Is hip-hop for gays?
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I love hip-hop like; Eminem, Li'l wayne, T.I, Kanye west and other. But my gays friends never want to talk or even go to places where this kind of music is played. Am i weird? gays do not like this music? why?
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it is totally normal for you to love hip-hop.it doesnt matter if you are gay,straight,bi or idk what, you like what you like
i also love hip-hop,rap,trap,dubstep,alternative,indie pop,rnb,edm,electronic… and i am gay.your sexual orientation doesnt define your taste in music -
How Hip-Hop Is Becoming the Oldies
By Alex French of The New York Times
July 17, 2015Ever since the earliest days of rock ’n’ roll, time has corroded yesterday’s musical radicalism into today’s pabulum. Thirty years ago, young listeners of hip-hop, with its predilection for violent imagery and unprintable language, might have thought it impervious to this process. But radio conglomerates are proving them wrong. As its listeners grow up and memories of Tipper Gore grow dim, hip-hop is now taking its final step toward respectability: It now qualifies as oldies.
Stations playing hip-hop as oldies target listeners in their mid-20s to mid-40s: people who grew up during rap’s golden era. This is a subset of the population that is outgrowing contemporary hip-hop radio (which targets the 18-34 demographic) but is mostly too young to be nostalgic for ’70s and ’80s stations and too hip for adult contemporary. They are also entering the prime spending years of their lives — marriage, children, car buying and homeownership — and radio, like all forms of media, is figuring out how to catch them.
In a sense, classic hip-hop is following a radio trend that began in the early 1970s, when the first dedicated FM oldies stations started up in Phoenix, playing records by old crooners and doo-wop quartets. The format was a hit, and it quickly spread to Los Angeles and New York, and everywhere else. Oldies reached its zenith in the 1980s, just as classic rock — a new iteration of the same concept — was born. Same story: The format grew as programmers looked for new ways to keep grown-up baby boomers tuned in.
Getting today's listeners to tune-in to classic hip-hop has meant determining which style of hip-hop is best represented by the word 'classic'. There has always been a tension in hip-hop between those songs that are made for radio play and songs that were made for the real fans. Programmers seem to have chosen the former, by playing only the most radio-friendly of the past’s radio-friendly records. Take, for example It Was a Good Day. That song wasn’t even Ice Cube’s biggest hit in 1993, the year it came out; Check Yo Self was. But Check Yo Self is a song typical of early ’90s Ice Cube — angry and violent, with jokes about S.T.D.s, guns and prison rape — and Good Day is downright happy go lucky. In it, Ice Cube eats a halal breakfast; wins at basketball, dice and dominoes; and sees his name written in lights on the Goodyear blimp.
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Hip Hop is for anyone and everyone. If you like what you hear from an artist, then go for it. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as YOU like it. Personally, I am not the biggest fan of hip-hop / rap as those genres historically are not very gay friendly, but despite homophobic lyrics on the album, someone will have to pry Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP from my cold dead hands because it will always be one of my favorite albums because of what was happening in my life at that time.
"The Way I Am" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQvteoFiMlg and "Stan" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMhN-hfMtY are both calling out for spins right now.
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of course! cazwell for instance
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I don't really listen to hip hop, but back in the day I liked "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill". And this year I discovered J. Cole's "Forest Hills Drive" and it is a wonderful album. Most hip hop is formulaic and, to me, lacks personality. J. Cole, however, is amazing!
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I don't really listen to hip hop, but back in the day I liked "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill". And this year I discovered J. Cole's "Forest Hills Drive" and it is a wonderful album. Most hip hop is formulaic and, to me, lacks personality. J. Cole, however, is amazing!
what the fuck has the music you listen to , to do with who you fuck ….? ???
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I don't really listen to hip hop, but back in the day I liked "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill". And this year I discovered J. Cole's "Forest Hills Drive" and it is a wonderful album. Most hip hop is formulaic and, to me, lacks personality. J. Cole, however, is amazing!
what the fuck has the music you listen to , to do with who you fuck ….? ???
Huh? Nothing at all. You maybe misunderstood my message. Hip hop has nothing to do with who I have sex with…
