The HipHop Philosophy
January 26th, 2009 by jinglebeeSelf-respect is the foundation, direction and principle of purpose (the key to the happiness and safe future of our families) . It must be the principle of purpose, because without it, we are without purpose. Our ‘purpose’ is the reason ‘why’, and the answer to the question ‘why?’
‘Why?’ is the first question asked by a child, when they are instructed, by an elder, or anybody, to do, or not do, something, because people, of any age, need a purpose in life. A reason ‘why’ they should do the “right/good thing”, and not the “wrong/bad thing”. An understanding, or overstanding, of having a purpose in life, a sense of their responsibility to The Creator, and it’s many blessings: life, love, water, food, air-oxygen, The Sun, solar system, the miracle of nature (sometimes called Mother Nature), and the miracle of creation (like childbirth). And a respect for it’s laws of cause&effect/relativity (LOCER)
SELF-RESPECT: Relating everything you do/think/say/eat (consume, digest or ingest) to respect for your self, The Creator and all of its creations (The Blessings, LOCER). Taking personal responsibility for your physical & mental health&actions, showing grattitude/thanks to The Creator by relating the concept/responsibility/’job’ of Self-Respect to respecting The Creator and all of its creations (The Blessings).
If you disrespect yourself, you disrespect your Creator. If you disobey, defy or disrespect the LOCER, then you disrespect your Creator. This is conclusive, for sure, without question.
RESPECT FOR OTHERS AND THE LAWS OF RELATIVITY: Self-respect = Respect for The Creator = Respect for Mother Nature = Respect for others = Self-respect.
If you disrespect the next man or woman, you disrespect his/her Creator, which is the same as your Creator. Disrespecting your brother or sister of equal value (we are all equal creations of our Creator) is disrespecting your self, because, it is disrespectful to our Creator and oneness with all of The Blessings.
The breakdown is simple, but most importantly, it is the only possible conclusion, and it is easy to overstand for everybody, ESPECIALLY YOUR CHILDREN.
It is the essence of the laws of relativity.
(A child’s ability to overstand this must be respected, or the normal majority of them will grow up to be lost, psychologically, physically, and spiritually, like the whole of ‘normal’ society. ‘The blind leading the blind’.)
‘IF YOU NEVER LEARN WHAT SELF-RESPECT IS, AND HOW IT RELATES TO EVERYTHING YOU DO/SAY/THINK/EAT, THEN YOU ARE UNABLE TO OVERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO RESPECT OTHERS…’
RESPECT FOR MOTHER NATURE: Supporting and/or participating in any action, industry or organization that disrespects The Blessings and the LOCER, for example; creating an industry which depends on and results in environmental destruction and/or damage to the Earth’s atmosphere, is contributing to the depreciation of man&women’s future survival and existence on Earth. Contributing to such industries, of tobacco, alcohol, dead animal flesh, sugar abuse, legal&illegal drugs, legal&illegal destruction of the rain forest, fossil fuels/oil/gas-for-transportation, law against self-farming, etc., is disrespecting Mother Nature and The Creator, by disrespecting it’s creation(s) and our human rights (’freedom’) of happiness and safety.
CONCLUSION: Respect for self, and all of The Creator’s creations (Mother Nature and/or other people), is respecting The Creator. The Creator is The Creator of the Universe, and/or The Blessings.
‘The Lord’, ‘God’, ‘Allah’, ‘Jesus’, or any other title/name affiliated, created or founded by an economy-based, fictitious, ideological man-made ‘faith’, and/or religion, is manifested by separatism and has separatist effects on perceived reality, because it is inconclusively founded.
We know nothing more about its title, gender or any other conclusion other than the miracle of Creation (like when a baby is born).
CONCLUSIVE/CONCLUSIVE: Referring to the Creator as ‘he’ is coming to the conclusion that The Creator is male. This is an inconclusive conclusion. The only thing we know about The Creator is that we are creations of The Creator, and we must respect our Creator through self-respect. Self-respect is only achievable to society if self-respect is taught with the laws of relativity and/or cause & effect.
Practicing and/or exercising spirituality, and relating self-respect to respecting The Creator can only be achieved by taking personal conscious responsibility for your psychological, physical and spiritual health and actions.
Separate the distance between The Creator and yourself. Look within yourself, not the heavens, for the Creator-given strength and wisdom to maintain self-respect in this environment, which is not conducive with respect for self, The Creator and/or Mother Nature, because this environment and/or society is irresponsibly unconscious of the laws of relativity and cause & effect.
