[Pikamax]

"But rap took a dark turn in the early 1980s, as this “bubble gum” music gave way to a “gangsta” style that picked up where blaxploitation left off. Now top rappers began to write edgy lyrics celebrating street warfare or drugs and promiscuity. Grandmaster Flash’s ominous 1982 hit, “The Message,” with its chorus, “It’s like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under,” marked the change in sensibility. It depicted ghetto life as profoundly desolate: "


1) What was Flash supposed to depict the slums as? Heaven?

2) the "dark turn" didn't come about till the late 80's, early 90's with groups like N.W.A, when all of a sudden everyone was a former or still gangsta! Now most of it is just top 40 junk appealing to goofball teens and young people.

[dfwgator]

Is this writer implying that "The Message" was Gangsta Rap? If he is, than he is even dumber than the rappers are.

[tru_degenerate]

Good point.