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I happened to be Black american who loves Metal. In the vein of Meshuggah, Slipknot, etc... I also grew up on Led Zeppelin, Confunktion, rolling stones, Prince, Isley Brothers etc... My favorite band was Kiss during my preteen years. In my early thirties I love hiphop especially emcees who can spit verbal beatdowns like old Eminem, Chino xl. But when I mention I like Beatles, Rolling Stones, and heavy metal to blacks they say its "white man's music". I could see country to a degree. Because, admit it or not, looking at a country music awards and I've never seen any diversity in their audience. I believe to each his own. I don't see how anyone can say a certain genre is white or black. To me, its about personal taste. Maybe I answered my own question, but rock and roll, country, etc... all comes from the style of blues. Right?
it´s not racist in that way but a lot of racist bands have used country and rock & roll as a tool to express their feelings towards blacks,latinos,jews,gays etc etc the same way a lot of black people has taken hip hop and made racist music towards other races. but to label a form of music racist or what not coz of the color of the fan base of that music is stupid. but on the country side it is a little different coz a lot of country artists has openly expressed their hate towards american minorities especially black people but that still doesn´t make country music racist in general coz i´m sure that there is a few black country musicians out there.
Quote from: Pissin' On The Throne on July 08, 2005, 10:10:23 AMit´s not racist in that way but a lot of racist bands have used country and rock & roll as a tool to express their feelings towards blacks,latinos,jews,gays etc etc the same way a lot of black people has taken hip hop and made racist music towards other races. but to label a form of music racist or what not coz of the color of the fan base of that music is stupid. but on the country side it is a little different coz a lot of country artists has openly expressed their hate towards american minorities especially black people but that still doesn´t make country music racist in general coz i´m sure that there is a few black country musicians out there.Some? Sure. A lot? I don't think so. How many do you know of?
look up David Alan Coe for country music that's some racist shitbut not all country music is like that, only a small percentage
Quote from: Mattdrush1 on July 08, 2005, 09:04:29 AMI happened to be Black american who loves Metal. In the vein of Meshuggah, Slipknot, etc... I also grew up on Led Zeppelin, Confunktion, rolling stones, Prince, Isley Brothers etc... My favorite band was Kiss during my preteen years. In my early thirties I love hiphop especially emcees who can spit verbal beatdowns like old Eminem, Chino xl. But when I mention I like Beatles, Rolling Stones, and heavy metal to blacks they say its "white man's music". I could see country to a degree. Because, admit it or not, looking at a country music awards and I've never seen any diversity in their audience. I believe to each his own. I don't see how anyone can say a certain genre is white or black. To me, its about personal taste. Maybe I answered my own question, but rock and roll, country, etc... all comes from the style of blues. Right?It's just as much blackman's music as white man's music. Particularly the Beatles and Stones who started out by playing Blues and RnB (which later became Rock n Roll). Even Country has some roots in the old slave music. In a lot of ways it's both, but to call a type of american music just white or just black is wrong. Metal came primarily from Zeppelin and Zeppelin were greatly influenced and ripped off in some cases, the blues. Look at hip hip, sure it started in the Bronx but most of the samples came from white rock tunes, and even Bob Dylan was doing things simlar to rapping in the 60s. American music is black and white. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a brainwashed racist fool.
Metal really started wih Black Sabbath and they were basically a blues band who were "dark" in style.
I mean, there's racism in all genres. Look at Ras Kass and that new song he made "Fuck White People". Not to be partial, but hip hop has become a lot more diverse recently, more than heavy metal or country. It all boils down to cultural upbringing and stuff though.