Great point. It's a proxy thing, really.
Someone needs to let Savage know so that he can't talk some more about how rap music makes people shoot each other.
Right.
It's just bad music in general makes people do it.
More proof that laws prohibiting Weapons in private businesses where alcohol is served are correct...sorry "gun slingers".
Good point. I never seem to hear him talk about how horrible the lyrics are in some of the other genres. Lyrics with fixation of murder, death, mutilation and suicide.
Yeah, metal lyrics may be dark, evil and violent at times, but the entire cRap culture is violent and evil. It may turn out that there was some sinister cause to this shooting, but at first glance, it looks like this was done by some (probably) drugged up assclown who snapped.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Pantera is a metal band. I don't know anything about the current band, but it sounds like post-industrial death metal.
You don't want to go there.
Name the last two rock stars who have been involved in incidents in which people were killed, or at least, there was intent to kill. At this moment, I can only think of two: John Lennon, shot to death twenty-four years ago tonight, and the two from Damageplan hours ago.
On the other hand, from the world of rap, we have the assassinations of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur for starters. Shakur was shot in a studio years before. P. Diddy/Puff Daddy/Sean John/P. Sukrap attacked a rival record executive with a champagne bottle. Combs and Shyne were involved in a shooting for which the latter is still in prison. Pre-stardom, Snoop Dogg was charged with murder, being at the scene of a drive-by shooting that killed a rival gangbanger. We have the knife attack from Lil Wayne at the VIBE awards. We have prison thug Marion "Suge" Knight of Death Row Records, who allegedly shoved Vanilla Ice over a balcony and threatened to drop him to his death. And John Kerry's favorite rapper, Eminem, brought a gun into a nightclub to confront the guy he thought was banging his wife.
Rock and roll largely celebrates rebellion, but not necessarily violence. Although the industry standard has somewhat shifted from gangsta rap to pimp-ho-bling-bling schtuff, Hardcore rap not only celebrated violence as it gained popularity, it was an active participant in it.
Dimebag had more talent in his left pinkie than the entire "Hip Hop Community" will ever have.
Great point. It's a proxy thing, really.
ANd now, somewhere above the clouds -- "Dimebag", "Tupac" and "ODB" are having a heavenly jam session . . .
Rap "music" is not real music. It's just juvenile street lyrics that sometimes make sense, but usually do not. It's what on in between the stations that are playing real music. When I was in 4th grade I could write similar "music", only mine was better. Then I moved on to the sax and piano, and, well, grew up.