No living man or woman can come to conclusions on the inconclusive. This manifests separatism (Racism, nationalism, religion, etc.).
This is one of the most empowering concepts of Hiphop Philosophy: Not coming to conclusions on anything that is no way possibly conclusive. There are twice as many people on the other side of the Earth who believe just as strongly about their experiences and conclusions as people on this side of the Earth, which are totally different, and most importantly, inconclusive. They are based on mythology, history (which is always speculative), prophecy, etc.
A WISE MAN ONCE SAID, “…THE STRONGEST FORM OF ‘FAITH’ IS, KNOWING, THAT YOU DON’T KNOW…”
This is what it means to understand and/or overstand, and respect, the reality that EVERYBODY HAS A DIFFERENT REALITY. It would be ignorant to call anybody’s conclusion wrong because these are inconclusive conclusions.
But it would also be foolish to think one knows whom or what The Creator is, says, does, wants, thinks, or looks like…
To say anybody’s conclusion/belief is wrong, again, would be foolish, because there is no way one could ever know conclusively. If it were possibly conclusive, then everybody would know. But Asia is populated with twice as many people, who have just as much reason and evidence to support their inconclusive conclusion(’s) (FAITHS) as anybody else. To say that ‘we’ or ‘they’ are the ones who have the answer is nothing more than a shot in the dark. If ‘we’ can claim to know, ‘they’ can too, and be just as right.
What is conclusive is that there is no such thing as ‘we’ and ‘they’. There is only one race, Human. Human beings of different descents, different shades of brown.
Because people are products of their environments and imitate their atmosphere in their own individual way, everybody has a different reality, determined by how each person adapts to the world they were raised in.
The Creator is with us everywhere we go, spiritually. If it smiles, it smiles on you, no more or less than anybody else, because we are all of equal worth.
True Hiphoppers respect all people of different conclusions, beliefs and ‘faiths’.
The strength we find through ‘faith’ and the way we practice it reveals & reflects a respect for self, and a personal level of self-respect, that we may or may not be conscious of.
THE LAWS OF CAUSE&EFFECT: The only way to solve or cure a problem is to attack and eliminate its cause. To treat and act as if the effects are the cause is simply counter-productive.
For example, making tougher laws can never prevent people from committing crimes.
Because, the reason people commit crimes, or ‘acts’ that are absent of self-respect, is the absence of self-respect.
To prevent people from committing ‘crimes’, or acts absent of self-respect, people must learn, or be taught, self-respect, the laws of relativity, and the laws of cause-and-effect before they become products of an environment/atmosphere, unconsciously led by the blind, without a responsible, conclusive, sense of purpose in life.
The laws of relativity and the laws of cause&effect, which are synonymous, are unconsciously and irresponsibly ignored (se: ‘The blind leading the blind’) all over the world, by people who hypocritically claim to respect and practice ‘faith’ in ‘The Lord’, ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Allah’, whatever…
The laws of relativity and cause&effect relate self respect to everything we do/say/think/eat, digest, ingest, consume (yes that means nutrition). It is so simple and easy to overstand this basic law of nature. But our ignorant and irresponsible negligence of this real ‘rule of life’, which is not a ‘game’ of life, proves that human beings are not nearly as smart and intelligent as we tend to think we are.
And that most of what we call ‘advancements’ in so many ‘fields’ (industries), may not really be positive or progressive, as much as they are self destructive products of the absence of a relationship between man/woman, The Creator and The Blessings of the Divine Performance of Creation (The Blessings of Life, Love, Family, Friends, Water Food and Oxygen, which we are killing, The Earth and Nature).
It is impossible to respect and practice ‘faith’ in ‘The Lord’ if we do not even practice self respect. Because no matter how much you think to yourself, ‘I respect myself’, actions speak louder than words or ‘faith’, and, we are all practicing self-destruction today, and in the future, until we become conscious of the true meaning of Self-Respect.
The only way we can do this is if we begin our whole education/school process/system by teaching Self-Respect, using the laws of relativity and cause&effect.
A lot of people say, ‘that has to begin at home with mom&dad’. Well Mom&Dad’s don’t learn it, obviously, and it has to begin somewhere.
Young and old people must have a sense of responsibility, to have what’s most important: A sense of purpose.
