Hip-hop

[Guyute]

Anon.,

I hear ya. I cannot figure out the attraction. Bill Cosby has been ranting about this for about a year or two, and he's got even more insight than I do. When did it become cool to have a felony rap sheet at 13, or to think it was cool that someone else did?

The saddest thing I have seen in the last five years is a skinny white kid with his Von Dutch Tee-shirt and Eddie Bauer jeans walking around with a cap turned at some retarded angle on his head. Pa-freakin'-thetic. I never liked Nirvana, but I could almost see the identification between spoiled suburban kids and their angst. But this whole rap nonsense is just toooo out there. I went through several musical phases before settling in the one I am now (I am a major Phishhead), but I can't listen to that rap turd at all. I guess because I have no reason to hate cops or ho's???

Hip-hop itself is just boring- If Mickey Dee's and such are putting this type of music in their ads, I am certainly not going to be influenced, because a Phishhead who hates McDonalds and doesn't buy a gajillion dollars worth of American Eagle garbage each year isn't quite their target market. Plus I don't consider a basketball player with a felony record to be a role model, so their ad dollars are wasted on me.

Sycamore- Rock music can to some degree have lyrics that are "just as fucked up", but the entire genre is not based on the precepts of beating bitches, shooting pigs, fukkin ho's, and generally putting caps in the asses of anyone without the same shitass attitude as yours, whereas rap is... it is sad to see a whole generation throwing their future down the toilet because of this gangsta nonsense.