Quote:I'm glossing over country because I never mentioned anything about country, in fact I've used the word country so little, that doing a board search, I found I've used the word once in a thread about gay marriage...so why would I attack your strawman.  Once again my point has been and continues to be, if rap being more popular now, and more accessible now in 2015, and it's fomenting this "thug culture" then why are violent crimes down as a total, why are police homicides down as a total, where is this "thug culture?"  

 

Ok smacks youtube has 642 videos, of which only 41 have over a million views we're talking. were talking .06 of all of their videos, of that .06 only, 11 of those 41 have a date of a year or shorter which is a way to measure interest in the videos because they gained a million views over 6-12 months rather than 4-5 years like the other videos in that 41...we're talking .017% of all of their videos garners enough interest to reach a million views in less than a year.  On average they're half a million a best (though actually doing the math it's 288,613, but we'll call it half a million to make it not seem so obscure.) This isn't a large swath of even hip hop fans much less the general population, the smack page over 6 years has views on par with a single Drake song...so once again these aren't even a large minority of hip hop listeners.    

 

Why would you attack that strawman? Huh? My entire premise of this discussion has been a rebuttal to jtmoney and rollerjag implying that country music has a history of being as violent as rap. That is absurd. You trying to spin the discussion does not mean me reverting back to my original premise is a strawman.

 

Regarding URL, you are moving the goalposts. Earlier, you said that URL battles get "500,000 at most". Considering URL has 41 battles with over 1 million views, I'd say you are being willfully ignorant in this discussion.

 

 

Anyways, back to my original premise and not a strawman: rap music has much more violent songs, both in volume and substance, than country. This is pretty much common sense for anyone looking at things objectively. If you wish to debate something else with someone else, go for it.

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