The British Invasion of the 60's. Was Black music sang by White European Kids. Them kids made more money in one show. than The black artist made their whole life.
If you research the "British Invasion" you will find that Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant et al. all site Blues music and Blues musicians as their true inspiration. All those artist had and continue to have a veritable worship of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, etc. Their early careers were basically them playing Blues music in small clubs. And of course, they all "covered" many blues tunes throughout their careers (Ex: Eric Clapton did a cover of Robert Johnson's legendary song "Crossroads"). It is a well-known and well-documented fact that Rock Music was born of the Blues. And as to the reason, "them kids made more money..." ask yourself why those who are imitating others and have stolen and misappropriated their music would become more popular if not for racism and theft? Actually educate yourself on the subject before spouting nonsense.
Sam, you are clearly an ill-informed and angry person. I'm sure it is much easier for you to be reactionary and write vile, inflammatory things than to actually research it. I won't return your rediculous hatred. I actually feel sorry for you. You must be hurting in some way.
Honeyfaced1 wtf are you actually saying? They are ok for covering and stealing the culture of black people and rebranding it as their own? It really wouldn’t surprise me if that is your point. 🤷🏿♂️
@@anthonygilbert8373 Automotives, Airplanes, drinking fountains, cell phones, the internet, air conditioning, music theory, animation, ATMs, and calculators are a part of white culture. White peoples innovative culture is what made all other cultures live easier, so id say it was a fair trade.
Everybody knows that Blues, rock n roll and hip hop comin' from black people.We all know Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy and Robert Johnson was the pioneers. Then Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Beatles, Rolling Stones copy them and made fortunes of it. Same thing happened to hip hop
Why do some of you even watch Paul Mooney clips? He keeps it all the way real 100% of the time and you guys always come on here butthurt, calling him a racist. If he's so dumb and out of touch, stop watching clips of him. It's just that simple.
+Christopher McCabe No you are being stupid. Did you know how many inventions you used today was invented by Blacks. The remote control, mail box, cell phone, internet, equipment used in surgery,your frigrator, stop lights, air conditioner, door knob, video camera and monitor we used every day, baby carraige, mops, the filter in the light bulb, camers, hair brush. And that is just a few of the inventions. Ford car was really invented by George Washington Carver but Ford got the credit. Ford just invented the assembly line. Please do the research it will amazed someone like you who is ignorant to the facts.
Exactly. They live in their mom's basements stalking and posting dumb posts on black channels. These trolls are so psychologically obsessed with black culture and black people, so they troll all over youtube land spewing their "kkk" nonsense as if anyone wants to hear their babbling and foaming at the mouth garbage lol.
+Kemp Design Really great post, someone had to put that thing in his' place. Although, Christopher McCabe does not know how to read and is mostly illiterate and too ignorant to comprehend any form of knowledge.
Some of you are in your feelings and are misinterpreting what Paul Mooney is saying. Let's reverse it. If I were to listen to Country music then talk and dress a certain way that is stereotypical of that audience wouldn't some of you find that offensive? Nobody's saying you can't listen to the music, but when a middle class white kid decides to talk and act a certain way it's not flattering to me. I feel as though they're making a mockery of black culture. I love Bruce Lee films, but I'm not going to dress and talk like him. That's what Mooney is saying when he says he would prefer them to dress in black face instead of changing their whole image and persona to try and make a profit off of black people. Also, quite a few white people see blacks as one dimensional, inferior beings. We are very intelligent individuals. Not all of us talk broken English, sell drugs, gang bang, have a bunch of babies and don't take care of them, and all the other nonsense that the powers that be want you to believe. Many of us are respectable, hardworking, law abiding citizens. Hip-Hop was very socially conscious before the mainstream got a hold of it and decided to promote only the partying, gang banging, drug dealing and now drug abusing buffoonery to make us look like a race of fools. Again, you don't have to be black to enjoy the music, but it's very upsetting to see or hear someone of a different ethnicity trying to be a negative perception of your people.
Okay No. Get real here for a second. Hip Hop and Rap never was very socially conscious or some glorified nonsense. Old Jazz, Blues, etc was a very thoughtful thing back in the day. The very early 'hip hop' that spawned from that was very thoughtful. Then the Artists noticed they can make better money selling their music like it's a lifestyle/booty commercial. Mainstream media didn't 'hijack' it. It's a 50/50 deal. The artists likewise chose to sell out their message and integrity for hard cash. There was no Mainstream media guru that forced naked bitches into MTV Videos or made rappers and Hip hop artists glorify 'gangsta' lifestyle or thuggin' or lavish parties with bikini butts. That's all on the artists themselves. That's how they chose to show themselves to the world, how they chose to market their own music. No evil little white man or coorperate jew that forced this on anyone. Ironically also, you said 'It's very upsetting to see or hear someone of a different ethnicity trying to be a negative perception of your people'. Okay, let's get into that. Eminem has consecutively been called one of the most thoughtful and skilled rappers in the game since he began. His songs where about more then bitches and money, they had heavy mainstream criticism, they dealt with very personal issues, whereas his black contemporaries kept rapping about 'bitches' and 'getting money'. As for your little bruce lee comparison; Plenty of folk out there who think and act as if they're martial arts tough guys, including white and black and hispanic folk. Also plenty of people out there acting like 'real OG's and Thugss, across all the boarders. Likewise, plenty of people across all races act as if they're pristine, white collar picket fence white family folk. Stereotypes are part of society and get used/employed liberally across all groups of people. You either get rid of it all (Aggressive campaigns against any form of stereotyping whatsoever) or you live with the fact that that's simply how society works.
NKZ NKZ lol u brought up Eminem and defended him. Even though there are plenty rappers who don't just rap about bitches and drugs. But u said em does both but black rappers just kept rapping about bitches and drugs which isn't true. Of course you will defend em because he's white like u. Ur not fooling no one
I didn't 'defend' Eminem. I simply stated a fact regarding his career. Defending him would've been saying 'unlike Eminem, who's an exception to the rule'. He isn't. He did just as goofy shit as most rappers. I envoked Eminem in my post to illustrate that bitching about appropriation of 'culture' and 'white acting black' is fucking ridiculous. A white boy schooled the entire Rap scene for over a decade, to the point that most high-esteem Rappers made a big, fat, wide margin around him, afraid that he'd wreck them lyrically.
Brother Elder Mooney is telling the truth. The pale children want the glamour of Hip-Hop/Black culture, but don't want the real full experience of what Black's go thru.
I just don't get WHY white folks would ever feel the need to "steal" from black so-called "culture" as all these racist blacks of today are so fond of charging? After all, those white folks ( people of European heritage ) only already had ohhhhhh the Opera, the Theater, the ballet, literature and many of the great painters, authors, composers, and early filmmaking pioneers in history. WHAT do these ignorant black racists who say this MEAN by their "culture" anyway, huh? . .. bill-caps worn backward? . .baggy t shirts and saggy-assed jeans? . . ebonics lingo ( "Yo, ho, pimpin, dawg, jiggy, booty, fly, Yoo go gurl" and the sort )? . . the Thong ( modeld on primitive equatorial west African native tribal wear )? . .body peircing ( also having African native tribal origins )? . .lewd dancing? . . boogie woogie, rock and roll, rap, hip hop, disco, r&b and Funk'abooty "music" that makes people "GET DOWN! Moove! Groove! Shake their booties to da beat!" and behave like barnyard animals? .. . now is THAT the decadent garbage swill they refer to when they speak of their "culture"? . .their "STOLEN culture"? Well geez, they can have THAT shit back and please keep it! . .certainly for MY part at least! I'm definitely ONE whitey who has no use for THAT swill! And, belive me, I wish that ALL other white folks had felt the same way and just left that crap for you to begin with!
Oh my god! What a fucking hardship! Give me a break you little racist whiner. You don't go through shit. This isn't the 19th century anymore. Stop pretending it is.
+Mikki Farmer everything he said was racist lol, because a white person raps doesnt mean he acts black.Its like saying a black metal group acts white cause theirs more white metal groups as for theirs more black rappers.
Korey Moore it's beginning it did all black folks only went as far as three bar blue's progression and the whites followed that with bubble gum rock crap then came the Beatles that flipped the music world upside down they also pioneered drop D playing that killed old rock n roll overnight but black folks wasn't out of the game just yet a guitar God would rise none like him before or after that man was Jimmy Hendricks
it has been messing with my head, the last year, realizing that without slavery there would never have been blues music or any north american music for that matter. something that has truly made me a better person and helped me feel irrevocably happier in life being spawned from a truly evil moment in time is devastating.
