05-10-2015, 03:02 PM
Quote:I stand corrected. He merely provided an explanation of The Drifter's generalization.
He provided only one explanation. I was curious as to why that was the only example he gave.
Quote:I stand corrected. He merely provided an explanation of The Drifter's generalization.
Quote:I'm not sure why we have to confine it to music. Who said anything about country music celebrating gangsta rap? Lol, you went in a completely different direction.
Quote:You were asking if country music promoted thug culture the same way gangster rap does. The answer is a resounding no.
Quote:He provided only one explanation. I was curious as to why that was the only example he gave.
Quote:I wasn't referring just to illegal things necessarily. There are lots of legal things that send the wrong message.
I'll have to do some lyrical research, but you would be amazed at how similar some of the messages are in country and rap music. They are just packaged differently.
One thing amazed me is the song Cocaine by Eric Clapton (Originally JJ Cale). That song has been on air waves for a long time glorifying cocaine, one of the most addictive illegal drugs out there. Was there any backlash against that song?
Quote:No I did not.
Quote:So country music and rock and roll haven't done the same thing just in different ways?
Quote:I'll have to do some lyrical research, but you would be amazed at how similar some of the messages are in country and rap music. They are just packaged differently.
Quote:Based on what, or is it a "just 'cus thats how it is" type of thing. 2000 Escalade, pulled over, likely had drugs in the car, they decide they have a better chance killing these cops and trying to escape than facing mandatory minimums for two felons with guns, and most likely drugs in the car. I doubt these idiots are up on any news.
Quote:Smack or any other "battle league" is hardly indicative of any sort of majority. I'm not even denying that some rap is about those things mentioned earlier...but it's nowhere near as prevalent as it was 10 20 or 30 years ago. Even Jay Z spends half his rhymes about art.
Quote:Based on what, or is it a "just 'cus thats how it is" type of thing. 2000 Escalade, pulled over, likely had drugs in the car, they decide they have a better chance killing these cops and trying to escape than facing mandatory minimums for two felons with guns, and most likely drugs in the car. I doubt these idiots are up on any news.
Quote:I hope you've never gone Redneck Crazy.
Quote:That's about the only thing I can think of country talks about drinking and driving
Quote:Glorifying murder and even killing cops in rap is nowhere near as violent as country singers singing about drinking and driving. Come on, Eric.
Quote:Again, I'm a huge Bone Thugs fan. Nothing I've ever heard from any country song compares to the violence/crime in songs like Thug Love, Notorius Thugs, Mo Murda, Thuggish Ruggish Bone, For Tha Love Of Money, Shotz To The Double Glock, Notorius Thugs, No Surrender, etc. That's just Bone Thugs n Harmony, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of other gangster rappers.
And while it's not as prevelent as it use to be, it's not like the same things aren't celebrated in the rap culture. Genius.com #13 rap song of 2014 (Multiple - A$AP Rocky ft. Juicy J):
Back in the buildin', sold crack in the livin' room
*N word* toe-tagged, sold gats for a livin'
Doo rag, keep a red or blue flag in the denim
One you be with be the one to shoot at ya in a minute
Come to Harlem if you never seen Baghdad
First place I seen a *n word* sell crack at
Where the hustlers don't sleep, take cat naps
Shorty with the shotty limpin' like he got a bad back, bad back
Even in my will, keep it real, thuggin' in my field
'Til the day I peel, keep it trill, anything I feel
Youngins trained to kill, aimin', bangin' steel and slangin' krill
She shake it all for Satan just to paint her nails and pay her bills
I ain't really *f'in* with that Been Trill
Swear them *n-word* booty like Tip Drill
Nah I ain't really into throwin' shots
But these mothaf[BAD WORD REMOVED]** better give me my props, word to Pac
We're the reason that these *n-word* gettin' throwed
Reason why you *n-word* wearin' gold
Jail pose in the pictures, prayin' fingers to your nose
I remember, if Pimp was alive he'd tell these hoes and these *n-word*
But yes, tell me about how Redneck Crazy compares to that level of crime/violence.
Quote:How much of "gangsta rap" is describing what they've seen in their lives, as opposed to glorifying it?
Besides, absent any other evidence, why is this inferred in this thread?
Quote:Hip hop is probably more prevalent in mainstream now than it was 10 or 20 years go, commercials, movies, tv, radio, ringtones, video games and everything else. Which like I said before, if it is more popular now (the same argument the gun lobby uses when they say gun ownership is up), then why is violent crime down if the thug culture coming from rap is so dominant now?
Ok let me rephrase then, I doubt these idiots had the news on their mind anymore than fight or flight from a drug sentence. Do I know they had drugs? No, but based on the circumstances the situation screams it...and at the very least they were felons in possession of loaded firearms.
I'm certain that was more on their minds than "oh imma kill me a cop just because." If they were wanting to just kill a cop, why not kill the cop before his assist came?