[AreaMan]

There isn't a country or region on the globe that hasn't developed its own form of rap/hip-hop. Google "any country name" and "rap" and see what comes up.

I could do the same "Google" thing for AIDS, rape, alchoholism, etc.
If a hundred million people have a stupid idea...it is still a stupid idea.

[durasell]

I could do the same "Google" thing for AIDS, rape, alchoholism, etc.
If a hundred million people have a stupid idea...it is still a stupid idea.





Those things aren't ideas -- they are either results or physical pathologies.

Find an "idea" or art form that has spread as widely.


Again, I'm not a fan or rap/hip-hop, but it isn't aimed at me. I'm an old guy.

[durasell]

Also, you can take a copy of the American Constitution into the most repressive regime on earth and they'd shrug as you point furiously, "See, see, freedom!" But if you show up the next day with a Snoop Dogg CD they'd start doing backflips with joy.

For better or for worse, the freedoms expressed in American pop culture are a powerful thing and have great appeal to many people of the world. It is not uncommon to find immigrants of a "certain age" who first fell in love with America watching bootleg tapes of Baywatch or Miami Vice.