TOPBOY : HOW THE MEDIA DESTROYS BLACK MEN
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TOPBOY : HOW THE MEDIA DESTROYS BLACK MEN
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Ever notice how when you have a show with black people that don't fit the stereotype all of a sudden these positive black characters are acting white. But you have a show with black characters killing each other, selling drugs, etc. Its the black show and they are keeping it real.
I also noticed in dramas with a mostly white cast, like Your Honor, there's always the Wire type vibe with the Black characters. It really doesn't have anything to do with the show either, they just wanted to add some hood shit..
Yep 100%
The Cosby show, Prince of Bel Air, Family matters, A different world, etc. I don't know how they do things in London, but black empowerment shows in America are well received. No one's claiming that they're acting white.
@@TheMightymo05those are old
@@TheMightymo05 i havent seen shows that currently reflect the days of old positive black imagery
Malcolm X once said, "To have once been a criminal there is no disgrace, to remain a criminal is the disgrace". Spoking from someone who was formally a criminal turned social activist. Great analysis of the netflix show KR. Its spot on fam
Ratings to you for addressing this Richez... You deserve an applause for addressing these truths bout our "Culture" an how media depicts this narrative which has nothing but derogatory effects within our communities going back to the early 90s. 🔥💯
It's not a culture it's a dysfunctional behaviour & practise that's been celebrated & normalised by our own peoples
You're fighting the good fight. I'm so tired of the one dimensional view most people including those who are in the community have of African descent people.
Movies like this although I was people to get paid is so shortsighted.
The ratchetness is why other ethnicities as a group don't take African descent people seriously.
Every group has ratchetness but none display it so proudly. This week it's brick woman there will be more
The real one, the real heart 🙏🏾 thank you for addressing. Hope all of that will change one day in our favour.
Agreed
True Talk Mr Richez! I hope the young man out here are listening and take the message...crime doesn't pay!! Keep doing your thing King 👍🏾
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I thought the same when i watched top boy a few years ago and although i had a nostalgic link to the tv show as i lived in london for 11 years with many nigerian friends. So yes some characters are not depicted as bad people but as it is impossible for them to get out of that life.
Most of my friends were uni graduates , some hustled but not to the extent of what is depicted in those shows. Maybe just hustling a bit to get the money to start a legit business. It still should not be like that, but…when. We are young we tend to do things which are childish and stupid.
Most black people in london work in banks, supermarket, driving buses, post offices etc… normal jobs. They might be depicted in soap operas, but the successful shows with young people are only the negative ones it seems.
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WELL DONE KING.
MORE POWER TO YOU.
Thanks 🙏🏾
Keep up the good work King Richez facts
Also for the fact you’re a rapper doesn’t mean that you’re about the life to be fair
True
@@KingRichez cause anyone nowdays can wear a Bally and start talking about shit they never done
Thank you for this my bro!
No problem
Great video to say the least!.. I have subscribed to your channel and I plan on follow your channel, you come off as very authentic and very knowledgeable about the plight of the black man, and I find it very refreshing.
Thanks so much
Top boy and many other shows like it have a common denominator that equates to real life. The street life ends in you getting taken to the stairways of Heaven or Hell. It always ends the same way when you selling drugs and shows/movies that glamorize the lifestyle, BMF is another show that illustrates the rise and fall of big meech and his organization.The story ends the same you never heard of an elderly age drug dealer still in the game fyi Big Meech is still in prison(he will be released) the feds took everything imagine that playing a game that time after time where there are no winners accept those that leave the game scarred,alive, dead, and with a record. You hit the nail on the head King
100% wheres all the elderly successful drug dealers ? This sh*t is a bad joke at this point
Straight bars King, glad to see this after getting backlash for the Peckham incident.
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✊ There is some type of people putting the wrong people in front of the camera and telling everyone they represent our black culture. **Where did this "Sexy Redd" girl come from** Think about it.
