[b]rami009 wrote:[/b] [quote][b]snoop92 wrote:[/b] [quote][size=5][color=#0000FF][b]rap is more than sex, money, drugs and bad stuff. matter \"o\" fact; its really none of that at all (barely). raping is about life and thing people have gone thru. and if u cant exept it dont listen, shut up, and live your boring lives. dont judge.[/b][/color][/size]:angry:[/quote] if rap is about life then youre just contradicting what you said. secular rappers lives are sex, money, drugs and other bad stuff. i know youve seen the videos and every single one is trying to have more and better looking models than the previous guy, a nicer car, more expensive jewlery, and more people behind them just sitting there doing those stupid little dances thats the exact same as another dance but changed just a little bit. thats all i see[/quote] It\'s not automatically a contradiction. I think what\'s he saying is that they\'re not rapping just to BE rapping about those things, but because that\'s what they see in their lives. But rap is really two separate worlds, like every other popular genre. There\'s the \"mass appeal\" side, which I would disagree with Snoop92, and say DOES rap about whatever they think is going to sell CDs. Three-Six Mafia, for example? Pointless nonsense. But I mean, take a good look at Tupac. You DO hear about violence in his songs, and yet he was never in a gang. You DO hear about drugs in his music, but he grew up in the ghetto, and it wasn\'t all about glorifying that stuff. You DO hear some contempt for authorities, but look at his family. His god-mother Assata Shakur, known as a black radical and member of the Black Panthers, was then framed when a New Jersey cop got killed. She was eventually broken out of prison, and smuggled to Cuba. (Now DAT\'S Gangsta!) I like to think that after his supposed death, Pac went down there with her. But I digress.. yeah, Pac DID write he knew in life, and he wasn\'t doing it to sell CDs.

Post edited by: MattBob_SquarePants, at: 2007/04/11 21:14