Filed under ‘this didn’t age well’, this tweet from Lewis Hamilton almost exactly six years ago: ‘I grew up watching and listening to my man Puff. To stand here today as brothers is an honour and a privilege.
‘I appreciate you bro for all you do, for being a GOAT and for always showing love. God bless.’
Several slavering hashtags followed.
The angelic recipient of this encomium is, of course, the rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who is currently an all-expenses-paid guest of US federal detention, having been deemed a ‘serious flight risk’ ahead of a trial in which he will face charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. He is alleged to have relied on drugs and violence to force women ‘to fulfil his sexual desires’.
Mr Combs, 54, has pleaded not guilty to all charges and we must let justice run its course.
It's been said every time a new genre of music arose. It's not 'real' music, it's noise. It's decadent. Disrespectful. The people who "play" it aren't real/talented musicians.
Alice Cooper even said the quiet part out loud. That he was purposely creating 'music' that parents would hate, because parents railing against it would drive kids to it.
So it sounds cliché but it probably was inevitable, especially in the era we live in, where the only thing considered normal is abnormality, but a genre finally has reached that high water mark of depravity. And that's why cRap is the anthem of a toxic, self-destructive subculture.