[lit-ideas] Re: Religious Music
- From: "Erin Holder" <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:49:51 -0500
Oh yeah, and don't forget De la Soul. Anyway, on that note, I have other
things I need to do today. Take care,
Erin
Toronto
----- Original Message -----
From: Erin Holder
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 12:39 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Religious Music
Inner city? Hop hop might have come out of the Bronx, but hip-hop is a
commercial industry, in case you hadn't noticed. Ethic, Common (Sense),
Anquette, Algorithm, DMX, Grandmaster Flash, Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Gemini,
The Fugees, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (especially from the album
Hypocrisy is the Greatest Luxury, the song Language of Violence) are all
artists that, while their songs aren't *always* prim and proper, also have
songs that deal with various social and political issues from welfare, to class
struggles, to the war in Iraq, to violence in schools, to racism, to wife and
child abuse, to depression, religion, to saying "no" to drugs, to songs about
missing their grandmothers for christssake (that's a DMX song called "I miss
you" off an album called The Great Depression). So really, I have no idea what
you're talking about. Clearly the History Channel must have put a bad spin on
hip-hop, because you're out of your mind.
Erin
Toronto
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