I saw a video of a rapper; I believe in Brazil. He was on stage rapping about shooting someone in the gut. Someone in the audience shot him in the gut, killing him.
Rapper culture is a creation of marketers who mourned the demise of the “counterculture” which vanished when the hippies put on suits and became stockbrokers. The counterculture was a readymade market for whatever represented the counterculture to them. Thus, was born horrible “black” music. No melody. No talent. Anti-culture lyrics. They created something horrible because it’s a lot easier than creating something good.
Nothing looks or sounds more ridiculous than a white teenager tunelessly repeating, “I kill ‘da ho,’ I do, I do, I do.”
I remember this.
From the "Greatest Generation" to the Boomers just like that.
I’m old enough to remember when black music, aka “Soul music” was all about making love and having backup singers who could really sing without computers touching up their lack of talent.
Diana Ross, The Four Tops, Issac Hayes, Aretha Franklin, Dione Warwick etc.
And none of them cursed, had tattoos or shot or were shot at.
Only Tina Turner I think and that was by Ike.