To Odd Future rapper, ‘it’s funny’ that rape, murder lyrics anger people

[The Straight Story]

They’ve been called “the future of the music business” for their freewheeling, Internet-based approach to recording and distribution. They’ve also been called “inexcusable,” “reprehensible” and “dangerous” for lyrics that are frequently violent, misogynist, anti-gay and anti-police.

They’re called OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All), and they’re a large, young, hip-hop collective that’s become one of the most divisive topics in music.

Odd Future, scheduled to perform Sunday at the annual Pitchfork Music Festival, has turned heads with some of the freshest sounds in hip-hop, heard mostly in tracks given away free online and on myriad solo projects by the group’s members. Their songs are wildly aggressive and boundlessly creative, the wordplay crazy-clever and surprisingly sharp.

But it’s those rhymes — peppered as they are with rape, kidnapping, murder and torture fantasies, blasphemy, homophobia, you name it — that have fixated the press and helped elevate this cult rap collective to the level of a Billboard magazine cover in March and last month’s in-depth New Yorker feature. And it’s the casual, matter-of-fact delivery of them that makes parents and activists apoplectic.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/6477157-417/to-odd-future-rapper-its-funny-that-rape-murder-lyrics-anger-people.html

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1. hostile and negative, the hallmarks of the genre. well it does appeal to adolescents nt