People into rap (rant)

JasonJ

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Re: People into rap (rant)

My mindset is, if people don't like my music, well, they can kiss my puckered up leather grommet. I'll admit that when I was in my early 20's, I had the loud stereo in the home and the car. The difference was I only played my car stereo loud when I was on a freeway or highway, and the windows were always up. When in town or in neighborhoods I turned it down because I knew nobody wanted to hear my crap, and I also knew undesirable types would follow you until you left your car, and then would rip you off.<br /><br />Now that I am older I just have a CD player and stock speakers in my truck, and rarely play it louder than normal human speaking volume. Now, the home theater gets a bit of a workout, but I have sufficient distance from the neighbors where they don't ever hear it. <br /><br />Clearly its an age thing. For the youngsters, the loud stereo is their plumage, not unlike peacock feathers. The louder the stereo, the more the chicks dig it (there are chicks that dig it, trust me). As you get older, the plumage changes, but the purpose remains the same, to get the chick. Men don't openly brawl to compete for the girlies anymore, they compete through the use of big houses, fast cars, wealth, or loud stereos. Its all about the chicks....
 
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18rabbit

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I live next door to one of the surviving, original founding members of the Black Panthers. Their opinion, and I don’t disagree, is that not only has rap single handedly done more to destroy the black culture, it stands as the most detrimental opponent to the youth of all races. My neighbors will not allow their children or grandchildren to play rap in their home, nor will they allow anyone to pull up to their house with the stuff booming in their car.<br /><br />Rap is rhyming, spoken lyrics over talent-less music designed to stimulate the genitals. Dr. Halprin’s studies at Stanford University in the early 80’s on the physiological effects of music showed that the lower frequencies in music stimulated the genitals, thought to be one of the reasons why disco was so popular. Rap is the dumbed-down bi-product of disco music, i.e. disco goes stupid. Gangster rap centers on lyrics of violence, drug use, and sexual depravity.<br /><br />I consider rap as “music” in the same way I consider child porn as “art”. Either can be slid under a vague label in an attempt to justify its existence in the absence of any real determination of talent or need. Neither can stand up against a discipline honed by centuries of trial and error to consequence in a sublime beauty that precludes any claim of offense to the senses.<br /><br />Apparently, I’m not the only one that thinks so. Never in the history of this country have there been congressional hearings into the patently offensive nature of an audio product before rap came onto the scene. The high level of need for parental warning labels on CDs didn’t exist before rap. Once the music industry started self regulating with parental warning labels, it lowered the bar for all genre of music.<br /><br />Rap is a truly American product that has spread world wide like a highly contagious pathogen. It has even infected the well defined structures of both reggae and calypso of the Caribbean.
 
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18R......Let me know when you are done grouping ALL rap into one category. Sure a lot of rap is like how you described, but the rap of the 80's when the music first came onto the scene was much different than todays. And there is STILL good rap out there today but it is often overshadowed by the bad stuff. I'm sorry you are not open-minded enough to see that.
 
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