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Genre: People & Blogs
Date of upload: Sep 3, 2023 ^^
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Got into an actual argument with my husband recently about a connection he was making between rap and addiction. Heās a huge hip hop head from a middle class family and heās never done most of the things he listens to people rap about all the time. I come from a poor one with a lot of multi-generational substance addiction that all of our family events and households played oldies soul and love songs all the time. You cannot tell me that music is what makes people do drugs when I was surrounded by people who were no particular fans of rap but everything around them: social conditions, lack of resources, recurrent traumas, constant exposure helped propagate this disease.
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I will say I had the realization I was a fucking idiot with this event.
My 12 year old daughter was listening to Doja Cat in the car and I was getting pissed off. I then put on some G-Unit era rap and realized it really wasn't any less 'problematic'.
On the plus side my daughter likes more of my rap, but it's equally debaucherous.
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That intro was dead the fuck on. Appreciate you giving flowers to the new generation, showing us how we should be as we age out of our prime in the zeitgeist. Itās a mindfuck watching alt heroes become the old people they railed against with no sense of irony. Thereās always been shock artists, and always will be. Theres also always been good elders who handled this without going crazy and continued to participate. Hopefully our generations will make that the standard instead of outliers. Thank you for doing this work!!
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The conversation reminds me of when ppl got all angry about twerking but that conversation died when it was brought up the same women complaining about twerking was out here doing the crybaby in the late 90s to early 00s and then there is the freaknik of the early 90s.
What it shows is that we not only have selective outrage but we have bad memory. A lot of ppl don't remember how things were back in the 90s and earlier. We even see this with over used and the often incorrect term "woke". Where ppl think now the media is different, "woke", and super progressive, forgot that the 90s did all the same things and never shied away. Some of the bad memory is intentional bc society has to have an argument, so gotta act like ya don't remember so we can die on whatever hill we choose.
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The same people complained about WAP and next year theyāll find a new female rapper to put down for being ātoo sexualā. I just know that as a DJ Quik fan, no one can get as dirty as him (hell even the 70s had this rapper named Blowfly who was extremely filthy). I never see male artists called out for being so sexual. Itās absolutely a double standard, and I donāt even really like Sexy Reddās music.
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I still listen to Hard Core lol when WAP came out I wasnāt clutching my pearls but I did have a convo with my teenager about her knowing the difference between sexual liberation and hyper sexuality/marketing. There are so many layers to the conversation and itās not always comfortable but we have to talk.
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@ayoq9956
8 months ago
And letās talk about how this is MAINLY projected upon black women!
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