As many of you know I'm not rapping any longer, but I am still making beats, writing, and just plain having fun with it all. So l ast night at work I came up with these lines/lyrics/quote that are below in bold and posted it up on my wall on Facebook. Fairly quickly I received a comment asking me to explain what it meant. I wrote a response, but it was way too long to post as a comment or status change. So I decided that I would add a little explanation of what it means to me, broken down to its very center.
"Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything that you read. Some people don't know what it all means, and some people get fucked for free." - Define
Thank you for asking. There are people, media, organizations, government officials, and more who will say and/or write things about another person, group, organization, etc. that aren't true, or half-truths, in order to hurt that other person(s), as just plain gossip, for revenge (real or not real, just or unjust), for self-serving political matters, or any other number of reasons. Some say things without questioning their beliefs and sources of "knowledge", only knowing (or THINKING they know) a lie, a half the truth or a different side or a different perspective, etc. and so they don't actually KNOW THE TRUTH. They don't have understanding and therefore they're ignorant. So in the end, the target of said subject gets fucked. Put into a corner where they have to just take it or fight against it, when they shouldn't have to because they didn't ask for it and its if not wholly at least partly a lie in the first place. Have I ever done this on any level in my lifetime? Yes, I'm guilty. But that was a long time ago. Today, I'm a different person. I think we all have at one point or another, innocently or not. Its up to us though to decide how we act today and in the future and to think about how our actions affect others. I hope that explained it for you.
