Re: Hiphop

[bon moun <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

At 03:42 PM 6/22/00 -0500, Katha wrote:
>Just for the record, I never said anything remotely suggesting that
>hiphop is to blame for the Central park assaults.  My point was just to
>query what seems to me like the Audre Lorde center statement's
>contentless boilerplate of claiming that hiphop was involved in the
>"daily struggles" for "women's rights" and "feminist justice." I'd just
>like to see a bit of factual backing for that pious wish!
>  I do think the rap I've heard is pretty awful in its gender ideas, and
>I HATE it as music. But that is not to say that it causes violence
>against women, much less a specific act of violence.
>  Hiphop is not just poor people's entertainment, btw. Most rap records
>are bought by white suburban teenage boys.
>
>Katha

Are you sure?  My kids are not white, and very few of their friends are.
They all, to the last person, listen intently to nothing but hip-hop/rap.
A lot of it, including the stuff that's beginning to go cross-genre, is
being done by women.  If white kids are dominating sales, I suspect that's
just because they outnumber the rest.

The content is generally not particularly progressive, but it is certainly
no worse than the message from most of the rock I grew up with--albeit a
little looser with the language.

Cheers.


Stan




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