Reply #71: You miss my point entirely. [View All]

[hiphopnation]

Whether or not you like the MUSIC, hiphop culture has seeped into and is an inescapable, ubiquitous part of popular American and world culture. Whether or not you care for the language, clothes, attitude, or music that comes from it, you are influenced by it in just about every way, and have been for nigh on thirty years now.

Hiphop could really give a damn whether you choose to wade through the "crap" to find stuff that is worth your lofty and revered critique. Even if we want to go at this from a strictly musical standpoint, do you like modern rock, pop, even some country? Where do you think they got those nifty beats that have helped to keep the above mentioned genres from fading into obscurity? That's right, hiphop.

But back to the lesson at hand, the N word, as used in hiphop, though abstruse and puzzling to some whites, does still serve a purpose, if at least to spur conversations like this one.

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