The closest any of you have probably came to listening to rap is your middle aged co-worker's imitation of Rappers Delight.
I grew up with Gin n Juice, B.B., Ice Cube, Dre., Puffy, B.I.G etc.
You're implying that without rap there wouldn't be any gangsters.
No, but that lifestyle is marketed by them. Just because gangsters and the like are out committing crimes, you seem to be blaming it on rap, only because rap in very few cases talks about it... but so does the news.
I rarely see young kids dressing like Koppel and Jennings. The news doesn't glamourize it. I'm sure the number of people that put on Cop Killer decide to go out and murder a cop simply because they heard it in a song is zero.
Are you positively sure about that though?
As for the Cribs and banishing the ghetto... have you seen it? There aren't very many multi-million dollar homes in the ghetto, if that's not banishing the ghetto then what is?
No, but I have heard of several rap "artists" that refuse to leave their old "ghetto" neighborhoods because they would be selling out. I can look it up for you if you want. I guess you can tak ethe rapper out of the ghetto but not the ghetto out of the rapper? Did Gwen Paltrow go out and by six cars after her first movie or was it Patrick Dempsey? (
) Frivolity my friend.And lmao @ glamming it up with grills and the talk, that's hard core murderer **** right there.
Most of them probably aren't, so why rap about it and act like it? So they should be required to wear suits at all times and not talk like themselves?
P. Diddy wears suits. English would suffice, especially when you are a role model.
Please, somebody go through the youtube list I posted and tell me exactly what's offensive, which parts make you want to go murder somebody or do all this other bad stuff you are referring to.
It's not me I'm worried about, it's the easily impressionable. Everyone always says they hate rap, but their only reason is because they don't like the sound of it,
My and many others reason isn't the sound, it's the culture and words they chant over and over to the said impressionable. The lifestyle that is encompassed as glamorous. they aren't even singing, boo hoo. Yet they are so defensive about it they make up all this other nonsense to blame it for. There were gangsters and crime before rap you know..