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Does anyone else think the whole ‘in-your-face’ BS notion that many rappers project is going to the head of suburban white youth? Why are they so attracted to it? I grew up in a dangerous housing project (unlike most of them), and I can see through the bad boy cloud for the sham it really is.
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Name : Seamus28269, Gender : M, Age : 21, City : Charlestown, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Carpenter, Social class : Lower class,Contemplate this scenario:
[I’m a suburban white boy. I’m pampered. Protected. Bored. Feeling neutered. Been told all my life that showing emotions isn’t good. Here’s these guys on TV acting ‘bad-ass,’ very macho and masculine, ‘expressing themselves,’ certainly not like Dad or the guy Mom’s been seeing since the divorce. They don’t know themselves and they don’t know me. I think that they just want everything calm and ‘normal.’ These rap guys are cool. I’m all over it. I’d understand Ginsberg’s writing of ‘dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix’ if anyone bothered to teach us that poem at my lame, conservative school. But, thanks to MTV, I can drag myself through those streets with this music. Maybe I can express myself, my pain, my confusion. Maybe I can learn something. Maybe I won’t end up like my parents. Plus the beats are diggety-dope.]
I used to live in an inner-city. I went to a suburban high school. I observed kids there who felt they had no outlet for the nasty, confusing emotions of adolescence except drugs, sex and types of music – all to piss off/differentiate themselves from their parents. They’re kids, and it’s no different than actual inner-city kids who feel a bit more powerful with rap – which pisses off their parents. It speaks to them, too. It’s happened before (Ragtime, Jazz, Elvis, Jimi) and it’ll happen again. Seamus, they have no clue, plain and simple. They’re so wrapped up in themselves at this stage that they don’t care. Plus, as in the cases of Eminem, DMX, Biggie and Tupac, it’s not all a sham. Some people lived what they rap about.
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Name : Miranda20486, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 31, City : New York, State : NY, Country : United States, Occupation : Production Coordinator, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I was listening to something on talk radio that relates to this subject. The host (a female) was talking about rock groups of the ’70s and ’80s, and how they were classified as ‘real men’ – that is, super macho, masculine, etc., whereas today’s popular white groups like In Sync and The Backstreet Boys are more quasi-female and sissified (her words). She went on to say that today it’s the rap artists that have that macho reputation. She also said that this may be why wrestling is so popular with many young white men today. These wrestlers have taken the place of the macho rock groups, something young men need on a psychological level, apparently. I would have to say some of her points are valid. The only thing is, the macho-ness of pro wrestlers is mostly make-believe.
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Name : Anonymous, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Age : 42, City : Louisville, State : KY, Country : United States,
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