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aside from the issues brought forth already about how un-insipired the general topics of most rappers today (guns, beeyotches, money, bentleys, drugs, whathaveyou), the thing that really gets me down is the lack of originality in the backing tracks.
sampling was all the broohaha years ago when mchammer bootlegged james brown riffs and vanilla ice ripped off under pressure. today it is just accepted.
what really freaks me out though is when the representatives of aftrican american culture are sampling the beegees and led zepplin to use in their rap... i mean, granted they are at opposite ends of the musical spectrum, but you can't get more white than led zepplin and the beegees.
there is no originality in music anymore. for that, i blame the FCC ownership rules for radio stations.
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