Drug and crime culture have been "cool" in this country before rap came along:
A lot of nightclub cokehead Napoleon pricks want to "be" Scarface.
This comes from the US - rap is something that is so disgusting it should never have been allowed on US airwaves. Instead, songs about killing cops, raping women, selling drugs, etc. are not only OK, but were at various times at the top of the charts. Even now, while they’re a little tamer, they still glorify the black gansta lifestyle (even if the singer is white).
I remember being in Europe and hearing a teenage ice-cream store employee in a non-English speaking country singing along in a language she didn’t understand words that were roughly “kill the pig (cop).” I asked her (in her language) if she knew what it meant and she said no, she just liked the rhythm.
Mexico has a new TV series about a Mexican drug-gang member’s girlfriend and her trials and tribulations, which are portrayed as sort of normal. Thanks to the US acceptance of the drug and crime culture represented by rap, we can’t say anything about this. It’s all cool.
I’m really disgusted. Calderon had to go and plead on bended knee with Bambi to give more support in the anti-drug effort, but frankly, as long as we continue to be the biggest buyers and the place where that culture is glorified, Mexico and all the other supplier countries will remain the pits that they are now.
The record labels and artist management went as far as making up how many times this or that guy had “got shot” and how many times he’d gone to jail.
Murderous singers is nothing new, Leadbelly got off deathrow twice because of his music.
But he wasn’t held up as someone to emulate because of his criminal ways.
Rap is about ego. “I’m great I’m great I’m great” “You suck you suck you suck”
The origins of rap? If you ask me is the jump rope calls that the girls in the neighborhoods used to sing while BABYSITTING their younger (soon to be “rap innovator”) brothers.
Drug and crime culture have been "cool" in this country before rap came along:
A lot of nightclub cokehead Napoleon pricks want to "be" Scarface.