'all rap music is about money, guns, sex and drugs' is like a nearly 40 year old argument and it's still just as racist and inaccurate as it was in the past
like even if those were the only subject matter that rap and hip hop touched on, it shouldn't be a valid excuse to write off the genre because like it or not money sex drugs and guns are a part of the human experience that many other races of people partake in and make music about currently and throughout history and the singling out of black people and a black music genre as being uniquely evil for these things is just pure unadulterated racism
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There's a nuanced scene in Sinners that I'd like to point out that may explain why Smoke didn't just throw Cornbread the money instead of placing it directly into his hand.
I'm barely old enough to remember the conversation my elders had about how exchanging money between races was a thing. Whether it was an actual written law or just a punishable social no-no, it was unacceptable to place money directly into the hands of white people.
For black people, we had to set the money on the counter so that they could pick it up, and for white people, they would purposely ignore our outstretched hand to place the money on the counter. A silent way to draw the line in the sand.
In the south, especially, it became an encoded social construct, long after the Jim Crow era, that a particular generation would still abide by these rules. My grandma would refuse to shop in places if the clerk refused to take money from her hand. Additionally, if she had to accept cash, she would demand that they place it in her hand. I've seen her and my mother refuse money if they didn't give the respect they demanded.
As a kid, I thought it was silly, but as an adult, I understand that it is a sign of respect or disrespect.
With all that in mind, no, Smoke wouldn't dare throw money at Cornbread because it was utterly disrespectful to do that during that era. Smoke was operating within the boundaries of their social customs, and as a black man, wouldn't dream of disrespecting another black man that way, accused vampire or not.
In today's society, think of the scene in ATL where Big Boi said "Oooh shit! That was so disrespectful. You done hit me in my mouth with some got damn money." Big Boi, also from the south, improvised that line, and I'm willing to bet cash that he was taught the same customs. That "oooh shit," was my exact reaction when I first saw that movie.
Additionally, I'd like to add that I appreciated the sentiment behind this interaction because you can see Smoke battling internally with whether to throw the money for self-preservation (no one would have blamed him) or to place it in Cornbread's hand.
Watching that scene, I thought of Cornbread's family and how Stack showed up to present a better way of life. I thought of how Cornbread was out there that night because he believed in Smoke and Stack's vision. And how he'll never return home to his family. And how Smoke, with all of this in his mind as well, saw past the threat of Cornbread potentially being a vampire and saw Cornbread (for the last time) as his friend.
So as a parting gesture, Smoke placed the money in his hand. Even if it meant going down with him.
Thinking about this in the context of Sinners and Smoke coming back from WW1 with a tremor. Stack having hidden trauma not just from his father but also the war as well.
How the Civil Rights Movement didn’t get started until after Black men came back from fighting in the U.S. military and recognizing what true freedom of movement was like and the irrational oppression not just in the South but also the North.
How weapons training and military strategy inspired community organizing. How our government didn’t protect the lives of Black Soldiers and inspired Hitler.
How the Great Migration was an internal displacement of people and a symbol of the social genocide in the Southern United States [read The Warmth of Other Suns for a beautiful contextualization of the Great Migration and how it changes Black American culture; I recommend the audiobook]
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thanks to your support, the ever mile foundation has raised 10,778 / 20,000 USD to feed palestinians in gaza. they are over halfway to their current goal.
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Annie: There are legends of people born with the gift of making music so true, it can pierce the veil between life and death; conjuring spirits from the past...and the future. In ancient Ireland, they were called Filí. In Choctaw land, they called them Fire Keepers. And in West Africa, they were called Griots. This gift can bring healing to their communities. But it also...attracts evil....
That was the last sunrise I ever saw. Perhaps the kindest thing the dark gift has given me. // It was the last time I saw my brother. It was the last time I saw the sun. It was the only time I ever felt free.
Interview with the Vampire (2022 - ) // Sinners (2025)
it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.
he’s perpetuating a cycle that he claims to hate and resent, and I think the movie is pretty damn clear about the fact that he doesn’t see anybody as valuable or useful to him except as prey and as pawns—otherwise he would just, you know, focus solely on people who actually consent to being turned. but he looked sad in that one scene and he’s an apparently attractive white cis man so people are gonna bend over backwards justifying all the harm he did.
Interviewer: "What was like the toughest day on set, would you say?"
Ryan (to MBJ): "Twin day. Your last twin day. The cigarette pass. [It was] 120 [degrees], I think."
Michael: "Yeah, that was intense. Multiple takes, not a lot of movement so you're standing still in the heat."
MICHAEL B. JORDAN as THE SMOKESTACK TWINS
-> Behind the Scenes Composite Shot Featurette
Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler
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