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nosejobsforequality ago

this is almost spot-on!

one point of clarification on the music - we do NOT have gangsta rap. that was a romantic idea of the 1990s. Gangsta rap glorified the true ghetto lifestyle and was meant to appeal to the adolescent suburban white male who could only imagine a life of selling drugs and pimping and rolling gun-fights on the street. That was the "hook". then it shifted to "bling" and became about aspiring toward "the good life" - Big-screens, hot white girls in bikinis in the backyard pool, gold, diamonds etc. The suburban kids were hooked on the romantic idea of the previous era and this new bling era was aimed at the poor white adolescent male - trailer-park/apartment-dwellers. By 2012-ish it'd degraded to auto-tune with sexual messages now aimed only at the white women to bring them on-board. The gangsta shit is gone. the bling shit is gone. the story is gone. now it's not about anything beyond overt political messaging. People listen to the song for the artist's political ideology and don't even care what it sounds like. but it was a slow process to first target one white group, then the next, then the next...