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Brickboy240 · 04-04-2008, 09:57 AM

I found the Beastie Boys "License to Ill" mildly interesting. Ditto for Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" and Ice-T's "Power." Same for Run-DMC. Still, its not my culture and I stil could not relate to alot of what they were saying. I admit it....I am just too white for that stuff and not "ghetto" enough. I can dig many black jazz musicians and God knows I find Lenny Kravitz and Prince to be musical geniuses...but the rap...I don't get it or identify with the genre at all...sorry.

Still, the message the Ice-T and Public Enemy stuff sent out was not a good one for kids. Not at all. The newer stuff like Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris is absolutely awful and degrading, thuggish, low class music if you ask me. Theres little redeeming about it.

- Brickboy240

Gryff · 04-04-2008, 02:21 PM

Q: What's funny about Rap culture

A: The way they hold their guns

jcabin · 04-04-2008, 02:34 PM

its the "Gangster Rap Subculture" to be corrected. and its influence is far reaching and devastating to society's youth. this subculture needs to be erradicated.

drgonzo · 04-04-2008, 02:35 PM

Actually, the really funny part about 'genuine' black 'culture' is that so much of it derives from southern US redneck culture.

Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell is a pretty good read.

tenring · 04-04-2008, 04:32 PM

The fact that the New Kids on the Block are getting back together just further proves this is not a black/white issue, but one of a decay in general in our culture.

Gryff · 04-04-2008, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by drgonzo

Actually, the really funny part about 'genuine' black 'culture' is that so much of it derives from southern US redneck culture.

Rednecks didn't start the droopin' pants fad. But they might have invented the coinslot craze...except they called it "plumber's crack."

grahamstein · 04-04-2008, 04:57 PM

So because a few catchy words has come from it excuses the fact that its one of the worst things to ever come out of urban america?

**nikon777** · 04-04-2008, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Brickboy240

I found the Beastie Boys "License to Ill" mildly interesting. Ditto for Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" and Ice-T's "Power." Same for Run-DMC.

- Brickboy240

Actually, those are all classics. Your taste in rap is better than you give yourself credit for.

Gryff · 04-04-2008, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by nikon777

Actually, those are all classics. Your taste in rap is better than you give yourself credit for.

Didn't Lou Reed invent rap?

Pinedawg · 04-05-2008, 05:04 AM

I thought Johnny Cash invented rap....." I'm from Everywhere".

He was after all, "The man in black."

04-04-2008, 09:57 AM	#71
Brickboy240 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Houston, TX, USA Posts: 8,829	I found the Beastie Boys "License to Ill" mildly interesting. Ditto for Public Enemy's "Welcome to the Terrordome" and Ice-T's "Power." Same for Run-DMC. Still, its not my culture and I stil could not relate to alot of what they were saying. I admit it....I am just too white for that stuff and not "ghetto" enough. I can dig many black jazz musicians and God knows I find Lenny Kravitz and Prince to be musical geniuses...but the rap...I don't get it or identify with the genre at all...sorry. Still, the message the Ice-T and Public Enemy stuff sent out was not a good one for kids. Not at all. The newer stuff like Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Ludacris is absolutely awful and degrading, thuggish, low class music if you ask me. Theres little redeeming about it. - Brickboy240 __________________ The top 25% of wage earners in America pay 86% of all federal income taxes collected. (according to 2007 IRS website data) Es mejor morir a pie que vivir arrodillado Volvo...the Swedish Brick! Last edited by Brickboy240 : 04-04-2008 at 09:59 AM.

04-04-2008, 02:35 PM	#74
drgonzo XDTalk Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 99	Black Rednecks & White Liberals Actually, the really funny part about 'genuine' black 'culture' is that so much of it derives from southern US redneck culture. Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell is a pretty good read.

04-04-2008, 04:32 PM	#75
tenring XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: MI Posts: 869	The fact that the New Kids on the Block are getting back together just further proves this is not a black/white issue, but one of a decay in general in our culture. __________________ "The Sound of freedom is a .45 empty bouncing off the ground" ~ Rob Leatham

04-04-2008, 04:57 PM	#77
grahamstein XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West Nyack, NY Posts: 643	So because a few catchy words has come from it excuses the fact that its one of the worst things to ever come out of urban america? __________________ "To be Irish is to know that in the end, the world will break your heart." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

04-05-2008, 05:04 AM	#80
Pinedawg XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Lower Slower, DE Posts: 644	I thought Johnny Cash invented rap....." I'm from Everywhere". He was after all, "The man in black." __________________ "How'd you get the beans above the frank?" Yes I am a pirate, 200 Years too late, The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin to plunder, I'm an over 40 victim of fate, Arriving too late, Arriving too late... Jimmy Buffet

04-04-2008, 02:21 PM	#72
Gryff XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 251	Q: What's funny about Rap culture A: The way they hold their guns

04-04-2008, 02:34 PM	#73
jcabin XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 540	its the "Gangster Rap Subculture" to be corrected. and its influence is far reaching and devastating to society's youth. this subculture needs to be erradicated.

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