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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree, the market was definitely flooded. Seems everyone copycats each other. But that's typical with any music, beit rock, rap, or country.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1in the 80s mainstream rap/hiphop had (little) musical value, but that was made up for by 1 of 2 things (depending on the artist); humor (beastie boys), or a political message (public enemy). but in the mid 90s the things that gave rap its little piece of the music industry were lost. groups like wu-tang corporatized the industry, and mtv did to it what it did to grunge and rap/rock and many other fads. then all the rappers were just carbon copies of each other, the market was flooded with cheesy *****.
from a social aspect, rap is the only kind of music whose lyrical violence is rooted in, or the cause of (provocation, not brainwashing) violence in real life. in no other art form has the line between reality and fiction been blurred as much. this is significant because it is being sold to a culture that is already susceptible (i spelled that right on the first try by the way) to secluding themselves from society (mainly other cultures) and engaging in a "heard" mentality. the majority have gradually replaced their traditional social institutions with a new culture, built, unforunately, upon rap music.
i don't want all you pc hippy pussies out there to start acting like i'm being racist either. first of all, this is just the way it is, this an entirely objective observation, i am not attacking anyone, or saying that any one is inferior. i am however making a statement about the culture that many "ghetto dwellers" have adopted, which are predominately black. just as there are many whites (outside of the ghetto) that have also adopted this culture, there are many blacks that are intelligent and insightful enough to see that living like a ":gangsta" is, ultimately, destructive to society, their own future, and their vocabulary. so don't start digging me down for being a bigot. you hippy *****.
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