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Old 07-29-2018, 03:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
well I went to high school in Orange County where there are no black people

it was still the only music you were "allowed" to listen to unless you were WEIRD

or you know actually ****ing liked music

let me set the scene of the most boring white suburbanite parties set to Lil Wayne
Seriously though, if you talk about socialism and the working class, well hi ho here's music made by the working class expressing a basic desire to not be poor and you denigrate it because it doesn't live up to your expectations of what you support as a snob. It might not be self-aware music at times but it's an honest expression of dissatisfaction with how society has treated them and it's still important if nothing else but as a document of a social group's feelings.
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