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J. Jacques Doesn't Care About Black People: A Hip-Hop Thread

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toolazytothinkupaname:
Nooo! Enough of the mashups! It already went too far with Tunnels/My Humps, aka "Hump my Tunnel".

JodyAnthony:
I must say I do like me some atmosphere. thats about it though. though honestly i never gave much more a chance.

EDIT: mashups or whatever they are called pretty much always suck. (in my opinion, of course)

Switch:
A few mashups I've heard have been incredible. Lie Big Shot by Billy Joel vs. Big Pimpin' by Jay-z. Hilarious and incredible.

Thrillho:
Some mashups can be great.

The Q TV show did some great stuff. Bootylicious vs. Smells Like Teen Spirit was great, but even better was Ray Of Light vs. Pretty Vacant/God Save The Queen.

emody:

--- Quote from: est ---I have no problems with them rapping about sex and violence, it's just the way that they do it.  Most of the artists on my list (and probably on others, too) do address gangsta elements, but they try to do it in a way that doesn't seek to glorify and promote it.  (the obvious exceptions in my list would be Ice Cube & NWA).  

Most rap that I've heard talks about some kind of social problem.  To use an example I wrote a while ago, if given the choice I'll take say:

Grandmaster Flash, The Message:
"Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care
I can’t take the smell, I can’t take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkie’s in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn’t get far
Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car"

over Ludacris from Chingy's Holiday Inn:
"Stop, drop, KABOOM!, baby rub on ya nipples
Some call me Ludacris, some call me Mr. Wiggles
Far from little, make ya mammary glands giggle
Got 'em under control, the bowl of tender biddles"

or 50 Cent from "P.I.M.P" :
"I told you fools before, I stay with the tools
I keep a Benz, some rims, and some jewels
I holla at a hoe til I got a bitch confused
She got on Payless, me I got on gator shoes "


It's like, the people at the bottom aren't getting the airplay any more, it's more the cocks at the top who are making money just bragging about it & telling people that they can do it too if they just push drugs to their friends and neighbours & rent out their girlfriends as whores.  That's not the kind of message that should be given airplay.

I understand though that it's as much a problem with society as it is with hip hop in itself.  There's a market for this shit because everyone's become more self-centred and materialistic.  But then that's a conversation for another time, on another board.
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http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/Hopeless-lyrics-Ludacris/CA86348B80AB2EF948256F5F0008927D

That's a Ludacris song, and right about now you look like a moron.

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