>"More on pop music. It's amazing that this shit is held up as progressive, when really it's an uneducated fool without any teeth and gold chains all over him bragging about selling drugs, murdering people, and how much money he makes. The only difference between that and a minstrel show is that pop music producers have actually found black people to act for them, instead of having to don blackface themselves.
>Then there's America's weird pseudo-protestant fetishization of money as a virtue, as though making a fortune as a paid clown is somehow as virtuous as a doctor, lawyer, or teacher who earned their fortune through their own contributions to society. It seems like most people even think it's more virtuous any more, because doing hard things that actually require some intelligence is seen as "upper class" and thus pretentious/exclusive, whereas any retard can "make it" as a professional idiot.
>Sometimes I feel as though our entire civilization has been hijacked by Satan himself. Everything I see in popular society runs so contrary to anything decent or worth living for. Nothing but an orgy of selfishness, victimization, debauchery, and nihilism. Earlier today I was listening to a podcast called "guys we fucked" or something like that. It's one of Apple's most listened to podcasts, and it basically consists of two uninteresting bimbos saying "fuck" for shock value and being generally bitchy, shallow, and utterly repulsive human beings. This is considered political activism in our post-political secular age.
>The only glimmer of hope I've been able to find is the Quran. Submission to God and living a decent morally upright life, that makes sense. All the noise on the radio and television is nothing but a spiritual and intellectual black hole. It's no wonder Islamists would rather go out in a hail of bullets than accept our "superior" western lifestyle."
Is he right Veeky Forums? Is rap music just a modernized form of the minstrel show?
Well, so much of rap music these days is bragging about how much money you've made and how much stuff you can buy. I guess that's a little minstrel-esque.
Nathan Anderson
Malcolm X wouldn't use the word shit like that
1/10 for effort
Oliver Johnson
>DNA >Gimme some ganja, gimme some ganja >DNA >Gimme some ganja >Real nigga in my DNA >Ain't no ho inside my DNA >Drippin' gold inside my DNA >Power shows inside my DNA >DNA >Gimme some ganja, gimme some ganja >Real nigga in my DNA >Ain't no ho inside my DNA
This guy is the artistic and intellectual inspiration for a generation of disenfranchised youth.
What does that do to a society?
More importantly, should media be regulated? It seems like the New Yorker class has a reason for or takes a certain joy in pushing this stuff, so how can society combat that?
Oh, so it wasn't the apple podcast paragraph that clued you in?
Brody Thompson
>culture becomes ruthlessly commodified to keep an underclass under, donning a progressive guise while squashing any hope of material social progress Who'd have thunk it
Gavin Jenkins
>"At some point during 2015, Kendrick Lamar came to seem like much more than a rapper. One of his best songs, “Alright,” was adopted by the Black Lives Matter movement as an informal anthem; sing-alongs erupted at rallies and protests across the country. “Alright” somehow manages to sound carefree yet urgent, like a radio jingle perforated by drum fills. “We been hurt, been down before,” Lamar raps, preaching about the glory inherent in struggle. “We gon’ be alright.” He sounded like a prophet, capable of articulating what people in the streets desired but couldn’t put into words.
>Lamar appeared to embrace the role. In the video for “Alright,” he soars over Los Angeles and the Bay Area, astonishing all who see him, until a cop brings him down. At the BET Awards, he performed the song on the roof of a vandalized police car. At the 2016 Grammys, he began his performance as part of a chain gang. His verses felt like pronouncements, the words rushing out as though he had been tasked with conveying an entire community’s joys and sorrows. It has become commonplace for hip-hop’s biggest artists to see themselves as globalist curators, absorbing and spreading new sounds. But Lamar’s circle seems only to grow smaller, his music indebted to those who came before."
What does the New Yorker mean by this?
Evan Hughes
Should have become a Catholic, not a Muslim.
Aaron Mitchell
>Oh, so it wasn't the apple podcast paragraph that clued you in?
Nah, I stopped reading there
Mason Edwards
>it's like satan is controlling society
Stopped reading here. Also what the fuck does this have to do with literature?
