Posted on August 20, 2009, 12:04 pm

He may not sport the full hairdo, but does this cut it for you?

Posted on August 21, 2009, 12:34 pm

well it made me nod me head !! not a grower though nad hasnt helped my mood whilst watching the cricket !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! doh...........

Posted on August 21, 2009, 7:08 pm

Not my cuppa, sorry! Reminded me too much of Eminem. Loads of effort goes into writing this stuff and some of the words are priceless, but rap has become, thanks to a few influential and to my mind, sick individuals, a genre, not of civil rights and social conscience but of violence,criminality, misogyny and hatred. I wouldn't want my music associated with those things for any price, I'm sorry these boys do.

Posted on August 22, 2009, 1:12 am

Blimey. I didn't like this either but only because I didn't enjoy it as music. I don't like rap, in general, and I have definitely found a good deal of it incredibly offensive - an apologia for aggression and anger and a return to the good old days of women as objects to be used or abused at will. (Which is strange from a predominantly black genre born in a country that only legally acknowledged black Americans as 'real' human beings fifty years ago.) I'm going to have to think about Andy's take on it.

Unless it doesn't count, though, I'd have to make an exception for such as this:

Mos Def: Tell the Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO9XFxof4f0

Posted on August 22, 2009, 1:28 pm

There is some great rap and hip hop out there. Granted much of it promotes things that are just wrong, but don't write the whole genre off.