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Originally Posted by Lucifer Baphomet  Don't get me wrong Fmeh....
I find most (not all) rap pretty unimaginative and monotonous.
I don't think that rap is creating the problem.
I think a lot of rap has grown out of that culture, and the problem is that this culture of violence existed before rap.
Chicken and the egg.
Or something
It's 5:30 AM
I should be asleep.
Thats as rational as I'm gonna get right now. |
If the culture wasn't being PROMOTED by the music industry, it wouldn't have gotten as big so quickly. If it wasn't being PROMOTED by the music industry, people could speak against it without being labeled a racist, or "You're just a HATER!". If it wasn't being PROMOTED by the music industry, it wouldn't be MTV's main squeeze, it wouldn't be so high up on the billboard charts, it wouldn't be a lot of things.
It's being PROMOTED and PUSHED onto youth. The problem isn't the music itself, the problem is the industry and what they're willing to push out as role models for youth so they can make a buck.
The music industry can take something that's a pile of crap and push it out and advertise and promote it and polish ANY turd to be a blockbuster--it's all in the promoting, and that's what they've been doing for years with hip-hop and rap. They see an opportunity to make money and take it--the less effort they have to put into the actual product, the better, and that's why you end up with all this crap being pushed out there.