People like listening to rap where the rapper describes doing disgusting stuff but when the rapper is caught for doing the same disgusting stuff in reality, they're outraged. amirite?

Just like how people like reading fiction about horrible acts, but yet are disgusted by real people doing it. Almost like fiction isn't real...

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Good fiction containing violence in it, IS NOT about the violence itself but the mentality, psychological torment, human nature causing it and etc. If Lolita was written only about having sex with underage girls, and that's what it's main focus was about, nobody would've read or liked it, (well except for pedophiles) but there is much more to the book than just a "horrible act" and it's something many rap songs lack. Same goes for other fiction with horrible acts in them, like ‘Perfume', ‘Crime and Punishment' and even Lovecraftian literature. His primary goal was to awake a sense of human insignificance before the unknown, horror was his tool but not motive.

by Tough-Ambassador 2 weeks ago

Difference is many rappers are talking about themselves

by verlieprosacco 2 weeks ago

You like listening to music glorifying treating women like animals? Why? is it a sexual thing for you?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

That's a problem with music in general. Rap is a very broad genre lol there's plenty of rap that doesn't do that and there's plenty of music that isn't rap that does do that. Why focus on rap in particular?

by One_Swimmer 2 weeks ago

One example in country, Honkey Tonk (I think that's what its called)

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

There's only one reason to single out hip hop when violent themes exist in so many different genres of music.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I'm a huge rap fan but we're really being ignorant if we think that the violence from hip hop doesn't actually have an affect in real life. Telling fictional stories is one thing. But there's literally hundreds of people in Chicago who have died because a dead person was disrespected in a song. If you don't believe me, please do research. The gang violence is real and the music really does play a part it in.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Gang violence happens with or without hip hop, and it happened for hundreds of years before hip hop existed. Words affect people regardless of the medium they're presented with, you've got cause and effect backwards. You're describing a Chicago problem, not a hip hop problem.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Of course gang violence happened before, and the issue doesn't stem from the music. But what I'm saying is that the music can play a part in perpetuating the violence, and it's not just fiction; it's real.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure we can all guess why rap is this person's primary focus

by Cschaefer 2 weeks ago

However, you are much likely to hear all of that dirty nonsense in rap music whether in any other genre.

by Tough-Ambassador 2 weeks ago

I agree there's such thing as fictional storytelling in music, but a lot of people are ignorant of the fact that many rappers really do what they say in their songs. (Look up King Von for example.) A lot of people really do die because they dissed someone in a song. This isn't always just music.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I like watching Keanu Reeves shoot people in the head in his movies, but I'd be outraged if he did it in reality and faced no consequences.

by Aggravating_Log 2 weeks ago

"But they killed a puppy and stole a car! 77 murders is a proportional response to that!"

by RutabagaNew8122 2 weeks ago

Its not like this is somehow unique to rap. Its a pretty simple concept that we're all familiar with. Same goes for tv, movies, books, etc. The stories we love would be outrageous if they happened in real life.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

No see the thing about that is they imagine themselves AS the rapper That's what I'm told at least

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Almost like there's a difference between reality and fiction.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

What is a mainstream rock song where the lyrics glorify the singer for doing evil things like selling crack, pimping, murdering innocent people? what's a rock song or movie where the lesson of the art is that doing evil things will be rewarded? films like Goodfellas don't end well. Do you understand the difference?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

I couldn't count the number of rock songs about having sex with underage girls and doing drugs. It's fairly absurd you aren't aware of this.

by fwisozk 2 weeks ago

What's one song where the lyrics detail having sex with an underage in a clearly illegal description? I'm not at all referring to general drug use, that's much different than treating a group of people like animals for your own profit which is what a pimp is

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Looks like a turd that probably didn't help society. I wouldn't support that piece of crap being played everywhere constantly and the creator being awarded 30 Grammys like jayz has

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Ted Nugent has one, for example. Fits his general scumminess as well.

by Joanne00 2 weeks ago

I heard a "rap"... "song" the other day the words were literally ... "Murrder murder muuuurrdduh mmmuuurrrder muuuurduuuurr muuuuuuuuurrderrr muuuuurdduuurr .... MUUUURDER." This was at work and the dudes were in another department, if it were in the forklift area where I work I would have turned that garbage off. You wonder why America has a problem with violence?

by Significant_Lock9259 2 weeks ago

Do you know how many video games encourage you to role play as a killer that are played by children? Ban it all, I'm serious.

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Ir maybe, just maybe, parents should be a little better

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Did your parents teach you sarcasm?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago

Were you taught sarcasm at all?

by Anonymous 2 weeks ago