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General Chat / A Dissertation On Why Hip-Hop Needs To Go

« on: November 24, 2012, 12:33:25 AM »

I realize that this is a subject that may be touchey for some, but it needs to be elaborated upon. As you may have gleamed from the title of this thread, I feel that the musical genre of hip-hop (also known as rap, dubstep, etc.) needs to go. I feel that the negative themes that are integral to the genre's sound make it unlistenable-to for the average person. Almost every song is about either "weed" (marijuana, which is illegal), murdering (which is illegal, not to mention immortal), and calls woman "ho's" (slang term short for "whores"). I live near a strip club, and every night I'm forced to hear the loud baselines coming from the building, and it keeps me wild awake (like wide awake, but you can never get to sleep). I feel that the Beatles should be the goal standard for music of all genres. They never swore, and never had gratuatous sexual themes in their music. Paul McCartney, Ringo Star, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney are the greatest songwriters of probably all time. It may sound corny, but I believe that I was born in the wrong generation when it comes to music - this generation's music is over-produced, and focuses too much on base. And the lyrics are awful (case in point: "Baby baby baby, oh"? What does that even mean?). Yes, I realize, to each's own, but sometimes a line has to be drawn. We don't need murder in our music. We don't need to draw undo attention to girls' butts. We just need to get rid of hip-hop and get back to plain old good music.