What Sucks About This Genre: Hip-Hop Edition

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-19-2018, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

at least he's sporting the prettiest woman avatar on MusicBanter rn

Damn right.

YorkeDaddy · 07-19-2018, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

Damn right.

man

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-19-2018, 07:42 AM

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The Batlord · 07-19-2018, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Trollheart thinks that 90% of hiphop is about guns/women/violence but in reality it's only like 20%.

It's kind of obnoxious and comes off as implicitly racist, but whatever he's old and white and gonna die within a decade along with the rest of the old white people that feel similarly

Yeah that OP would get you curb stomped in Compton. Dawg.

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

I'm in the middle too. I like a lot of eighties and early nineties hip-hop aka rap. It gets a bit too violent and misogynistic for me after that. I really prefer the more politically charged rap of Public Enemy and similar bands than say, Snopp Doggy whatever his name is these days. Do you know he's now a game show host by the way?

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-19-2018, 08:18 AM

but are we really surprised that mb’s resident old white males don’t like hip hop

rubber soul · 07-19-2018, 08:22 AM

Maybe some of us resident old white males like a little more music in their black music, you know like Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, etc. Sheesh!

YorkeDaddy · 07-19-2018, 08:23 AM

What I like about the 80% of hip-hop that's NOT about drugs/money/women is that it's generally just about how hard life is, especially since a lot of the people making hip-hop are constantly prejudiced against by people who think and act exactly like Trollheart towards them. I don't know about everyone else but I consider myself lucky and ridiculously privileged that I didn't have to grow up in the poverty-riddled streets of craphole America like a lot of these dudes did, and the hardships of that is reflected in some of the very best hip-hop. It's like a window into lives that are different than mine in the best way they know to express it. Despite some of it coming across as brutal and aggressive it's actually beautiful to me that we have a medium where the less fortunate can have a voice.

I'm generalizing a lot in the opposite way that Trollheart did, and there are certainly rappers that rap simply because they love it and not because they had some awful upbringing that they need to get off their chest, but yeah. It's one of the most emotionally charged genres out there and that's why I love it.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 07-19-2018, 08:23 AM

@rubber soul

that’s the equivalent of “i cant be racist, i have black friends!”

it’s ok to be behind the times, gramps.

The Batlord · 07-19-2018, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by rubber soul

Maybe some of us resident old white males like a little more music in their black music, you know like Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, etc. Sheesh!

I'm sure your parents said the same with a few slurs thrown in.

rubber soul · 07-19-2018, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

@rubber soul

that’s the equivalent of “i cant be racist, i have black friends!”

it’s ok to be behind the times, gramps.

So if you don't like music that has songs that glorify the dehumanizing of women, then you're racist. Now I understand.

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