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To: quesney

This is actually pretty well-crafted and witty satire:

Music is roughly based on Beethoven. And it includes a reference to “A Clockwork Orange”, and what exactly is being advocated?

1) Read a book.
2) Raise your kids.
3) Your body needs water (not just liquor), so drink it.
4) Buy some land, not spinning wheels for your car.
5) Brush your teeth.
6) Wear deodorant.

To have moral outrage over the foul language ignores that such language is typical of the low-rent rap music cranked out today, which the black community has finally agreed is gross, violent and tacky. In the last couple of years, it has dried up as a fad, and so is open to parody.

Years ago, on MTV, a prominent rapper did a different satire more in the style of rap videos of the time, in which the theme was his complaining about his small penis. It was both hilarious and no doubt personally very difficult to make, for obvious reasons.

But to assume that this was exploiting crudeness, rather than sneering at it, underestimates the ability of the artists involved and their personal revulsion at the low quality of rap music.


58 posted on 08/12/2007 7:33:34 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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To: Popocatapetl

Great work. Those are the messages.


68 posted on 08/12/2007 7:47:55 AM PDT by bvw
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To: Popocatapetl

Well said. No surprise few freepers get it.


109 posted on 08/12/2007 10:40:29 AM PDT by Sandy
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