One time I wrote a journal saying simply "Rap is gay"

And while 90% percent of the comments agreed with me I have thought about it and it seems rude to leave the subject un touched.

When white men say they hate rap music it often written of as a form of either a devil worshiping monster who only wants to listen to death metal, of he's a racist KKK member and listens only to country.

Now there are many reasons I dislike MOST rap music,

The first being my first experience with people who listen to rap music.

I went to Job corps around the time Rap was really becoming mainstream, and every one was bumping Dr Dre and Eminem and thinking it was the coolest shit in the universe!

Now at the time I listened to Country (Yah I know I don'y listen to it much any more) and I was a weird kid at the time, I listened to Country, I played Pokemon, and I was HUGE anime fan.

Well let's just say I was like a screaming target for people to make fun of, and what would happen A LOT I'd be drawing in a nice quiet spot listening to some Alan Jackson and some one would plop down there boom box and start blaring the same Eminem album, and they'd would ALL start imitating humping saying

"Yaaahhhoooo Imma go rape me some cows!"

It was funny almost everyone who thought it was fun to make fun of me we're also the biggest fans of rap music.

In other words most of my first memories of rap music are like among the worst memories I have!

The second reason I dislike Rap is

It's so completely mainstream it's just not funny any more, I mean almost every one I've ever met who claims to a fan of rap have no real taste in music.

If you ask them who there favorite artist is what do you get?

"Oh yah I love Eminem and 50-cent"

This is NOT an isolated incident either I said 90% percent that might actually be a low estimate, but almost every time if you ask a "rap fan" who there favorite artist it's either Eminem and 50-Cent, or what ever the current big famous artist is.

Another reason is

The Content

If you start pointing out how rap music glamorizes the Gang mentality and miss treatment of women, you are labeled a racist , saying the only reason the music is so violent is because the artists have had a hard life, then

You will have the fact that most school shooters listen to metal and then you will get all kinds of "No black man ever shot up a school" crap and then pointed out that most school shooter are white video game player who listen to death metal.

The next is simply put:

Rap music is the first style of music that it was "cool" to be a sellout, it was the first style of music that said I get paid to write this, or and don't forget to wear Puma!

Part of the reasons SUV's became so popular was because the Auto industries started paying rap artists to use them in there videos.

Also wasn't rap a style that was supposed to be "Hardcore" and "Underground"? There should have been a clue as to what was going on when people started making commercials about "Rapping Grannies", and it's only made even worse with the rappers themselves!

I mean the first time I ever heard Enimems "I am what ever you say I am" song it was a pretty blatant explanation as to what rap music was going to become,

I can't even begin to tell you hoe stupid it is to have a song about being so hardcore to can't be played on the radio make the Top 10 list on M-TV every single day!

The Final reason is most of the music preaches the "You look this way or your not cool" it teaches prejudice in such an extreme fashion it's down right scary, and many times because of that high school football player mentality it teaches (tons of your only cool if you wear these clothes, come from this place and listen to this music) I have often been on the receiving end of this prejudice and it's always annoying when it happens.

In closing I do realize that these views are really only relating to the most mainstream of Rap and it's not rap "As a style" a hate it's what most people thing of as rap music I hate.

I do happen to really like The Kotton Mouth Kings, The Holly wood Undead, and other groups that while are rap aren't what is widely considered rap.

Also I recently did some searching and some of the older stuff is actually pretty good, there was also a time when rap and punk we trying to become one style witch would have been awesome!

Well that's all I gotsta say about that!
Donut out!