Oh, come on, fellow citizens! We have all heard rap, the REAL rap, can?t escape it. Every loud obnoxious car sitting next to us at the stop light blaring the filthy lyrics so that even with our windows rolled up we can still hear the morally-base intent. It won the Academy Award for cryin? out loud. And, most of us have heard Tupac, and everyone singing his praises.
The problem isn?t that crime and gangster ways were around before. The problem is in glorifying it and making it a legitimate ?art form.? And, bringing the ghetto to million dollar neighborhoods is just lowering the quality of the hood. Everyone wants to be rich, but nobody wants to conform to the values of the rich. Snobbery means keeping the lowlifes out, not letting them in, with their diamond teeth and their gaudy d?cor. So, yes they should be required to wear suits and not be themselves. Prejudice ignites when the differences of people are so glaring that it makes you run. The problem of individualism, in this nation in particular, is that it emphasizes the separation of class and standards. If someone has worked hard all their life to acquire a fortune, conformed to the standard, and made the choice to live a ?quality? life, then why should they have to live next to trash? Just because they have money? Used to be, the trash lived on the other side of town, and if and when those individuals educated themselves and progress far enough up the ladder they were welcomed and accepted as part of the upperwardly mobile. Now, all you need is money to live in those mansions, and some of the gawd awful people who have money now should be shot! There, that is one aspect of rap that makes people want to run out and murder others.
I have gone through your list and what I find offensive is the lack of respect for women, treating them as object simply for sex (there is never an intelligent looking woman relating to any of the men, she is just there for their pleasure), the sloppiness of their ?costumes,? which reinforce the laziness and slovenliness of the poor enabling them to think they can get by dressed like that and be accepted by the mainstream or even bypass it, and the stereotypical antics and gestures of the black performers which reinforce the images in bigoted and prejudice individual?s minds who now get to say, ?See! See how they jump around and act!? These antics have filtered down into the White, Asian, Latino and young Black youth?s everyday behavior. A guy just casually walking down the street nowadays is swaying and jerking so much that he looks like an idiot! You can spot the influence in any young person who has succumbed. It is NOT a positive influence.
