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If I had to guess why some people go out of their way to hate it so much, it's probably some sort of musical elitism, uninformed on the genre (e.g comparing the worst hip hop artists to the best artists of other genres), just straight up racism or a mixture of all 3
That's why we put together this friendly guide wherein we run down 10 of the most common things that hip-hop haters say—and how to shut them down with a bulletproof response.
Hip-Hop is my favorite music genre, but I can understand why people wouldn't like it as it can be very in your face at times. However, I think a good amount of people (not all obviously) who claim they hate Hip-Hop music are completely ignorant on the genre.
From the U.S. government's policing of jazz and blues to rap lyrics on trial, NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden trace Black music's criminalized history and lay out the racist ...
The evidence on which they base their claims and insinuations—the fact that Merritt doesn’t enjoy listening to select black artists and doesn’t like most hip-hop—is flimsy stuff.
They couldn’t be more wrong. By reinforcing the stereotypes that long hindered blacks, and by teaching young blacks that a thuggish adversarial stance is the properly “authentic” response to a presumptively racist society, rap retards black success.
Has a generation that adored Hip-Hop like a newborn started to hate it like an invasive degenerate? LL Cool J, Kevin Powell, Tha Hip-Hop Doc, Planet Asia and a lot of 30-somethings discuss...