But then black people “stole” basketball from white people after white people invented it. It’s music and individual, personal expression. No one can “steal” that just because you happened to have a certain amount of melanin in your skin. Ridiculous.
Do you also agree with him when he implies at the end there that Hip-Hop has it's black cultural roots imbedded in the historic suffering of lynchings and police shootings? Because he kind of opened his mouth and proved himself an idiot with that remark, which is ok, because a lot of great comedians have been guilty of the same (yes, including white comedians for everyone here so focused on race.) Hip-Hop's black cultural roots are actually in the block parties of the inner-cities of 1970s New York, not in lynchings. It was the result of the diverse mixture of black American youths and black immigrants from the Caribbean in the area. In fact the very Hip-hop musical staple of loops, heavily emphasizing and isolating the beat was brought up for the sole purpose of servicing the dancers by the DJ's playing/hosting said parties - which was some thing influenced by Jamaican Dub music - not to spread a message or rebel against mistreatment. Hip-Hop's musical roots and roots as an outlet for expression are party/dance-centric, not in racial suffering. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and the subsequent rise of "Gangsta Rap" that followed that came in the 80s, many years AFTER Hip-Hop's inception. The Blues' and it's origins have a stronger relevance to Paul's claim than Hip-Hop, but even then his point would be shallow.
"You know something, people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lotsa times that I wish I could say I'm not white." -Frank Zappa, 1966 His words are just as valid almost 50 years later.
Nope - the Dark Skinned Hispanics have more in common with Asians than Blacks . Original Mongolians migrated North over to North America and evolved into what you see today. Southern America like Honduras that have the Saharan black features - yeah, their Ancestors were slaves too.
Hispanic have deep roots in hiphop. Hiphop started in the Bronx, white people fleed leaving Blacks and Hispanic in a burning down part of NYC. Amazing something like hiphop came from a place like the Bronx in the 70s
YoungQueenJoJo hip hop originated from breakdancing and beat boxing in the Bronx hence the name hip “ hop” Hispanics and Puerto Rican’s where always involved in the culture especially graffiti and break dancing
Hip Hop is a black creation, I don’t give a fuck how y’all try and spin it. I’m sure there were some white people around too when it all started, doesn’t make them the creators. And just like white folks hispanics are witnesses not the creator. FOH. Every fucking other race of people in the world they can have the rights to their culture, but black people can’t have shit. Hispanics played fucking follow the leader and want some creative credit. Nah
He is a fav to listen to because of his perspectives. He goes places most comedians wouldnt dare also he wants you to squirm. Hate = More Hate. Life is too short to think we arent all in the same experience together. We need people like Mooney in a comedy sense to call shit out and make people give a different look.
I love his honesty, something missing from society today. I love people who say the truth in a room and it makes people uncomfortable. It means you are living a lie.
Paul Mooney is one profound brotha the majority of black people still don't understand this concept, and why we shouldn't enable it or they just don't care.
0:20 I saw Paul Mooney Perform at Caroline's in NYC Back in 2010. Notice the Champagne bottle in front of him? When he finished it The show was over. On or off the Wagon he will always be The True King of Comedy. My party actually had the chance to hang with him backstage afterwards. He's as nice as they come.
Mr. Mooney dropped the Mike on this one. Love, love, LOVED what he said at the end. When you go through what we went through, ALL of it, then you can act like us.
U still mad. U can't change the past but I can change the future. Your people came from cold ass caves that's why u need sun block. My people built pyramids. Plato went to the SCHOOL OF LUXOR to learn from our people. Look at u, all RED in the face. Lol. BLACK POWER!!!
Zevil Gehannivani kinda weird that hip hop is all about gangsters right? so wouldnt gangsters be "stolen" from white culture? noone wants to talk about that tho.
Plague Sommat Yes original gangsters are from Italian mobs you will hear many rappers says they look up to them lol! However Italians today don't like being called that its an embarrassment to them the irony!
Plague Sommat Well it started with watching Al Capone then Godfather then Scarface but really black folks of America love Italians. For the wrong reason but it is what it is. Shouldn't love them for being Mobsters during those golden days should like them for how their culture is. I have respect for those people. But I am not going to celebrate the fact during the days of 1920's they was shooting up people scaring people taken money from others living like original gangsters. That is not how you adore a culture. But correct the orignal Gangsters are Italian Mobsters then I would say Russians Columbians Cubans then African Americans.
Zevil Gehannivani no they dont love italians they hate italians cuz italians are white, they just love the violence that italian gangsters did. you dont see them worshiping other kinda gangsters. so much to celebrate about italian culture, yet thats the part to love? lol
That's why I respect Kurt Cobain. Pretty sure when a reporter asked him if he would do hip-hop (something along the lines of that) and he basically said he has no business doing that music cause that wasn't his lane
EVERYONE HERE is missing the main point. He's not saying that an art form should be restricted to one group once that group discovers it. He's saying that in every art form we create, white people find a way to either jack it completely, or to integrate themselves into said art form, thus making the originators obsolete. See, that's what being a MAJORITY and having the majority of money will do for you. Perfect example, Macklemore. He recieved best Hip Hop album and Video from MTV, with Grammy's and AMAs surely to follow. His music is bought by white people, the MAJORITY, with a majority of the money. They in turn give him accolades, and he's the top selling rapper this year, all without other rappers who don't have AS LARGE OF A MARKET as Macklemore, getting the shorter end of the stick. The same exact thing happened with Rock n Roll. What's AMAZING, is they both have the same thing in common: When first started, white people wanted NOTHING to do with either. And THAT'S Mr. Mooney's point.
And just so y'all don't think Paul knows the differerence...He LOVED Tina Marie. She was Wight and sang like a Blk VVoman. He KNEW who vvight people with real soul were, and those who din't have it, even if they were good and sounding like they had it.
Toby Seraph I'm trying to help people understand that the actions of one person cannot reflect the content of anothers character just because they share a similar complexion.
Mooney kept it a buck every time. I don't mind other races adopting our culture but all have to admit he has a point. That last line and how he walks off is legendary. R.I.P. Paul. There wont be another like you.
He's 100% the white man is the biggest identity theft individual. If you talk about a Jew in a negative way they say you are anti-Semitic but if you look at the dictionary definition of semitic it talks about afro-asiatic people none of those people who claim to be Jews are afro-asiatic people they are ashkenazi Jews, which describes white folks who adopted the traditions of the real Jews and converted their selves to be Jews.
1:08 i can’t ask Mooney, because he has passed (RIP Mooney) but i wish i could ask. Isn’t he aware of who sold the africans to the europeans? Isn’t he aware of who owned the slave ships? Come on Paul, you were more intellectual than this.
Ok, he's a Stolen African. Clearly he has enough money for a one way plane ticket to Africa. He should go, and take as many of his Hip Hop Brothas as will fit on the plane.
Wow. And this is why this Mooney person and all who travel with him are so grating. You are every bit as vilely racist as the KKK. "I'm a Stolen African!" Ok, so un-steal yourself and go to Africa, it's not like you're a slave. "Fuck you Whitey!" I'm Sioux. "Fuck you *insert racist shit here*!" Take a good look at the shit you're saying and how it looks to other people.
He's not going to go back until white Americans have paid their dues. The problem with Mooney is that he is "eye for an eye". I agree that his attitude is a little extreme but at the same time I think that there are some things that people should never forget so that it doesn't happen again. Eminem = Elvis.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. David Hughes invented the microphone. Harold Rhodes invented the electric piano. Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai. Paul Tutmarc made the first electric bass.
Answer his question, Crass. Were those inventions stolen from slaves, as most inventions were? And let's be honest, Had it not been for "the prism of African slavery" this country would not be what it is today. So let's not disregard it as if it's a mere pebble on the bottom of our shoes. 1619-1865 was an essential period in American history regardless what you may think.
Hatred, no matter who wields the hatred, is a weak distraction to greater sentiment, greater inspiration. I once got into an angry yelling match with a co-worker, a poor Guatemalan line-cook. It was a contest of pride, of ego. At one point, I exclaimed "This is f***ing ridiculous!" to whatever we were arguing about. He side-stepped my anger and asked in broken English, "What 'ridiculous' mean?" Flummoxed, I testily explained and then continued arguing. Months later, in passing, I heard him speaking to another Guatemalan worker, "Something something something RIDICULOUS something something something something." It made me smile. The creativity that comes out of adversity, out of derision, anger, and misunderstanding is understanding, sympathy and LOVE. Let's put all we have into it!
