Turn Down For What

"Turn-up" Action Verb 1 a: To rise to a level of which you're not accustomed.

For the most part majority of us like to believe that we execute complete free-will over the things that we do and that we aren't influenced by outside factors. Hip-Hop has seem to have taken residence in popular music, on not just a national scale, but a global one. For a genre that is approaching its 40th birthday the movement that I love and many other seems to do as well is refusing to act its age.

This culture has this fixation with living on the edge and doing destructive things to themselves that may intially feel good, but we seem to ignore the thought process of taking the time to think what is good for ourselves. We have conditioned ourselves to be a collective that lives to turn-up on the weekend by partying ourselves to an early demise. We've taken society's predetermined revelation that we aren't destined to live by 25, literally. We don't understand that this whole "live it like your last day," is really bringing us closer to our last day.

This obsession with popping pills, taking excessive amounts of alcohol in short periods of time, syrup sipping and etc is leading to our early demise and like hip-hop is keeping us in a infantile state of mind. As a people we must look in the mirror and tell ourselves that it's time to grow up and starting being adults and treat our bodies with more responsibility. 

Do you really want to be the age of 2 Chainz still sending messages on social media asking where's the drank, pills, and the turn-up spot for the weekend? If you don't know what to turn down for ask your liver, brain, heart, and most importantly your future. We are already losing too many of our people to incarceration, poverty, gang violence, AIDS, and diabetes, lets not add the "Turn-Up" to that list.