Idea: Rappers embracing green jobs (what do you think?)
Hi everyone!
I've been thinking alot about this. Since my main goal is to create millions of competitive green jobs that are strong enough to provide a pathway out poverty. What I've been thinking about is how best to go about this. Green Jobs Now! is a great way to get the word out, but how many people are really listening? This campaign is rarely talked about of mainstream television. I beginning to think this GreenForAll campaign is not being publisized as much as it should be. Look at pop culture! For example reality shows and rap music. The publicity from it all is absolutely phenominal! Rap has become so common in pop culture that people anticipate their albums months before they're released, teenagers take direct quotes from songs are use them in regular conversation, they dress like them, they act like them, they idolize them! Rappers create huge trends and are household names! Rappers represent coming up from poverty to wealth and mansions. Why then do rappers create this stuck up, bad-boy image?! They talk constantly about women, money, jewelry, violence, drugs, and partying. They basically make it a competition to see who can top the other. This isn't right! They still talk about poverty, but they talk consistently more about wealth and status. If they truely represent coming up from poverty, they should help their people find a way out of poverty. What if these rappers helped gain publicity for the green job movement?! If rappers got involved, they could shed their bad-boy image and grossly inflated egos and do something to represent the areas they came from. To give you an example, I've embedded a rap video called "My Life" made by The Game featuring Lil Wayne.
If these rappers can speak so passionately about the terror of living in the ghettos, they could talk just as passionatley about helping those people find a way out!
-Tom Zellars
I've been thinking alot about this. Since my main goal is to create millions of competitive green jobs that are strong enough to provide a pathway out poverty. What I've been thinking about is how best to go about this. Green Jobs Now! is a great way to get the word out, but how many people are really listening? This campaign is rarely talked about of mainstream television. I beginning to think this GreenForAll campaign is not being publisized as much as it should be. Look at pop culture! For example reality shows and rap music. The publicity from it all is absolutely phenominal! Rap has become so common in pop culture that people anticipate their albums months before they're released, teenagers take direct quotes from songs are use them in regular conversation, they dress like them, they act like them, they idolize them! Rappers create huge trends and are household names! Rappers represent coming up from poverty to wealth and mansions. Why then do rappers create this stuck up, bad-boy image?! They talk constantly about women, money, jewelry, violence, drugs, and partying. They basically make it a competition to see who can top the other. This isn't right! They still talk about poverty, but they talk consistently more about wealth and status. If they truely represent coming up from poverty, they should help their people find a way out of poverty. What if these rappers helped gain publicity for the green job movement?! If rappers got involved, they could shed their bad-boy image and grossly inflated egos and do something to represent the areas they came from. To give you an example, I've embedded a rap video called "My Life" made by The Game featuring Lil Wayne.
If these rappers can speak so passionately about the terror of living in the ghettos, they could talk just as passionatley about helping those people find a way out!
-Tom Zellars
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