It's the criminal behavior that they depend on. Being a hood or thug is what makes this stuff go. The allure of danger and crime is what reels alot of these kids and older people in. And of course, you actually have to go out and get into trouble to make it all creditable.
The older I get, the better I was.
Wow!!! What a surprise! A rapper thats a criminal! who da thunk it?
Any Keb Mo fans here?
Just kidding - I don't know who Keb Mo is.
Maybe we need a prog musician to off another one - then prog will flourish!
I will say this, I think it's encouraging that suburban white kids have embraced something of "Black culture" and made it mainstream in the white community.
It's just too bad that it had to be the WORST aspect -- no, make that a PARODY of the worst aspect -- of Black culture.
Howe looks like a strong wind could sent him rolling down the street. does he has it in him to kick at all? try tony levin. he at least looks like he could be a bouncer.
re listening to music that pisses off your parents, I don't quite understand that. or can't relate to it. I've always listened to music I liked. my parents' reaction was not really part of it. some of it they liked; some they didn't like. but I never listened to anything specifically to irritate them. That sounds stupid to me.
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On a more positive note, I'm glad the University of Oklahoma took action against a certain frat house on campus. I'm all for free speech but this shows that it can have consequences.
The older I get, the better I was.
It's pronouced "shoog", with the same "oo" sound as "book".
I know because I'm very street.
Chad
Some of them are, but a lot of them aren't. And certainly the kids from the suburbs aren't. I might buy that NWA, for instance, really were thugs (I remember hearing the rumor that their first album was funded from money one of them made as a drug dealer).
As far as gangsta rap being a parody of anything, if I want that, I'll watch The Boondocks. There's a great episode of that show where a rapper gets shot, then writes a song about it, then while performing the song onstage, gets shot again. Only the audience doesn't realize the guys running out onstage isn't part of "the show", and when he screams, "I been shot, somebody call 911", the audience treats it like an audience participation thing and repeats it back to him. Then when Riley (one of the main characters) sneaks into the hospital to see him, Gangstalicious (that's the guy's stage name) tells him how when he was a kid he wanted to be a "gangsta, just like my hero Ice Cube", and Riley being just a kid only knows Cube for his film roles..."You mean that guy who makes family comedies?! You worshipped him?!" Then it turns out the guy who shot him onstage was actually Gangstalicious' gay lover, and Riley is so stunned by the news that he insists that he must have hit his head pretty hard and started hallucinating that he saw Gangstalcious kiss another dude. Pretty funny, I thought.
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