[lbo-talk] Rap and Detroit

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Fri Apr 29 08:40:42 PDT 2005


Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


>This is precisely what is so appealing in gangsta rap - it is white or
>middle class kids using blacks to do something they would not dare doing in
>their own name - piss of their parents and authority figures. It is so
>obvious that is pathetic that seemingly intelligent people cannot see it.
>
Wait. The attitudes do matter. I agree about white/mc kids and that gangsta rap is built around that market. Still, there's a diff between violence described in blues/country music and the violence described in some forms of rap. The "civilized remorse" is not pretend, it's real.

Joanna


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