Reply #33: Meh [View All]

[Comrade Kangaroo]

Well, if you need a less race-centric reason not to listen to rap, most rap just plain sucks. It's moronic, top-forty shit completely devoid of any musical quality or creativity. It's just some dumbass in a FUBU jacket talking about his bitches and/or ho's. It's boring to listen to, it's uncreative, it's all been done before, and it just encourages a culture of gang violence, drug use, and intolerance against women, caucasians (ok, we kinda deserve it, but whatever), and homosexuals. It's liquid shit for your CD player. And I'm a 16 year old from the suburbs, so I see plenty of this pretend "ghetto" culture. Kids that live in the suburbs but somehow seem to think that the parking lot outside of starbucks is their "hood". I see these nimrods every day at school wearing their bling-bling and calling everybody "dawg" and I just wanna slap the bastards. I see some dumbass walking down the hall saying "yo yo yo, wassup ma nigga?" and it's hard to reconcile that with the fact that I just saw him exit his mother's Lexus while she reminded him that his piano lesson was at six.

Sorry for the rant there.

On the other hand, I do like a little bit of old-school hip hip...NWA, Public Enemy, Dr. Dre...that stuff actually has some musical creativity in it, and their songs are actually written with some social conscience...Public Enemy was the first rapper to really write protest songs. It's pretty good stuff. But yeah, as for "Fitty Cent", I would enjoy watching a candy shop blow up with him in it.