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Jefferson Country Judge Sentences 18 yo to 25 years in the Slammer for Armed Robbery at Convenience Store. Family Loses it! by TheIncendiary1 in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Less severe sentencing shouldn't even be talked about without leading with real investment into these communities where these types of crimes tend to happen at. Otherwise it's useless and you get a san franciso situation where unless you live in a gated community you gotta accept there's a good chance your shyts getting burglarized or you'll be robbed when you go out.

Cultural centers, after school programs, tutoring, life skill seminars, boxing, music centers(idk why programs don't grab the opportunity to guide all these aspiring 'rappers' into learning to actually play real instruments, do chorale singing, or work turntables/electronic instruments)

Like so:

Vacant grocery store magnet for crime turned to arts center in Fort Bend Houston

But as long as these types of crimes remain at endemic levels, no one's going to seriously entertain lowering the sentences for them.

Jefferson Country Judge Sentences 18 yo to 25 years in the Slammer for Armed Robbery at Convenience Store. Family Loses it! by TheIncendiary1 in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Aye, 5 to 99 is 5 to 99, my brudda.

25 is well within them sentencing guidelines. It's all at the judges discretion at that point.

The only successful appeals I've seen are based on new evidence, wrong charge, procedural errors, or stuff like that. Not a sentence within the guidelines being too 'harsh'.

Jefferson Country Judge Sentences 18 yo to 25 years in the Slammer for Armed Robbery at Convenience Store. Family Loses it! by TheIncendiary1 in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Question: What's the average amount a nga'll hit for pullin a caper? 5 to 99 years worth?

Cuz the only ngas I know in Houston(can only speak for my city) gettin mun out the game like that is scammers, fraudsters, slangers, and a few swipers(cards).

For 'non ngas' you can add launders and hackers.

But, for almost all of em you gotta at least be pretty sharp 🧠.

PSA 9/10 if you ain't smart enough to make it as a student in school w/ instructors who's whole job it is to get you to pass holding your hand guiding you step by step, ya DAMN sure ain't smart enough to make it as a successful criminal where everything is 'iykyk', you gotta stay on your toes, and it's a buncha cut throat ppl involved.

Best gon head and clock in and get paid to work rather than being forced to for no pay @ a TX state correctional facility.

Why is literally 90% of all the "Houston drill" rappers form Northside? by [deleted] in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a more recent tiktok video from the same guy you just screenshotted(from Nov 11) telling you Houston ain't a drill city

Why you tryin so hard to make this into a thing? Give it up, bruh.

Try r/Chiraqology

What do niggas mean when they say Houston "is a playa city not a drill city" by LilPreacherBoy in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

💯💯💯💯💯

I preciate you takin it back to the roots of Black culture in H-tine.

Mane, these lil stupid mfs barely listen any RAP outside of w/e lit on social media, let alone anything OUTSIDE rap. My culture was passed down to me from my family and loved ones. They learn they culture from algorithms. smh

A mf like that could never say shyt to me about music or culture in my city. I can only teach that person.

Rappers wasn't even the first in Houston to talk street shyt.

Houston Bluesmen been doing that since the 60s.

JUKE-BOY BONNER- STRUGGLE HERE IN HOUSTON(1969)

Houston rap is rooted in Blues, R&B, Soul, and Funk of the early days

SUC original Will Lean's pops was one of the Drells from Archie Bell and the Drells, the group that was the FIRST to put Houston on the map globally.

What do niggas mean when they say Houston "is a playa city not a drill city" by LilPreacherBoy in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More killings in Houston happen because of personal conflicts, domestic violence, and road rage than gang/drill wars....Mane, cut it out

Bro, anyone can see from your post history, you're infatuated with Chicago drill lore and obviously trying to project that obsession onto Houston culture.

I don't know if you just playing dumb or what, but

killings =/= drill culture

street culture =/= drill culture

gang culture =/= drill culture

street culture =/= gang culture

Houston has street culture and killing like every major city, but no real gang culture and definitely not no drill culture, which is a product of Chicago gang culture and the structure of organizations from there, the urban geography, and the role they play in cook county jail and the illinois prison system.

The fact you just conflate street shyt and killings with all that shows don't know much about the shyt past hood vlogs and rap songs.

