Whats funny about Rap culture

[texas_rebel_1980]

all i can say about the rap culture is pull yer damn pants up, moron! nobody wants to see your joe boxers, not even your mom who still washes them. the lyrics are mindless, the beats are all the same now. whatever happened to the Getto Boys and NWA? your cars look stupid, your rims cost more than your impala, you're not a gang banger, you're a punkass kid living in a suburban ****hole. ugh, idiots.



(disclaimer: this is not directed at any member, as i have never seen your stupid impala or your pants around your knees!

[Brickboy240]

Since I am 42 years old, I fortunately missed growing up with rap music and that culture. Oh, we had Run DMC and the Beastie Boys but they were a novelty and seem pretty innoculous compared to today's rap. Black music, when I was young, consisted mainly of Prince, The Commorores, Morris Day, Levert and Rick James.

I have to admit, I detest rap music and the culture that surrounds it. The music, the clothing, the language (if you can call it that)...all of it. Its really awful. I just don't get it. The baggy pants, gold teeth, hat on backwards or clothing with dollar signs or large logos all over it...just tacky and awful, if you ask me.

Some might say its a black/white thing, but thats not true. I like many black musicians. Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Allen Toussaint, Albert King and Stanley Clarke all have a home in my CD collection. I love many black musicians...but I don't consider rap "music" so I don't plan on owning any of their CDs.

The whole attitude around the music and the culture is awful. It focuses on money above everything, degrades women and white people and is just too angry and depressing to me. I guess I am not negative or angry enough to need music like that, eh?

Many will tell me that rap is the voice of the oppressed and thats why I don't get it. I call BS on that - many blacks I see booming that stuff out of their cars don't look like they have ever been "oppressed" a day of their lives. Many are driving Escalades or Navigators....looks better than my 91 Volvo! So much for oppression or the man keeping you down, eh?

Rap culture also teaches kids and minorities a very bad message. Yeah, I know...Aerosmith and Alice Cooper did the same for us as kids but its much worse today. Rap culture also has driven a deeper wedge between black and white people. Oh sure, some younger white kids like it, but any white person over the age of 40 is repulsed by rap culture for the most part.

Yes...I try to borrow as little as possible from this culture because I find it low class and degrading. I just think that black Americans should want better for themselves than this. I don't think they have to act white...but rap culture really does nothing to advance their cause if you ask me.

Maybe I am just getting too old...who knows! LOL

- Brickboy240

[ScottyT]

Originally Posted by nikon777

All the good rap music is dead. It died in the 90's.

A big +1 on that. I actually enjoy some of the early hip hop: Grandmaster Flash, Sugar Hill Gang (rapper's delight is one of the greatest 14-minute songs ever!), etc... Today's stuff is just flat out horrible.

And don't even get me started on popular music, when did this great (meaning big, not good) homogenization occur, when did originality go out the window? EVERY popular station plays the same songs (I have heard one song on a country station, "alternative" station and a "best of 80's 90's and today" station!), and all those songs sound the same! I should have been 25 in the 70s... good thing my father raised me on GOOD music!

[tenring]

The whole attitude around the music and the culture is awful.

I am younger than you, but I agree.

Its not however a Rap/Black music problem. the attitude and culture around nearly all popular music today is just as bad. No one is making decent quality music, its all saturated with pop culture and over-produced out the bunghole.

You have to go underground or to "unpopular" music genres to find quality and music for the sake of music. I am really back into bluegrass and folk music, plus classic rock both American and British is much better than any garbage produced today. Country is just pop music with an accent, plus they are blending over into the rap/hip hop genre too, so they are going down the crapper as well.

[thisismyusername]

Originally Posted by texas_rebel_1980

pull yer damn pants up, moron!

The funny thing about baggy pants is that you know what people in prison who wear baggy pants are? They're the catchers, not the pitchers, if you know what I mean.

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[Brickboy240]

Oh I agree, most music genres have gone downhill. But rap can barely be called music. I don't see any of them playing an instrument...just swaying around and yacking into a mike....and I cannot understand half of it! Real musicianship has gone to the wayside.

...and yes....pull your friggin pants up! Lose the clunky big jewelry, turn that hat around and ditch the baggy shirts with giant logos all over them. Do you have any idea how stupid you look to most people? I guess not. And they wonder why they get the treatment they get.....hello!

The white kids are not much better. They too have baggy pants and logos plasterd all over their shirts. Why do you want to be a walking billboard for some huge clothing maker? Toss in the piercings and tatoos and yes...most whites under the age of 25 don't look any better! Most of them look like they stepped out of an MTV video or a Mad max movie. You're not going to work for me and represent my company, looking like that.

- Brickboy240

[m9fan]

Brickboy for president!

[Brickboy240]

Nah, I am the old fart that is out of touch...remember. A total square that is not hip to the times or "down" with everything.

Evil ol" whitey...thats me.

LOL

- brickboy240

[fritzmeister]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Nah, I am the old fart that is out of touch...remember. A total square that is not hip to the times or "down" with everything.

Evil ol" whitey...thats me.

LOL

- brickboy240

I'm with you, totally, dude.

[Brickboy240]

I don't find rap culture funny...I think its really sad. They should want better for themselves. Some think that is a snobbish or elitist way of thinking but I think the vast majority of them deserve better than this culture.

However, in our modern PC society, we are not allowed to criticize but they can harp on us until the cows come home.

- brickboy240