A question about rap music
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:59 pm
The other day I saw an article, and actual video, of Tupac's hologram appearance at this year's Coachella concert. I watched about 2 minutes of it, to see what the hologram experience was like. Pretty cool, that aspect of it. But in listening to the song, I couldn't help but wonder if a large segment of our society has ever actually listened to the words in rap songs. I read some article by some lily white suburban chick, she was tickled to death about the whole thing, calling Tupac and Snoop Dog superstars. Martha White is friends with Snoop. Snoop did a golf commercial for Chrysler. The media is constantly referring to all these guys as superstars and just gushing about them. And I can't help but wonder if they even have any clue what they are singing:
Muthafucka nigga shit,
Pull my pistol nigga
Fuck that pussy
Pistol fuck that nigga
Thass wut I'm talkin' bout nigga
Nigga going' down, nigga
Pussy whip nigga fuck that shit
Know what I'm sayin'?
Kill that nigga, fuck dat nigga
Nigga fuck dat, fuck nigga fuck
Pussy pussy fuck, nigga fuck
Mothafucka nigga, AK dat nigga!
I'm not trying to admonish them for this. Rap music is not for me, I'm not going to lie, I hate it. But I certainly don't want to condemn them for what they write, and how they "sing" it. But I'm trying to imagine if white guys did this in rock music, or metal music, or country music--would they be embraced by the media, and called superstars, and have reporters just gushing to be in their presence? And people like Martha White? I know there are white people making music with extreme lyrics and messages in their songs, but they are not held in high esteem and pushed to the forefront by mainstream media.
I don't get it. The only thing I can figure is they know the guys are popular, that kids seem to like them a lot. And they obviously have no clue what they are actually singing about. I'm convinced if he was still alive today, Mr. Rogers would have Snoop Dogg on his TV show:
"Hello boys and girls! It's a lovely day in the neighborhood! We have a special guest today, please welcome my good friend Snoopy!" Snoop would proceed to grab his dick and hold it the whole time during a four minute rap where he would talk about killing a bunch of niggas and fucking a bunch of ho's. Mr. Rogers would smile and nod the whole time, clueless.
Muthafucka nigga shit,
Pull my pistol nigga
Fuck that pussy
Pistol fuck that nigga
Thass wut I'm talkin' bout nigga
Nigga going' down, nigga
Pussy whip nigga fuck that shit
Know what I'm sayin'?
Kill that nigga, fuck dat nigga
Nigga fuck dat, fuck nigga fuck
Pussy pussy fuck, nigga fuck
Mothafucka nigga, AK dat nigga!
I'm not trying to admonish them for this. Rap music is not for me, I'm not going to lie, I hate it. But I certainly don't want to condemn them for what they write, and how they "sing" it. But I'm trying to imagine if white guys did this in rock music, or metal music, or country music--would they be embraced by the media, and called superstars, and have reporters just gushing to be in their presence? And people like Martha White? I know there are white people making music with extreme lyrics and messages in their songs, but they are not held in high esteem and pushed to the forefront by mainstream media.
I don't get it. The only thing I can figure is they know the guys are popular, that kids seem to like them a lot. And they obviously have no clue what they are actually singing about. I'm convinced if he was still alive today, Mr. Rogers would have Snoop Dogg on his TV show:
"Hello boys and girls! It's a lovely day in the neighborhood! We have a special guest today, please welcome my good friend Snoopy!" Snoop would proceed to grab his dick and hold it the whole time during a four minute rap where he would talk about killing a bunch of niggas and fucking a bunch of ho's. Mr. Rogers would smile and nod the whole time, clueless.