“After listening to this hybrid of hip-hop and garage music, I wanted to kill someone.”
From the Sun.
“After Bob Marley died in 1981, black music started becoming aggressive.”
“On Sunday I overdosed on violent lyrics in black music. The state I was in, I was a menace to society.”
grimly wrote:
after reading that article, i feel like shooting myself.
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 12:17 pm ¶
ronant wrote:
“Tonight I’m off to London club night Lovers Rock Lounge — because, like everybody else, I need a good dose of love in my life.”
Aren’t you playing there next week Ronan?
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 3:03 pm ¶
Ronan wrote:
yeah I keep it hanging low and lazy at the lovers rock lounge….ladies get in free, funny none have ever come down?!
Posted 07 Aug 2008 at 5:05 pm ¶
Will C. wrote:
I’m usually torn when I see articles like this. First things first, the article is embarrassingly badly written; I can’t say I’m surprised it was published, since standards for decent writing in journalism have never been much to speak of, but that doesn’t change the irritating style.
But I do have some issues with the lyrical content in a lot of contemporary rap, grime, etc. I’d agree that the lyrics are more a symptom than a cause of the violent, rebellious, and sometimes misogynistic attitudes of the culture they come from, but I still find a lot of the lyrics more than a little repellent.
And of course, some of this is preference, differences in what different people find appropriate. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to state there’s a problem when a song (whatever the genre) has to praise this or that social ill constantly. And in some ways it’s worse when that praise is disingenuous - bad enough that there are people who commit violent crimes, abuse women, abuse drugs, but when a producer or artist talks about those things just to shock, or just to sound tough or get attention? “Desensitized” is a cliche of a word, and hardly something unique to “today’s world,” but I still see it happening, and I still don’t like it.
Posted 08 Aug 2008 at 1:35 am ¶
john osborn wrote:
now i know why I have been stabbing random people to bits and calling every lady I see a ho. The music made me do it, i’m innocent! thug life 4 effah!
Posted 08 Aug 2008 at 9:30 am ¶
tiddlerz wrote:
Grime? Its just grim with an e
Posted 08 Aug 2008 at 1:31 pm ¶