T.R.O.N. - I thought that was an '80s Movie!?!

No. it means The Realest Of Niggas! Can you believe that? But more to the point, what does it mean to be a "real" nigga? Who's sitting around with a guidebook/criteria pamphlet determining who's real and who's fake?

That term -- "fake-ass nigga" -- which is so pervasive in hip-pop [see I can't call it hip-hop anymore, because I don't really see the difference between Brittany Spears and Missy Elliot]. As if being a "hip-hop head" gives you the authority to question someone elses sense of individuality.

Being a "real nigga" perhaps means sacrificing singular individual expression for the crass genuflecting to the mass media aspects of hip-hop. There's a great song by The Police called "Rehumanize Yourself" (off the Ghost In The Machine record) with a lyric that says "he's got his hand in the air with the other cunts... rehumanize yourself." In the context of the song, Sting is referencing blind allegiance to a particular mind-state and/or dogma, and then condemning it as the most egregious things a person can do. But hip-hop tacitly asks it's hard-core listeners (which is pretty much everyone these days) to do exactly that. Obviously the bulk consumer - whites - can't be "no real niggas" - despite the fact they really want to some times - so they overtly or covertly maintain a constant seperate identity, even though they might be rockin' the latest Common in a tricked out H2 Hummer (like this white boy I saw in Beverly Hills today).

And then there's this question, is a "LA {Real} Nigga" any more or less a "real nigga" compared to an "New York {Real} Nigga"?

On the previous blog I addressed the reversal of polarity that Blacks are trying to get give the word 'nigga.' I strikes me odd how now a "nigga" isn't just an African-American (for other African-Americans), but a "nigga" is a specific type of Crystal-swigging, gold fronts-having Black. It all kind of goes back to the "Shade Wars" that I touched upon in THE NIGGER FACTOR (but never, never enough), the inherent self-loathing that Blacks have [one of those FUCKED traits of the so-called black community] -- sadly branded upon us.

See this website Willie Lynch - The Making of a Slave.

This is actually a re-post//retooling of one of the few remaining entries from the old blog. I thought about what could be reposted and this came to mind. I'm re-reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X [something that every Black person should read and re-read in their late teens, mid twenties and mid thirties] and what Malcolm recounted about his life, seems STILL to be going on in the current American Black world. Why the FUCK is that?