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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

Freudian slip? You're right, that's one of the side effects when the music is all about getting laid.

Ack! ^^; To tell you the truth I'm not even sure whether that was Freudian or not. I'll refrain from editing it out, though.

They're all a bunch of posers. It makes me sick, and it leaves me alone because I refuse to be a part of it. Sure, they play the field, but despite what they may tell you, they never keep it real.

Hm, I can see what you mean in that respect. I don't like to see people betraying themselves by doing stuff they don't want to just because it's expected of them either. However, that's not so much a matter of music as human nature. Also, I'm certain there are people out there who listen to hip hop because they actually like it -- just as I'm sure there are lots of people who listen to your music because they feel it's expected of them. If they're "headbanging to 'Come As You Are'" just because they "should be", that's not "keeping it real" either. Also, keep in mind that rock music has its root in the black music culture. It's not a "white" invention either. If everyone had stuck to what was designed for him, we would probably be headbanging to Mozart and Bach nowadays. Well, I would. You would probably be stuck with headbanging to a small selection of very slow country music.
I dislike the mainstream hip hop crap as much as you do. However, I believe that hip hop isn't *necessarily* bad per se, it just so happens that most of it is. I have heard some stuff (mostly from local artists -- yes, white guys -- that aren't well-known outside of my town) that was 100% free of all that Gangsta-fakeness that is practiced by the majority of chart-topping hip hop "artists" these days. It's not my music, but some of it still appeals to me in a way. These guys are "keeping it real", and I don't see how listening to that would be fake, if one honestly does like it.

To sum up my points, I absolutely don't see why being white and listening to white music that's derived from black music is more fake than listening to white music that was derived from black music a couple of decades earlier, whereas listening to the older derivation from black music because you "should be" is less fake than listening to the newer derivation because it's expected from you.