Intro to Poetry book "Dope Dialogue"

Copyright © 2004
The definition of Dope:


-There was a time when rap music had two definite realms. These realms were positive and negative. For example the rappers representing these different dimensions were: positive=Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee, Boogie Down Productions, M.C. Hammer, X-Clan, etc. Negative were: N.W.A. 2-Live Krew, Getto Boyz, Ice Cube, Gangsta Nip, etc. and then there were other rappers who kind of existed in both worlds, some of them are listed in the negative. These rappers included Kool G Rap and Polo, Third Bass, 2-Pac, Too Short, etc. And of course you had other rappers who really didn’t make much of an impact at all like Vannilla Ice for example.  But for specific purposes one rapper that comes to mind who existed in both worlds of negative and positive was Ice-T. 


One possible origin: Once there was this middle class kid who was glued to watching channel 51, Black Entertainment Television. Channel 51 was the only video channel left on his parents den television because on one fate full day when his father walked in on him watching the provocative "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS" music video by Motley Crew. Immediately his father had VH1 and MTV removed. On this particular night he was under no parental supervision and was watching Ice-T’s "I’m Your Pusher" music video. With a Curtis Mayfield Sample, and street images being fed into his psyche the word “DOPE” stuck in his vocabulary as meaning a truth that many didn’t want to admit existed. Something changed in him
                                                and from that point on he became obsessed on finding out what that truth was. After all, his upper middle class lifestyle was boring compared to the flashy lifestyles he saw from the Rappers. In effect he started buying rap albums. He’d go to so much trouble as to get eighteen year old strangers to buy the infamous parental advisory sticker labeled albums for him. He tried his best to hide these albums from his
shocked father who would reply something to the effect of “Why do you want to be like those scum?” The child tried to explain about the differences in positive and negative rap but with song titles like "Rise and Shine" by Kool Moe Dee his father just knew it was all X-rated.
            A few years later the kid was a teenager searching for an identity. And guess what he wanted to be?  Furthermore, his parents divorced, he moved to the poor part of town and he had the opportunity to find out what “dope” actually was.

            In doing so-
                                    he immersed himself into a lifestyle of drugs guns and money. His discoveries are reflected in the following collection of prose, poetry, and short stories.

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