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Whitlock: "Let’s be honest about popular commercial rap music. It’s porn."

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Alma, Oct 29, 2015.

  1. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Interesting take. I wonder what ol Whitlock defines as commercial. I guess what's on the radio? Except not much of this kind of rap is.

    "Rappers can be misogynist, homophobic, as bootstrap conservative as Elijah Muhammad, as violent as Ted Bundy and they’re free to characterize black people in a way you’d expect to hear at a KKK rally.

    It’s all good. Rappers are entertainers. Aren’t comedians? Aren’t authors and writers? Aren’t talk-show hosts?

    Why do rappers enjoy a level of free speech the rest of us do not? They’re the freest people on American soil. Why?

    Commercial gangsta rappers generally disavow education and claim to have spent their youth involved in crime, violence and incarceration. These are the entertainers/mass communicators we want to give the most freedom of speech?
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    The "Why?" is easy. If you criticize it, you're labeled as raycess, or an Uncle Tom.
     
  3. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    Paging Dick Whitman.
     
  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    No better or worse than country singers singing about dirt roads imho. You write/sing what you know.
     
  5. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    While he makes the transition from ESPN to Fox, Whitlock is apparently breaking out some hot takes from 1998.
     
  6. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Jesus, rap music is NOT porn.

    Some porn is good.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    He needs to quit working Tipper Gore's corner.
     
  8. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    BTE wins.
    Shut it down now.
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    It's amazing how many hot takes Whitlock has on things I care not a bit about.
     
  10. Vombatus

    Vombatus Well-Known Member

    Fixed that for you.
     
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  11. Brian

    Brian Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I thought he got lost there and set up a straw man. Not many commercial radio stations are playing Run the Jewels or Kendrick Lamar, at least where I'm from, just like a more contrarian Louis CK or Amy Schumer take probably isn't going to be on the Tonight Show. I find comedians not being able to perform on college campuses a sad thing, but they aren't being stopped from producing stuff on the vanguard. They can sell an album or video straight from their website and make millions of dollars. Just like a rap artist probably won't be played on the local Clear-Channel station. And is he kidding me that book publishers won't publish books with right-leaning perspectives? REALLY? Has he looked at the NYT Bestseller list lately?

    He's right. In a way gangsta rap is pornography, but so is a lot of what we consume. The notion that everybody but rappers are being censored is seeing the world through the narrow lens where everyone still gets their entertainment from a television, everyone buys from the same five publishing houses and everybody hears their music on a Clear-Channel station. People who want rap music, boundary-pushing comedy and great books have moved on from that model. There's a lot of fresh air outside that bubble.
     
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