First, rap isn’t music. Music has three elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. Rap is all rhythm, very little melody, and virtually no harmony. Cultural relativists who say that Eminem is like Mozart make Barbara Boxer look like Einstein.
Second, rap culture is disgusting and degrading. Not every song, of course – the culture as a whole. It values the basest elements of human nature, from promiscuous sex to maltreatment of women to sickening violence. It’s no wonder that rappers have the life expectancies of fruit flies: by the time they’re 40 – if they hit 40 – there’s a good shot they’ll have shot somebody, been shot, been busted for hard core drugs, or acquired an STD (see this short list). The millions they earn from gullible white kids in the suburbs who just want to seem cool end up flushed down the drug/sex/fancy car toilet.
Third, rap culture creates racial stereotypes and revels in them. Many rappers (including Ice T, who now plays a cop on television) target the police for special hatred based on their alleged discriminatory tendencies. Meanwhile, rappers kill each other in gang rivalries … and then have movies made about them (see Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. – and T.I., who was involved in violent altercation with rapper Lil’ Flip and Ludacris’ manager Chaka Zulu). It provides ammunition to racists who wish to slander all black men as rap-loving violent misogynists, and it encourages ignorant and disadvantaged young black men to become rap-loving violent misogynists. Lovelle Mixon may have listened to late Beethoven string quartets when he wasn’t busy committing felonies, but somehow I doubt it.
Cultural diversity may be a wonderful thing, but rap isn’t. Liberals may call rap art, but they also call glazed poop art. They may praise rap as culturally enriching, but then again, they’re quick to defend human rights abuses by “culturally diverse” nations.
Most of this is true. Shapiro isn't a polemicist though, and calling this a "conservative" take is pretty dubious. It sounds reasonable enough.
Nicholas Reed
manlets aren't human so why should I listen to one
Noah Evans
>he still unironically believes artistic terms like "music" can have specific, concrete definitions All definitive parameters are bound to include things that are not music in its classification, and inadvertantly classify music as not being music. Give up on trying to define it and just enjoy it for what it is. >youtube.com/watch?v=XmxIK9p0SNM
Sebastian Cox
Ben Shapiro being short is the weirdest meme. He’s six foot something, he just had a squeaky voice so everyone decided to pretend he was short
Christopher Cooper
why does this homophobic moron still have a career lmao
wait for those rap isn't music faggots then shit will get going
Elijah Martin
he gets paid aloooooooooooooooooooot of money to go to college campuses and talk about how dumb socialism is and dunk on idealistic teenagers with his decent rhetoric skills
Henry Nelson
>He’s six foot something LOL he really isn't. what gave you that idea? the guy is a turbo manlet
that's the problem with him: he doesn't know what socialism is, he assumes that it's just "the governemnt doing stuff", and he only debates teenagers so people don't know that he sucks ass at debating
Landon Miller
She can hex me anytime
Logan Reed
It's like you're hurt someone doesn't approve of your massive tendency to take dick.
Hip hop does have melody and harmony though. By his definition plainchants aren't music.
Levi Russell
He's not wrong, but he's a jew, so he's also not right
Hudson Jackson
So gregorian chants is not music? mongolian throat singing is not music? a guitar solo practice, someone humming a song the list goes on.i knew that neoconservatards were emotionless robots but not knowing what music is something else.also the "cultural" take is so childish im not even sure if it is satire or not, i wonder if shapiro is also afraid of extreme metal or it's only black high testosterone posturing that makes him seethe
Justin Bailey
I love how Zig Forums is vehemently right-wing yet also hates every right wing pundit.
David Lee
The right can't into theory
Robert Thompson
They don't, but even if they did, it'd be the only based thing about them. Lefties should all beat the fuck out of losers like Philosophy Tube and Chapo trap house, not give them money.
