1st Official Annoyance

Hello out there!! Can you hear us? Good...Prepare your eyes as we present our 1st detestation of this magnificent blog: the exclusive discrimination on the music genre of hip hop. Now, granted, this topic is rather broad and as of recently, it is isn't the easiest of topics to defend, but we will make a valid attempt to. Now...I will keep my points short and concise and my partner will fill in his details because he tends to be the more elaborate one. In my honest opinion, I feel like hip hop and rap is America's contemporary scapegoat to all of our current issues. Hip hop and rap, contrary to what many believe, are not interchangeable terms. Hip hop is what was born in the Bronx, an expressive, clever, innovative way to describe a numerous amount of things from societal and economical issues to falling in love with the one girl that catches your eye. Rap, on the other hand, is much considered to be the younger, disobedient brother of hip hop, that usually concentrate on the violence and vanity and glamor of material things, among other things (Here on in, hip hop in quotation marks is referencing rap). In the dawning of the Don Imus, Virgina Tech and Jena 6 incidents, a brunt of the blame has been happily dropped in the lap of "hip hop". Many claims contend that these incidents were perpetuated by "hip hop" because of the negative connotations : misogyny, the acceptance of violence, homophobia, drug referencing, the excessive usage of the infamous "N" word, etc. etc. etc. Now, of those 3 incidents, I find the Don Imus one to be the most repulsive. The audacity of this Z list "celebrity" who looks like his mother was molested by Rocky Dennis to blame hip hop for using the term "nappy-headed hoes". For one, we know he doesn't listen to hip hop on a daily basis. Listening to what record companies saturate the airwaves and the television with isn't hip hop. Secondly, ummm doesn't personal responsibility play a part somewhere in here? He, Don Imus, was the one that decided it was appropriate to spit out that phrase, not "hip hop". He alone should be chastised. If today, at this moment, I went and found a bat and took a bite out of it and somehow, contracted rabies, is it possible for me to blame it on Ozzy Osbourne? Hmmmm I wonder....


*Tags partner into the ring*


Well Q, I obviously think that hypothetical depends on how much of a devotee to Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne you are, how influenced by that event you were, and whether you believe you were making an individual statement about something. Now I don't know if it's because Hip hop is the youngest, richest genre of music that it is receiving that much flak from the higher powers but it seems OK to delegate down when it comes to the travesties and tragedies of the world. Now this is what drives most people crazy. Rappers are responsible. For themselves. the way hip hop music is now, it's so much of a minstrel show, that rappers are just "coonin'" for the upper hand. It's as much an entertainment as Country singer's concerts having pyro-technics. So, listening to music is a two-party enjoyment system. If the person is gullible enough to take every lyric seriously and believe every rapper is a drug kingpin or has 80 guns in his mother's basement or buys out the bar every night, then maybe they shouldn't be listening to the songs. i don't understand how people can hear "Momma, I just killed a man" and not call it controversial because a bunch of homosexuals sang it, but once a rapper sings "I ain't a killer, but don't push me," Hip-Hop is Satan's music. And for someone who is perfectly sound, and just a casual listener to blame music for the mass killings or just the repetition of a "bad" word is just retardation. How can you blame it if you brought yourself to to it? it's like paying for a Starbucks coffee, throwing it right in your face after purchasing it, and blaming Seinfeld.
Children on the other hand. It falls on the parents. Simple and plain. if the parents were more involved in their children's life, then they'd have more control over what type of music is "acceptable." I think everyone just forgot that there is a little black and white sticker on CD's that say Explicit content. The powers that be are quick to blame the music, but don't take into account how many doses of Vicodin little Timmy skipped on before his mom forgot to kiss him goodbye before work because she was too busy. Don't even get me started on the racial aspect of this issue. Different blog entirely...

In Conclusion, Don't run and hide behind the Complacent, orderless block hugger when you want to get away scott-free with reputational[?] murder. It is damaging lives in one way or another. Maybe it's your high-class, spoiled, orderless white son/daughter that'll follow in your footsteps...then, what kind of stuff will make it on CNN or FOX when that happens? Talk about influence.