[lbo-talk] Lumpen

[Charles Brown]

W. Kiernan "
Wojtek is right though.  There's no branch of white music today with 
both the commercial reach and the concentrated anti-social idiocy of 
black gun-rap music, which makes up 25% to 50% of the contents of the
platinum-selling rap records my son buys.  The closest comparison among
white artistic genres would be horror B-movies, and gun-rap music generates
at least ten times their revenue.

Often the music side of it (which, like the Motown backing bands, rarely
even gets credits on the record cover) is superb, but I guess it's _hard_ to
write lyrics, so the lyricists just jerk off instead; anybody raised on
American teevee can effortlessly write a horror movie.

^^^^^

CB; Yea, you're right.

Of course, the music industry bourgeoisie learned their lesson from youth
music in the 60's popularizing progessive political and social ideas among
masses. They made sure to select and invest in the rightwing rappers to
create the opposite effect. Not only that, they are keeping Black-gun rap in
fashion for a longer cycle than previous teenage music styles.

Rap does rhyme though. I was reading _Canterbury Tales_ outloud to a friend
the other day. She said , "It sounds like rap."