The Culture Vulture Report :: The reality about fake reality shows

The Culture Vulture Report :: The reality about fake reality shows

Earlier in 2013, we sent an open letter to Worldstar. I refuse to add ‘Hip Hop’ to their moniker, as it is blasphemous to our Culture and what we represent. To date, there has been no response, but the overwhelming response from the thousands of Hip Hoppers who have read the letter has been in favor of what we stand for. That alone should settle the dispute of whether or not we truly invite this nonsense. We don’t. We have been programmed music and false doctrines and culture since the beginning of America. What makes you think they’ve stopped? What makes you think you’re really free to exercise free speech? Give a Negro a million dollars for an album deal, he will sell his mother on a record. Rappers are being paid every year to buy into the gang and pimp hype. And they’re the biggest hoes out there. The labels are the pimps.

The so-called journalists of these half-ass media outlets who are still talking about the Jay-Z/Solange fiasco, have obviously run out of creative ways of promoting our Culture. They seem to believe that there must be some over-the-top negative hype in place before any artist is allowed to be a part of their “news”. It doesn’t stop at Worldstar. There are so many Culture Vultures in our midst that we either give a fake handshake to in passing, or try not to pass at all. We are all out of passes, and the back stage to Hip Hop Culture is closed. Every year during Hip Hop Honors on VH1, the so-called powers that be host an annual concert and award ceremony aimed at showing ‘respect’ to some of Hip Hop’s pioneers. Thanks, Viacom, but no dice. That’s like a pimp doing a Halloween party at his house for all of his whores’ children.

Viacom is the same media outlet that owns B.E.T. (which is no longer a Black owned company, no matter what many artists continue to say in their ‘thank you’ speech). And through music videos or the ratchet ‘reality’ TV shows, they are depicting every day Black and ghetto life in a very unsavory light. We are being lulled to sleep while watching VH1, MTV, Bravo and so many more, who make famous musicians, doctors, and even preachers look like ghetto fabulous coons on a big stage fighting, arguing, and bringing the Worldstar effect to the home screen. It’s a shame that Bill Cosby’s scripted fictional show, ‘the Cosby Show’, was more real than all of these so-called reality shows.

The real ‘reality’ is, you are being duped into believing they love you and love our Culture. They don’t. They are paying you to whore yourself around on their screens for their mere enjoyment. They are paying you to perpetuate the false image of what Hip Hop Culture is. And for a few dollars, you sell yourself every time. Public Enemy said it, and it needs to be said again: Don’t Believe the Hype.

Quadeer “M.C. Spice” Shakur

Minister Of Information

Universal Zulu Nation

@QuadeerShakur