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Originally Posted by jaco
I never said glorification of crime is exclusively a black thing, i was only expounding upon the answer i already gave to your question towards kangaeru "Black culture promoting the low class..?" and yes, i see current trends in black music as such a thing. I never said anything about who buys this music since i know who does it and so do the record executives spewing out the stuff to the white kiddies. I also grew up poor, that has nothing to do with this argument.
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while the current hip hop scene is not to my liking (rock chick here) I can understand that musical styling evolves, simmers, remixes and comes to the fore in different forms over time.
Wasn't the blues and r&b originally considered to be a low class type of music? The calypso & pan bands in trinidad were originally 'low' class outlets of energy... punkers in New York and England in th '70's were not necessarily students classical music.
I don't think that black culture promotes low class tendencies. Maybe the disenfranchised milieu tends to exercise outlets which are considered 'hobbies' or non-serious by those who have to focus on the path to success (education, good job/career) to such an extent that they become good at it, and therefore successful in their own way, regardless of race.