Whether you are conscious of it or not, this is what Hiphop’s Divine Purpose is, because it is giving millions of people a responsible sense of having purpose in life, when they no longer find one in the system/process.
We found hypocrisy, separatism and self-destruction in the schools, church, government and our parents that were taught by the same system.
In Hiphop, we found Unity and common ground. Separatism, and the many effects, infect and threaten the future of Hiphop today more than ever. More than ever, we, the majority of those who claim to ‘live and love Hiphop’, are separate from our ‘common’ goal, and Divine Purpose.
We must find Unity among our sisters and brothers once again, like we did in the 80’s and early 90’s, or Hiphop’s evolution will continue to be ‘industrialized’, raped and robbed from where it is born: the streets.
SEPARATISM AND UNITY: The separatist condition of the world separates and divides us in many ways. Or, in other words, the creation of fictitious, ideological, man-made false differences, commonly known of in society as races or race-ism, nationalities or nationalism, religion or ‘faiths’, etc. in society, all over the world, divides us. We are divided; the opposite of united, from our relativity, our common responsibility, to each other, the laws of Mother Nature and The Creator.
Many, many things are affected by this worldly condition, including language. People use words in the English language like ‘black&white’ to describe people, and words like ‘God&Allah’ to describe what?… Ok…
This is separatism. This condition separates and divides people, and The Creator, into opposing sides, teams, countries, races, etc.
And this is what Hiphop Culture is transcending all over the world. The problems we face as a culture, as a community, as a society and as a race, one race; the human race. The problems of a self-destructive nature, like war, illegal&legal drug dependency, cancer, clean drinking water, child abuse, children killing children and adults, underprivileged children and adults throwing their lives away for money, drugs, sex, status, etc. Over-privileged people, like famous multi-million dollar salary professional athletes, throwing their lives down the drain. The air, we need to exist, contained 30% oxygen 100 years ago. Today it contains less than half of that. Less than 15% of the air we are breathing is oxygen.
Heart disease is the #1 killer, killing more people than any other problem we face.
The cause of heart disease? Unhealthy consumption. A commonly ‘normal’ lifestyle of habitual ingestion and digestion of self-destructive products.
The key to good health is prevention. In other words; The only way to eliminate a problem and its effects is to eliminate or prevent its cause.
All the problems we face, as blessings of The Creator, as blessings of the Divine Performance of Creation, by The Creator, are the effects of a cause.
The cause of these effects, our problems, is the absence of a relationship between man/woman, The Creator and it’s blessings. The Blessings of life, The Sun, solar system, oxygen, water, food, love, the miracle of nature (sometimes called Mother Nature), and the miracle of creation, like when a baby is born.
To overstand, to perform and give respect to ‘God’, ‘Allah’ or whatever man-made-up word, name or title you use, that people have made-up and passed on…
To fulfill our responsibilities as recipients of the blessings, we must have ‘education’…
Now I’m not talking about a typical, conventional education by the school systems of economy. But before you can truly use that knowledge and apply it to its full potential, (keyword, POTENTIAL), our education system must begin with the first laws of nature, cause&effect. Which is the essence of relativity. The laws of relativity, or cause&effect, are synonymous, the same thing. Everything is relative. Our existence and our atmosphere’s existence is the Divine Performance of Creation, by what people call ‘God’, ‘Allah’, ‘The Lord’, ‘Jah’, etc.
As Hiphop, we transform subjects, objects and language to express or communicate our state of mind or conscious. In the language and evolution of Hiphop and great pioneers, such as Melle Mel (1982, Survival: The Message II) and KRS-One (1993, Brown Skin Woman, it reflects the universal united conscious reality among most Hiphoppers, that ‘black&white’ was discarded long ago by the teachers and students of Hiphop as a fake, man-made, divisive reality.
We come together all over the world, everyday, under one roof, to celebrate and participate in this creatively, revolutionary, fresh art form in unity, for the common goal and purpose of, ‘victory over the streets’!
In my closest, most seasoned Hiphop circles, like for example, when I meet with KRS-One, we ceased referring to people as ‘black&white’ long ago.
And today, there is a real Hiphop recording entity with a Palestinian MC AND an Israeli DJ.
Hiphop can do the same thing with ‘God&Allah’ that it did with ‘black&white’, because Hiphop and its language are universally uniting people racially, internationally and spiritually. And as Hiphop, we can continue this evolution, this constructive revolution, by eliminating, or transforming the separatist language of ‘God&Allah’, and replacing it with the most applicable, conclusively descriptive words in the English language, for ‘God’, ‘Allah’, ‘The Lord’, ‘Jah’, etc. The Creator (of the Blessings).
