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Originally Posted by kipperfan

Mos Def is good. Just had to add this...i hate "radio rap" i freakin love Mos and Talib Kweli though.

I agree. I like Mos Def also. I don't "hate" popular rap though. In fact, I prefer going to clubs that spin that type of music, but that's just a personal preference.

On that note, I read a good article earlier this week on The Washington Post... A Black woman's commentary on why hip hop has turned her away.

No, darling, I'm not anti-hip-hop, I told her. And it's true, I still love hip-hop. It's just that our relationship has gotten very complicated.


When those of us who grew up with rap saw signs that it was turning ugly, we turned away.

Of course, the rhymes were sexy, too, part of a long black tradition starting with the post-emancipation blues. It was music that borrowed empathy and passion from exultations of the sacred, to try to score a bit of heaven in secular places.

And if, gradually, we noticed a trend, more violence, more misogyny, more materialism, more hostile sexual stereotyping, a general constricting of subject matter, for a very long time we let it slide.

Last year, talk show host Kelly Ripa gushed to 50 Cent, a former drug dealer turned rapper, about how important his movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " was while black women around the country were left to explain to their own black sons, " Sometimes, darling, black boys get shot nine times and they don't live to brag about it on the mike . "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101301426.html