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Spike Lee criticizes rap music.

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Juronimo:
Spike Lee does have a slight point, which he brought to a head in the movie Bamboozled but he makes the same mistake that everyone who likes to criticize rap music makes. If you listen to the commercial realm full of fake gangbangers, fake thugs, and fake pimps (i e Snoop, 50 Cent), you'd get that impression but if you dig deeper, that's obviously not the case. Besides hiphop's biggest gangster rappers did have somewhat of a concious bent to their lyrics (i e early Ice Cube, Ice-T, 2Pac, Scarface, WC, Big Mike) and even Dre and Snoop got down in their early days with songs like When the Niggaz took over and Little Ghetto Boy.

With making sweeping generalized statements about gangster rap that we always hear, he just sounds like a slightly more benevolent version of Bill O'Reilly, C Delores Tucker or William Bennet. I have mad respect for Spike Lee but be a part of the solution instead of just leveling empty criticisms.

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