LADY.KATHRYN
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And Butterballs forgot to add (to this item on HIS list):
5. rappers all sing about the same thing: girl thingy, killing, cars. Wow, what imaginations!
what about the issue of profane language? Members are censored HERE, on Metaforge, is they attempt to use the same words and expressions common to rap lyrics.
The young? The idolize these 'c-rap' musicians. They copy them, with pants hanging halfway down their butts (sorry, no offense, Butterballs), underwear showing, walking slouched over, hands distended as though they suffer from cerebral palsy. These are the things the young should emulate?
And the example provided by the c-rappers 'careers'. Ill-educated, shiftless, (insert more quotes from Butterballs here), and all that tells the young that there is no need for education, nor to stay in school, nor find gainful employment, nor to become productive members of society. The message is that IF you fail at learning, at life, or go to jail, you always have a great future as a c-rap musician.
We have the same problem here in England, and throughout the Commonwealth. The problem is not unique to the States. Anywhere the internet goes, so does the decline of the next generation.
I do not claim the rhythym and tempo is bad. The compositional form of rap music is a valid genre. The roots of rap can be found in reggae music, which is actually 3/4 time, like a waltz. (Difference being a waltz is ONE-2-3, and reggae is 1-2-THREE).
But even in that reggae we see profanity and the 'dis-sing' of societal norms.
Certainly, each generation must rebel, must be different from the last. That is a standard of human developement. But sometimes that rebellion goes too far. THOSE of you who defend/like/listen to C-rap music will dispute this, saying I focus on the worst aspects of the genre. I admit, THAT IS TRUE. But, dear ones, remember that is also a NORM of human society. To look at something, and only see the worst. The young always seem to do just that, finding that 'worst' aspect of anything, and thereafter adapt it to their personal generational rebellion.
As a generation matures, a wider veiw is taken, and, like those here on this forum who support c-rap music and musicians, you have managed to see beyond the things Butterball decries, but what of youth? They SEEK the worst examples, and claim them as their own.
I am happy to be old. It means I will not be around to witness the fall.....
LADY KATHRYN WHITEHORN, AAEE, AA.SOC, BA.PSYCH, MS.PSYCH(CLINICAL)
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