Rap is crap!
LOL
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Originally Posted by MarineHawk
I see your point on its face, but if you look a little deeper you might see a difference.
Rap stars attempt to personify their lyrics into their image. Actors who play murderers don?t do so nearly to the same degree. That?s why countless rap musicians are killed by other gangstas or imprisoned for violent crimes. Not so much Jack Nicholson (who has played a murderer in movies). Though Darth Vader was a bad guy, James Earl Jones was not going out and shooting other actors while hopped up on crack. It?s a totally different culture. If you turn on MTV?s violent rap crap, you see that those guys are trying to convey that they really are cool, fancy violent people who kill at will. While Kaiser Soze was pretty brutal in ?The Usual Suspects,? I doubt many people in an alley are as afraid of Kevin Spacey as they are the gangsta rappers, who really try to act the part of the brutal murderous man who can kill at will. It?s a different message. One is fiction. The other really attempts to convey reality. If you don?t get that, then too bad.
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Well said, very well said. And anyone who references Kaiser Soze just gets a gold star with glitter on it.
Also well said to the Architexan.
I have mentioned before my distaste for the culture.
Punk and Rap would be an equivilant debate.
Rap rose along with Punk, black kids and white kids rebelling for no good reason just as generations before, and though the Circle Jerks, JFA, Agent Orange aren't around (may be around, I dunno) Pennywise, Rage and lots of other anti-establishment/punk/skate/surf are. The rebellion remains but hasn't evolved into the wide-open violence, sexual and personal discrimination, frivolity and overall self demeaning nature that gangsta rap culture has.
Kids need something to identify with.
I think it is indeed the portraits they paint outside of the studio. They think of Cribs as a marketing tool too. If they are shown to be the Cosby's then everyone will think they are traitors for some reason. They are not legit or they are banishing the ghetto.
So they glam it up with grills and the talk (the culture). I guarantee that if they had a KISS house on cribs and the camera showed the group sitting in a dungeon with full-on face paint you would
LYOA!
Same thing, I laugh my azz off and watch them walk and talk like uneducated idiots- and kids and older identity seekers look up to them. It's sad.
Marilyn Manson is guilty of the same thing, but the worst his fans will face is a huge crater of a piercing hole in a facial part, not felonies and criminal records, though some attribute his music to Columbine. His stuff and that culture is more self demeaning but still a rebellion.