i don’t like rap music
This title might be a bit misleading. The title is more or less the sentiment that some people echo in a simple straightforward statement. Some folks might put some special disclaimer on it in their heads by delineating a mental demarcation between say, “hip-hop” and “that crappy rap music.” But I seem to get the sense that there is a massive population of those people who don’t like “the rap.” Those commercials for lyte/easy listening radio stations come to mind. ”... and absolutley NO rap. The kind of music YOU like. All day long.”
Perhaps it’s just one of those automatic conditioned responses similar to those that laugh and proclaim, “Oh man, I HATE country music.” But I want to concentrate on the rap thing. My specific point:
How often is it that those people that hate “rap music” also hate dancing or have never danced in their lives, or are afraid to dance.
I certainly wouldn’t argue with the fact that there is a lot of popular music out there that is soulless, pointless garbage made shiny, marketed down peoples throats and repeated endlessly on corporate radio. I just get pissed when anyone HATES something especially when the proclamations seem to be based in the need to feel superior, founded in fear, or blinded by ignorance. I think some people just can’t shake their ass. What did that George Clinton say about freeing your mind?
SEE ALSO: Music/Jamaican/Dancehall
I suppose everything has its share of fear, hate and ignorance; the above included. Oh and don’t get me started on the whiteness involved in all of this.
15 October 2002, 14:40 ::
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Obviously, blanket statements are stupid. But arguing against them is futile.
The next revolution in popular rap music will only come when the bulk of video producers decide that the millionaire thug mini-movie was an exhausted concept well before the 90s winked out.
That’s not to say that everyone’s got to play the socially conscious artist (Arrested Development, et al., sheesh).
Every genre goes through its creative doldrums: there was some really bad techno being made round-about the time drum ‘n bass took off.
Anyway, until Sean Combs and Toby Keith go the way of M.C. Hammer, rap and country remain safe havens for eye-friendly sheisters and God-size dullards.
— Tor Mescaline 2002-10-17 09:09 #
— linhchi 2002-10-17 18:54 #