That's true. And I would never claim my personal anecdote has the same stakes as what is associated with slavery. But frustration, anger, hostility and misunderstanding are essential to hatred. We can use the experiences we have, minor though they may be, to develop empathy for people and situations outside our scope.
Did we invent the Electric Bass? No. But we invented the Banjo which is the prototype for the mechanics of the Electric Bass. And on top of that, every white bass player who ever picked up the instrument sights their main influence to even play the thing as James Jameson (black Bassist for Motown who revolutionized the Bass's role in music) or Larry Graham (the inventor of slap bass technique). Did we invent the Electric Piano? No. But most of the white constituency looked at things like the Wurli and Rhodes as simple toys until musicians like Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, and Donny Hathaway started legitimately using them in records (again revolutionizing music). We didn't invent the television or the camera because we were too busy cultivating the peanut, inventing the gas mask, the electric light (the answer to the automobile), The modern basis for Cell Phone technology, cultivating the Co-tan that is in every white-invented electronic device, performing the first open-heart surgery, designing the city of Chicago...discovering America 500 years before Columbus...and to cap it all of...BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS AND ONE OF THE OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS ON PLANET EARTH.
Gnarwhal Yeah but did he got shot at, lynched, arrested or racially discriminated against when it comes to basic social services and getting a job cause he white? Nah. Man he’s actually wack, people who are calling him dope are mostly white people and his “flow” is monotonous AF.
Wow Paul, you act like America is still segregated. I've been doing Hip-Hop style vocals since a young age with my Black,White and Hispanic friends who all lived in the same neighborhood as me. This is MY culture
You want to say whites are guests in hiphop? Well i guess that would mean blacks are guests in Modern Civilizations.. lmao.. anyway.. all the real veterans in the hiphop game will all tell you, whites and latinos have been around hiphop and the created of the 5 elements of hiphop from day 1.. most of you people think you know hiphop but don't even know shit about the elements or the true history.. just a bunch of ignorant people who think blacks are the only ones who have been enslaved... blacks always say knowledge is in the power of knowing the history of the black man.. well.. then you would know the Black Moors enslaved white people for 1000 years straight.. 10x more than what the whites did to you.. and you fail to mention that you were already slaves in Africa by other Africans and sold to other countries.. wake up
It IS still segregated. You can be down with us all you want. We'll welcome you but don't act like you're not looked down on for being with & around us. You probably know better than I what you have to endure being "Down" with "The Get Down." You can easily Switch up & go "Prep" at will. I'm not hatin' either. That's why Mr. Mooney is going so hard I believe.
gherrin Not by Us genius. By The White Supremacist N*ggas & Bi*ches. Duh! 'Yeah George! we'll take you in & look down on you for doing it ...DUH Right George?" lol
Its not only hip hop where did Rythym n blues . Roch N Roll , Elvis Presley , You anit Nothing But A hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock. In thr Ghetto .... The Beatles , Twist N Shout Little Richard was right he stated he never got credit for his contributions.
He explains his position in another interview I saw. He basically says the heavily urbanized cities combined with poverty, prejudice, and violence resulting from all those factors are not a part of the White reality as a whole. The benefits of White privilege are felt by White people even if they aren't aware of it. When you grow up without that, but see it from the outside and its effects, then you can comment on that world. That's all he's saying.
Dimefan91 White folk means a lot of different thing depending on country, region or culture. Are you even aware of the shit french Canadians went through for instance? Or the Irish? Or many other Europeans who weren't Anglo-Saxon? Up until the early seventies we were told to "speak white" by the English folk up here. Laws were passed to assimilate us culturally, we were the poorest and least educated in our own goddamn country. We were water boys to the rich English. None of my ancestors enslaved anybody. The world isn't the United States and white people are not all cut from the same cloth. And believe me, in the fucked up environment I grew up, there was no privilege, we were dirt poor.
I repeat myself I am not a US citizen and my ancestors have had nothing to do with slavery. This is a fact I have verified through genealogical research. Since you know not my background you have no way to state these things I am quite sure you are ignorant as to much of north american history outside of the US. You are however right in stating that the experiences are not on par and never did I state them to be so. Quite true also that the level of discrimination is not equivalent. Yet the facts I have stated on french Canadian history remain true and go far deeper than you would imagine, especially considering our alliances and mixing with many first nations. I can also appreciate your rage because I hold similar sentiments towards those that exploited and cheated my ancestors, however I do not feel the need to insult people I know nothing about on the internet. Also, do not quote things I have not said. Did not state Irish were slaves. Your skewed paraphrasing is simply dishonest when I was clearly trying to explain that "white" is a contextual and historically constructed term and that not all white skinned people have the same history. Your rage will consume you and alienate allies if you attack people such as myself who have the utmost respect for the black experience in america and ties with black people and culture going back to childhood. You have no footing in painting me as a racist or a liar.
Gabriel Vallée Hey man, this issue Paul Mooney is bringing up is only domestic. Internationally many people had it worse than blacks (given the longer period of exploitation). While the Irish were being conquered and eventually occupied by the British, the African kingdoms and chieftains were spreading gold all around the world. When Ming dynasty porcelain was a luxury item Europe, damn near every house in the Swahili coast had it. And, strictly statistically speaking, the average black have had and still have it worse than the average white family, regardless of national origin. Again, domestically speaking. There are many exceptions to this, but the black and white experience as a whole (for the past 50 years exclusively, I'm not talking about slavery or the Jim Crow and Terrorist eras of the late 19th and early 20th century) are not comparable and blacks, without doubt, have had it worse and still have it worse. That's all he's saying. Again, within the United States, where rap and hip hop originated.
we actually didn't steal the black people your people traded them to us for spices and other goods. just to clear that up your own people gave you to us as a transaction.
VeryDizzy its no bull shit thats really what happened. it still happens today in the diamond trade. and other places all over the world its a horrible thing. From google: slave trade noun the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries and North America.
actually what happen was African people gave White men indentured servants. Meaning these first group of men and women had committed a crime or were POWs. After this the white men came back and kidnapped more. Please tell ALL of the truth not the parts that suit you.
+savagehyphen01 so your telling me a couple white guys on a ship went to a place were they were significantly outnumbered and said I'm taking your strongest men and leaving and they left without being impaled?
OK first of all no one can control the color of their skin; I didn't choose to be white. And you can't act a color. There is no such thing as acting white or acting black. For example try to act orange... exactly; however, there is such thing as acting good, bad, sad, happy, intelligent, or unintelligent and acting in those ways has nothing to do with the color of your skin. Everything that happened to the blacks was horrible and straight up wrong but we no longer live in the 16 and 1700s. We are not the people who treated blacks badly; we just have the same colored skin. Yes I know there are still racists today but they are but a few and every race on earth has their racist people. If people keep thinking like they do then we will never move forward. We will just lay behind and rot as the human race. Expand your mind. Keep the peace.
nikobelic85 Yeah, it's sad that any convincing has to be done. It's literally only a chemical that sets us apart; and it's funny because everyone has it, just some more than others.
TheAlanakane Ima be real with you man the only thing that's plaguing us is that mind set the only thing that's keeping us sick is that mindset. Slavery was a terrible thing. It's not the 1600 and 1700s anymore it is freaking 2015 and Idk if you know this but all the whites that enslaved the blacks are long dead and gone.Yes I'm white but Im not those whites that treated the blacks badly. My best friend is black IDGAF what color you are. Martin Luther King didn't die so you could keep moping about the past he stood for a cause that one day blacks and whites could get along. If people keep thinking in the past we will never get anywhere.
Well now, since wer're on THIS topic, I think I'll point out that allot of hip hop has elements of ELECTRONICA and THAT is a particular musical genre which was pretty much pioneered by white musicians, like namely Kraftwerk, Karlheinze Stockhausen, Leo Theremin, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Robbert Moog, Walter Carlos, Devo and Ultravox to identify a handful. So then, to kinda turn the tables here, you could say THAT was one musical innovation originaly pioneered by WHITES that blacks had adopted or "stolen" to use THEIR own prefered word.
Ian Findlay Rock comes from Flamenco, also. Which is the granddaddy of all of those genres. And Dominican Bachata predates Rock by a good bit. Music is complicated.
