The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53573   Message #827371
Posted By: Ebbie
15-Nov-02 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: Rap Music
Subject: RE: Rap Music
"You ever stop to think that perhap you are NOT the target audience (and I'm sure the rappers are very happy about that" Clinton Hammond

"...the answer comes out of fear, hatred, and insanity. You can't respect that. Ron Olesko

Just yesterday I sat here at the computer with a 41-year-old friend who used to be the sound man for a traveling punk band. He was telling me that some rap is GOOD, "not that I expect you
So I said, 'OK, let's read some lyrics.' I put 'Eminem' into Google.
We sat here and read five or six 'songs'...

Elvis may have trivialized 'love' but there's no way anyone can say that he promoted gang rape, murder, incest, stalking, or the ugly imagery of committing sundry varieties of harm.

I have no problem with the language - I am an adult. I'm also not going to act out what I listened to. But the target audience is our young'uns.

After linking to that and to the above rap links, the only thing I'm afraid of is that I'm going to start getting some really odd spam!