Are white people who say "I don't like hip hop" yet listen to it when white people make it really saying "i don't like black people"?

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john maybe you should try actually listening to rap

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

instead of going all save-a-hoe on me - im never gonna hear the end of that from this dude!!

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

name a rap single in the top 40 from the past year with the word faggot in it

Name a rock single in the top 40 from the 1960s with the words "marijuana" or "LSD" in it.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think that rock v. rap, which is more hateful toward women debate is really productive, but I also don't think it's at all clear which is more so.

I want to say something about the use of the word "bitch," but I can't formulate it without sounding like a self-hater, so...

horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Beyonce really isn't the best person to mention when yr trying to prove that R&B isn't homophobic.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Robbie R aint seein' shit but jailbars and fuck that fat bitchmade buppie Crwaford.

Sadat X, Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

john maybe you should try actually listening to rap

The same way you listen to rock?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

okay so lets say Stephen Merrit enjoys clever, melodic wordplay suffused with arch tragedy over cool synth lines --- rap oughta be his favorite shit ever, right??

I'm not gonna get on a high horse about minstrelsy --- to me thats just a word for a kind of awkward cultural conversation that there's no way around ---- but it does seem kind of weak-ass to say OH THE CARICATURES NOWADAYS ARE SO MUCH WORSE cause back then race relations were cute but when I hear these folks shouting angry things in the street right outside my window in the present tense goodness sakes I just find that distasteful!!!

reacher, Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ethan name a rap album from the present decade without the word "bitch" in it

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

haha trife did you ever read the flagpole interview with merritt?

fucking hell athens all over this thread now!

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Why doesn't anyone quote Merritt in full and verbatim when characterizing either him or his views?

Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the dynamics of straight males & homophobia is vastly, uncomparably different from white males & racism, or males & sexism - what straight guy in the world has never been fag-bashed? what straight male couldnt start sucking dick tomorrow and become a member of a minority which makes it 'ok' to start saying fag? if what i hear about the most homophobic rappers who do already they got their passes a long time ago

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://datelinehollywood.com/wp-content/PatRobertsonimage.jpg
all the fucking jams are sexist! fuckin' ALL of them!

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm sure Atmosqueer never uses the word bitch.

Sadat X, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha ok funny again

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

cowboy troy in answer to yr 'bitch' question btw

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

can i point out in that invisble jukebox type then that dude was repulsed by fuckin CEE LO GREEN IS THE SOUL MACHINE not eazy e or some shit - thats hardly even rap!!

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

According to quick google, slug sez "I feel like a bitch for letting the sheet twist me up"

deeej, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

and as the writer pointed out he seemed to just have this immediate kneejerk disgust at a southern black man talking about himself on the intro to a song, not issues with homophobia or what the fuck ever insane justifications youve come up with for dudes racism

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

now see what ann coulter was tryna say here, without actually saying it or anything, of course,, is that as a woman she feels threatened by the sexist laws of modern islam, and its perfectly within her rights to feel that, as a woman, you know

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

thomas if i disagree with merritt's assertion that duke ellington ruined american music by 'africanizing' it and that's why the pop charts are filled with 'mongrels' now (ca. spring 2000) and that's why abba could never chart now (note: at time of assertion the a*teens had an album of abba covers in the top ten) does that make me a homophobe or just a misogynist? if i think ciara or freak nasty aren't as misogynist as neil young or the rolling stones (or stephin merritt) am i desensitized? also what's yr five favorite homophobic cee-lo or beyonce tracks?

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Spike Lee wept.

erklie (erklie), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Blount, quotes please.

Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Damn, yo..Slug be doggin' them raggedy ass teenage Minnesota sluts that jock him.

How about Sage Fagcis ?

Sadat X, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

uncomparably different from white males & racism, or males & sexism

the homophobia dynamic is different (that's why it's the one you prefer to address) - the sexism one isn't, except that it's worse, because it's a population who unquestionably holds most/all (ymmv) of the power using language ("bitch," "ho") to subjugate/further subjugate the historically disenfranchised population - men calling women "bitch" is no less hurtful, nor less odious, than white men calling black men by the N-word

x-post trife you gotta get off coulter's jock one of these days

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

merritt's assertion that duke ellington ruined american music by 'africanizing' it

citation?

erklie (erklie), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

ya'll are fucking dumb. the only time there's ever outrage in these parts is 1) when a white guy uses the word "nigger" or 2) when someone white doesn't like hiphop. Stop getting outraged on behalf of people who don't give a shit.

Anwarpo Nanainrt, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry, j.b., read too fast and fucked up.)

Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Curious question: can someone explain the difference between Cee Lo Green's little skit at the beginning of that song and the ubiquitous mincing limp-wristed lisping schtick that probably 90%+ of gay men have used at one point or another? I seriously doubt the artifice of the latter bothers Merritt as much as the former.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

men calling women "bitch" is no less hurtful, nor less odious, than white men calling black men by the N-word

what position are you in to argue either of these things? for the record women weren't denied humanity by birthright, unless they were black women, and theres no lineage of government-constructed poverty running through women in american history

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

"for the record women weren't denied humanity by birthright"

Uh what?

