Cab Cabernet Interview w/ Blacktruth.net

Cab Cabernet has set forward to create a lifestyle through his music and other ventures. He is the owner of ‘Krushed Grapes’ a footwear and custom accessory line and the title of his first album. His new video is appropriately titled “Lifestyle and can be seen at Blacktruth.net. He took the time to explain his new video and the basis and motivation behind his movement.

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What do you think is the overall picture hiphop is painting of young black men in 2015?cab pic

First let me say that these are all great questions. I appreciate the thought put into them. There is a tone in Hip-Hop culture (music, media, fashion, etc) driven by agenda. There is an agenda of effeminizing and or criminalizing the young black man. If we look at the images, content, fashion of the male Hip-Hop artists of ten years ago compared to the artists of today, it is clear to me that the classic, masculine, strong, powerful black man is all but non-existent. So much so, that what I am doing looks and sounds completely different from 90% of the new artists out now. The artists that are being pushed the hardest and given the largest promotional platforms are either very feminine looking or extremely thugged out. The issue I have with this, is that our young black men are idolizing these artists, with very little options to aspire to. There is nothing wrong with being a “gay rapper”. There is however something wrong with making that the norm within the culture, when it is not really the norm in society. The majority of society is heterosexual, and I believe that the images and content should be more balanced. It’s not cool for black kids to think that they have to behave in a certain way to be accepted by this world. That is what gays have been fighting for in the first place, to be recognized. The thuggery as well. These kids are committing real crimes and rapping about them on songs and in videos, because they think that will get them the attention they need to “blow up”. And it does. And after they become famous, they get put in jail for snitching on themselves. They will do any and everything to gain attention. There is no shame, or rules, anything goes. There’s a disconnect between the elders and the youth in this culture. It wasn’t like that when i was growing up. We wanted to be like the elders of the industry. They represented a maturity that was aspirational. Nowadays the youth doesn’t listen to or study the elders, and the elders have given up on the youth. 

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