patrickandmarcus:
twaught00hammer:
slay-z:
patrickandmarcus:
The Beatles pop acid to talk about random fuckshit: Wow such legends, greatest of all time, revolutionary
Rapper talks about selling drugs to feed his family: OMG HOW CAN YOU CONDONE THIS IMMORAL CRIMINAL FILTH, BAN IT!!

The beatles played their own instruments and were a major influence not only on other bands but society in general. Writing a song about peace on earth is a lot different than writing a song about popping bottles in the club and popping caps in people……………….MESSAGE
so a racist walks into a bar….
“Bang bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down on his head
Bang bang Maxwell’s silver hammer made sure that he was dead”
-The Beatles’ message of “peace on earth”
Also, have you heard Ringo play the drums? Have you heard John Lennon try to solo on a guitar (“The End” notwithstanding)? Have you heard George Harrison play sitar? All of these things were absolutely terrible.
To live in an area where you go to a broke-ass school where they’ve removed music education and use that neglect to turn a turntable into a music instrument or use your voice in a way that it hasn’t been used in music before—I would consider that way more skillful that the elementary-grade bullshit The Beatles gave to us on a lot of their songs.
I love The Beatles. I’m not saying that DJing or MCing is necessarily better than their abilities—all I’m saying is that you can’t call certain skills in music invalid just because they don’t align with your sensibilities.
And if we’re talking about “peace and love” songs, rap has done more of those than any other genre of the past 30 years by far. All it takes is a simply Google search to figure that out.
The fact of the matter is that rock music is peppered with the same misogyny, violence, and drug usage as rap music. I love both of them. Let’s just not hold the double standard.
This shit is no different than when race records were too vulgar for white audiences until Elvis made them acceptable, Motown encouraged teenagers too dance to closely until Phil Collins started doing it too, the blues was music only for black folks until the British Invasion, and rap was just a fad until the Beastie Boys.