google rapper and shooting and count them yourself. What it has to do with the music is your comparison to other genres and social standards.
As I mentioned before I’m not a fan of country, but this bizarre position you’ve staked out that country hasn’t “proven” itself sufficiently in positively rejecting murder and violence against women is absurd. Other than *not *make killing people and beating women popular song topics (which overall they aren’t in country) what the hell would you have them do?
Rap and country have no equivalency on this issue by any metric you can name, and your position that you’re “not convinced” there’s a meaningful difference in the overall ethical postures of these genres regarding murder and violence against women is logically absurd.
Dio, back away from that crack pipe. If you listen to Folsom Prison Blues it’s about remorse for what he did, which is why “…I hang my head and cry”. And I’m sure there are a few other songs where someone committed a crime. But a large portion of rap music glorifies all manner of immoral behavior, from keeping yo hos and bitches in line to dealing drugs to killing cops. It’s not just the content, it’s the glorification of it.
It can’t be hard to compare the lyrics of, say, the last 40 rap tunes to hit the top ten and the last 40 in any other genre.
We all do. The question is whether to help the victims or punish them.
I’m not sure of the chronology of Generations W, X, Y, Z, but that OP question was posed at all suggests a startling information gap.
Well, that’s why I posted the OP, to get educated :).
Oh, and Generation Y comes after Generation X who come after the Baby Boomers who come after…I don’t know what the WWII generation is called.
A surprising number of Blacks feel like they don’t owe the Democrats their vote. In a 1984 Penthouse interview, Mick Jagger said that every successful Black recording artist he knew of voted for Reagan. As filthy as the Southern Strategy was, it’s not the final word on Blacks and the Republican party.
I don’t think successful recording artists are a statistically valid sample of black Americans.
“Mythical?”
Yes, mythical. No such creature ever existed.
For the last forty or fifty years the Republican party has had many elections in which it’s majority was very narrow. While most party members are not racists, there is a very hard number of actively racist political activists who will, with only minor encouragement turn out at the polls with reliability, and vote against any candidate who publicly supports the issues which address entrenched racism.
When you know your party is gonna lose that faction if you support school integration, head start, WIC, and other such “liberal” ideas that seek to redress existing inequities mostly surrounded by race, you tend to soft pedal your strongly anti-racist feelings in public. You certainly do not speak out in an election year. Likewise you don’t encourage your party to take a hard line on racism in government.
So, people who experience racism as an active detrimental aspect of government actions listen to you, and decide if you are not part of the answer, you are the problem.
Tris
I’ll just pretend Dio included a “virtually” or “practically” and save a lot of time and effort.
No, but they’re a pretty revealing sample of financially successful Black Americans.
At some point, wealth overcomes race as the motivating factor in voting. I’m not surprised that the wealthy musicians that Jagger hobnobs with would have voted for a platform of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Actually, yes she did - Reagan was referring to an actual person.
No cite because it won’t make any difference.
Regards,
Shodan
A grain of truth with elaborate lies built around it, and reënforced over and over again… that’s certainly what I’d call a myth.
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He never expresses any remorse. He admits he deserves to be locked up, but what he’s expressing is sorrow that he’s stuck in jail. The full lyric is “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die/And when I hear that whistle blowin’, I hang my head and cry.” He’s talking about hearing the whistle of the train that passes by the prison and wishing he was on the train, bound for someplace else.
I’m not enough of a rap or country fan to do a real comparison, but I notice that most of the people who compare the two genres are not rap fans either, and get most of their knowledge about rap from press coverage of the most controversial artists and albums of the day. 
But I’m a blues fan and I can tell you that Ledbelly did time for murder, and that the blues has always been full of songs like 32-20 Blues. ‘Gun blues’ is an old time subgenre.
And I know that when Johnny Cash died, at least a few rappers paid tribute to him. Cash said “I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die” was just the worst thing he could think of, and a few rappers thought it was kind of an early gangsta sentiment. Here’s what Cash had to say about it:
The GOP has also had trouble escaping the consequences of the Southern Strategy because of its recent embrace and encouragement of nativism in regard to illegal immigration - a problem which is no worse or better now than in most of our history. Being directed as it is against primarily Mexicans, their nativism has a racist tinge to it, fairly or not, that does serve as a reminder to other non-whites about how the party truly views them.
And I do love how people who claim to support family values so strongly can devote so much adoration to music about divorce and cheating and prison. 
I have an older friend who works as a school nurse in a poor district. One of the questions often asked by young girls is how to get family aid money. This is not something that happened in the past tense, it continues to this day. You could not be more wrong.