Again, Hiphop has stopped using the using the language of separatism with ‘black&white’, and is universally conscious that we are all different shades of brown, tan, beige, pale, etc. Your shade of brown simply depends on where your ancestors descended from, in relation to the equator.
As time goes on, and as society gets sicker, our relationship with ‘God&Allah’ increasingly becomes social, ideological, economical, industrial, political, divisive, and mostly apathetic.
The separation between man/woman and what ‘God’&’Allah’ is: The Creator of The Universe, The Creator of Nature, The Creator of Love, The Creator of The Blessings, for short, The Creator, is to the point that society and it’s communities have almost no relationship and sense of responsibility to The Creator… and what it created, The Blessings.
Would The Creator look upon the world and bless the separatism of fictitious man-made, false realities like nationalism and borders, races or race-ism, and religious ‘faiths’ perpetuated by man-made inconclusive ideologies, that totally separate and divide themselves from other ‘faiths’, that do the exact same thing?
And you can ask them, ‘how do you know you’re right’? They’ll often say, ‘because I have faith!’ (You heard that one?)
Well as Hiphop, our actions have always spoken louder than words, or ‘faith’.
RACE-ISM: Racism and prejudice are different.
Prejudice is the prejudging because of race, gender, whatever, etc.
Racism is calling people by an inaccurate description, creating false differences and identities that have become normally known, in today’s brainwashed society, as races (white and black, racial pride, etc.). This is another form of separatism. There are brown skin men of African descent, lighter brown of Latin, Spanish, Central American(…etc.) descent, pale skin men of European descent (nobody is white or black). People of Asian descent, etc… People are all different shades of brown with different descents. Any other labels or categories manifest, or, are manifested by, separatism.
To ‘go-with-the-flow’ and accept society’s racist reality manifests a subconscious racist mentality within you, because of the laws of cause-and-effect. Calling people white and black is racist. It’s not prejudice, yet, but it is the manifestation of racism. People are just different shades of brown, darker and lighter.
To begin to fight and overcome the mental illness of separatism, we must first realize that we are sick. Then, we must stop lying to ourselves, and come to a collective overstanding that we have been irresponsibly and unconsciously negligent of the laws of cause&effect, relativity and self-respect.
BUT REMEMBER: It is necessary for any so-called minority to adopt the identity as a designated or separate group (race), if they are singled out, treated, and forced into a separate race. Such people, (so-called) minorities, by human instinct, must unite and work together, to try and create a balance. In this case, racism is the effect of the false, man-made, reality of race-ism (one form of separatism). We are born into this false reality of race-ism.
But people are not black and white. Take a look. This is not an accurate description of any human being. “Black and white” does not equal prejudice, but it is race-ism. It is racist to separate people by creating an inaccurate description and using this to identify people SEPARATELY.
This is separatism. It is the cause, of the effect, of race-ism. It’s the same type of self-destructive, separatist concept as nationalism.
The Creator would not look upon this world, see and recognize borders, observe the manifestation of these borders and their purpose, and bless it. The manifestation and establishment of economy, defense and education to preserve the borders and economy, is a self-destructive, separatist, anti-human, anti-Mother-Nature, anti-Creator concept, that The Creator would never bless. No matter how much nicer the living conditions are for the people who happen to be born here, and people who move here to leave another ‘nation’.
(This is not a personal attack on anybody’s frame-of-mind. This is for everybody who still calls human beings white and black. ‘Going with the flow’ and adopting this false reality is a part of the mental illness, a psychological trap&rut, called apathy, created by the absence of an education system that teaches self-respect, the laws of relativity and cause&effect….
This is not to attack this frame-of-mind, but rather to feed this frame-of-mind the reality of different/alternative realities. What is normal or the majority’s reality is not always true reality.)
EPILOGUE
Just because I was born here doesn’t mean that I have to consider myself a part of that system, country or economic establishment… I live on The Creators’ country. We call it Earth… All of this man-made ideology is a mental illness, which de-capacitates our ability, and our children’s ability, to relate self-respect to respecting Mother Nature and our Creator.
