| Celebrating Rap Feuds |
[Apr. 4th, 2008|08:17 am] |
I am taking a break from Big Labor to talk about some crap that I saw on TV. I had just finished watching "Red Dawn," a cheesy 80's movie involving killing Russian invaders, when a top-10-list type program came on. The name of the show was "The Top 10 Reasons why we love Rap Feuds." It was a show on a local bamma network that was celebrating the violence, greed, and divisiveness of feuds in the Recording industry. In other words, it was a steaming pile of ignorant shit. Most of the commentators were white, and the one woman of color they had on there was a notably raw DJ on NY's Hot 97 radio station - a station that has been assailed by every civil rights and media watchdog group as the lowest of the low in terms of music and content. Hot 97 is an icon of the "urban" radio stations controlled by massive white-owned media conglomerates.
In an age where people like Nas and Jay-Z, (one of the most legendary rap beefs ever) can come together in peace (and to make money, sure...) to spread a message of "we are killing ourselves" these shows are a step back in an industry that is glorifying a self-facilitating form of genocide in the form of race-on-race crime.
Lately, I have been rather anti-violence, and have frankly become a little disgusted with it all. This is including the many old skool "gangsta" records I've got, like Dre and Biggie. My conscience is bothering me about the content and the energy that it puts into the universe, let alone the fact that my money is going to the corporate machine.
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![[User Picture]](http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/44093266/2476852) | From: secret_stuff
2008-04-04 07:12 pm (UTC)
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I didn't see the show you are talking about, so take this entirely with a grain of salt... But do you think that part of it can be white perception or misperception of kayfabe? In other words, lloking at the entertainment value and not believeing or really considering it real?
Not that I followed any of that, but the media portrayal of these rap feuds is not significantly different from the way kayfabe feuds are portrayed - Pro Wrestling for example. What they see is over the top public feuding passed off as entertainment... and they are entertained.
It sounds more to me like a perception issue and less "ignorant shit." I also don't see it as inherently racist - look at the media coverage of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and other white celebrities. These people's lives are portrayed entirely for their entertainment value, and it has little to do with race, except perhaps in the marketing.
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From: (Anonymous)
2008-04-18 06:58 pm (UTC)
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Who was the DJ - Angie? I gotta admit I turn on Hot 97 everytime I come up to NJ.
| From: bombyamom
2008-04-18 07:04 pm (UTC)
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I think so. Hot 97 is, well, a Hot Mess. I sometimes enjoy the music, especially the lunch-time throw-backs, but it's just chock full of too much ignance for me to support. Not to mention that their repeated and unapologetic racism towards Asians and Asian-Americans makes me sick.
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