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno James, whatever. I'm not that interesting in a big ol' pissing contest, I get heated up about this question just because I'd expect Ethan and yourself to care a little more about it. I'm just always puzzled/bummed-out by white dudes on ilm who'll rep for sane racial attitudes all day and don't give two shits about misogyny, and will even twist themselves into pretzels to argue that open misogyny is actually part of some fantastic gender-relations dialogue...and will lean on answer records for their evidence

xpost with:

what position are you in to argue either of these things? for the record women weren't denied humanity by birthright, unless they were black women, and theres no lineage of government-constructed poverty running through women in american

yes, they were. For about four thousand years. And denying women the right to the workplace is gov't-constructed poverty.

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Alex Ethan never read those books, he's ONLY interested in race - women had it pretty good in colonial America! three hots 'n' a cot!

Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

KOOL G. RAP YOU KNOW I BREAK A BITCH NECK

KOOL G RAP, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean actual literal humanity, status as a person and not an animal

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

women weren't denied humanity by birthright, unless they were black women, and theres no lineage of government-constructed poverty running through women in american history

therefore, calling women 'bitches' is peachy. Also, the US never denied Jews humanity by birthright, so let's unload on them, too.

erklie (erklie), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's what Merritt has said - in an interview in Mojo about his own music (and appears to be talking about melody over rhythm in pop music) -

"Rock should have consisted of only the Paul McCartney branch, not the Lennon/Jagger/Richards one," he mourns archly. Detesting the very idea of white blues ("it's fundamentally racist"), he admits that his own aesthetic universe�from Nordic synthipop to redneck C&W�is "so darn white!" "I'm not so concerned with rhythm or syncopation, which are the main concerns of black music after Duke Ellington."

Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

unless all those old timey white americans thought they were fucking 3/5ths as a person & it was socially acceptable to do such (jefferson clause)

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

(xxpost)That's a pretty arbitrary distinction, Ethan.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

men calling women "bitch" is no less hurtful, nor less odious, than white men calling black men by the N-word

okay, see, this is why I hate discussions like this. this comparison shouldn't happen. I mean, it can't be substantiated and in a weird way it plays sexism off against racism as though they're discrete and comparable entities, when in the real world they're messily intertwined in all sorts of ways. when you start saying things are the same, you lose the particularities of how they actually operate.

horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

"unless all those old timey white americans thought they were fucking 3/5ths as a person & it was socially acceptable to do such (jefferson clause)"

No they thought they were fucking someone who didn't count AT ALL for voting purposes.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

well yeah but the fact that women have always been wives and mothers and daughters of those in power, in a sense that non-whites havent, its an important one - the distinction 'saying bitch is worse is racism' is the most arbitrary on this thread

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

"ilm who'll rep for sane racial attitudes all day and don't give two shits about misogyny, and will even twist themselves into pretzels to argue that open misogyny is actually part of some fantastic gender-relations dialogue" - i'm sorry, show me where i did this again? i'm not the one pretending rock's not misogynist.

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh I agree with TT I think but we've gone off on a tangent, and I'm not sure that I buy that the criticisms TT justly brings up are legit justifications for SM's not-so-subtle whitewashing.

And while TT/JD might be right about a few folks being more willing to get into racial issues than gender ones, I don't think that's representative of the wider world, where for many many people the opposite is true. I think that as a point of argument it might work with some people on ilm but in the wider world there are plenty of racist feminists who've done the same thing in reverse, and there's evidence of this throughout history, so I don't think its fair to generalize.

deeej, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"well yeah but the fact that women have always been wives and mothers and daughters of those in power, in a sense that non-whites havent, its an important one"

Yeah it's been historically important in reifying their place as second class citizens.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Even on ILM, where in this thread maybe the feminism is more vocal, but in other threads and on ILE or whatever you might not find the same thing to be true.

deeej, Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

alex women were counted in the census pre-suffrage dude.

j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

heres a handy guide - are there more rappers who talk about bitches & hoes conditionally (with exceptions for mamas, baby-mamas, nubian queens, etc) or more racists who drop the n-word with as many actual exceptions as deeply personal ('i hate coons, though my dad was black, and im dating a black person' etc)

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I like how this:
"I'm not so concerned with rhythm or syncopation, which are the main concerns of black music after Duke Ellington."

was turned into this:
merritt's assertion that duke ellington ruined american music by 'africanizing' it and that's why the pop charts are filled with 'mongrels' now (ca. spring 2000) and that's why abba could never chart now

erklie (erklie), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

and at no point am i arguing that this excuses sexism or misogyny!! blame darnielle for turning this into a bizarre contest of BLACKS VS WOMEN IN THE FIGHT FOR WHO WHITE MALES OPPRESSED MORE

-+-+-+++- (ooo), Thursday, 11 May 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link


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