{"id":2355,"date":"2010-12-22T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2010\/12\/22\/theyve-got-their-little-categories-like\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T23:44:27","slug":"theyve-got-their-little-categories-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2010\/12\/22\/theyve-got-their-little-categories-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They\u2019ve got their little categories, like \u2018conscious\u2019 and \u2018gangsta\u2019. It used to be a thing where hip-hop was all together. Fresh Prince would be on tour with N.W.A. It wasn\u2019t like, \u2018You have got to like me in order for me to like you.\u2019 That\u2019s just some more white folks trying to think that all niggas are alike, and now it\u2019s expanded. It used to be one type of nigga; now it\u2019s two. There is so much more dimension to who we are. A monolith is a monolith, even if there\u2019s two monoliths to choose from. I ain\u2019t mad at Snoop. I\u2019m not mad at Master P. I ain\u2019t mad at the Hot Boys. I\u2019m mad when that\u2019s all I see. I would be mad if I looked up and all I saw on TV was me or Common or The Roots, because I know that ain\u2019t the whole deal. The real joy is when you can kick it with everyone. That\u2019s what hip-hop is all about. \u2026 They keep trying to slip the \u2018conscious rapper\u2019 thing on me. I come from Roosevelt Projects, man. The ghetto. I drank the same sugar water, ate hard candy. And they try to get me because I\u2019m supposed to be more articulate, I\u2019m supposed to be not like the other Negroes, to get me to say something against my brothers. I\u2019m not going out like that, man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Mos Def on being called a \u201cconscious rapper\u201d (stolen from wiki)<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of my opinion on mos sef&rsquo;s music this is some realtalk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve got their little categories, like \u2018conscious\u2019 and \u2018gangsta\u2019. It used to be a thing where hip-hop was all together. Fresh Prince would be on tour with N.W.A. It wasn\u2019t like, \u2018You have got to like me in order for me to like you.\u2019 That\u2019s just some more white folks trying to think that all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}