Originally Posted by Trollheart

What I know about hip-hop could be written on the back of a box of matches, without the box, but I mean come on: we get this everywhere. There are some metal songs/bands who are terribly homophobic/transphobic and (gasp) misogynist, but you can't censor people's right to sing about what they want to. A lot of the time it's just posture. A band or artist might sing "I hate [insert slur here]" but not believe it. I would expect it's probably only something to take seriously if they a) start putting that hate into practice (gay bashing/rape/child porno etc) or write about it elsewhere, or have it written in interviews like "hell yeah I hate [insert slur here] - should all be killed" etc.

In the end, they're entertainers and it's just music. If you don't like it, don't listen to it, but I can guarantee you there are people who listen to that and don't bother about the content, or believe there's any real earnestness about it.

Originally Posted by adidasss

I won't regurgitate the same arguments I've already made here, but yeah, there are many problems in hip-hop that get written off as "part of the subculture". And I don't see why that's the case (maybe because I'm not an American). You don't have to take the bad with the good. You can be bothered by it, hold people accountable and listen to music you don't find problematic instead of overlooking stereotypes, prejudice and downright hate speech because it's "fun".

And as I keep saying, there core problem here is that there is a marked difference, still to this day and age, about how homophobia is treated and how racism is treated. Hopefully one day they will be equally condemned and people who have these kind of songs in their catalogue will be as condemned as racists are.