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

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Not An Addict:
I love it when people point to "The Message" as how old-school rap used to be, like all rap back in the day was socially-conscious and had a point. Rap, and hip-hop, began as party music. Yes yes y'all, throw your hands in the air, block party soundtracks. Then a record executive convinced Grandmaster Flash that a song about inner-city poverty would explode rap to new heights, and lo, it did. Now it's like hip-hop history begins with "The Message" and ignores all the sample-heavy, funk-based, post-disco party records that the genre was built on.

The point is, there has always been good hip-hop and bad hip-hop, whether mainstream or indie. Ignore the bad, enjoy the good, and stop blacklisting the genre as a whole just because the latest crunk single on the charts drives you nuts.


--- Quote from: The Eyeball Kid ---What would you guys recomend? I don't even like the Beastie boys... Kanye is pretty cool, i guess. i'm more of a classic rock/indie pop/twee kinda dude
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Just listen to a hip-hop station for a while and see if anything clicks with you, or check out the genre selections on iTunes. I've discovered most of my favorite hip-hop/R&B songs by accident.

bucky_2300:
The only hip-hop/rap group I've really been able to get into is Public Enemy. I actually started listening to them about a year after I started listening to punk, and they meshed really well with it. I've actually seen a couple of punk authors call It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back a punk record, and I kind of agree. It's political, it's angry, and it's fun to listen to.

I did have my doubts about PE after learning about their dalliances with Nation of Islam and S1W, but Chuck D seems to have parted with those groups (as far as I know) so my concience can remain clean on that one.

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