Tellin’ It Raw & Keepin’ It Real 2.0 NADCP 23nd Annual Training Conference July 9-12, 2017 Washington D.C. P.O. Wallace Green, LICDC (216) 664-3287 [email protected] “All I’m offering is the truth.” Listening: be aware of your filters Stage of Change: “Start where ___ ______ __.” If the client is in the pre- contemplation phase, very simply what do you need to do? • Give them something to think about! – Give then something they cannot walk away from • If they are in the contemplation phase than very simply, what do you need to do? – Show them how to contemplate! Stages of Change* • Interventions that presume that a client is in the action stage work if the client is in the action stage • Interventions geared for action are doomed if the client is not in the action stage and will create a very difficult case DiClemente, C. C. (2003). Addiction and change: How addictions develop and addicted persons recover. New York: Guilford Press Prochaska, J.O., & DiClemente, C.C. (1982). Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 19, 276- 288. The advantage of dealing with pre-contemplation correctly • Client becomes a willing player in his / her own development • Rather than you teaching the client anything, you create in them a desire for learning • Show them how they are being played – Regardless of how far down they are no one likes to be played – Use their definitions to help them see where they really are • Pimp – someone who benefits from the work of others with minimum input / scoring points off of someone else’s back • Hoe – someone who is being taken advantage of; someone who does the work without getting paid Presentation Goals • Participants will be able to help the clients detect negative culture driven “unconscious” decisions that can threaten their sobriety. • Participants will learn how to use the evidenced-based, “Stages of Change” model to understand the Hip-Hop culture, and help their clients progress through the stages towards long term recovery. Presentation Goals • By helping the clients to identify the “culture vultures” the participants can help their clients recognize who is getting “paid”, and who is getting “played” by their choices. Goals • Empathy • Skills • Knowledge Never underestimate the power of Music • Can change emotions… drastically • Cause physical reactions • Tied to detailed memory – Pinpoint place and time • This will be the sound track of the client’s youth Gangsta Rap in the 21st Century • Jay-Z is an emeritus figure head; no longer relevant – Now bigger outside of Hip Hop • Puffy has been relegated to ‘vodka salesmen’ (Cîroc) • Dr. Dre scored big with the Beats Headphone buy out from Apple; dwarfing anything he ever did in Hip Hop • 50 Cent has declared bankruptcy • Lil’ Wayne is suing his (fake) Daddy, Brian ‘Birdman’ Williams after finally figuring out he has been ripping him off all these years • Rick Ross just settled a case for pistol whipping his groundskeeper (Pleads to 5 misdemeanors 4/4/17) • The golden age of gangsta rap is clearly in the rearview mirror The 21st Century Gangsta Rap Transformation Milestones Miles Stones • The rise of Kanye West (August, 2005) – The first multi-platinum commercial rapper from the gangsta era that did not fit the gangsta image or come from a challenging background – He would open the door for Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Chance the Rapper • Drake; currently the number one selling rapper does not fit the gangsta rap image Time Magazine, Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West • Roc-A-Fella wasn't the only label to pass on Kanye (pronounced Kahn-yay; it means "the Only One" in Swahili) West. Executives at record companies large and small failed to reconcile West's appearance and demeanor with their expectations of what a rapper should be. They had no idea how to market him. "It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs says West, 28, who grew up in suburban Chicago Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1096499 ,00.html#ixzz0wA1xtKmO Time Magazine, Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West • Roc-A-Fella wasn't the only label to pass on Kanye (pronounced Kahn-yay; it means "the Only One" in Swahili) West. Executives at record companies large and small failed to reconcile West's appearance and demeanor with their expectations of what a rapper should be. They had no idea how to market him. "It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs says West, 28, who grew up in suburban Chicago Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1096499 ,00.html#ixzz0wA1xtKmO Time Magazine, Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West • With the market mired in thuggery, African- American consumers' could choose to: A) Propagate a nasty stereotype of themselves for white kids to pin their libidinous fantasies on; B) Not care C) Start patronizing the danger-free, super-nice, super-boring rappers at the liberal humanist fringe; D) Give up. E) Both A and D Answer: E Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1096499- 3,00.html#ixzz0wA8pnVgz Time Magazine, Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West • Statistics consistently show that 70% of hip-hop is consumed by young white audiences, but a century of anecdotal evidence is similarly irrefutable: white kids think it's cool to be black… Time Magazine Sunday August 21, 2005 – Kanye West • “… Jesus Walks is all Kanye," says Smith. "When he wrote, 'To the hustlers, killers, murderers, drug dealers/ Even the strippers/ Jesus Walks for them!', I said, 'Wait, it doesn't matter what you do at all? You can keep doing bad things, and in the end it's all good? Don't we need to take a stand?' And he said, 'It's about imperfection. Everybody can relate to that.' Damn if he wasn't right." Drake; No.1 commercial Hip Hop artist 2015-2016 • Breaking the mold – Canadian – Raised Jewish – Uses the ‘n’ word – Not the ‘’k’ word • Why do you think? • Same nihilistic, street value braggadocio Although the major players may have changed, the content message remains the same • Commercial Hip Hop continues to grind out the same braggadocio, money spending, strip club attending, hyper sexual, ‘I live the life you wish you could’ lyrics devoid of most, if not all reality. Hyper Masculinity • Verbally Promise to: – Dominate many women – Dominate situations – Dominate other men – Be fearless – Criminal activity – Risk it all at any moment – No regard for any consequences – Gay bashing – Street cred Milestones (2007) • The Imus ‘Nappy headed hoes’ controversy would spark a debate about the ‘n’ word and misogynistic lyrics exposing the elephant in the recording studio (April 4, 2007) – "I may be a white man, but I know that ... young black women all through that society are demeaned and disparaged and disrespected ... by their own black men and that they are called that name." D. Imus Milestones • This would be the last time women would have an opportunity to gain respect in commercial Hip Hop • The Hip Hop vs America –BET town hall series – How the deck was stacked against logic and reason – The audience was young and impressionable and on the side of the rappers going against their best interest BET Series 'Hip-Hop Vs. America' Sept 25, 2007 • Voice to the ignored • Telling it like it is • The Hood’s CNN • Bridged race relations – RUN DMC Hip Hop vs. America: The battles • Young vs old battle • Hip vs. square battle • Just a record focus on ‘real crime’ vs. understand your influence battle • Republican vs. Democrat battle • Male vs. female battle • Book knowledge or Intellect (‘afrostocracy’) vs. street knowledge battle Hip Hop vs. America: The battles • The ‘got nothings’ who finally got something vs. the middle class, ‘gate keepers’ who let them down battle • Free speech vs. ‘have a since of decorum’ battle • Rappin’ about it vs. doing it for real battle • You owe the community vs. don’t like it, don’t buy battle • Bad influence on kids vs. Not my job to raise them battle The con arguments that weren’t Pro Gangsta Rap Con Gangsta Rap 1. Movies are more graphic 1. Actors have not had to be and violent and not held gangsters to get the part to the same standard 1. Movies are not as constant as music 2. Don’t hate the player 2. Only a player can change the hate the game game 3. Just entertainment 3. Hip Hop is a lifestyle / they are 4. Not my job to raise your doing what you do 24/7 kids 1. They don’t want to be ‘fake’ 5. Don’t like it, don’t buy it 4. Passing the buck / for a small minority of men you are the role model / no fathers 5. It permeates the internet, radio and award shows The con arguments that weren’t Pro Gangsta Rap Con Gangsta Rap 1. Product of my environment 1. No, you are a product of your choices 2. I could be doing this for real 2. We would be better off if you were 3. I give back doing it for real; you would be 4. Just keeping it real about reaching only hundreds instead of what’s goin’ on in the hood hundreds of thousands 5. We are like the CNN 3. That’s like selling millions of packs of cigarettes and making a donation to the American Cancer Society.