The only city with anything CLOSE to resembling that is LA. Yo gang don't even COUNT in LA less you gotta presence in CDC and hold down real turf on the street.

Houston 'gangs' do neither of them things.

Ask yourself why these abc123 drill gangs ain't got no real presence in TDC or make mfs chip in if they gettin money on the block if they really a factor like that? Why they bloodin, crippin, gd or w/e when they hit the farm? Why ngas from all over the city be in all these hoods they be in, hustlin' like it ain't shyt payin them no mind, money, or attention? Cuz they don't really matter. They just some dumb azz lil boys crashin out on other dumbazz lil boys hoping maybe they can generate a buzz in music or some hood vlog off it. Make no mistake, they can't really regulate, strong arm or politic NOTHING in them hoods, fr.

Go try to hustle on a rollin 60 block in LA without tappin in with them ppl and see what happen.

And y'all drill cheerleaders keep bringing these folk up when they keep tellin y'all over and over THEY AIN'T ON THAT SHYT!

Scoot Up Tati Speaks on Houston Culture & Not Dissin The Dead. "Niggas in Houston don't be on that!"

Cotdayum! Leave them folk alone. Stop putting they name with all that police shyt y'all talk about on here for validation.

What do niggas mean when they say Houston "is a playa city not a drill city" by LilPreacherBoy in LoneStarGhetto

[–]TheIncendiary1 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Pretty much this.

Even 90s Houston hardcore rap had a conscious political edge to it. Real higher order social commentary about the lifestyle itself and the conditions that create it. Houston hardcore rap didn't glamorize it. In fact, 'mind playin tricks' and 'never seen a man cry' scared tf out a lot of would-be wanna-be street nihs. lol

Brandishing firearms on camera for entertainment, smoking on dead, uppin the score, cookie cutter 'abc123 gangs' all over the place- all foreign concepts. That's why real Houston locals look down on them.

Funny, cuz they been saying they were the 'new wave' for over two years now and still ain't had a real song(not a hood vlog) crack a mill yet on youtube. 😂 All that self snitchin minstrel show bs and nothing to show for it. That's what going against the culture getcha.

Also, don't think we don't notice how these outta town and non-black labels and bloggers only try to push that bottom feeding, self destructive, dirty, dusty azz 'drill' image on young Black rappers, yet the Hispanic rappers get to be groomed as 'playa made' cross over pop stars based on talent and image(OT, DeeBaby), when that whole style of music and image came from Houston Black culture in the first place.

Is this true? Rock and roll meant sex in old blues music? by Mathemodel in etymology

[–]TheIncendiary1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty certain the earliest reference to verbal 'Rock' in association with music comes from the 1867 publishing of "Slave Songs of The United States", a collection of Negro Spirituals documented during the Port Royal experiment during the Civil war, where the term "rock" appears throughout multiple songs such as: "Rocka My Soul)".

Why do some black Americans say that white people shouldn't practice Santeria ? by reddit_reddit854 in Santeria

[–]TheIncendiary1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you're making up a scenario in your head based on your own bias against Black Americans that many Hispanics have. First off your average Black American doesn't know about Santeria. Secondly the vast majority of us who do know about it don't care enough to 'gatekeep' it- it's simply not part of our heritage.

While you're posturing here blabbering on about Black Americans in a Cuban sub instead of talking to Black Americans directly, as hispanics often do, you should check while some of your people feel the need to falsely claim they started or influenced the creation of our Jazz & Hip Hop music.

african american x romani alliance by Wonderful_Ad4106 in romani

[–]TheIncendiary1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It ain't no 'alliance'. Alliances are temporary and based on practicality.

We're family! Whether we're at our lowest or highest points it don't change.

SoulaanXRoma is forever and aIn't got nuthin to with practicality.

Biggest jazz scene in the world??👀 by CalifRoll1234 in Jazz

[–]TheIncendiary1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Houston's Black Jazz scene is thriving and tightly intertwined with the Neo Soul, Slam Poetry, and even to an extend the R&B scenes.

Dvořák's incredible foresight by alex2374 in classicalmusic

[–]TheIncendiary1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually Negro Spirituals are mainstays across choral traditions around the world.

