Come Back to the Five and Dime, Snoop Doggy Dogg: The Perils of Postmodernism

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[Apolitical]

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Snoop Doggy Dogg:
The Perils of Postmodernism

by William Grim

I was recently in the J.C. Penney's store at the Tuttle Creek Mall in Columbus, Ohio shopping for some trousers. Now, clothes shopping is one of those activities -- like root canals and remarriage -- that I try to avoid if at all possible. The "shopping experience" has become more miserable of late because American retailers seem to believe that no one will buy clothes except to the accompaniment of Eurotechno or rap music screeching out of speakers at something approaching the threshold of pain.

While standing in line to purchase a pair of khaki Dockers the caterwauling began.

"Muthaf**ka, muthaf**ka, muthaf**ka," blared forth from the miniature Bose speakers attached to the steel gray pylons holding up a display of the latest oversized "pipes" jeans. Not being an aficionado of the genre, I was unable to determine the provenance of the rap tune, but its literary structure was unmistakable. All human discourse had been reduced to three words -- bitch, 'ho and variations of the f-word..........

[tictoc]

Thank you for taking the trouble to type this wonderful passage from Mark Twain!

[RipSawyer]

Why do they have to rag on Snoop and Tupac. Snoop Tupac and Eminem are( in Tupac's case were) the best of the rappers

Kinda like saying Bundy and Gacy and whoever else you care to name were the best of the serial killers?

[Rocksalt]

I have heard that hip-hop and rap culture is the most popular subcultural element in our society today.The music industry is making a ton of money off of suburban white kids who lap it up. As a guitar player,I always wondered how this stuff could become so popular.Very little real musicianship.But I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Kids are always looking for the most annoying,subversive thing to latch on to-People said the same kinds of things about Elvis in the 50's. When I realised rap was getting popular,that's when I realised I was getting old,or society was going to the dogs,one or the other.