With his upcoming Chemically Imbalanced album slated for release on October 27, Chris Webby spoke with HipHopDX about including a song about climate change on the final track-list.
Explaining why he thinks “rappers need to start caring a little more,” Webby detailed his thoughts on using Hip Hop as a tool to inform listeners.
“So, there is a song on Chemically Imbalanced called ‘Stand Up,’ which is one of my personal favorites,” Webby said. “It tackles the issues of climate change and a lot of the environmental disasters that are happening. It covers a lot of the political corruption that so many people from our generation are blind to…So many of these kids just aren’t informed and I feel like that’s why rap is here in a sense. They’re here to blow up the dudes who are doing all the shit behind the scenes. We’re the ones who gotta tell everybody and put them on the spot and tell the truth. Of course you need the braggadocious, fun, party shit. But Hip Hop is a medium to explain things to people. You can say so much in one song, so I think it’s important to take a stand on shit. If you care about something, fucking talk about it. Not just popping bottles and fucking bitches. Everyone loves that of course. I mean, if that’s all we’re fucking worried about we’re going to hell in a handbasket on this planet. I know that much. Just care. Rappers need to start caring a little more. Just a little bit.“
Chris Webby’s latest single features Talib Kweli, Grafh, B-Real, and Trae Tha Truth. Listen to “Dopamine” on HipHopDX here.
uh, no. no human affect on the global climate (notice how it went from global warming to climate change when world temperatures failed to rise for 18 years?) just a fabricated cause for liberals to take more control over your lives and the economy, like how neocons use the war on terror to take away your privacy.
It was global warming because the planet was being warmed. Warming the planet is like warming your body. When your body gets too hot because of unnatural shit, all sorts of awful side effects happen. The icebergs melt and flood the oceans with excess water, A lot of that water is cold, because it used to be ice. The polar ice caps are melting. The water levels are rising. The acidity of the ocean is killing all life in there. This is happening. This is going to end the world and all hip hop wants to talk about is Iggy stealing black ass jiggling and black Islam faggots in bow ties.
“Black” ass jiggling. “Black” Islam faggots. Kill yourself please.
Sometimes I feel as if white rappers say and act fuckin off the wall to show how ungangster they are, as if to fit a weird demographic or something.
Dafuq global warming have to do with rap.
It’s hilarious how climate change is “off the wall” to hip hop kids. “Yeah he’s talking about the most important planetary thing in the last millennium, what the fuck is he trying to get away with?”
there’s nothing we can do on an individual level at this point. leave it to science to figure it out.
‘hiphop’ fans are embarrassing as all hell..
easily the most ignorant fanbase.
Game is really fucked up. Climate change but not a peep on Ferguson or anything related to the culture you’re raping. Feels like the 50’s (or any decade for that matter) where they took our sound and repackaged it with a white face. Trying to shove that post-racial bullshit down our throat so we don’t see them taking everything from us.
Yeah you’re right, Ferguson hasn’t been in the news or hip hop at all.
I was speaking on white rappers in general regarding Ferguson, Mike Brown, Vonderitt Myers, and Eric Gardner and how suddenly you don’t hear a peep from them. Cause black lives don’t matter to them just our culture and how they can benefit from it.
White people can’t speak on black issues remember? they’re not in the trap trappin, they can’t relate, y’all won’t let whiteboys address black issues…and that Myers kid licked off 3 shots at a cop, in what universe do you not end up dead after that? Fuck that kid. Y’all need to stop defending the wrong people and earn some respect for yourselves
“that Myers kid licked off 3 shots at a cop, in what universe do you not end up dead after that?”
If you’re white in America: below is a link to the story of a white man who took an officer’s gun, shot at officers, and was taken into custody…alive. #WhitePrivilege
http://www.koco.com/news/police-man-killed-in-officerinvolved-shooting-took-officers-gun-shot-at-police/29638410
Wrong link above: here’s the link to the story of the white man high on mushrooms who took a cop’s gun, fired it, and still got brought into custody alive http://www.kptv.com/story/22961454/police-man-on-mushrooms-grabbed-officers-gun-fired-shot
(the other guy above got killed, so if you’re white, your chances are 50/50 that you survive shooting at a cop LOL)
niggas rapping about the weather now
Leave it to white rappers to talk about actual social issues and not illuminati bullshit and ebola as population control
suck a dick frat rap fan #1
WHO GIVES A FCUK WHAT THIS DUDE THINKS ABUT CLIMATE CHANGE? IF I WANT TO HEAR OR KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE I WOULD SEEK AN EDUCATED EXPERT. GTFOH
ITS NOT LIKE IF THERE IS SOME TOPICAL ISSUE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE CNN GONNA SEEK THIS DUDE’S OPINION OR SHIT.
Wow, that’s some racist shit. Why bring up his race at all? You trying to say it’s because he’s white that he’s worried about global change? As if black people shouldn’t have to worry about the environment they live in?
You personally give your people a bad name.
Fuck skin color. He aint no expert on the topic, so fuck him and his rant.
Wanna inform people who struggle everyday on your global issues? Fuck you too then.
you guys are super ignorant, so talking about climate change and the environment isnt cool? fuck off.. lets talk about cars & jewelry and bitchs..and if you listened to his music u would know hes well educated on this subject and plenty more. And he has spoke on Mike brown as well so pay attention to something besides urself .. and RAP/HIP HOP is about expressing yourself, what the fuck do bottles have to do with rap? what do cars & woman have to do with rap? what do cities have to do with rap? rap is expression from what an artists sees or feels.. fuckin idiots ignorance is bliss
You can tell who the white boys are on this site. It’s not that us minorities don’t care about the environment, it’s that there are more immediate, pressing issues we have to confront and deal with on a daily basis.
im actually mixed and nobody said there isnt more pressing issue, but the world falling apart is quite a big issue
climate change is natural for the planet. it’s nothing new.
That’s a nice opinion, except that it goes against every piece of empirical evidence that we have ever obtained and is in direct violation of the results of every well received peer-review article ever published.