Wednesday, January 15, 2014
"(Hip-hop is) a culture that values prison more than college ... a culture that can't stand education. It's that culture that can't get control of itself."
—State Sen. and U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel, in an audio clip Mother Jones magazine published last week in which he rails against hip-hop culture.
Why it stinks: To disprove McDaniel's misinformation about the value hip-hop places on education, one could go back to Darryl McDaniels' verse on Run DMC's "Sucker MCs," where he proudly raps, "Since kindergarten I acquired the knowledge. And after 12th grade I went straight to college." Actually, the list of hip-hop artists who attended college is quite long, as is the list of prestigious American colleges and universities that now offer courses in hip-hop studies. We could go on and on, but we'll just paraphrase Naughty By Nature: If you don't know about hip-hop, don't talk about hip-hop.
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Duan 10 years, 3 months ago
I was watching Melissa Harris Perry's show on MSNBC and they started discussing this.
I just dropped my head and said, "why us!!!!! Why only does it happen to us!"
Albeit I am not from Mississippi, but after 20 years - I'm a Mississippian and now I keep my eyes and ears open for all things Mississippi.
I think the thing that disappointed me the most is this? Chris McDaniels is 41 - not 61.
Members of the Beastie Boys are older than him. I have a hard time believing he's never heard of or listened to Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Marky Mark, Vanilla Ice, House of Pain (considering his Irish roots)
How is it possible to be that disconnected from your own generation - to make a comment like that?
Hell, even Ladd was cutting it up back in the day on the Technique 1200's.
It's just mind boggling on how sheltered this fella really is and its quite disappointing to see someone - that close to my age - out of touch.
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