[lit-ideas] Re: Religious Music
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:01:21 -0500
It's no secret that trends begin in black communities and go mainstream if
that's your point. Jazz, rock. A few concessions to "social issues"
doesn't undo the overall pornography of rap lyrics. Too bad, too, since
musically rap is great stuff.
> [Original Message]
> From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/11/2005 12:50:18 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Religious Music
>
> 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
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> From: Erin Holder
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> 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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