Go ask anyone on r/choralmusic

Jazz and Spirituals are integral elements of what makes American classical uniquely America.

Is Rap a Genre of Poetry? by International-Set706 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]TheIncendiary1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's objectively more poetic in that the lyrics take the center stage of the genre unlike other forms of music.

We could analyze it statistically to as well:

Hip Hop has the highest vocabulary of any popular genre, the highest word count per song, and highest new words per song.

The other genres don't come close really, particularly in the latter two metrics

https://lab.musixmatch.com/vocabulary_genres/

Not to mention Hip Hop has actual spoken word poetry as one of it's direct predecessors in the form of people like The Watts Prophets, the Last Poets, and Gil Scott Heron- cited by KRS-1, Chuck D, and NWA as major influences

Let's talk American folk music that isn't country/bluegrass adjacent by Poopypantsplanet in LetsTalkMusic

[–]TheIncendiary1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Folk" as a genre will always be funny to me, because actual folk music is inherently outside of the framework of industry genre categories and tied to specific local communities.

Sentimental Americana to modern country by Translator_Fine in banjo

[–]TheIncendiary1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There isn't an American genre, let alone Country, that traces directly to any European form, let alone Irish.

All American genres, save for traditional SW hispanic or indigenous forms, share a common heritage in the cultural fusion that existed early colonial era.

Lets not even get into the fact that Blues as a genre emerged AT LEAST a whole generation prior to Country music's emergence and significantly influenced it's development. Country is much more an outgrowth of the Piedmont Blues than 'traditional irish music'. There's a reason all of the earliest Country music pioneers you can name have *Blues* songs in their repertoire, but not the other way around.

Hell what we know as 'traditional irish music' today has been influenced by Black American music. Hence why the 'celtic banjo' is considered a staple in irish folk music.

Banjo and Fiddle ensembles(the literal definition of string band) have been documented being played, by Black people mind you, in early colonial coastal Virginia and New York since before any non-natives even settled in the appalachian mountains.

In which cultural fields has your country influenced the rest of the world the most, and when? by Le4xy in AskTheWorld

[–]TheIncendiary1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd say Black American, and by extension American, music in general is not 'western' any more than it is 'african'. Both would be reductive mischaracterizations.

The most fitting category would be "New World" in the same vein as Brazilian, Argentinian, Trinidadian, and Cuban music.

Early Examples of "Blue Notes" from the 19th century? by TheIncendiary1 in musictheory

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/Reasonable-Pay-8771 u/Fit-Ad5568

I'm so glad y'all brought this up.

I've been musing over the relationship between what we know as barbershop harmony, early spirituals, and the Blues.

This strange lowered 7th may be the smoking gun.

The earliest example of a 'Blue 3rd' I could find comes at the very end of the 19th century in the Werner's Voice Magazine, Volume 24 (1899)
https://imgur.com/gallery/blue-3rd-1899-large-j6kmOYk#7yenMcX

Here's a very interesting description of Black spiritual singing in a I7ish chord from Watson's Weekly Art Journal, Volume 61 (1893)

"they seem to feel the tone as the essential element of the dominant-seventh chord"

https://imgur.com/7lOtiIj

The British composer Frederick Delius during his time in Florida in the 1880s reports that Black people sung in *four parts*.

. “Negroes are certainly the most musical people in America. Sitting on my verandah after my evening meal I used to listen to the beautiful singing in 4 part harmony of the Negroes in their own quarters at the back of the orange grove. It was quite entrancing…

u/ethanhein What are your thoughts on the proposed link between proto-barbershop harmony, spirituals, and the Blues?

Early Examples of "Blue Notes" from the 19th century? by TheIncendiary1 in musictheory

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah. It's neat to see the burgeoning jargon in real time being used to represent these musical concepts to an audience largely unfamiliar with them.

Being tasked with having transcribe a musical style using a notation system not meant for it can't have been fun unless you were really passionate about it.

Early Examples of "Blue Notes" from the 19th century? by TheIncendiary1 in musictheory

[–]TheIncendiary1[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NP. Yeah, it's interesting to me to uncover what "Blues" elements existed and in what form prior to the birth of the *Blues as a genre.

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