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Re: Madonna is 50. Five-oh.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Straight Outta Compton was a great album. Very entertaining. But look at what it did. Rap had gone from block parties/I can rock a party better than you to my neighborhood is better than yours to creative sampling and social consciousness to fake ass gang bangers on wax. And aside from some lyrical oriented rappers here and there from that point until now, that's almost all it's been about. Once the country (read: suburban white kids) could classify it as gang music and consume that stereotype in neat little packages, that is all the labels were interested in.
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I read this and think, you can't blame that album. If they hadn't discovered that there is more money to be made selling rap to suburban white kids, don't you think someone else would have?
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