It is clearly not overstood by millions who claim ‘to live&love’ Hiphop that the main purpose, goal and benefit of Hiphop is the personal control of one’s own life, destiny and happiness within this ’system’ and/or environment which is clearly not conducive with self-control or happiness. This is why we (b-boys&b-girls) love to see beautiful graffiti art on big ugly trains (…that kill the air we need). This is why we love the extremely funky, rhythmically inclined and ultra-creative (original!) art form we call Hiphop music, which the mainstream finds so repulsive (”…I can’t understand what their saying…”). This is why we love to ‘breakdance’ and ’scratch’ those records the way we do which goes totally against ‘the flow’ of conventional music and dance creativity. Hiphop is a revolutionary culture with a much deeper purpose than simple rebellion, and/or positive recreation.
We, as human beings, can only be responsible for our children and ourselves.We are responsible for protecting them from their biggest enemy; the absence of conscious respect for self, The Creator, Mother Nature, the laws of relativity and cause-and-effect.
Self-respect is a daily household word with my children, 8-&-5 years of age, and I.
To the best of my knowledge & ability, I lead by example, and my children follow with respect, because they already know the reason, ‘why?’ and overstand their purpose, and/or their responsibility to the Creator, as the recipient of the gift, of the blessing of life, which IS the reason “why?”…
As a pale skinned man of European descent (3/4, 1/4 Chicano), out of respect for my Creator, I will not go-with-the-flow and do-and-think as people do just because ‘that’s how it is’. I have control over my life and spirit, and I am thankful to my conscious, my spirit, my soul (THE BIRTHPLACE OF HIPHOP) for my psychological liberation.
I don’t need to witness any unnatural miracle to have faith in The Creator because the miracle of creation is all the proof I will ever need, or know conclusively, about The Creator. If there is life after death, which no one conclusively knows for sure, and makes absolutely no scientific sense, then my soul will be fine and safe because I have done the best I ever could with the knowledge and ability I had. I have no fear of death. I’ve been right there before and will go again without regret or remorse.
My soul is at peace with my Creator without feeling that I need to know anymore than is possibly conclusive as a human being. The only thing that scares me is pain. If bombs fall, I hope one hits me in the temple. I don’t want to feel a thing.
I don’t believe the government has any other interest but to protect the money machine… I don’t believe it was positive, productive, progressive or respectful of Mother Nature or The Creator to fly people to the moon… For that matter, I feel that most of what most people call ‘technological advances’ are actually self-destructive products of money, power and greed…
The average somewhat-mentally-healthy ‘American citizen’, subconsciously, feels their spirit cling to hope that what they ‘believe’, or what they have been taught to believe, is positive… But what we are taught about our man-made borders and nationalistic establishment is a part of the plan, to make the government the richest, most powerful force in the world… ‘Don’t believe the hype!’… If somebody came to our beaches to kill us and take over, I would fight for my children & I, and our Creator-given human rights…
But, I would not put on a uniform, salute a U.S. officer, and fight for the ‘pimp’ and it’s ‘taxation-without-representation’.
If ‘we’ were bombed to destruction and/or defeat, ‘The United States of America’ would be getting what it asked for… for what it has done to all people who have ever stood in the way of the money machine, for the constant destruction and disrespect for Mother Nature, life and The Creator… And for taking advantage of our naturally good nature by tricking almost all of us into believing that IT is the ‘good’ in the war of ‘good vs. evil’.
HIPHOP IS PROVIDING AN ANSWER FOR MILLIONS OF TODAY’S YOUTH. A WAY OUT OF THE SYSTEMATIC PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC AND SPIRITUAL SLAVERY THAT IS ‘NORMAL’ IN TODAY’S SOCIETY.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW WAY, SOMETHING FRESH!
HIPHOP MAY NOT BE THE ANSWER FOR EVERYBODY, BUT IT IS GIVING MILLIONS A PURPOSE IN LIFE, WHEN THE HYPOCRISY OF THE GOVERNMENT, SCHOOLS AND CHURCH FAILS TO MAKE ANY MORE SENSE…
We are brainwashed into overlooking the cause and to attack the effects instead… Self-respect, the laws of relativity, and how they relate to everything, is not a part of our education and values/morals is this society…
Until people learn that self-respect is our principal of purpose and that it relates to everything we do, say, think and eat, then the madness will never end… Nothing surprises me. I hope for the best, but expect the worst.
I went through school, college, used to write for the San Bernardino Sun Newspaper (sports writer) and have enough experience, insight and reasons to believe in my theory of conclusive and inconclusive theology …
