Sales of so-called hip-hop and rap “music” are plummeting at an alarmingly good rate.
For those of you in the sensible set who need a reminder: hip-hop and rap “music” is not music. It’s actually the morally corrupt garbage that is a product of a liberal society in which the moral standard to live by is “yo, if it feels good, do it, bitch. Word, whatup nigga”. This differs from regular Canadian liberal values only inasmuch as their standard is the simpler “if it feels good, do it, Christians suck, vote liberal”.
You can’t stand listening to it and you constantly turn it off when you unwittingly stumble upon it, and you pray that your kids never listen to, ever. Therefore you hear it and see it on the CBC.
It’s the junk that has nothing to do with music or melodies or “songs”—it’s manifestly a statement about how compassless and directionless western society has become. Visually, it’s that alternate universe porno that you see on TV where it’s totally normal for very young girls to dress like prostitutes and it’s cool to for men to appear as murdering and yet very successful pimps who are cast as role models. Men call women “bitches”, and black folks call other black folks well, I won’t type it again—the N-word—and they sing about killing cops, and about how the white man should be killed, and similar values. If as a rap writer you write something with a nice positive message, you’re kicked out of the club and then maybe killed while you’re on the way home, which, incidentally, is in “the hood”.
It’s ever so cool.
Rap Music: Is the Backlash Here?
NEW YORK, March 1, 2007 – Was Nas right, when he titled his album “Hip-Hop Is Dead”?
Music sales overall are down, but rap sales in particular have dropped 21 percent from 2005 to 2006. For the first time in 12 years, the top ten best-selling albums of the year did not include a rap album. A poll of black Americans by The Associated Press and AOL-Black Voices last year revealed 50 percent of respondents said hip-hop was a negative force in American society.
David Banner dismisses the criticisms, saying rappers discussing such negative things that they encounter in their lives bring certain things to light. Banner says even when he does positive songs, fans go for songs such as “Like A Pimp” instead.
As he puts it, “I wish America would just be honest. America is sick….America loves violence and sex.”
Well then. There’s just no explaining the decline.
An Associated Press story at FoxNews.com took at shot at it:
NEW YORK — Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture’s negative effect on society…
Meanwhile, on an actual music theme, my annual nearly spot-on unblemished on-the-record provable ability to pick the American (and Canadian) Idol winners way in advance of the final tally continues. My American Idol pick for 2007 is about to be sealed with the top 16 contestants still to be narrowed down to one. As I like to remind readers, I’m awesome.
I believe this year’s winner should and will be…..
Melinda Doolittle
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