Interesting takedown of Whitlock.....

Name a country song that advocated killing a cop. And other examples can be counted on one hand: Cocaine Blues by Johnny Cash for one. And every one of those deals with the consequences of such acts, and don't glorify them.

 

It's not that they think money is everything. It's that the hip-hop culture is telling them being an entertainer or a criminal is the only way to make good money, rather than through education.

 

I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

 

Country music has a lot of violence and cheatin:

That I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

At least the hip hoppers are bangin hookers instead of
someone else's gal
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

 

And now he's stuck in Folsom Prison hanging his head and crying while happy people ride the train down to San Antone. Bad example. Don't think that's glorifying violence.

 

"Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men. Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen."

 

Sorry, it was bugging me.

 

Okay, we've come up with three, and all three had a moral at the end that violence doesn't work. The average rap album has double that number of songs glorifying violence.
And the Carrie Underwood song is a bad example. Keying someone's car does not rise to the level of shooting people.

 

Many -- dare I say most -- entertainers don't have a college degree.

I would agree that hip-hop has long focused too much on the way life is than how it could be. And I'd agree that current hip-hop music is more an wanton abandonment of any long-term standard of living for the easy, immediate high of life (sex, drugs, etc)

 

Ya don't fuck with a man's pick up truck. People have been shot for less

 

Not a good comeback.

 

Even the Bush-hatin' Dixie Chicks had Goodbye Earl. And the Thunder Rolls was Garth Brooks. And the Redneck Queen sings of Gunpowder and Lead. The only moral there was don't beat your wife, which I stand by.

If you want real country music, Mr. Bojangles was about being in prison. And Robert Earl Keen, the Road Goes on Forever, the accomplice gets away in the end.

Fancy was a hooker, and more of the fake stuff proclaims Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy, and the Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off. And one of Alabama's songs with the prettiest melody says, "When we make love/It's more to me than just an affair/I want you to know how much I care." That's some A-plus level bs right there.

Rap music may call them the B word and skeet, skeet on their faces, but for every Conway Twitty, there's a Keith Sweat. Seems like there's a lot of un-Biblical things going on in both realms, it's just worded differently.