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- From: davew@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Dave White)
- Subject: Re: Rap music
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.212449.22893@g2syd.genasys.com.au>
- Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia
- References: <1993Jan20.151407.17637@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:24:49 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.151407.17637@freenet.carleton.ca> aa593@Freenet.carleton.ca (Iain Pidcock) writes:
- >
- >Do you folks in oz have the disease of rap music (Kris Kross...)
- >infiltrating your culture? It makes me ill listening to
- >all the tired violent crap that spews from the mouths
- >of folks like ice-t, ice cube, ll cool j, and the rest of
- >these societal losers. Please tell me that you have
- >never heard of ice t and his delightful song "Cop Killer"
- >Scum like this are ruining America and taking Canada with
- >it. Please, someone tell me the rest of the nineties will
- >see an end to this...
- >
- Yes there's plenty of it heard in Australia, and it was a nice
- change at first, (back in 1989) but a bit dated these days.
-
- As to the implied violence of your example, any culture that allows
- rampant and seemingly uncontrolled use of guns deserves everything
- it gets!
-
- --
- David White, davew@g2syd.genasys.com.au
- Genasys II Pty. Ltd., North Sydney, Australia.
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