Rap is a Fountain of Hypocrisy
8:30pm March 19th
Rap is stupid, but so are you for buying into it.
Rap is stupid, but not for the reason you think it is. I'm not talking about the cookie-cutter, watered down, hip-hop of today. I'm talking about the hard core start of the business, from the late 80's. We'll use NWA as an example. NWA's lyrics are exercises in whining and hypocrisy. Their music is a shining example of why rap has always been a joke.
I'll lay it out for you right now; you can't complain about the police not doing anything, and then threaten to blow them away with a shotgun in the next song. If we're to believe that these songs are representative of life in the ghetto, and the voice of the people, then it's no wonder the police don't do anything. As well, griping about how they pulled you over is an exercise in retarded futility. Of course they're going to pull you over; you're 17, you live in slum housing and you drive a $50,000 Lexus. Not only is there something wrong with that picture to begin with, but I think there's an issue with your priorities.
If you think I'm making all this up, go listen to "Straight Outta Compton" and "Fuck the Police". You only need to listen to the first 30 seconds of each to hear what I'm talking about.
As far as NWA goes, I blame that barely functioning, half retarded ape of a sellout calling himself Ice Cube for most of the idiocy we're subjected to. He deserves and entire page to himself, and he's going to get what's coming to him, but not today.
As the 90's progress, and pop music forced it's way in like so many penises were forced so many places during the Raping of Nanking, Rap calmed down. Merging with pop, it became both big business, and a caricature of itself. It may have stood for something once upon a time, but the hip hop performers and music of today bear little resemblance to the scene when it started. Today's hip hop stands for, and even glorifies, greed, excess, and an easy life. This is exactly what NWA and Public Enemy claimed to be against. Rap was once a way to strike back at the rich white upper-middle class, but the line blurred, and disappeared altogether. Rap has completely sold itself out from whatever it once stood for; whether we're better off, worse off, or it doesn't make a difference is your call.