What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?

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For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album

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I felt that was true for a long time. There are a lot of sub-genres out there that don't promote that kind of thing. Honestly, and this is probably me wearing a conspiracy theorist hat, a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

Counter example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMwGT55A8k (sorry about the YT link, but that's where I know this lives)

a lot of hip-hop that essentially glorified a lot of horrible traits was just what a lot of old, rich white dudes figured would make them money.

Arrested Development touches on that in at least a few of their recent songs. This is one that immediately springs to mind, but there are others:

Full lyrics here

Song here

 

do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

they wanna promote us as the lowest things around

stereotypical images of blacks all around

police beat us to the ground

do i have to tell you how this industry goes down

promote the thugs with the criminal sound

stereotypical images and white supremacist images of us never innocent it kills

 

kills, snitches and witnesses

i guess the business is exploit us sexually

but keep us intellectually primitive

sedate the sensitive

nullifying all their initiative

to ever unify, just relying on representatives

our english is now seen as this, opposite of geniuses

the truth is meaningless

they deliberately been deceiving us

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Edit: Realized the lyrics site had a couple words wrong.

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Song here

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