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She was at a RAP concert. Proof enough that she was likely not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I didn't realize anyone still listened to that crap. He kids, the 1990s called, they want their "music" back.
White kids liking rap and hip hop is a fad. It started back in the mid 90s. I would bet 10-20 yrs from now, they will be on to something different.
Yes, she should have skipped this particular word, even if on stage singing it, even though Im a white guy in my 40s, I realize I have NO business EVER using or saying that word in the same way black people do.
Mid 90s? Maybe out in the sticks. I grew up in the upscale white suburbs of NYC and white kids liked rap right from the beginning. All the way back to ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and ‘White Lines’.
Run DMC? Public Enemy? Naughty By Nature? Etc, etc, etc.....Hell, The Beastie Boys! All before the mid 90s.
She was at a RAP concert. Proof enough that she was likely not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I didn't realize anyone still listened to that crap. He kids, the 1990s called, they want their "music" back.
Lol, Toyman, I know you're a little bit outside the demographic, but rap isn't going anywere.
I might not think it's as good as the 90's - early 2000's but it is even more ingrained in the culture now than it was then. Most innovation in music comes from hip hop, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
Mid 90s? Maybe out in the sticks. I grew up in the upscale white suburbs of NYC and white kids liked rap right from the beginning. All the way back to ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and ‘White Lines’.
Run DMC? Public Enemy? Naughty By Nature? Etc, etc, etc.....Hell, The Beastie Boys! All before the mid 90s.
I grew up in NC and we were listening to the same stuff you were when it came out. So, yeah... definitely before the 90s... more like late 70s, early 80s for the most part.
My daughter thinks it's funny that I still remember all the lyrics to Rapper's Delight.
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I'm not sure why this was even done. Why ask anyone to come onstage and sing lyrics YOU wrote if you don't want them to sing part of the lyrics?
I completely agree that white people should not be calling black people by the N word, but come on. If you do not want white people singing some portion of the lyrics either don't invite them on state or tell them what you want them to do once they get there.
Some of the commentary is implying this girl rapping along with lyrics is the same as issuing racial slurs aimed at a person. I disagree. What she did, by rapping all his lyrics (like she was invited there to do) is the same as reading Huck Finn aloud and not censoring the content or quoting a line from Pulp Fiction.
If we are going to decide that word is not to be used, we all have to agree to quit putting it in books and in movies and in lyrics and leave it for conversational use among black people ONLY.
Because you cannot have it both ways.
I'm personally all for getting rid of it.
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I'm not sure why this was even done. Why ask anyone to come onstage and sing lyrics YOU wrote if you don't want them to sing part of the lyrics?
I completely agree that white people should not be calling black people by the N word, but come on. If you do not want white people singing some portion of the lyrics either don't invite them on stage or tell them what you want them to do once they get there.
Some of the commentary is implying this girl rapping along with lyrics is the same as issuing racial slurs aimed at a person. I disagree. What she did, by rapping all his lyrics (like she was invited there to do) is the same as reading Huck Finn aloud and not censoring the content or quoting a line from Pulp Fiction.
If we are going to decide that word is not to be used, we all have to agree to quit putting it in books and in movies and in lyrics and leave it for conversational use among black people ONLY.
Because you cannot have it both ways.
I'm personally all for getting rid of it.
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