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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre
I don't know, the type of generalizations thrown at hip hop never seem to be the same. Calling them violent, illiterate, materialistic thugs as if these topics never existed in other genres. It's what they used to say about jazz music when it came up and is it just a coincidence that both genres were dominated with African Americans? Seems like a racially motivated perception to me.
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That wasn't meant to be taken seriously either. I feel like I have to start color coding everything I write.
Anyway, it's unfair to hip hop as a genre for sure. But some rappers that reinforce this negative image do exist though. That's hard to deny.