John NoNameGibbon i also....well i listened to hank williams a good bit when i was younger, you could say both rock and hip hop were "stolen" since thats the word they love...from THAT. lets see someone argue with me lol
I loved Paul as Sam Cooke in "The Buddy Holly Story" (78) great film and role for him. + He's cute, cool, HONEST, intelligent and has great style and class.
NO black in country music, if it were they would do all they could to STOP IT...quiet as it keeps African American was instrumental in the creation of country music starting in the south....but his name is never mentioned and or known, that right there shows u the bias
Well in that case African Americans shouldn't be allowed to sing pop or rock. I don't know which race came up with pop but it's absolutely ridiculous to judge someone on their taste in music simply because of their race.
+Sehena Falconi Rap, Yup whites made rap. Aerosmith and sugarhill gang then blacks took it from WHITES ha irony. The first rap was in 1500s in scottish pubs
This was very intriguing and a provocative insight. I never thought of it that way. I myself am Hispanic and was raised in Harlem NYC most of my life and moved recently. I wonder how Paul feels about Hispanics who are influenced by African American culture and so on. I have my own thoughts on this subject but I do kind of think there is some truth to what Paul said. I dono. Shit is crazy.
Musical genres transcend the burdens and claims of race. Musical genres are objective languages used for subjective reasons. In a sense, every musical genre is there, waiting to be discovered and used as a vehicle to convey or express anything: pain, suffering, joy, laughter, etc. Who discovers a genre, and for what subjective reason, is good for the history books, but that's where the ownership card stops. And let's get one thing straight: history has very much preserved and meticulously detailed the discovery and flourishing of genres as pertaining to every race and culture. White people don't own any genre of music, let alone the genres so often attributed as "white person music." With something that speaks to people of *every* race like only music can, no one race *owns* a genre; *they only own the stories conveyed through it.* None of this negates the trials and tribulations of culture or race as expressed through music, but they're separate entities and far too many people don't realize it. Music, as the widely-varied, objective language it is, belongs to the entirety of the human race, regardless of what it's used as a vehicle for at any point in time from discovery through its flourishing. There's no great conspiracy for white people to own genres; they can't, and anyone who says they can is foolish. If you want to get angry with someone, then get angry with the industry controlling the culture of popular music...but realize that there is infinitely more music out there than what pop culture establishments disseminate. In conclusion: Paul Mooney doesn't want white people to be a part of the story of black people -- a story in which the discovery and flourishing of hip-hop is a part of; however, the objective musical genre of hip-hop (let's pretend it's called "Musical Genre #68" or something instead, since the term "hip-hop" explicitly implies a specific connotation) belongs to no one, ergo everyone can use it as a vehicle to tell whatever story they so choose, *which in no way invalidates the stories others have told via the same vehicle.* I think that last bit is what Paul Mooney doesn't want to happen, but an entire music genre will never be as one-dimensional as a singular racial/cultural occurrence, no matter how significant, painful, or unique.
Stephen Chapman y'all still trying to be black but hey I like rock and roll so what ....dondi boogie down Bronx formally known as fort apache the birth place of hip hop and don't try to deny I've been involved
Donnie Farrior FYI, they stole rock music too. Hell, if you go back far enough, it was the Moors who invented string instruments and took them into Europe when they went in to civilize white people. That's where classical music came from.
PlayaJay32 Holy crap, talk about taking a serious leap. Classical music came from the renaissance, which was a musical movement cultivated through a culmination of various "enlightening" elements, stemming from Ancient Greece and Rome such as humanism, artistic and literary patrimony. I think to skip these significant cultural influences of over a thousand years between The Moors introduction of instruments like the oud to what we know now to be the start of the Classical period in the arts/music is dismissive to a baffling hypocritical degree. That's like saying what Ray Charles and Little RIchard were doing was appropriating Italian culture just because an Italian invented the piano.
StarryStarryNocturne Is a piano a culture? No it's an instrument. Instruments are for whoever has access to them. Your example of little Richard and Ray Charles is a complete fail. Very bad example to prove a moot point.
I'm just here to see white people get mad at this video
Lmao!!
yes me too 😂😂😂😂😂
SAMEE
+Dice I can respect this....
I can't..I like Paul.........classy dude.
"Give Me That Headache Nigga" LMAO
Paul Mooney taught me lessons no one could ever teach me.
The British Invasion of the 60's. Was Black music sang by White European Kids. Them kids made more money in one show. than The black artist made their whole life.
If you research the "British Invasion" you will find that Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant et al. all site Blues music and Blues musicians as their true inspiration. All those artist had and continue to have a veritable worship of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, etc. Their early careers were basically them playing Blues music in small clubs. And of course, they all "covered" many blues tunes throughout their careers (Ex: Eric Clapton did a cover of Robert Johnson's legendary song "Crossroads"). It is a well-known and well-documented fact that Rock Music was born of the Blues. And as to the reason, "them kids made more money..." ask yourself why those who are imitating others and have stolen and misappropriated their music would become more popular if not for racism and theft? Actually educate yourself on the subject before spouting nonsense.
Sam, you are clearly an ill-informed and angry person. I'm sure it is much easier for you to be reactionary and write vile, inflammatory things than to actually research it. I won't return your rediculous hatred. I actually feel sorry for you. You must be hurting in some way.
Honeyfaced1 wtf are you actually saying? They are ok for covering and stealing the culture of black people and rebranding it as their own? It really wouldn’t surprise me if that is your point. 🤷🏿♂️
Especially fucking led zeppelin
@@anthonygilbert8373 Automotives, Airplanes, drinking fountains, cell phones, the internet, air conditioning, music theory, animation, ATMs, and calculators are a part of white culture. White peoples innovative culture is what made all other cultures live easier, so id say it was a fair trade.
Everybody knows that Blues, rock n roll and hip hop comin' from black people.We all know Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy and Robert Johnson was the pioneers. Then Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Beatles, Rolling Stones copy them and made fortunes of it. Same thing happened to hip hop
samuel erneston Zeppelin definitely stole entire songs. But there's a fine line between stealing and being inspired by.
+Aj Bon stealing is stealing
Kiing milli no shit... and being inspired by is being inspired by... hence the fine line comment
+samuel erneston were pioneers, copied them, made a fortune from it... Holy shit, man... Just get someone else to type.
corrado
Holy shit, another grammar police.... Can you speak Russian, Spanish or any other language beside english sir?
Why do some of you even watch Paul Mooney clips? He keeps it all the way real 100% of the time and you guys always come on here butthurt, calling him a racist. If he's so dumb and out of touch, stop watching clips of him. It's just that simple.
+Christopher McCabe No you are being stupid. Did you know how many inventions you used today was invented by Blacks. The remote control, mail box, cell phone, internet, equipment used in surgery,your frigrator, stop lights, air conditioner, door knob, video camera and monitor we used every day, baby carraige, mops, the filter in the light bulb, camers, hair brush. And that is just a few of the inventions. Ford car was really invented by George Washington Carver but Ford got the credit. Ford just invented the assembly line. Please do the research it will amazed someone like you who is ignorant to the facts.
Exactly. They live in their mom's basements stalking and posting dumb posts on black channels. These trolls are so psychologically obsessed with black culture and black people, so they troll all over youtube land spewing their "kkk" nonsense as if anyone wants to hear their babbling and foaming at the mouth garbage lol.
+Kemp Design Really great post, someone had to put that thing in his' place. Although, Christopher McCabe does not know how to read and is mostly illiterate and too ignorant to comprehend any form of knowledge.
***** clearly! The truth hurts.
***** You said it!
Some of you are in your feelings and are misinterpreting what Paul Mooney is saying. Let's reverse it. If I were to listen to Country music then talk and dress a certain way that is stereotypical of that audience wouldn't some of you find that offensive?
Nobody's saying you can't listen to the music, but when a middle class white kid decides to talk and act a certain way it's not flattering to me. I feel as though they're making a mockery of black culture. I love Bruce Lee films, but I'm not going to dress and talk like him. That's what Mooney is saying when he says he would prefer them to dress in black face instead of changing their whole image and persona to try and make a profit off of black people.
Also, quite a few white people see blacks as one dimensional, inferior beings. We are very intelligent individuals. Not all of us talk broken English, sell drugs, gang bang, have a bunch of babies and don't take care of them, and all the other nonsense that the powers that be want you to believe. Many of us are respectable, hardworking, law abiding citizens.
Hip-Hop was very socially conscious before the mainstream got a hold of it and decided to promote only the partying, gang banging, drug dealing and now drug abusing buffoonery to make us look like a race of fools. Again, you don't have to be black to enjoy the music, but it's very upsetting to see or hear someone of a different ethnicity trying to be a negative perception of your people.
