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Tbf, mainstream music for the last 50 years has basically been about sex and drugs. Explatives and shock factor have risen, but I don't remember the Beatles han

Tbf, mainstream music for the last 50 years has basically been about sex and drugs. Explatives and shock factor have risen, but I don't remember the Beatles handing out sound financial advice either.

MuffinFlavored 7y ago
when in the past 50 years has something like bruce jenner/the kardashians happened? most rap/music is about killing/causing harm to one another if you listen closely yet i’ve been downvoted 4 times so far why do you think that might be
- djohnston 7y ago
  Most mainstream rap music is actually about having lots of money and spending it not wisely. Violence in hip hop is usually more metaphorical and euphemistic these days, as opposed to late 90s early 2000s. I know this because I listen. And nothing you said refuted my previous point, pop music is consistently vapid throughout the decades. Hell, at least violent hip hop in the 90s was reaching above some bubblegum pop nonsense and showing people an American existence they were generally unfamiliar with. AFA Kardashians, these people have also always existed. The royal family, the Olson twins, basically any pop star who was famous without talent (boy, there really are too many to count). I don't agree with you. I don't think anything has fundamentally changed, save perhaps the mediums these people use to reach the masses
- mixmastamyk 7y ago
  I listened to NWA and 2Live Crew 20, no 30 years ago, gulp. Most folks have always been morons. Might want to watch the movie Idiocracy fo a glimpse of the future. Nihil sub sole novum, nothing new under the sun, in latin. You know, from 2000 years ago during the Roman Empire.
- ozzmotik 7y ago
  i would say that most rap music really isn't about that a all. there certainly is some obsession with this ideal of masculinity and of being able to solve problems with force and such but that isn't unique to hiphop, that's just a toxic obsession that many parts of society fall victim to. it's the same sort of obsession that leads to things like gang affiliate and the like. but i guarantee you that for every hiphop song you come across that talks about violence, or really any sort of glorification of illicit practices, that you can also find a song that is more positive and optimistic and more about hip-hop as a vehicle for self expression and for entertainment first and foremost. sometimes it does break down to talking about some of the real stuff that does happen to these people and that real stuff sometimes happens to be violent and not very desirable, but that doesn't mean that all of hip-hop is automatically that.

Tbf, mainstream music for the last 50 years has basically been about sex and drugs. Explatives and shock factor have risen, but I don't remember the Beatles handing out sound financial advice either.

MuffinFlavored 7y ago

when in the past 50 years has something like bruce jenner/the kardashians happened? most rap/music is about killing/causing harm to one another if you listen closely yet i’ve been downvoted 4 times so far why do you think that might be

djohnston 7y ago
Most mainstream rap music is actually about having lots of money and spending it not wisely. Violence in hip hop is usually more metaphorical and euphemistic these days, as opposed to late 90s early 2000s. I know this because I listen. And nothing you said refuted my previous point, pop music is consistently vapid throughout the decades. Hell, at least violent hip hop in the 90s was reaching above some bubblegum pop nonsense and showing people an American existence they were generally unfamiliar with. AFA Kardashians, these people have also always existed. The royal family, the Olson twins, basically any pop star who was famous without talent (boy, there really are too many to count). I don't agree with you. I don't think anything has fundamentally changed, save perhaps the mediums these people use to reach the masses
mixmastamyk 7y ago
I listened to NWA and 2Live Crew 20, no 30 years ago, gulp. Most folks have always been morons. Might want to watch the movie Idiocracy fo a glimpse of the future. Nihil sub sole novum, nothing new under the sun, in latin. You know, from 2000 years ago during the Roman Empire.
ozzmotik 7y ago
i would say that most rap music really isn't about that a all. there certainly is some obsession with this ideal of masculinity and of being able to solve problems with force and such but that isn't unique to hiphop, that's just a toxic obsession that many parts of society fall victim to. it's the same sort of obsession that leads to things like gang affiliate and the like. but i guarantee you that for every hiphop song you come across that talks about violence, or really any sort of glorification of illicit practices, that you can also find a song that is more positive and optimistic and more about hip-hop as a vehicle for self expression and for entertainment first and foremost. sometimes it does break down to talking about some of the real stuff that does happen to these people and that real stuff sometimes happens to be violent and not very desirable, but that doesn't mean that all of hip-hop is automatically that.