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I'm personally not a "rap" or "hip-hop" listener in any sense. I have to say that aside from elementary school experience with the West Coast, I don't really know much of it. But I can tell you this: In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (set in 1992), there are two rap stations, basically - Playback FM which has the lighter, sort of upbeat and lame stuff; and Radio Los Santos, which has Death Row records like '187' and 'nothin' but a G thang'- and I have to say I far prefer the latter. My reason is that, this music reflects a genuine need to make shitty reality known. 187 is amazing, it really sort of captures the horrible conditions of black people in the LA ghetto.
Nowadays, what does anything mean? I will admit, I don't listen to this stuff, but I've got a healthy dose of MTV: it seems to me that the main message in rap now is "I'm tough, I have a lot of money, I'm popular and sexy, and I drive a better car than you" or "Let's party...don't fuck with me, I'm harder than you, also I'm rich and sexy and drive a nice car"
I again am the first to admit I don't know rap or hip-hop, but I put my two cents in for old-school rap
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