ThatGuyKB6 NICE!
Okay No. Get real here for a second.
Hip Hop and Rap never was very socially conscious or some glorified nonsense. Old Jazz, Blues, etc was a very thoughtful thing back in the day. The very early 'hip hop' that spawned from that was very thoughtful. Then the Artists noticed they can make better money selling their music like it's a lifestyle/booty commercial. Mainstream media didn't 'hijack' it. It's a 50/50 deal. The artists likewise chose to sell out their message and integrity for hard cash. There was no Mainstream media guru that forced naked bitches into MTV Videos or made rappers and Hip hop artists glorify 'gangsta' lifestyle or thuggin' or lavish parties with bikini butts. That's all on the artists themselves. That's how they chose to show themselves to the world, how they chose to market their own music. No evil little white man or coorperate jew that forced this on anyone.
Ironically also, you said 'It's very upsetting to see or hear someone of a different ethnicity trying to be a negative perception of your people'. Okay, let's get into that. Eminem has consecutively been called one of the most thoughtful and skilled rappers in the game since he began. His songs where about more then bitches and money, they had heavy mainstream criticism, they dealt with very personal issues, whereas his black contemporaries kept rapping about 'bitches' and 'getting money'.
As for your little bruce lee comparison; Plenty of folk out there who think and act as if they're martial arts tough guys, including white and black and hispanic folk. Also plenty of people out there acting like 'real OG's and Thugss, across all the boarders. Likewise, plenty of people across all races act as if they're pristine, white collar picket fence white family folk. Stereotypes are part of society and get used/employed liberally across all groups of people. You either get rid of it all (Aggressive campaigns against any form of stereotyping whatsoever) or you live with the fact that that's simply how society works.
i love how he get up and walks away at the end of the video
NKZ NKZ lol u brought up Eminem and defended him. Even though there are plenty rappers who don't just rap about bitches and drugs. But u said em does both but black rappers just kept rapping about bitches and drugs which isn't true. Of course you will defend em because he's white like u. Ur not fooling no one
I didn't 'defend' Eminem. I simply stated a fact regarding his career. Defending him would've been saying 'unlike Eminem, who's an exception to the rule'. He isn't. He did just as goofy shit as most rappers. I envoked Eminem in my post to illustrate that bitching about appropriation of 'culture' and 'white acting black' is fucking ridiculous. A white boy schooled the entire Rap scene for over a decade, to the point that most high-esteem Rappers made a big, fat, wide margin around him, afraid that he'd wreck them lyrically.
That last line before he walked off...💀
best part and ended that white boy
@@supertenor561 I bet you felt so proud
Cold af bruh
Brother Elder Mooney is telling the truth. The pale children want the glamour of Hip-Hop/Black culture, but don't want the real full experience of what Black's go thru.
I just don't get WHY white folks would ever feel the need to "steal" from black so-called "culture" as all these racist blacks of today are so fond of charging? After all, those white folks ( people of European heritage ) only already had ohhhhhh the Opera, the Theater, the ballet, literature and many of the great painters, authors, composers, and early filmmaking pioneers in history. WHAT do these ignorant black racists who say this MEAN by their "culture" anyway, huh? . .. bill-caps worn backward? . .baggy t shirts and saggy-assed jeans? . . ebonics lingo ( "Yo, ho, pimpin, dawg, jiggy, booty, fly, Yoo go gurl" and the sort )? . . the Thong ( modeld on primitive equatorial west African native tribal wear )? . .body peircing ( also having African native tribal origins )? . .lewd dancing? . . boogie woogie, rock and roll, rap, hip hop, disco, r&b and Funk'abooty "music" that makes people "GET DOWN! Moove! Groove! Shake their booties to da beat!" and behave like barnyard animals? .. . now is THAT the decadent garbage swill they refer to when they speak of their "culture"? . .their "STOLEN culture"? Well geez, they can have THAT shit back and please keep it! . .certainly for MY part at least! I'm definitely ONE whitey who has no use for THAT swill! And, belive me, I wish that ALL other white folks had felt the same way and just left that crap for you to begin with!
Lisa Stanfeild One word. Pyramids.
Who the fuck would want that? Of course nobody would want to be victims of racism.
Oh my god! What a fucking hardship! Give me a break you little racist whiner. You don't go through shit. This isn't the 19th century anymore. Stop pretending it is.
I love you guys, even though you hate me.
Paul Mooney always tells it like it is. It's never any bullshit with him.
+Mikki Farmer which is segregative and hatful message yeah thats it.
+Mikki Farmer everything he said was racist lol, because a white person raps doesnt mean he acts black.Its like saying a black metal group acts white cause theirs more white metal groups as for theirs more black rappers.
+XPsilocybinDream rock and roll is Black music, comes from us!
Korey Moore yeah whites only perfected it.
Korey Moore it's beginning it did all black folks only went as far as three bar blue's progression and the whites followed that with bubble gum rock crap then came the Beatles that flipped the music world upside down they also pioneered drop D playing that killed old rock n roll overnight but black folks wasn't out of the game just yet a guitar God would rise none like him before or after that man was Jimmy Hendricks
So long to one of the greatest comedians of all times, he'll be missed. *#RIP* 🙏
it has been messing with my head, the last year, realizing that without slavery there would never have been blues music or any north american music for that matter. something that has truly made me a better person and helped me feel irrevocably happier in life being spawned from a truly evil moment in time is devastating.
I know this a 9 year old comment, but for my Jazz course I'm currently using this video as an example for my paper I'm writing.
Paul is right on the money!
Yes he is.
One of the best mic drop exits in history
Paul deals in a lot of extreme generalizations.
Correction.....
Paul is right on the Mooney!
No, he isn’t. Paul Mooney doesn’t actually know anything about Hiphop
Dick Gregory and Paul were the last of our greatest public elders.
I agree with Paul Mooney all the way.
so do I %100
Tris A. so do I
>appropriates anime with gay ass anime avatar 😂😂😂
But then black people “stole” basketball from white people after white people invented it. It’s music and individual, personal expression. No one can “steal” that just because you happened to have a certain amount of melanin in your skin. Ridiculous.
Do you also agree with him when he implies at the end there that Hip-Hop has it's black cultural roots imbedded in the historic suffering of lynchings and police shootings? Because he kind of opened his mouth and proved himself an idiot with that remark, which is ok, because a lot of great comedians have been guilty of the same (yes, including white comedians for everyone here so focused on race.) Hip-Hop's black cultural roots are actually in the block parties of the inner-cities of 1970s New York, not in lynchings. It was the result of the diverse mixture of black American youths and black immigrants from the Caribbean in the area. In fact the very Hip-hop musical staple of loops, heavily emphasizing and isolating the beat was brought up for the sole purpose of servicing the dancers by the DJ's playing/hosting said parties - which was some thing influenced by Jamaican Dub music - not to spread a message or rebel against mistreatment.
Hip-Hop's musical roots and roots as an outlet for expression are party/dance-centric, not in racial suffering. Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" and the subsequent rise of "Gangsta Rap" that followed that came in the 80s, many years AFTER Hip-Hop's inception.
The Blues' and it's origins have a stronger relevance to Paul's claim than Hip-Hop, but even then his point would be shallow.
Paul is a trip. The way he answers the last question and walks off, too funny.
I find it hilarious that YT beeps every cussword but Nigga is perfectly fine.
Thank you Paul Mooney for always speaking the truth, no matter the consequences. Let the chips fall where they may.
"You know something, people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lotsa times that I wish I could say I'm not white."
-Frank Zappa, 1966
His words are just as valid almost 50 years later.
Was he a real one?
Zappa wasn't too white. That Quentin Tarrantino seen about the Moors is reflected in his fro.
PAUL MOONEY=LEGEND
Whites in hip hop is the new minstrel show. Now we got miley cyrus carrying the torch. It really is pathetic.
neva forget eminem their flagship wiggger
He more realer than Steve Harvey. Never sold out. I like how unapologetic black he is.✊
This needs to be told to Hispanics also.
Nope - the Dark Skinned Hispanics have more in common with Asians than Blacks . Original Mongolians migrated North over to North America and evolved into what you see today.
Southern America like Honduras that have the Saharan black features - yeah, their Ancestors were slaves too.
