19 Mar 08
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Originally posted by kirksey957You're copping out here, Kirks.
demonstrates the violent lyrics of the white man and the "gang reaction" to those lyrics. He just happens to be white).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWuA-RttGU&feature=related
Gangsta rap, for all it's flaws today, became a vehicle for young disenfranchized black youth to vent their anger and feel empowered. Like country music, not all of it is ...[text shortened]... hat it gets people to identify with images they see of the music instead of practicing music.
We aren't discussing music in general, we're talking about gangsta rap specifically.
Sure, that song is pretty bad... lyrics-wise it's probably the worst I've heard in a long time and watching makes me feel a little uncomfortable. It's like we are watching all those marines masturbate, whilst making machine gun noises...
Do you think young, black people watching gangsta rappers sing about 'bitches an' hoes' while flaunting bling and guns are setting a 'good' example?
As always, the comments for the YouTube video are a real eye-opener...
19 Mar 08
Originally posted by kirksey957It allows women to work.
Gangsta rap culture allows women to drive cars. It allows women to work. It allows women to dress as they want. They do not cut off heads of people who believe differently. They do not export terrorism. They do not engage in slavery. I'd hang out with the LBC long before I'd go to Saudi Arabia. At least you can read a Bible in Compton.
Yep. They start early too. There was a bust in Berkeley once that I read about in the police report in the school newspaper. 13 year old girls being pimped out.
It allows women to dress as they want.
Unless they're some pimp's hos.
do not cut off heads of people who believe differently.
But they fire bullets at daddies walking their babies down the street after school in my neighborhood.
They do not export terrorism.
You're joking, right?
They do not engage in slavery.
Unless you're a ho.
At least you can read a Bible in Compton.
Compton has the LAPD keeping it under control. You shouldn't apply the virtues of the police and the country to the gangsters within the country.
19 Mar 08
Old people trying to be hip have always been a pain, especially if they have that silly smile like they think they're being clever. It's particularly embarrasing if the youngsters around them are smirking at them and they don't pick up on it and keep flaming on. Ugh.