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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Sales stats and radio play seem to indicate that hip hop is far from dumb plastic noise.

Is it any surprise, coming from the race that invented jazz, the blues, and rock and roll?

[–]Xorlopps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Sales and air-time hardly dictate quality. In fact I would argue they result in the opposite, appealing to the lowest common-denominator. Rap is for the brain-dead among us.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lowest common denominator = most mass appeal

And you sound like a fellow old man saying rap. That genre is no longer popular.

I can agree with you that gangster rap doesn't have much to offer.

[–]Xorlopps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm 30, so I'm not sure if that makes me a old man. But mass-appeal is still generally not something I associate with being objectively good, usually it's the opposite. Maybe I'm a typical elitist metal fan, but I find rap/hip-hop to be mind-numbing and conceptually shallow and lowbrow.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well metal is certainly a genre that also gets called mind numbing. To each their own I guess.