Hispanic have deep roots in hiphop. Hiphop started in the Bronx, white people fleed leaving Blacks and Hispanic in a burning down part of NYC. Amazing something like hiphop came from a place like the Bronx in the 70s
YoungQueenJoJo hip hop originated from breakdancing and beat boxing in the Bronx hence the name hip “ hop” Hispanics and Puerto Rican’s where always involved in the culture especially graffiti and break dancing
Nah only to whites
Hip Hop is a black creation, I don’t give a fuck how y’all try and spin it. I’m sure there were some white people around too when it all started, doesn’t make them the creators. And just like white folks hispanics are witnesses not the creator. FOH. Every fucking other race of people in the world they can have the rights to their culture, but black people can’t have shit. Hispanics played fucking follow the leader and want some creative credit. Nah
He is a fav to listen to because of his perspectives. He goes places most comedians wouldnt dare also he wants you to squirm.
Hate = More Hate.
Life is too short to think we arent all in the same experience together.
We need people like Mooney in a comedy sense to call shit out and make people give a different look.
What he said in the last few minutes I never saw it that way before. Totally a revelation.
Exactly!! I like them better being themselves lol
Anayah Harris O NO YOU DONT SISTER
YOU DONT WANT THAT!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯
Anayah Harris that's what got usall in this mess them being them
So do I lily white.
True...
And don't like em then.
Because you have to wonder if it's a trick.
Anayah Harris First off You’re beautiful 😍
All they do is take. Everywhere in the world.
Theo Utmost what have you given, brother?
George Kouleles YOUR question is QUITE BROAD. Why do you ask ?
Theo Utmost yep its ours now. american hip hip is dead as fuck now anyway, get over it and move on.
Plague Sommat NO! You're dead, you just don't know it yet. Or maybe you do know...
Theo Utmost i do.
Truth I love this man👑👑👑👑
I love his honesty, something missing from society today. I love people who say the truth in a room and it makes people uncomfortable. It means you are living a lie.
+Joshua LaPointe Or the person in the room is crazy.
RIP to the godfather of comedy! #RIPPaulMooney
I love me some Paul Mooney, GOD knows I do. Keeping it 100% all the time. Thank you Jesus.
"Gimmee that headache nigga..."
I have nothing but respect for this brother
He speaks the raw truth!
"Give me that headache nigga" 😂
Paul Mooney is one profound brotha the majority of black people still don't understand this concept, and why we shouldn't enable it or they just don't care.
i want to meet him one day
this man is powerful, everything that he says his very real.
0:20 I saw Paul Mooney Perform at Caroline's in NYC Back in 2010. Notice the Champagne bottle in front of him? When he finished it The show was over. On or off the Wagon he will always be The True King of Comedy. My party actually had the chance to hang with him backstage afterwards. He's as nice as they come.
Mr. Mooney dropped the Mike on this one. Love, love, LOVED what he said at the end. When you go through what we went through, ALL of it, then you can act like us.
rest in love and power Brother Paul 🙏🏾
Rest In Peace 🖤he passed today yall
two words: macklemore and iggy azalea
Pop culture's 3 words? Lol U dum?
two words. Culture vultures!
Saw Mr. Mooney in person and this is lightwork compared to 2.5 hours of comedy. BLACK POWER!!!
U still mad. U can't change the past but I can change the future. Your people came from cold ass caves that's why u need sun block. My people built pyramids. Plato went to the SCHOOL OF LUXOR to learn from our people. Look at u, all RED in the face. Lol. BLACK POWER!!!
1984bandito Is it coz I'm white??
The realest information I've ever heard
Paul Mooney pulls no punches and gives it to you straight no chaser. I love this dude....
I love Paul Mooney Shade lmaoooooooooooooo.
Zevil Gehannivani kinda weird that hip hop is all about gangsters right? so wouldnt gangsters be "stolen" from white culture? noone wants to talk about that tho.
Plague Sommat
Yes original gangsters are from Italian mobs you will hear many rappers says they look up to them lol! However Italians today don't like being called that its an embarrassment to them the irony!
Zevil Gehannivani it should be an embarrassment which makes it even more weird that they are worshiped here lol
Plague Sommat
Well it started with watching Al Capone then Godfather then Scarface but really black folks of America love Italians. For the wrong reason but it is what it is. Shouldn't love them for being Mobsters during those golden days should like them for how their culture is. I have respect for those people. But I am not going to celebrate the fact during the days of 1920's they was shooting up people scaring people taken money from others living like original gangsters. That is not how you adore a culture. But correct the orignal Gangsters are Italian Mobsters then I would say Russians Columbians Cubans then African Americans.
Zevil Gehannivani no they dont love italians they hate italians cuz italians are white, they just love the violence that italian gangsters did. you dont see them worshiping other kinda gangsters. so much to celebrate about italian culture, yet thats the part to love? lol
Even it might seem rude its the truth
Just discovering Paul in 2021, incredible how right on he was. And I’m 50+ and WHITE. This clip is almost ten yrs old, incredible..
This was Deep!
People In the comments pissed lol
I don't think they're are pissed. It's just called disagreeing.
@@lilfuzzballa naw they pissed
What I took from this is we live in a copycat world where everyone wants fame but few are willing to pay the price
I'm white, I like hip hop music, and agree with Paul Mooney. Stick to what you got, stick to what you know.
Can you explain to me what being "white" entails? I'm genuinely interested.
@@alextheangry02 Privileged???
That's why I respect Kurt Cobain. Pretty sure when a reporter asked him if he would do hip-hop (something along the lines of that) and he basically said he has no business doing that music cause that wasn't his lane
EVERYONE HERE is missing the main point. He's not saying that an art form should be restricted to one group once that group discovers it. He's saying that in every art form we create, white people find a way to either jack it completely, or to integrate themselves into said art form, thus making the originators obsolete. See, that's what being a MAJORITY and having the majority of money will do for you. Perfect example, Macklemore. He recieved best Hip Hop album and Video from MTV, with Grammy's and AMAs surely to follow. His music is bought by white people, the MAJORITY, with a majority of the money. They in turn give him accolades, and he's the top selling rapper this year, all without other rappers who don't have AS LARGE OF A MARKET as Macklemore, getting the shorter end of the stick. The same exact thing happened with Rock n Roll. What's AMAZING, is they both have the same thing in common: When first started, white people wanted NOTHING to do with either. And THAT'S Mr. Mooney's point.
damn right. these asshats only get angry because he putting all them on blast
This guys straight old skool he ain’t playing that Eminem shit lmao.
It's not a race thing, it's a money thing..
Money and religion, that's the way the powers that be divide us..
The 1% vs the 99%
For every action there's a reaction.
And just so y'all don't think Paul knows the differerence...He LOVED Tina Marie. She was Wight and sang like a Blk VVoman. He KNEW who vvight people with real soul were, and those who din't have it, even if they were good and sounding like they had it.
The ego's of people, black and white, in the comments are ridiculously off the chain
Toby Seraph I'm trying to help people understand that the actions of one person cannot reflect the content of anothers character just because they share a similar complexion.
Aj Bon
OK, good for you
Toby Seraph thanks
Aj Bon Right because skin color is the only thing that determines race.
Mooney kept it a buck every time. I don't mind other races adopting our culture but all have to admit he has a point. That last line and how he walks off is legendary. R.I.P. Paul. There wont be another like you.
When you don't have a mic, but you know how to drop it anyway.
I love this man
The last ten seconds then the mic drop! 😮
I did not appreciate Paul Mooney enough when he was alive
Love Paul mooney
Speak the the truth Paul!!!
Truth has spoken I love Paul Mooney Rest In Power King you always spoke the truth and nothing but the truth so help us all
Paul mooney is the man!
Big FACTS!
He's 100% the white man is the biggest identity theft individual. If you talk about a Jew in a negative way they say you are anti-Semitic but if you look at the dictionary definition of semitic it talks about afro-asiatic people none of those people who claim to be Jews are afro-asiatic people they are ashkenazi Jews, which describes white folks who adopted the traditions of the real Jews and converted their selves to be Jews.
I LOVE PAUL!
Paul Mooney always speaks facts
What facts are those?
Not always sometimes its an opinion like this video
Always on point, every fucking time. He's a personal hero of mine. Relentless!
White people are still painting themselves Black, but without the makeup 💄! So true!!
Love him!! Tells it like it t.i. is!
1:08 i can’t ask Mooney, because he has passed (RIP Mooney) but i wish i could ask. Isn’t he aware of who sold the africans to the europeans?
Isn’t he aware of who owned the slave ships?
Come on Paul, you were more intellectual than this.
