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Old 03-30-2007, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Skinny Fatts View Post
Cool. My comments aren't directed at whether it's good or not. Just that sometimes "art" is a means to express anger, not necessarily to promote it.

Life is short...imagine having to live in the places they are "rapping" about?
However, in expressing their anger as art they are indeed promoting it.

And I'd rather take my imagination elsewhere thank you.

I'm not denying raps marketability, clearly many have made a whole lot of money with the genre so apparently there is a large part of society that identifies with the music. I just don't happen to be one of them.
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