Thanks LYDIAONTARIO, I appreciate that.
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No that was an absolutely stupid explanation. Rap was not created to glorify that stuff. Early rappers actually was either against that, or had no real message beyond just being party music. What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door. God knows what he thinks rap has to do with Europe’s issues. That’s reaching.
VanDeKoik,
First of all, I don't mind at all that posters don't agree with me - that's what the forum is all about (debate and conversation). But if you want to comment on something I said, you could have the common courtesy to cc me on a post about it.
Next, I made an analogy of Hip Hop "contributing" to "Black Culture" as the Bubonic Plague "contributed" to overpopulation in European towns and villages when it decimated them (that happened centuries ago for the historically challenged). How you read that to mean that I believe "rap" has something do with with current European issues is beyond me.
Both Hip Hop and the Plague have nothing to contribute to any society.
Does that clear things up?
had no real message beyond just being party music. What was being described is derived from gangsta rap, a branch of it that developed in the early 90s that shoved all of the clean acts like Run DMC, The Fat Boys, Will Smith and MC Hammer right out the door.
I make no such distinction between "party" rap and "gangsta" rap because there isn't one - it is all crap.
Rap has a message: drugs, rape, misogyny, selfishness, crime, violence, stupidity, boorishness, narcissism - all mixed together with the inability to put actual musical notes together in any form. Hence, they have to steal even basic melodies from others, and then talk their profanity laced sewer mumblings over them.