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Arpig -> RE: hip hop, rap & nice bitches (2/2/2006 5:57:28 PM)
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Besides 79.37% of all statistics are made up. [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
As far as rap music, my personal take is that they just can't spell...they forgot the "C" at the beginning. That being said, it is the genre, the spoken word over the repetative beat i dislike. many of the lyrics (particularly kanye west) would make good songs if performed in a different style IMO.
As to the lyrics and videos corrupting todays youth....come on, hell I listened to all the "evil" bands in the 60s & 70s and I didn't turn out to be some bearded long-haired freak who gets his kicks tieing up & spanking women...um, wait...let me rephrase that....[;)]
Truthfully I think you aren't giving the young folks enough credit...rap music has been around for a while now, and a lot of the younger members on CM grew up with it as their music...and they don't seem to be really any worse than the rest of us who grew up listening to more "morally uplifting" music (can anybody say frank Zappa..."be a crew slut"). My Pet is younger and she likes rap & hip-hop, and she has her head on pretty tight, and my female unmentionable (jr high) likes the music as well, however she finds the "gangsta" wannabes laughable.
Its really not all that different...they are mostly middle-class white kids pretending to be downtrodden angry young blacks...and our generation were mostly middle class white kids pretending to be poor exploited victims of "the Man", and before that you had the middle class white kids being "rebels without a cause".
Lets face it...its boring as hell being a middle class white kid, no drama in the burbs, no danger or excitement, so they invent their own, much as we did. I doubt many of them are really very affected by videos and lyrics, any more than we were....I mean we survived listening to Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper, and before rap, there was Marilyn Manson, and society somehow managed to survive that, and it will survive Eminem (whose lyrics are actually quite poignant between the cussing).
I will close by saying it strikes me as somewhat ironic to read a thread decrying the way rap music videos objectify women on a BDSM site where there are earnest discussions about collaring, and flogging, and whatnot.
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