Hip Hop Made Him Do It!

~ Clarissa

And the idiots begin to blabber:

The older brother who was killed and suspected in the Boston bombings was deep into hip hop, and it appears he belonged to a fan website that touted that genre of music. Tamerlan Tsarnaev has an email associated with the website, “Real-hiphop.com.” The site provides information about hip hop artists and upcoming DVD releases. What’s interesting … hip hop lyrics are notoriously violent and often degrading to women.

Given that I’m older than Tsarnaev, I have had more time to listen to hip hop of which I’m a great fan. It is a wonder that I am yet to blow anybody up.

Let’s see how soon video games will be made part of the discussion.

Jeez, tabloids are so predictable.

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34 thoughts on “Hip Hop Made Him Do It!”

  1. I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and can even appreciate much of the hip hop made between the late 1970s and even the early 2000s and I’ve never had any desire to blow up buildings or people. That’s just as stupid as saying that old cartoons like the Looney Tunes have made children drop anvils on other people and just a weak excuse for censorship of history and political correctness or thinking that people will take the racial stereotypes seriously without realizing the historical context of which these films were made.

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  3. Excuse me while I yawn at their banal predictability and stupid generalizations and go blast Cakes Da Killa, Mykki Blanco, and Lil’ Kim to calm down.

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      1. It’s comforting, like a security blanket, if the threads were woven from complacency, laziness, and intellectual dishonesty.

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        1. “It’s comforting, like a security blanket, if the threads were woven from complacency, laziness, and intellectual dishonesty.”

          – Wow. This is really brilliant. You are a very very brilliant person.

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      2. People never get tired of having their opinions reinforced. Reporters are more than happy to provide this service for them. They might be bored of repeating the same boring explanation again and again, but I bet they’re not bored of picking up the paycheck.

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  4. This is, of course, incredibly stupid… just as the bomber himself was (honestly, he was a loser seven ways to Sunday, his life was nasty, brutish and short…. and let’s be thankful for the last at any rate)

    But I’ve gotta say, I’ve never been able to get into hip hop post …. 1992? (give or take a few months). Most of it sounds like attempts to make music with dentist drills and the incredibly nihilistic and dehumanizing lyrics make me hate the world.

    I totally get the attraction to dark/non-harmonic music and/or soul cleansing aggression but prefer classic (or early 80’s American) punk (in carefully controlled doses) for that.

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      1. I knew someone would say that. I’m not exactly a fan of the genre, but I do have some fond memories about some of my High School classmates who would sometimes start rapping in the halls about whatever was on their minds.
        I do not think any of them have become terrorists yet.

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      1. Modern types are not ashamed of being very passive. I haven’t fully got to the bottom of why that is. I think part of it is the danger of acting in a morally and socially ambiguous situation. That must be a large part of it. Along with this is the fact that the strongest position a person can have in a capitalist society is that of consumer. Being a consumer is definitively passive. Also, there is the metaphysical tradition of associating goodness with inactivity and evil with activity. In relation to this, the less you do, the less culpable you are of “sinning”. Finally, there is the psychological fact that it is easier to take the line of least resistance than to go in any other direction. Consequently, passivity becomes the norm, and taking responsibility or choosing one’s own way is unusual.

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        1. The highest level of activity for many people is choosing a collective identity and then allowing that identity to dictate their behavior in every way. To themselves, they look highly active and resourceful.

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          1. Yes, I think you are right. Actually it’s one of the first things I noticed when I migrated here. I’m currently making a chain of videos, for the sake of archiving my knowledge about previous ways of doing things. Most people simply have no idea that there are, or have been, other ways of thinking/feeling/behaving than those they have embraced.

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