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[urban dream]

No, she does that for free. That's why she's a slut and not a whore. I'm sorry I went a little nuts there. Dexter Holland's label, Nitro Records, has a reputation to maintain, and that's why your grouping really upset me. I have a personal stake in this. My local alternative station was replaced by an R&B/hip-hop station. The independent alternative station that I picked up at my university went off the air a few months ago. A year ago, when I went to a free B.E.T. comedy show, I was inflamed to find out that the white kids I was sitting with knew all of the pop/hip-hop songs that the comedians were talking about, and I didn't have a clue. When the guy did his Nelly boloney thingy, I mentioned that he must've ripped it off of Weird Al's "My Bologna", and it must've sounded pretty dorky to the girl I was sitting next to. The music affects all aspects of the youth culture. If it's suitable for who the kids are, all is right with the world. When blacks listen to rap, hip-hop, jazz, and motown, Latinos listen to hip-hop and salsa, rednecks listen to country, and other whites listen to lame pop, rock, punk, and metal, everything is cool. When the whole fucking country thinks they're urban, the youth culture goes to hell, and the music trends flow harder in the same direction, making things worse.

What makes you think that your taste in music is somehow more correct than other people's? Let everyone listen to what they want, I say. The attitude that black kids shoud stick to hip hop, white kids to rock and latinos to salsa is little more than racist. If there's any particular peace of "black" music (not that describing music by skin colour isn't completely ridiculous) I happen to like, I will listen to it, no matter what my own skin colour/social standing is, and I couldn't give less of a toss about what music someone else believes should be associated with my skin colour.
So, you don't like hip hop. I don't like it much either. But that doesn't mean your opinion is somehow worth more than everyone else's. If it's rap the people want its rape the people will have, even if -- GASP -- there are still people who don't like it, including -- DOUBLE-GASP -- you.