While I am not defending this stuff, I will say that these rappers are not calling all women "bitches" and "ho"s.
Sure it is, but those songs just don't make much of an impact in a society that is used to a brasher style, meaner, and harder to reach. "papa Was A Rolling Stone"? yeah, that's nice, I like it too, but rapping about how how your drugged-up, abusive father beat your mother into her grave, molested your sister, and shoved a loaded gun in your mouth every morning, kind of tells it like it is for many angry youth, especially authorities, who are supposed to protect kids, don't do anything but blame you for being disrespectful. Stories about how some meth whore will give it up for anybody for another hit...in detail, gets noticed more than Donna Summer's "Bad Girls".
I really think a lot of this is about generation.
Yeah, it was powerful for the
older generation, but it doesn't do diddly-squat for the
youth of today.
I am a baby-boomer, but I keep my ears and eyes open.
I interact with today's youth and know what their reality is, so I know they won't listen to polite and safe messages. They need to be hit over the head. Remember that most of our WWII generation parents weren't crack addicts or bi-polar hot messes like the parents that raised our youth.
I work with youth today, too, and worked for a year in a home for homeless youth. They're begging for leadership, not another person to scream at what their reality is.
Yeah it was dumbed down. It was as safe as milk and cookies.
In YOUR opinion.
If you think rap is so easy, YOU write and perform a rap tune...nd it better be good!
I could do it, I don't have a mixer. I played tenor sax for seven years, tell the rappers to do THAT? Goes both ways my friend, not just YOUR way.
And snobs are so blinded by their biases that they can't have an open mind.
Again, if you think rap is so easy, YOU do it! And do it well!
Why don't the rappers play instruments? I also played some guitar, clairinet, and piano. Tell them to do that, and do it well. I've written poetry and 100 percent sure I could write rap. How's this: Crack 'ho on my street, she gets beat, some sucka don't f--k her because now she's dead meat. ... I did that in 10 seconds off the top of my head. Give me time to work on it and yeah, I could write rap.
I repeat: can you do it better?
Yes.
The reason you like old music is because you've been weaned on it. At some point you closed your mind.
No, I know good from bad. If you don't know that a 5-star steakhouse is better than Bob's Greaseburger, why wake up in the morning, just kill yourself.
So, are you the gatekeeper of what "good" music is and what isn't? I'd like to know who appointed you.
No, but I know rap sucks sh-t.
OMG!!!! Now
you're being intellectually lazy!
"Because he was, that's why" doesn't tell me why he is considered the greatest player. You're going to have to come up with an actual argument if you are going to use Michael Jordan as an example. What if you are trying to convince a non sports fan...like me...of Jordan's greatness? Your little
"Because that's why." isn't going to cut it!
OK, sh-t, you haven't heard of MJ. OK, 6 NBA titles, highest playoff scoring average, multiple NBA MVP and defensive player of the year ... God, man, quit reaching just to win an argument.
Here's the problem, sir: you are judging today's music from a different era by that of another era with its own aesthetic.
Uh, so by your standard, "Family Guy" is better acted than "Vertigo" ... whatever is new is best.
Because he [Michael Jordan] was.
You still haven't told me
how he was, or is, the gold standard.
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