What Sucks About This Genre: Hip-Hop Edition

**Janszoon** · 07-19-2018, 08:09 AM

What sucks about hip hop is that there’s so much attention given to the lyrics and the lyrics are generally underwhelming.

simplephysics · 07-19-2018, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

What sucks about hip hop is that there’s so much attention given to the lyrics and the lyrics are generally underwhelming.

rubber soul · 07-19-2018, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

Just waiting on the results of that IAT.

I'll even give you the link:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

There's no shame in implicit biases if you acknowledge them, but there is shame when you deny that they exist.

Of course implicit racism (and other biases) exists. We all have a little racist in us. It's something we have to fight everyday.

I did try the test but I screwed it up. I just don't appreciate being called a card carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan just because I don't get wet over today's hip hop. I didn't say I hated the genre, it just isn't my cup of tea overall.

And, Batlord, yeah, I hear you. My parents had their biases and I was a little shocked when my Dad, a one time Democrat, was supporting Trump on Facebook. My step-father is even worse; he's one of those there are blacks and there are n- sort of people. Anyhow, a lot of the musical tastes are generational and maybe so are the attitudes, but it doesn't mean just because we're older we automatically hate certain groups.

I'll try the test again later, Yorke. I'm tied up with something else right now In the meantime, I'm just wondering what your kids will think of some of you (not meaning you, Yorke) when the time comes.

In other words, don't ever get old.

**Frownland** · 07-19-2018, 08:21 AM

Tupac
Lil Pump
It takes up a lot of my listening time

Nobody cares that TH and rubber soul are racist btw.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 07-19-2018, 08:26 AM

Disappointed to see it's turned into another ****ing race thread.

Agree with Janz anyway.

YorkeDaddy · 07-19-2018, 08:29 AM

I just detest ignorance like:

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yo mother****er! You think this music sucks? **** you, man! Imma find out where you live and **** your bitch up while you watch, then imma pop a cap in yo ass! How you like that, nigga?

Yeah, if there's one thing that has always prevented me from really listening to hip-hop it's been the use of expletives and violence, surely the highest quota in any genre? Often very misogynistic, usually boastful, and sometimes, really, not very good. Come at me bro. But leave yo gun back in yo crib, you feel me?

or:

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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!

or:

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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.

99.999% of people that make generalizations like this are racist in some way, shape, or form.

That's all I have to say on that subject, I'll be dropping it for good now

~~Cuthbert~~ · 07-19-2018, 08:30 AM

Interludes/Skits
Foul language
Lack of quality control

**Frownland** · 07-19-2018, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Fluff

Interludes/Skits

100%

I don't mind the foul language. If it works it works.

simplephysics · 07-19-2018, 08:35 AM

I would agree with that observation. Doom is especially skit heavy. I would be alot more satisfied if they were replaced with you know... actual songs.

rubber soul · 07-19-2018, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

I just detest ignorance like:

or:

or:

99.999% of people that make generalizations like this are racist in some way, shape, or form.

That's all I have to say on that subject, I'll be dropping it for good now

Okay, but don't say you're not racist because you're a big hip hop fan. It doesn't work both ways.

Yeah, I admit Troll could have worded his OP a little better. It was pretty white of him. Maybe this will teach him not to go overboard with these type of threads.

PS- I bet there are some black people who don't like hip hop either. Just sayin'

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07-19-2018, 08:09 AM	#31 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	What sucks about hip hop is that there’s so much attention given to the lyrics and the lyrics are generally underwhelming. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

07-19-2018, 08:21 AM	#34 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Tupac Lil Pump It takes up a lot of my listening time Nobody cares that TH and rubber soul are racist btw. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

07-19-2018, 08:26 AM	#35 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Disappointed to see it's turned into another ****ing race thread. Agree with Janz anyway.

07-19-2018, 08:30 AM	#37 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Interludes/Skits Foul language Lack of quality control