Comments on: Hip Hop Lyrics: No Homo, Misogyny, and Anti-Semitism

By: tom

tom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i listen to music made by people who don’t like white people. i wouldn’t listen to music made by people who don’t like black people. i think its all about the perspective of the artist. when you’re in a place of priveledge to begin with, talking that kind of shit on other people is repugnant. when you’re not in a place of priveledge, it’s shakier ground. except for misogyny, i find that moderately entertaining all the time. i love american society.

By: Bol

Bol — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m pretty much in the same boat. I don’t take it all that seriously even though a lot of these artists really are big time haters. I just find it all so amusing.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

it’s a big joke, watching these artists repeatedly assert their hetero manhood, their racial hatred, and what have you. i guess when you’re strapped for ideas you’ll write about anything to sell records. this fact alone turns me off more than the actual content. is there some underground gay rap movement they’re trying to fight? are their label execs Jewish? do their hoes max out their credit cards and smoke all their jamaican hash?

By: evan

evan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

marc, apparently we do have a plethora of gay rappers here in the Area. I dunno if this is an underground gay rap movement or anything, but we’d better get Jeru and Mos Def out here, quick, to stop they’re homosexual agenda from taking over our beloved culture. No homo.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

With that link, we may have to change the name of this site to nohomo.com

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t take a lot of hip hop’s lyrics personal or to heart. I mean rappers sometimes rap about serious issues or issues affecting them, but it’s nuthin to write home about. I think people need to recognize that some of the un-PC lyrics of today are just an evolution of the genre and culture. I sort of look at it like hip hop of today is just a spin-off of itself, on steroids. Like an amplified throwback. You could also argue that today’s hip hop is just an exploitation of hip hop’s early days. .

By: MrBastard

MrBastard — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Actors, all of ‘em. Sure you get the occasional “Young Buck” that maims some guy that pissed him off, but for the most part they’re just as hollywood as those guys on the Sopranos.

If you’re listening to these guys for personal development or empowerment, you’re in the wrong record store.

And to the guy that posted “…I wouldn’t listen to music by someone who didn’t like black people”, how do you know that you haven’t already? What if you learned that the guy from metallica or the country singer or that american idol guy didn’t like black people? Then you don’t like their music anymore? come on.

MrB

By: tom

tom — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thats right, their records would go right out the window. i dont even care who it was, though since most of the white artists i listen to are heavily indebted to black artists i doubt theyd be like that. ive fought racist white people at complete random in my life. i take that shit very seriously, since no one else seems to want to police those people i do it myself.

By: dr. kate

dr. kate — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

this is not about an ad hominem attack on the artists. this is about the actual content of the message that is either misogynistic, violent, racist, or homophobic. there is a great deal of psychological literature, for example: http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/press_releases/may_2003/psp845960.pdf that demonstrates that exposure to media activates or “primes” mental constructs that mirror the content of the media itself. most of this research has been conducted on violent and aggressive media, but i would hypothesize that it could be generalized to racist, homophobic, and misogynistic media as well. (indeed there is research suggesting that even the mere presence of images such as a gun or words such as “blues” automatically activate implicit racial stereotypes; e.g., see https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/).

so if you think that listening to this kind of music is not harmful to you and to society, then you are fooling yourself. the effects are most likely going to materialize in ways that you are not consciously aware of in your knowledge structures and cognitive schema that guide the way that you selectively encode, retrieve, and act on information in your environment. it is my opinion (and that of many psychological researchers) that this type of media serves to exacerbate and perpetuate stereotypes and discrimination against minority groups.

kate

By: michael hip hop

michael hip hop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why the hell is anyone complaining about rappers spouting anti-homo lyrics? I mean, this is a good thing, no? Since when did it become a sin to speak badly of sinners? Since when did the black culture ever embrace the putrid nature of homosexuality? It’s a disgrace that we even have black people defending Sodomites. That nasty shit should not be tolerated at all. It should be criminalised with mandatory minimums of 25 to life for anyone caught engaging in an homosexual act.

Now, as for misogyny – that’s a blight on black society in general, not just hip hop. Hip Hop just happens to be extreme about it just like Hip Hop is extreme about everything.

Love and Respect to black women, the foundation of civilisation.