B, her music resonated with my soul at one point. It wasn’t what she said, but how she said it that made me believe her. I felt like I couldn’t agree more than with her subliminal words of pain, her pain expressed through the vibrations in my mind. Cardi’s words show the progression of love in our community, and the lack thereof. Listeners are far more interested in what’s cool and that has always been the issue, living an excessive lifestyle to satisfy the flesh. Anything that you find yourself doing more of "every now and then” is an addiction, which leads to future underlying issues. The feeling of being accepted has affected our body image, the country is built on a hypocritical view of how people are valued. A specific group like “women'' endure suffering from men and from their own gender. This country has a great way of making you feel responsible when the American lifestyle is killing the country, everyone's lives are slightly more dramatic due to people they meet. “Hurt people, hurt people” is a saying that has become common among us, we are turning “I did what I didn’t have to do” into a lifestyle. I often wonder if love is real and if I will survive it, if I would never see her again. I think there is a form of music that is yet to be discovered, where love isn’t always sexual and hate isn’t related to an intimate relationship. The narrative of black entertainment is a product of its own undoing, Tupac predicted a generation of men that hates women. The lack of respect men have for women is a lack of respect for themselves, where they interact with people who are not on they’re level. Demanding more from each other is a form of pushing them for better, but it’s more so a feeling that will latch onto you. Some people can’t be changed from a comfortable position, like African Americans who want change but boost the “murder rate”. It’s a snake pit and if you live here then you have made your bed in it. Our people aren’t lost, they're just miss placed in a world that controls everything involving their life without it involving them. Also stop with the surprise that black people can’t be great, we need to normalize black people being anything more than a corner hustler. Black people just need recognition and credit for what they do, that way black people aren’t surprised by what they can do. Everyone is an individual and someone are bound to get lost in translation of what is being said, some demonize what they don’t understand while others have lived it. Some see our way of living as a lifestyle inspiring others outside of the culture, when most people in it are trying to escape it. Are you informing yourself of our culture for the right reasons or is it just to make yourself look good? The Female voice has gotten stronger overtime. Measuring success in wealth or status makes you believe that the whole inside of you can be filled with material possessions. People may feel that music can’t affect you in a way, when it is the core of our culture. Music is the reflexion of the person writing it, and from what we hear these people lived dangerous and over sexualized lives. Music consumers have gotten the wrong idea about hip hop, no one is happy with the life they have to live otherwise why are they looking for better and listeners get the wrong idea of what is being said in hip hop.
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MAN MADE By La’Garyus An Underground Lord named Lilith is at large and growing further down into darkness, she lives in a castle created within the earth. One of her soldiers is a man with a black book containing different locations to hidden money and different treasures, the soldier was one of her closest soldiers. She put acidic bombs in her soldiers without their knowledge. The Bomb liquidates the man’s insides, burning a whole in his chest that looks like a bullet wound.The traitor had been taking notes on Lilith and her evil plan for the people who have lived on her land. The traitor sacrifices himself to give the people a fighting chance knowing it would lead to his death. The Underground Lord follows the tracker to the traitor in the worst part of the neighborhood, the first person to find the traitor is someone from the area. A young man named Low, he pickpockets the traitor’s corps stealing 20,000 dollars in cash and in his hand is the black book. Low dashes around the corner grinning about how he just hit the biggest stain in history, he reads the book revealing different addresses where millions of dollars have been stored. Low alerts the block and they strategize an idea to rob this person. By the time the soldiers of the underground lord get to the traitor, the corps is left in a bloody tang top and boxers. Low strategizes with his military friend Will, where they come up with the idea to move quietly. They all agree to split the money among the four gangs, Low shows them the 20k to remove all doubt. Since there were 4 locations they decided to work together, they split the gangs up according to the book. Lilith only has 8 men; however, they are all supersoldiers. Low realizes he has an advantage in numbers, but a disadvantage in skill. The more Low read from the book the more obstacles would come up, so that his army wouldn’t be walking into the traps he rips out the pages from the book and gives it to his army. Most of Low’s soldiers weren’t really soldiers, they lacked the fight of a warrior. Most of them are thieves and fiends, but most of them know how to work a gun. Low has around 63 people who weren’t afraid to fight against the underground lord, the others who walked away feared death and Lilith. Low reads to his men the horrors that live inside the hidden locations, this exposes the dark truth behind The underground Lord. The neighborhood is built on an ancient burial ground where men have died by her hands, she has been living off of this ground since A.D. (After David) but she's been living longer than that. Low realizes that their neighborhood is just a feeding ground to keep her alive, he realizes that his life has never been his own. The news would always bring up issues involving missing people some were children, but no one was found. Low read the black book showing the reason why she is the way she is, she was betrayed by the people who created her. They used her and abused her, forcing her to become a woman when she was young. Her reaction started as just vengeance and has gone deeper into darkness, she sacrificed her human heart to an evil power that keeps her alive and strong. The only issue is she can't be around her heart. The ability to love takes her power since it was created by evil, it’s the only thing that could give her peace. The ability to feel will make her human again, Low and will make a game plan to go on a separate mission to retrieve the heart. The location of all the hidden spots are placed in the form of a large square, and in the middle is the entrance to the underground castle where gravity works differently. As Low and Will go down they pass a point where they realize they are for some reason going up and begin to wonder why. Inside of these locations are the tombs of the people she's killed throughout the generations, Lilith uses them as guardians since she can’t go to the heart. She doesn’t know that the traitor has given away all this information and doesn’t send soldiers to defend it till it’s too late, the traitor is very detailed in his description on how to get the heart. The traitor describes the guardians as undefeatable guides, they will take you to the next floor. The book says “do not fear them for they fear everything they cannot see, they don’t have eyes so they fear everything. Remain calm and they will take you to the next floor”; however, the book doesn't say how they transport them. The guy that comes with Will and Low dies because he was afraid, the ghouls surrounded them Low tells them to relax and they’ll take them to the heart. The ghouls start to make them sink into the ground, the sight of the ghouls leaves the side character terrified forcing him to lose his composure and he attacks the ghouls. As Will and Low sink into the ground they notice a flash of light coming from the guy, the ghouls who were lacking a soul killed him by sucking his soul out. Low begins to have visions of a woman as he is sunk into the underworld castle, the woman asks him what he wants. Why would he risk his life? Low responded with we’re already dying, he becomes infatuated with the woman and has fallen for her and her story. He wanted nothing more than to cure her of her pain, to kiss her wounds of all afflictions even from herself. Low realized Lilith was a victim herself and the only way to free himself was to free her, but how do you free someone who doesn’t want to be helped? Low figures this in the end, he takes the heart of The Underground Lord in his hands as it still beats. Low cuts a line below his ribs and above his abdomen, then he forces the heart into the wound. 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