I’ll park this here to challenge perceptions as to what rap is/can be this century.
I fear this is a reincarnation of the cable threads....
Choice of what I enjoy listening to based on race? Errrr... no.
Until your rant post I wasn’t aware on here of people “posting needlessly, endlessly and furiously about” any genre of music.As the OP I can confidently say (once again) that the thread is not about taste in music or listening choices. Nobody cares (very much) about that. The thread is about the lack of diversity on hi-fi forums and how the actions of some members - inadvertently I mostly imagined before I started the thread - serve to keep it that way by posting needlessly, endlessly and furiously about their hatred of just one particular music genre.
In truth I'm beginning to feel now that there's more racist spite and intent in those efforts than I had originally thought. And now that the pubs are shut I fully expect this thread will be on the receiving end of even more bitter and lengthy rants from lager emboldened bigots.
Let them come. They are making the argument for me.
PS no, racism is not like cables.
So are hi-fi forums only for white people who listen to white music ?
Great stuff. Gives me an excuse to post Kool Keith (aka Doctor Octagon, Dr Dooom, etc...):f-f-f- F R E S H
In truth I'm beginning to feel now that there's more racist spite and intent in those efforts than I had originally thought. And now that the pubs are shut I fully expect this thread will be on the receiving end of even more bitter and lengthy rants from lager emboldened bigots.
Hands up, who likes Wagner?
It's ok to say you don't like something and for that dislike to be based upon a narrow sampling of same.
I don't need to read all seven(?) fifty shades books cover to cover to express an opinion.
Based upon 2 pages I read in a WH Smith's I can safely say this global literary phenomenon is not to my taste and is in fact Shite, fans will no doubt point out my total ignorance![]()
In truth I'm beginning to feel now that there's more racist spite and intent in those efforts than I had originally thought. And now that the pubs are shut I fully expect this thread will be on the receiving end of even more bitter and lengthy rants from lager emboldened bigots.
Let them come. They are making the argument for me.
PS no, racism is not like cables.
It's really not about popularity.
If a white person plays jazz today, is there any pressure to respect the black cultural history of the music? I don't think so, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. There are mutterings about it in house and techno, but no serious pressure. But white rappers? They're constantly on thin ice because they and everybody else know that their ties to the culture are most likely tenuous and second hand at best.