[Christian32030]

your description of what metal and hard rock sounds like isn’t much different from how hip-hop was described when it first began to break-through to mainstream audiences. Also, you would be surprised at how similar their roots are. Music is a reaction to one’s surroundings or state of mind. Metal was born in the West Midlands in the UK, Birmigham to be more specific (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and even 1/2 of Led Zeppelin were from that area). It was (and still is) the industrial center of the country where you see nothing but factories and smokestacks for miles. Add the dreary weather, working-class neighborhoods and this music was begging to be born. Hence, music as as a repsponse to one’s surroundings. If you’re at all familiar with early hip-hop, it’s creation stemmed from similar (if not more despairing) urban conditions. Metal to this day is a protest against authority of any form, at least it gets you thinking. Can hip-hop today make a similar claim? I’d say no, at least not since Public Enemy has rap had anything worthwhile to say. Also, since when does music needs approval to thrive? I’m curious to know who must this approval come from? last I checked, most music thrived even without the corporate and marketing support that hip-hop gets.

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