Prejudices against rap from ignorant people

[Don Jacob]

that's why it's up to us to edgucate them.  sit them down and play some shit by Quik, The Twins, Foesum (my new found favorite) and so on.  

LMAO....ok with that list you'd win over 0 people who grew up with peeps like Earth Wind and Fire, Sade, Al Green, ect

[OpTiCaL]

AC that list you put up can all be siad in two words.  MAIN STREAM.  lol.  Main Stream rap is all that some peeps hear when it comes rap.  they don't know real soulful shit like Quik for example.  that's why peeps like my parents think of garbage like ja rule when they hear the term hip hop.  when if fact Its not the only face of hiphop.

This is true..all people who dont like hiphop see is what is shoved down their throats by commercialism....same ja tunes bumping over and over on the radio...

...on the other hand the face that shows just guns, drugs, violence and no message is also prevalent...

its hard to get by any prejudice or impressions layed....hopefully throught the evoloution of this music more people will understand.


PE if ever you watch some of their videos back in the day...it was shocking...but true...how they felt and needed to express themselves (and possibly the only way in which they werre allowed to say what they did...fair enough mister griff  (if i remember his name correctly) went overboard and got PE into big trouble with reverse racism...but what they had to say and what you saw on songs like "by the time i get to arizona" were so powerful it was like watching a film and taking a part.

Same with many other rappers of that era...amazing time...i wish more people into hiphop now could have seen it and truely known what it meant for people as a whole at the time..not just for the rap artists but this changed / helped to change things for All !


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