Yeah, Zeppelin, the Stones, the Beatles, Cream, Pink Floyd. They really sucked. Good thing we had Motown.
Thanks for mentioning this! I'm black, but I'm a rock and roller and these are my peeps! Now you're talkin' music! : )
As for rap, my son (an un-named FReeper) listens to it sometimes. When he was younger, I monitored what he listened to very carefully. Personally, for all the drugged-out, anti-authority lyrics of the 60s and 70s, I have never heard anything as hateful as some of this rap music and I did not want him to listen to it.
As he got older (as in over 18) and bought his own music, I noticed some of it was more hardcore. I still don't like it, but I think I am bound by my own experiences with 'hard' rock. I didn't go out and become antisocial because I listened to Ozzy, I don't think my son will become a gang banger because he listens to some of the harder rap.
I do hold the line at cop-killing lyrics, but he says that that was pretty much a phase that's played out. I don't know. What's more important in the long run is that he likes a variety of music and isn't always filling his head with rap.
BTW - rap is nothing new. blacks were doing these long rhymes for years. When my mother taught the primary grades 40 years ago, it was not unusual for her to have kids who didn't know their colors or even their correct names, but they could spout whatever 'rap' was current at the time. Sad. The parents thought it was cute. I'm sure the same is true today.
Tull rules!