When Hip Hop initially developed it was interesting, not demanding but as any new music form deserving of some respect. Hey! I even had a Grandmaster Flash album in the old days. The problem is that it has continued to go on, with seemingly (to me) very little development. Even that godawful disco music died a natural death. Punk, New Romanticism and even the new wave R&B all had grace to bow out when their time was over but rap, hip hop or whatever other contrived names the genre goes under still bludgeons on.
Whilst cooking tonight and waiting for the 6 pm news I tuned into C4 and got 20 minutes of unadulterated crap. It was like modern versions of the Beastie Boys interspersed with some pseudo-heavy black dudes all singing (?) about shootings, drug deals, bitches, whores (girlfriends?) and cars. This garbage is directed at, and purchased by young, reasonably affluent middle class kids. I assume that street kids with guns and who perpetrate the crimes don't listen to or watch this slick stuff, so why do the young affluents do?
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