Preach Paul!
Lol he is amazing, and funny.
he cant be bought
he wont sell out
A lot of WSHH white boys in these comments.
Ok, he's a Stolen African. Clearly he has enough money for a one way plane ticket to Africa. He should go, and take as many of his Hip Hop Brothas as will fit on the plane.
Wow. And this is why this Mooney person and all who travel with him are so grating. You are every bit as vilely racist as the KKK.
"I'm a Stolen African!"
Ok, so un-steal yourself and go to Africa, it's not like you're a slave.
"Fuck you Whitey!"
I'm Sioux.
"Fuck you *insert racist shit here*!"
Take a good look at the shit you're saying and how it looks to other people.
KINGSTONUSB2 WHOA....this was too much
He's not going to go back until white Americans have paid their dues. The problem with Mooney is that he is "eye for an eye". I agree that his attitude is a little extreme but at the same time I think that there are some things that people should never forget so that it doesn't happen again. Eminem = Elvis.
How about you go back when you came from
U bitter ain’t u
We need all the help we can get . Truth is the best thing for the spirit whether it knows it or not.
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. David Hughes invented the microphone. Harold Rhodes invented the electric piano. Akai was founded by Masukichi Akai. Paul Tutmarc made the first electric bass.
The world is a vast, unique and intricately designed organism. Too vast, unique and intricate to be only seen through the prism of African slavery.
Answer his question, Crass. Were those inventions stolen from slaves, as most inventions were? And let's be honest, Had it not been for "the prism of African slavery" this country would not be what it is today. So let's not disregard it as if it's a mere pebble on the bottom of our shoes. 1619-1865 was an essential period in American history regardless what you may think.
Hatred, no matter who wields the hatred, is a weak distraction to greater sentiment, greater inspiration. I once got into an angry yelling match with a co-worker, a poor Guatemalan line-cook. It was a contest of pride, of ego. At one point, I exclaimed "This is f***ing ridiculous!" to whatever we were arguing about. He side-stepped my anger and asked in broken English, "What 'ridiculous' mean?" Flummoxed, I testily explained and then continued arguing. Months later, in passing, I heard him speaking to another Guatemalan worker, "Something something something RIDICULOUS something something something something."
It made me smile.
The creativity that comes out of adversity, out of derision, anger, and misunderstanding is understanding, sympathy and LOVE. Let's put all we have into it!
That's true. And I would never claim my personal anecdote has the same stakes as what is associated with slavery. But frustration, anger, hostility and misunderstanding are essential to hatred. We can use the experiences we have, minor though they may be, to develop empathy for people and situations outside our scope.
Did we invent the Electric Bass? No. But we invented the Banjo which is the prototype for the mechanics of the Electric Bass. And on top of that, every white bass player who ever picked up the instrument sights their main influence to even play the thing as James Jameson (black Bassist for Motown who revolutionized the Bass's role in music) or Larry Graham (the inventor of slap bass technique). Did we invent the Electric Piano? No. But most of the white constituency looked at things like the Wurli and Rhodes as simple toys until musicians like Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, and Donny Hathaway started legitimately using them in records (again revolutionizing music). We didn't invent the television or the camera because we were too busy cultivating the peanut, inventing the gas mask, the electric light (the answer to the automobile), The modern basis for Cell Phone technology, cultivating the Co-tan that is in every white-invented electronic device, performing the first open-heart surgery, designing the city of Chicago...discovering America 500 years before Columbus...and to cap it all of...BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS AND ONE OF THE OLDEST CIVILIZATIONS ON PLANET EARTH.
Love this. So glad he mentioned Eminem the biggest wanna be of them all.
Ironic though, cuz I always thought of Paul Mooney as kind of whitewashed.
To be fair, Em pretty much much grew up with black people (ie Detroit)
Gnarwhal Yeah but did he got shot at, lynched, arrested or racially discriminated against when it comes to basic social services and getting a job cause he white? Nah. Man he’s actually wack, people who are calling him dope are mostly white people and his “flow” is monotonous AF.
The jewish rap industry named eminem the greatest rapper ever......the elvis presley of rap....
How is paul mooney white washed....????????....mooney is straight up too black for tv radio and day to day life in amerikkka
How in the fuck is this man paul mooney whitewashed?
best part of clip was the last sentence. What an excellent conclusion and epic walk off.
Wow Paul, you act like America is still segregated. I've been doing Hip-Hop style vocals since a young age with my Black,White and Hispanic friends who all lived in the same neighborhood as me. This is MY culture
Lol
You want to say whites are guests in hiphop? Well i guess that would mean blacks are guests in Modern Civilizations.. lmao.. anyway.. all the real veterans in the hiphop game will all tell you, whites and latinos have been around hiphop and the created of the 5 elements of hiphop from day 1.. most of you people think you know hiphop but don't even know shit about the elements or the true history.. just a bunch of ignorant people who think blacks are the only ones who have been enslaved... blacks always say knowledge is in the power of knowing the history of the black man.. well.. then you would know the Black Moors enslaved white people for 1000 years straight.. 10x more than what the whites did to you.. and you fail to mention that you were already slaves in Africa by other Africans and sold to other countries.. wake up
It IS still segregated. You can be down with us all you want.
We'll welcome you but don't act like you're not looked down on for
being with & around us. You probably know better than I what you have to endure being "Down" with "The Get Down."
You can easily Switch up & go "Prep" at will.
I'm not hatin' either. That's why Mr. Mooney is going so hard I believe.
Kmak Milly your comment is so foolish in so many ways that i don't even feel like explaining the stupidity
gherrin Not by Us genius. By The White Supremacist N*ggas & Bi*ches. Duh!
'Yeah George! we'll take you in & look down on you for doing it ...DUH Right George?" lol
"Paul Mooney Only Talks The Truth."
Its not only hip hop where did Rythym n blues . Roch N Roll , Elvis Presley , You anit Nothing But A hound Dog, Jailhouse Rock.
In thr Ghetto .... The Beatles , Twist N Shout Little Richard was right he stated he never got credit for his contributions.
"This thing belongs to our race! You can't take part because you have the wrong skin color!"
Isn't that the justification for segregation?
He explains his position in another interview I saw. He basically says the heavily urbanized cities combined with poverty, prejudice, and violence resulting from all those factors are not a part of the White reality as a whole. The benefits of White privilege are felt by White people even if they aren't aware of it. When you grow up without that, but see it from the outside and its effects, then you can comment on that world. That's all he's saying.
Dimefan91 White folk means a lot of different thing depending on country, region or culture. Are you even aware of the shit french Canadians went through for instance? Or the Irish? Or many other Europeans who weren't Anglo-Saxon? Up until the early seventies we were told to "speak white" by the English folk up here. Laws were passed to assimilate us culturally, we were the poorest and least educated in our own goddamn country. We were water boys to the rich English. None of my ancestors enslaved anybody. The world isn't the United States and white people are not all cut from the same cloth. And believe me, in the fucked up environment I grew up, there was no privilege, we were dirt poor.
I repeat myself I am not a US citizen and my ancestors have had nothing to do with slavery. This is a fact I have verified through genealogical research. Since you know not my background you have no way to state these things I am quite sure you are ignorant as to much of north american history outside of the US.
You are however right in stating that the experiences are not on par and never did I state them to be so. Quite true also that the level of discrimination is not equivalent. Yet the facts I have stated on french Canadian history remain true and go far deeper than you would imagine, especially considering our alliances and mixing with many first nations. I can also appreciate your rage because I hold similar sentiments towards those that exploited and cheated my ancestors, however I do not feel the need to insult people I know nothing about on the internet. Also, do not quote things I have not said. Did not state Irish were slaves. Your skewed paraphrasing is simply dishonest when I was clearly trying to explain that "white" is a contextual and historically constructed term and that not all white skinned people have the same history.
Your rage will consume you and alienate allies if you attack people such as myself who have the utmost respect for the black experience in america and ties with black people and culture going back to childhood. You have no footing in painting me as a racist or a liar.
Gabriel Vallée Hey man, this issue Paul Mooney is bringing up is only domestic. Internationally many people had it worse than blacks (given the longer period of exploitation). While the Irish were being conquered and eventually occupied by the British, the African kingdoms and chieftains were spreading gold all around the world. When Ming dynasty porcelain was a luxury item Europe, damn near every house in the Swahili coast had it. And, strictly statistically speaking, the average black have had and still have it worse than the average white family, regardless of national origin. Again, domestically speaking. There are many exceptions to this, but the black and white experience as a whole (for the past 50 years exclusively, I'm not talking about slavery or the Jim Crow and Terrorist eras of the late 19th and early 20th century) are not comparable and blacks, without doubt, have had it worse and still have it worse. That's all he's saying. Again, within the United States, where rap and hip hop originated.
