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- From: hamster@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)
- Newsgroups: aus.music
- Subject: Re: Rap music
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- Message-ID: <hamster.0338@xymox.apana.org.au>
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 15:32:59 AEDT
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- In article <1993Jan22.192044.20225@freenet.carleton.ca> aa593@Freenet.carleton.ca (Iain Pidcock) writes:
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- > My contention is that rap music glorifies violence.
- > Not all, but in general it has become an outlet for the
- > social deviant. Once upon a time it was a medium of protest.
- > Yes, Grandmaster Flash and others who were pioneers in rap
- > once promoted pro-social alternatives. But since then they
- > have been replaced by people like ice cube, Niggas with attitude
- > (of which the former was once part of) and ice-t (of Cop Killer
- > and Body Count).
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- Overheard on a Melbourne tram late last year: a conversation between two
- young rap dudes, both all of 11 or 12 years old...
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- "And how about New Jack City? Yeah, that bit where Ice T gets that guys
- head and smashes it against a wall, then says 'Don't f*ck with this nigger'
- then he blows his head off!!"
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- "Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you can see the blood and brains comin' out of his
- head and everything"
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- "Hahaha yeah! I love Ice T man, he's so cool!"
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- Food for thought?
-
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- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - hamster@xymox.apana.org.au
- "The Looks Or The Lifestyle? I'll take the lifestyle. And the looks."
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