The music industry is full of hand picked personalities who are directed to push evil agendas
Amazing content…. The death bed topic gave me chills! I have refused to watch the last two seasons and I don’t think I will… am still struggling with the music but soon very soon I will stop entertaining that too
I relate 100%
44:17 this is facts bro. I’m even like this with set family members icl
Real talk, just the reality
I wish this video could go viral and reach every corner of the Internet! But I know what people are like they only care about negative stuff and gossip instead of things that could actually help our community and change the narrative.
Facts
Well said. Glad someone spoke up about it. It's tiresome to see..
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The series Snow fall is very similar.
Ima check that out
And, power as well, which is like Top Boy but in New York
This is what I’m talking about🔥
Yes 👍🏾
Agree with EVERYTHING u said
Thx 🙏🏾
325 Very well said King 👍🏿
Thanks 🙏🏾
All true King, there needs to be a change.
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Always speaking the truth, King Richez . They always show the bad sides of life for black people
Always
They do it for white people too. It is just that villains are more entertaining.
The thing thst confused me with Sully was how much he cared about that younger boy that died in the house fire in Margate, it didnt seem to fit with his usual sociopathic character. He even bought him tickets to the Arsenal game before the tragic event. But how Sully ended up we all saw coming.
tbh ive known dangerous guys that are very kind to their loved ones
The Finale season was garbage. But the rest of Top Boy Seasons was dope. Also liked "Peaky Blinders". Also liked "Finding Forrester" and "Luce". These are 3 diverse theatrical shows/films depicting Black characters in different circumstances. I don't think Top Boy tarnished the image of Black Men no more then I think "The Wire" did or "Power" did. Rappers do more against the image of Black Men then any movie, show, play, etc. But look at who is sponsoring them to put those images out there. Rappers are the "corner boys". They're not the distributors.
Good commentary on that series. You can tell the writers are selling out, but those negative stereotypes seem to boost ratings.
I would say the exception in Top Boy is Jamies brother who was going to uni but never ended up in the road life. However I understand what King Richez is saying. Also I believed that Top Boy made Hackney to be more violent and worse than it actually is, most people that grow up on council estates in Hackney are still law abiding and hard working people.
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Always keep in mind we are the company we keep. If you want to be affluent...Socialize with affluent people. If you want to be street and all about that thug life... You will be socialising with Ray and Pookie 😞
Facts
Were all the comments from the live stream ?
They don't process until a few hours after the stream
@@KNitro123 correct
Top boy is just a depiction of the real life for a lot of young black boys in London. Whats wrong with us getting recognition and raising awareness about what a lot of us lived through. I am from South East London and grew up in an estate that was 90% black. Our lives were set up significantly different than our Asian and White counterparts. Majority of my friends had no dad around and were on benefits. I am not making this up, you can look up statistics that show that the highest rate of single motherhood in the Uk is from black people, Caribbeans being the highest followed by Africans as the second. So a lot of the top boy scenes were real when we looked out the window: addicts, 50 man outside hustling drinking, police harrasment, prostis. I feel like a lot of your followers come from middle class backgrounds and think that all black people are the same as them. Sad reality there is a huge number of brothers that really were born into the top boy life and it cant be ignored.
False... What are you talking about bruder??..Im from south east.. what estate are you talking about .??.. The "MAJORITY" of black londoners get up in the morning and catch the train or tube to WORK!!!!
They pay their rent, spend time with their black spouse and do normal things like catching up with their non-criminal bredrens.. eat fried chicken and support Arsenal footballl...
They work on london underground..south eastern trains..or the council.. or drive da bus..or dressed in orange hi viz going to construction site.. THIS IS THE MOST UNDER REPRESENTED SIDE OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT NEVER GET ON TV or any media..
Instead we get man like you who convince white folks that we all drive bmw from selling weed ..beat our girlfriends and leave our children.(false.!!).. Big up king Richez.. I always hated Topboy for the same reasons Im talking about.. There is never Aaaaannnnyyy normal black folks on that show or any other show.. All the blk men are dumb disfunctional and fail at everything ..the women are supposed to be more intellegent in this white vision of the blk life..
Fyah fi dem.. and fyah fo you for thinking most of us are like dat.