Thanks for the rational and historically informed response. I completely agree with your statements.
we actually didn't steal the black people your people traded them to us for spices and other goods. just to clear that up your own people gave you to us as a transaction.
+Oneil Mabile Bullshit
VeryDizzy its no bull shit thats really what happened. it still happens today in the diamond trade. and other places all over the world its a horrible thing.
From google:
slave trade
noun
the procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries and North America.
actually what happen was African people gave White men indentured servants. Meaning these first group of men and women had committed a crime or were POWs. After this the white men came back and kidnapped more. Please tell ALL of the truth not the parts that suit you.
+savagehyphen01 so your telling me a couple white guys on a ship went to a place were they were significantly outnumbered and said I'm taking your strongest men and leaving and they left without being impaled?
No, Im telling you they kidnapped Africans, which means IT WASN'T DONE IN DAY LIGHT!
RIP the great, he has a tremendous point, but am I wrong for loving hip hop and black comedy without being black?
OK first of all no one can control the color of their skin; I didn't choose to be white. And you can't act a color. There is no such thing as acting white or acting black. For example try to act orange... exactly; however, there is such thing as acting good, bad, sad, happy, intelligent, or unintelligent and acting in those ways has nothing to do with the color of your skin. Everything that happened to the blacks was horrible and straight up wrong but we no longer live in the 16 and 1700s. We are not the people who treated blacks badly; we just have the same colored skin. Yes I know there are still racists today but they are but a few and every race on earth has their racist people. If people keep thinking like they do then we will never move forward. We will just lay behind and rot as the human race. Expand your mind. Keep the peace.
If you can only convince the powers that be with this argument racism will be truly over.
nikobelic85 Yeah, it's sad that any convincing has to be done. It's literally only a chemical that sets us apart; and it's funny because everyone has it, just some more than others.
TheAlanakane Ima be real with you man the only thing that's plaguing us is that mind set the only thing that's keeping us sick is that mindset. Slavery was a terrible thing. It's not the 1600 and 1700s anymore it is freaking 2015 and Idk if you know this but all the whites that enslaved the blacks are long dead and gone.Yes I'm white but Im not those whites that treated the blacks badly. My best friend is black IDGAF what color you are. Martin Luther King didn't die so you could keep moping about the past he stood for a cause that one day blacks and whites could get along. If people keep thinking in the past we will never get anywhere.
steveo ayers thats because your not a racist, they cannot see anything past hate.
TheAlanakane im a plague and i have already infected your soul.
Well now, since wer're on THIS topic, I think I'll point out that allot of hip hop has elements of ELECTRONICA and THAT is a particular musical genre which was pretty much pioneered by white musicians, like namely Kraftwerk, Karlheinze Stockhausen, Leo Theremin, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Robbert Moog, Walter Carlos, Devo and Ultravox to identify a handful. So then, to kinda turn the tables here, you could say THAT was one musical innovation originaly pioneered by WHITES that blacks had adopted or "stolen" to use THEIR own prefered word.
BITCH PLEASE
Ian Findlay Rock comes from Flamenco, also. Which is the granddaddy of all of those genres. And Dominican Bachata predates Rock by a good bit. Music is complicated.
John NoNameGibbon i also....well i listened to hank williams a good bit when i was younger, you could say both rock and hip hop were "stolen" since thats the word they love...from THAT. lets see someone argue with me lol
Hip hop came about in the late 1960s from the gangs in NY. Now err umm, when was this electronica thing created?
Jacc Trippa bout the late 70s if were talkin about kraftwerk
I loved Paul as Sam Cooke in "The Buddy Holly Story" (78) great film and role for him. + He's cute, cool, HONEST, intelligent and has great style and class.
Then he needs to tell blacks to stay out of country music,too,right?
Why...we created that shit. Country music is nothing but the Blues with different orchestration.
Obsidian SeventyOne thats debatable. a lot of country came from folk music from europe.
I'm sorry but there's not a explosion of blacks in country music.
Hopefully there never will be. They can have it.
NO black in country music, if it were they would do all they could to STOP IT...quiet as it keeps African American was instrumental in the creation of country music starting in the south....but his name is never mentioned and or known, that right there shows u the bias
Well in that case African Americans shouldn't be allowed to sing pop or rock. I don't know which race came up with pop but it's absolutely ridiculous to judge someone on their taste in music simply because of their race.
JB P Well... what did white people come up with? I know we had to discover something on our own. Aside from science...
+Sehena Falconi Rap, Yup whites made rap. Aerosmith and sugarhill gang then blacks took it from WHITES ha irony. The first rap was in 1500s in scottish pubs
Rez Don't make it worse. I hate rap...
Sehena Falconi Whites invented jazz, blues
JB P Ahh nice, your inventions outweigh mine :(
This was very intriguing and a provocative insight. I never thought of it that way. I myself am Hispanic and was raised in Harlem NYC most of my life and moved recently. I wonder how Paul feels about Hispanics who are influenced by African American culture and so on. I have my own thoughts on this subject but I do kind of think there is some truth to what Paul said. I dono. Shit is crazy.
Musical genres transcend the burdens and claims of race. Musical genres are objective languages used for subjective reasons. In a sense, every musical genre is there, waiting to be discovered and used as a vehicle to convey or express anything: pain, suffering, joy, laughter, etc. Who discovers a genre, and for what subjective reason, is good for the history books, but that's where the ownership card stops. And let's get one thing straight: history has very much preserved and meticulously detailed the discovery and flourishing of genres as pertaining to every race and culture. White people don't own any genre of music, let alone the genres so often attributed as "white person music." With something that speaks to people of *every* race like only music can, no one race *owns* a genre; *they only own the stories conveyed through it.*
None of this negates the trials and tribulations of culture or race as expressed through music, but they're separate entities and far too many people don't realize it. Music, as the widely-varied, objective language it is, belongs to the entirety of the human race, regardless of what it's used as a vehicle for at any point in time from discovery through its flourishing. There's no great conspiracy for white people to own genres; they can't, and anyone who says they can is foolish. If you want to get angry with someone, then get angry with the industry controlling the culture of popular music...but realize that there is infinitely more music out there than what pop culture establishments disseminate.
In conclusion: Paul Mooney doesn't want white people to be a part of the story of black people -- a story in which the discovery and flourishing of hip-hop is a part of; however, the objective musical genre of hip-hop (let's pretend it's called "Musical Genre #68" or something instead, since the term "hip-hop" explicitly implies a specific connotation) belongs to no one, ergo everyone can use it as a vehicle to tell whatever story they so choose, *which in no way invalidates the stories others have told via the same vehicle.* I think that last bit is what Paul Mooney doesn't want to happen, but an entire music genre will never be as one-dimensional as a singular racial/cultural occurrence, no matter how significant, painful, or unique.
Stephen Chapman y'all still trying to be black but hey I like rock and roll so what ....dondi boogie down Bronx formally known as fort apache the birth place of hip hop and don't try to deny I've been involved
Well articulated. That said, Paul Mooney makes a few cogent points but I think he is coming from a place of pain, which is understandable.
Donnie Farrior FYI, they stole rock music too. Hell, if you go back far enough, it was the Moors who invented string instruments and took them into Europe when they went in to civilize white people. That's where classical music came from.
PlayaJay32 Holy crap, talk about taking a serious leap. Classical music came from the renaissance, which was a musical movement cultivated through a culmination of various "enlightening" elements, stemming from Ancient Greece and Rome such as humanism, artistic and literary patrimony. I think to skip these significant cultural influences of over a thousand years between The Moors introduction of instruments like the oud to what we know now to be the start of the Classical period in the arts/music is dismissive to a baffling hypocritical degree.
That's like saying what Ray Charles and Little RIchard were doing was appropriating Italian culture just because an Italian invented the piano.
StarryStarryNocturne
Is a piano a culture? No it's an instrument. Instruments are for whoever has access to them. Your example of little Richard and Ray Charles is a complete fail. Very bad example to prove a moot point.
HIP HOP has been here for thousands of years if you think about it. Remember the 5 Elements of Hip Hop. Hip Hop has No Boundaries
Real talk! God bless you Paul!
He’s rite