A staff writer at one of the top the largest black gossip websites www.Bossip.com posted Jasiri X's new Video "Dear Debra" with the following spin:
Posted by Bossip Staff
"Some kid really has a Love Jones for Debra Lee, CEO of BET. We couldn’t believe it at first…then we peeped the video and the rapper Jasiri X’s steez.
Pop it and
watch this comedy"
Dear Debra - A Letter To Debra Lee
Is this dude serious?"
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What followed was one of the most incredible out pourings of support
that I have ever seen on the internet for a new artist (and I have been
on the internet promoting music since before
MP3.com!) It brought a
tear to my eye to see the way people stood up and represented for
intelligent, conscious Hip-hop music that is Hot!
They
keep saying that buffoonery and street/drug/murder music is what the people want to hear! I think
that the entire conversation is showing that plenty of people are rebelling
against the kinds of negative imagery and coon lyricism that BET and
all these "HOT" whatever radio stations have been poisoning our youth
with.
20 years ago the same kind of revolt took place leading up to the
popularity of Public Enemy, X-Clan, KRS1, Poor Righteous Teachers etc...
How can we promote and sustain a movement towards more conscious music and videos is the next question? The People are not having it anymore:
http://bossip.com/173449/..random-ridiculousness-dear-..debra-lee-video/#more-173449Hip-hop Pioneers and taste-makers comments about Jasiri X's new song/video Dear Debra