I have always found it amusing that Black folks tried to hold Black rappers to a higher moral standard especially when it came to their lyrics.
The same Black folks would watch white produced movies filled with violence and nudity.
A white man kill up a bunch of folks and f8ck several women...no problem. Blockbuster at the box office.
Blacks folks in theaters grinning and eating popcorn while contributing to the profits of those same movies.
OTOH, let n8gglets gang-bang and be misogynistic on wax and self-righteous Black folks were ready to call the FBI.๐คฃ
Somehow, rap music was destroying the Black community.๐ค
Nevermind the fact that pimps, prostitutes and dope dealers, gang-bangers and murderers were around before rap music.
Also, the same self-righteous Black folks weren't complaining about blaxploitation movies and Richard Pryor, Millie Jackson and Blowfly records.
C. Delores Tucker was probably smoking Virginia Slim cigarettes and sipping on a Singapore Sling while watching those same movies or listening to those *dirty* records too.๐
As brotha Malcolm X said..."who taught you to hate yourselves".๐
Young cats like Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole are very intelligent and know how to interview.
Again, it's easy for older generation to cast aspersions on the generation behind them. The reality is that there is nothing new under the sun.
Same sh8t (game), different players. @Troy nails it in that regard.
Just like blaxploitation movies, some pimps had high-pitched voices and permed hair (jheri curls in the 1980s) too.๐๐