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Peatree 09-20-2011 11:37 AM

Your tax dollars at work
 
Catchy tune celebrating welfare. Swipe. Swipe. :eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o64Fz-KW1Dk

returnofahipster 09-20-2011 11:55 AM

while i never liked rap music, its has come along way (imo a bad way) from the conscious rap of Professor Griff and Public enemy. Songs embracing wal-mart, selling crack, food stamps. As a man with many african-american friends 2 of them who rap, i've challenged them before by saying hip hop / rap is the worst thing to happen to blacks since slavery. Surprisingly they agree but argue its the only medium they can use to "reach" their people. Sad because reggae, jazz, and soul is awesome.

Poor people so attached to validating their material self-worth they will rap about eating the scraps of masta's table. E.g- Ebt cards.

Another tear rolls off hipsters face...

Peatree 09-20-2011 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by returnofahipster (Post 407111)
while i never liked rap music, its has come along way (imo a bad way) from the conscious rap of Professor Griff and Public enemy. Songs embracing wal-mart, selling crack, food stamps. As a man with many african-american friends 2 of them who rap, i've challenged them before by saying hip hop / rap is the worst thing to happen to blacks since slavery. Surprisingly they agree but argue its the only medium they can use to "reach" their people. Sad because reggae, jazz, and soul is awesome.

Poor people so attached to validating their material self-worth they will rap about eating the scraps of masta's table. E.g- Ebt cards.

Another tear rolls off hipsters face...

I'm envisioning that indian from the old don't litter ads in the 70's now.

returnofahipster 09-20-2011 12:43 PM

hahaha

http://i51.tinypic.com/vgoqk5.jpg

i guess pollution was a shame. but not killing off most of the indians. :(

guineapig 09-20-2011 05:01 PM

The song is comedy... like Dick in a Box or Mother Lover.
I don't think they are actually condoning what's in the song.
This is a commonly used concept in music in general but especially in parody.

When the Dead Kennedy's wrote Kill The Poor, it wasn't because they did or even wanted to.


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