Rap music is bad
Today in my philosophy class we were shown an article on the fallout of hip-hop. The argument is that rap (if there's a difference between hip-hop and rap, I apologize) is becoming a misogynist, murder-supporting, ill-educated vendetta against the better values America possesses.
So hooray! Country music depresses people to suicide, and the blues break up marriages.
We were asked what we thought, and the consensus seemed to be that yes, rap is now a money-driven business, that yes, it promotes "bad things", and doesn't really help anyone.
This was a "good" response.
We were then asked if we were willing to make a stand against this bad thing. We wondered what in the flying frog brigade we were supposed to do about it.
Rosa Parks.
Yup, that was our answer. If it hadn't been for Rosa Parks single act of defiance, the struggle for civil rights just wouldn't have happened the same.
That meant nothing to me. Rosa Parks had all the right in the world to go against intolerance and degradation. She was forced to choose.
And us? We don't like violence, we seldom eat babies or small people, we aren't woman-hating, and we aren't about to make a stand. This is the same class that promoted open-mindedness towards gays, racists, and every sort of free speech out there. No, we won't make a stand; there's no sense to it. It's as if we were asked to say that yes, "this is wrong", and talk it down, but ignore every other aspect of intolerance and free speech. It's a complete lie. The point is always going to be moot. If people want to do something, then they're going to.
To argue about the right to argue is stupid, we should argue about better things... like uh... truth, justice, and uh, well, pizza.
So hooray! Country music depresses people to suicide, and the blues break up marriages.
We were asked what we thought, and the consensus seemed to be that yes, rap is now a money-driven business, that yes, it promotes "bad things", and doesn't really help anyone.
This was a "good" response.
We were then asked if we were willing to make a stand against this bad thing. We wondered what in the flying frog brigade we were supposed to do about it.
Rosa Parks.
Yup, that was our answer. If it hadn't been for Rosa Parks single act of defiance, the struggle for civil rights just wouldn't have happened the same.
That meant nothing to me. Rosa Parks had all the right in the world to go against intolerance and degradation. She was forced to choose.
And us? We don't like violence, we seldom eat babies or small people, we aren't woman-hating, and we aren't about to make a stand. This is the same class that promoted open-mindedness towards gays, racists, and every sort of free speech out there. No, we won't make a stand; there's no sense to it. It's as if we were asked to say that yes, "this is wrong", and talk it down, but ignore every other aspect of intolerance and free speech. It's a complete lie. The point is always going to be moot. If people want to do something, then they're going to.
To argue about the right to argue is stupid, we should argue about better things... like uh... truth, justice, and uh, well, pizza.
posted by ben at 7:12 PM
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A bunch of small town white people making a stand on violent black music is a bit... How to put it... Moronic.
There would be absolutely no use to it. Who the fuck are we going to convince, the 3 black people in Troy?
And so was the comparison of giving an inner-city black kid a violent rap cd to dragging an Islamic man into the streets of NYC after 9/11 and calling him a terrorist.
You knew it would only be a matter of time before my idiocy presented itself!
It's as if we were asked to say that yes, "this is wrong", and talk it down
ahh yes, the famous talk it down approach. Honestly man, have you no soul? Its all over the news at least attempt to look intelligent by calling it a filibuster!
we should argue about better things... like uh... truth, justice, and if soccer really is a sport
That’s silly; just ask a 28yr old, 250lb linebacker if soccer is a real sport. I mean honestly if you can become a "pro" by the age of 14 then no it’s not a real sport!
Actually, the integration of cultures didn't work out too well. Instead of having minority-owned banks, and minority-owned corporations, now anyone with a knack for that stuff gets hired into a big white corporation.
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The definition of Rap is a form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment. No where in that definition does it says that all rap has to be of negative content. The majority of commercial rap is bad but, there are all kinds of rap out there that is good and it's not just the religious kind. There is nothing wrong with the instrumental side of rap. Instead of saying rap is bad all you need to do is say promote a positive message. In fact most people I know who listen to commercial rap say they would never do half the stuff they hear in the song but they like the song simply because it sounds good.
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