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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Hey I'm one too. I was being sarcastically politically correct there.
I used to love the hip-hop back in high school. After higher levels of education, and a move up in Maslow's hierarchy of needs triangle, I started seeing it for what it is: A bunch of duffusses prancing around with a faux image of over the top masculinity to appeal to a vulnerable middle class white male demographic in desperate need of reinforcing and portraying a masculine identity. It's such blatant marketing that they even make songs and music videos depicting how much wealth they've amassed duping their audiences. Once I got over the identity crisis that in normally developed people ends with adolensence, I stopped listening.
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I guess I should throw my degree out the window because I must be ######ed. Maybe I needed more Psych so I could have properly developed according to Maslow's definitions of a person. Then again I find farts hilarious so maybe I'm really stuck on Freud's anal stage?
In all seriousness, while it is true that most rap you hear if you don't listen to rap (radio, tv, etc) is exactly as you have characterized it (negatively), there is a infinite amount of artists making real tracks about topics just as mature as you will hear in any genre. Making these stupid stereotypes about any music is just slippery slope logic.
I remember when rap was beginning, rock was incredibly glamorized - arguably more so than most rap is today. Stadium tours, name up lights, fancy bus, hordes of floozies, lavish mansions, sportscars, etc.
Plenty of country stars portray an over the top masculine image, I guess that means "mature" people can't like that either then?
If you see the music beyond the forefront that is being "aggressively marketed in your face", you can find rap artists that tackle pretty much any issue you feel is worthy of your musical maturity; from religious issues, politics, racism, sexism, anthropology, all the way to love, partying, sports, cars, whatever.
Every topic that has been covered in rock has been covered in rap, RnB, country, and vice versa. Just because you choose to expose (your definition of) less mature topics in a certain genre doesn't stop those topics from existing across the genre spectrum, and more importantly it doesn't qualify any music as more legitimate or mature than any other.
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