I want to go outside of my music to talk about important things that need to be said.
"EDUCATION"
The key to all of success, what turns our children into mature, responsible, and hard-working adults. Without education, our world wouldn't exist. I live in a city (Philadelphia, PA) where over 40 schools are about to be shut down, where they are building more prisons than schools, where we have more dropouts than graduates. With the debt that the city is in, most schools cannot afford textbooks to give knowledge to the kids. How do you expect to have future constructors, firemen & women, lawyers, etc, when we can't even give kids books and the requirements they need to graduate. Now college, not a game. College is very expensive, but is worth it in the end. But with dropouts and people who can't afford college, it's becoming even harder. With an unacceptable economy & government, debts, dropout percentage rising, what is the hope for the future of billions? On top of that we have someone running for president who thinks you should get as much education as you can afford. Education shouldn't have a price, it should be a free opprotunity for all.
"THIS GENERATION"
You want to know what happens when those students dropout? They go in the streets. Drug dealing, robbing, killing, etc. The world we live in today, more & more people are influenced to these illegal activities, which lead them to jail. It's influential in their surroundings, peer pressure, and worse of all, THE MEDIA. Today the media loves to portray, gangsta rap, songs that degrade women, and far beyond worse. Sometimes I fall in this area & I'm ashamed of it. It's a lot of musicians I can't hear anymore that can be a good influence or beneficial to the world. Sometimes all I can listen to is "Black Hippy" (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock), Nipsey Hussle, Meek Mill, Odd Future and a few more. The reason why is because they have created pieces that can influence somebody, even myself to feel like I should do good in life, work hard, etc. Most of these songs that people listen to makes them want to live that life. For example, if a rapper talks about robbing and stealing, etc, that will make people even younger than me (which I'm 18) feel like, "Oh this person hot. He/She making money, maybe I should do it to see that." Most people who feel like that has ended up dead, or in prison. When you surrounded by people who live the life, you get pressured to do it, or have no choice to do it. If you don't you become victimized of being called a punk, or any word that is similar. Racism still exists, the rich is getting richer, the poor become poorer, people dying everyday, innocent lives in danger and many more. When will it stop?
"THE SYSTEM"
All of the things I just said brings together the final piece of who Jerome Streets is: An average joe who "Hates The System." I'm no different from the many individuals who rebel against the system. Bush left out that house, leaving the trouble to the next president, we have soldiers who are still in a war that will never end until the deaths of innocent lives is done, or demands are fulfilled. We have soldiers who are never coming home, families and friends crying for this endless chaos to end. It's like what Ab-Soul said in "Terrorist Threats: "Babylon, Babylon, out my window all i see is Babylon / on the news all I see is Babylon, and all N***as do is just babble on." I feel that same way. In a few days we are about to pay our respects to the deaths of innocent lives from the tragic "9/11." These aren't just my words. I know it's plenty of people who feels the ways I feel. So when you read this, these are the words of millions who want the world safe, a better place, all we need is our voices & a helping hand. Thank you.
Jerome Streets
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