my indoctrination to rap

["Jeff House" <whocasa@hotmail.com>]

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From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>
I'm still absolutely floored that Crap, whoops, I mean Rap has lasted.
I don't get that.
I mean, I can only understand it from the perspective of teens needing to do 
what their parents or earlier generation hate them to do.
Other than that, I don't see the attraction in Rap, or why it has now fully 
been integrated into main stream society.
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Whoa!  I'm having a rap flashback.  The first time I was exposed to this 
music in all its cultural glory it scared the shit out of me.

It was 1981 and I was a freshman in college, having just graduated from a 
small, rural, all white high school.  I was trying the new cultural 
experience of partying with some city-raised black guys and one of them said 
"you gotta check this shit out."

He puts on "Drop the Bomb" (I think) by a local DC group called Trouble 
Funk.  The refrain of this piece goes "We gonna drop da bomb on the white 
man, too!"

I am a nicely buzzed country boy, sitting in a tiny dorm room, the loud 
thumping beats are accompanied by several athletic, similarly buzzed black 
guys who are chanting about destroying my people.  I was just buzzed and 
adventurous enough to find it very exciting :-)

Point is - its not just a generational thing.  Rap can still be shocking.  
The mere fact that it is about the words makes it a great structure for 
rebellion.

Jeff
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