Men in rap videos are shown to be:
-sexist
-misogynistic
-materialistic
-arrogant
-violent
-reliant on their 'black' persona
-glamourize death by getting shot
-an outlaw + a hustler
-strugglers in the Ghetto
-racist towards other young males (threats) called 'niggers'
UK hip hop
-country’s urban music scene dominates our charts, record shops and iPods
-it’s street music made by people railing against the establishment, the often Black producers hate their Government
-American hip hop sounds glossier and better produced, and the artists look far harder and more serious than anyone coming out of the UK ever could
-endless and hopeless ghettos and projects, a spiralling gun culture, ridiculously big cars. There’s just no comparison to the US.
-UK hip hop scene has battled against for around two decades
-UK garage and hip hop with a heavy Jamaican twist – all warp-speed spitting over raw and dirty beats – is tense and stripped back in a way that makes US hip hop look corporate and commercial
-Our grime stars are happy if they sell 500 or 1,000 white labels in Bow’s Rhythm Division Records; how can that match up against the hundreds of thousands of units that even minor American stars shift around the world?
-Who in the UK can really relate to rants about bitches, cars, plenty of cash and revenge in the projects? The lyrics of Dizzee Rascal, Black Twang, Jehst, Skinnyman or Ty are infinitely more real.
-So why do we continue to lap up 50 Cent or G-Unit who are all about having a blisteringly hard image over some heavy beats and not much else? While we happily hate neo-Conservative America and all it stands for, we’re complicit in being force fed extremely corporate hip-hop-by-numbers at the expense of our own young guns trying to break through
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