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Originally Posted by blueash
Another completely negative and offensive comments about Black culture? Rap has been the predominant popular musical genre for more years than rock and roll topped the charts. You don't have to like rap or opera but you can be certain there are lots of people who enjoy it and have taken the little bit of time and effort to understand it and appreciate it as the dominant musical art form in America now.
And no, most of us would not throw up at it.
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Is it the genre or (some of the) content?
I’m not necessarily an aficionado of rap though I did enjoy some of the early stuff (i.e. MC Hammer “Can’t Touch This”), though maybe that would more properly be called pre-rap. But rap is art: if you like it, it is good. And not all of us like the same things when it comes to art.
I think a lot of the objection to rap is because of the content. Face it. Most of the music we grew up with glorified things like love, marriage, “She’s a Lady”, stuff like that. Unfortunately there is some rap that demeans women and glorifies violence. Such content is certainly not my cup of tea, and I think that can be said of most villagers. It is like art in general. A lot of us who enjoy photographic art would strenuously onbject to Andres’ Serrano’s depiction of the crucified Christ in a bottle of urine, for example.