Today’s Must-Read: Selling Vulgarity
Martha Bayles has an excellent piece in today’s WSJ on the increasingly vulgar, violent, and misogynistic culture of today’s rap. I remember when a group like Public Enemy could rule the hip-hop charts with clever, forward-looking rap that was challenging both musically and mentally. Those days seem to be long gone. You may say, “Why should I care?”, and here’s why: it’s the Cosby and Thomas Sowell message again. Hip-hop style is increasingly influential on the young, and the lessons it’s teaching right now are anything but good.
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April 28th, 2005 at 3:46 pm
I happen to agree here, most especially from an innovative point of view. Run DMC was good. Old LL Cool J was good. Old Snoop and Dre were even good, though they came in at the end of it. There’s not many artists in the genre doing anything really original or clever now, with the exception (in my book) of Eminem.