"But what gets me is that gangsta rappers can get away with saying what Imus said, and not feel any repercussions or get any flak."
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Rap tends to swing between racial slurs and gender slams to more socially conscious issues and back again. The problem is that the rap industry shot itself in the foot with creating a multitude of one-hit wonders, thus trends come and go in the blink of an eye. Ice Cube had alot to say about this. Notice Snoop Dogg is less about the ho/pimp cup and more about the cameo appearance and car commercial because he isn't generating as many record sales as he once did (and he needs to support his recreational drug habit).
Back to the point. There are just as many in-culture protests about the misogynistic comments regarding black women as there are up and coming rappers who use it as a cultural reference and a way to shock their way onto the radio, I would suspect. But what the hey - if it weren't for the gansta rappers, we wouldn't get such linguistic gems as "badonkadonk." ;o) Eh, we're all subject to the whim of the industry's money-making schemes anyway.
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Date: 2007-04-12 04:38 am (UTC)I wouldn't be so sure about that. Rap tends to swing between racial slurs and gender slams to more socially conscious issues and back again. The problem is that the rap industry shot itself in the foot with creating a multitude of one-hit wonders, thus trends come and go in the blink of an eye. Ice Cube had alot to say about this. Notice Snoop Dogg is less about the ho/pimp cup and more about the cameo appearance and car commercial because he isn't generating as many record sales as he once did (and he needs to support his recreational drug habit).
Back to the point. There are just as many in-culture protests about the misogynistic comments regarding black women as there are up and coming rappers who use it as a cultural reference and a way to shock their way onto the radio, I would suspect. But what the hey - if it weren't for the gansta rappers, we wouldn't get such linguistic gems as "badonkadonk." ;o) Eh, we're all subject to the whim of the industry's money-making schemes anyway.