@@ManFriday_XY First of all I am not trying to convince white people about anything. As far as I am concerned white people are not even on my radar. I dont care about white people enough to convince them about anything. Second of all everything that I talked about is my own experiences. Your experiences might not match mine, but it doesnt mean that it doesnt exist.
Most importantly never did I ever say that there arent black people that live normal lives nor did I ever say that MOST black people live a ''top boy'' kind of lifestyle. I personally live a life like the example you gave, go to work, meet with my bredrins and eat rice and peas drink a beer etc. That would be an INSANE statement. Yet it would also be foolish and ignorant to deny reality. If you really grew up in SE London you must have seen all the things I talked about. I dont see how you could deny that black boys are set up in life in a different way and the things in Top boy absolutely do happen to black people disproportionately. That is why there are stereotypes, because there is reality in them. I backed them up with the statistics that single motherhood is the highest amongst black people with caribbeans being the highest and africans being the second highest. Also Young offenders prison populations are 70% black.
So basically what I am saying is that most black people might not be living that dysfunctional life, but when it comes to that kind of dysfunctional life it comes from black households and ''black'' areas. No one can deny that there is an abnormal number of black people that live that life moreso than other races.
It’s basicly art imitating life, so i hear what youre saying. I’m from a very similar background. But the problem is that shows like these that imitate ‘the life’ are waay to prevalent compared to shows that show black people in a good light, excelling and not being the stereotype. Cos best believe that is also art imitating life aswell. But people arent often used to that and are often way more used to seeing black people poor, shanking, robbing & selling poison to their own community. Because the media purposefully pattern it that way. And when you show that to young black kids instead of showing them positive black examples, you dont help them. You hurt them. Whats the point further ‘representing’ negativity that so many are already too aware of? Especially to a demographic of people that already started of with a bad hand to begin with! I dare say it even *encourages* those young impressionable boys to stay in the life. I’m not saying i didnt enjoy top boy for the good show that it is. I did. It does the stereotypical done to death hood story very well. Better than alot of these other crappy youtube ones with shit plots where you can tell mandem just wanted to act like they were really about that life. But lets call a spade a spade. Real life or not, this stuff is not the representation we need. Not when we’re already a joke to all the other people outside of our community and get little respect as a result. We need positive media representations of us. Not this whole done to death ‘hood story’ stuff again for the thousandth time.
I get where you’re coming from but your experience is not a general perspective for every black man. You’re also wrong on the statistics about single motherhood
@@tanqueray_philly3432 Sir you did say ."majority" . TOPBOY simply is not the life of the majority black folk. And it has no black people on the show who resemble the vast majority of law abiding, working, peaceful black folk ..It doesnt represent us and is a mischaracterisation. It is a mispresentaion of black people and black culture in the uk...
Perhaps you are not aware but the show you are defending and advocating for was created by a european gentleman. You and him seem to have the same views on what black males look and act like..thats interesting to me. King Richez is dicussing if a TV show in perpetuating the destruction of the media image of black men...We are NOT discussing systemic race issues like single motherhood..prison ect.
I hate that people are just now finding out about this show!
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Their probably tryin to copy the success of The Wire, another show glamourisin the Ghetto gangster culture.
Yea
Top Boy is “The Wire” from the early 2000s. There needs to be a Black God Father show! The reason we romanticize crime is because Caucasians did it first with the Italian mafia in America with Al Capone and the Untouchables (Police). All the movies and shows are just reheated soup from old caucasian films. Even in real life they where gangsters and criminals first.
No loyalty 🤔...Divide & Conquer 😒 -The Makin of a Slave by Willie Lynch.
It’s believed the whole story is a hoax , but what’s your take on it ?
@@visualsbts1547 iv just heard that that's where that sayin comes from. As just don't know why else black people can't seem to trust each other.
Bang on ❗️
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Very good video sir, you'll get accused of doing too much soon.
😂 or im hating
I think these kinda shows are kinda cringe tbh, a lot of black ppl want to escape this negative portrayal of themselves as drug dealers and murderers. It brings about no value.
Agreed