http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:49:48 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/09/075157.php#comment-736586 Its true. Great point of view. Thats why i listen more to KRS-ONE than to Ludacris. "KRS-ONE - Black Women" Hip Hop Response to this case. 736586@blogcritics.org Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:49:48 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/09/075157.php#comment-723971 Okay, screw Oprah, screw the guy that wrote this article, and screw everybody that doesn't like Gangsta Rap (which isn't very many people). Maybe Ice Cube did have a good childhood, maybe he didn't, I don't know, what I do know is that someone did, and Ice Cube knows that. Like he said when he was with the N.W.A, they're just speaking the truth of what goes on in the world and on the streets. They rap about what happens on the streets. What's wrong with that!? People like Oprah and the guy that wrote this article like to think happy thoughts, but the second someone speaks the truth of what goes on in the world, it promotes something like violence, rape, murder, arsen, theft, or war, and it should be stopped. What about when someone reports it on the news, should they be stopped? I got something to say to the guy that wrote this article and Oprah, bad things are going to happen in the world anyways. The truth hurts, and that's what Ice Cube speaks on his records, the truth. Ice Cube is just like a news reporter, he just raps about what happens in the world, adds music, makes it entertaining, puts it on CD's, and makes a living out of doing it. What's wrong with that? NOTHING! 723971@blogcritics.org Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:11:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/09/075157.php#comment-580325 some of you are missing the point. some one touched on it above but the bigger problem here is capitalism and how we are liveing in a white supremist patriacy. refer to bell hooks' article on this called Sexism and Misogyny: Who Takes the Rap? this is not to say that these rappers are off the hook but we need to look at the bigger picture why this is happening, who owns these business and corporations who distribute this music, who's in power. the white man with white interset they dont care about people of color they just care about what sells, and if they think sexism sells they are going to play it up, and encourage artists to play it up. the problem is a systmeic one. wathing oprah's town forom i couldn't not think about this. untill we think about these things critically they will continue and even oprah is perpetuating this. and there are good rappers out ther mos def, talib, roots, M.I.A> but they dont get mainstream play b/c thier lyrics do not perputate those things that's way they dont have as large of a market. anyways thats all 580325@blogcritics.org Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:05:12 EDT