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Rap is a symptom of unfettered capitalism. Conservatives market rap music for sinister reasons. They exploit and make billions off the suffering of poor African Americans. African Americans who like rap are instilled with double think - that they should have pride in their living conditions and at the same time be miserable from those same living conditions too. White kids are the biggest buying demographic of rap music. All those rap sales do nothing to get African Americans out of poverty. It goes to the nefarious record company tycoons. White kids are easy to succumb to white guilt. White kids are ashamed of the way their grandparents opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and they have every right to be). The irony is that the conservatives who are of the same ilk as George Wallace, Bull Conner, and William Buckley Jr. are the ones reaping the profits of the white guilt that they sell to white kids. Conservatives put African Americans in the ghettos with their exploitive capitalism trickle down economics and failed war on drugs, and with rap music African Americans are still poor except for the rappers who are tools of the billionaires.The record label executives are wallowing in their billions of dollars. Rappers also masquerade as being from the ghetto. They need credibility with their patrons. Jay Z is almost a billionaire who won't even donate any of his money to all his people who are living in squalor. Jay Z and his wife Beyoncé (the same Beyoncé who needs a number of "professional song writers" to write her crappy songs) would rather engage in debauchery. Jay Z, Lil Wayne, and 50 Cent are all shills to the music executives who sell shit to the masses and laugh all the way to the bank.The fiscal conservatives are peddling rap. People who run big businesses may only be liberal on social issues, but are fiscally conservative when it comes to their own money. Neoliberal Democratic mayors used police brutality on the Occupy Wall Street movement just like the Republican mayors did. If those mayors were real liberals they would have never sent the police to harm the protesters and tear down their camps which were on public property. Democratic mayors and governors don't want to raise income taxes on the rich just like their Republican counterparts. They instead generate money by instilling regressive taxes on the poor and middle class by raising sales taxes and fleecing citizens with toll bridges. Bill Gates is the one of the biggest proponents of the H1B visa program which displaces American workers with his preposterous globalization beliefs.Most rap music has very hateful and degrading lyrics. The lyrics are facsimilies of Republican talking points. Just observe all the racism, misogyny, homophobia, greed, and the glorification of guns and violence. It is the same vitriol as the crap on Fox News and AM radio. MTV is a propaganda machine that indoctrinates young people just like Fox News indoctrinates old people. Viewers of both channels are bereft of critical thinking skills. The demagogues sow this so they can have millions of bamboozled dupes who buy their corporate crap that nobody needs (i.e., Gap, Old Navy, Hollister). An addled population will always kowtow and genuflect to those in authority. Conformists treat authority figures with deference. Conformists will always defend the status quo because they are flunkeys. In the age of the internet, a person has to be intellectually lazy not to find music that is not mainstream.Rap is a tool to dumb down the masses. It promotes materialism, narcissism, greed, conformity, sexism, racism, guns, and senseless violence. All of those values are conservative Christian values. Even though conservative Christians don't like rap, it is the fiscal conservatives who foist rap as some "liberal" art form when that is the polar opposite of what liberalism stands for (i.e. peace, civil rights, tolerance, equality of opportunity). Rap is used to brainwash Democrats the same way Fox News/Rush Limbaugh/AM Hate Radio brainwashes Republicans. The liberals and Democrats who are being imbibed by these right wing values in music and pop culture would otherwise not be exposed to them because they don't watch/listen to Fox News/Rush Limbaugh/AM Hate Radio. Since rap is conflated with liberalism, people who don't know better are being exploited. Instead of protesting social injustice, it is more convenient for most people to shop and buy import junk from slave wage Communist countries which stomps on human rights such as China.Democrats and Republicans are both right wing parties. The Democrats are for the most part center right and are fiscal conservatives and the Republicans for the most part are far right since they are for social issues first and fiscal issues second. The Democrats will throw lip service to their constituents but they will always be whores to Wall Street just like the Republicans are. All those rich Hollywood Democrats promulgate about wanting to pay more in taxes to help the poor, but they endorsed and voted for Hillary Clinton in droves. The real alternatives to the Democrats are the genuine liberals such as Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Ralph Nader, the Green Party, and The Peace and Freedom Party.Viacom is a monopoly because it owns all the music video channels which includes MTV, VH1, BET, CMT, etc. Therefore, people don't have a real choice of music when it comes to TV.Bill Clinton and Mitt Romney were two of the main culprits who ruined music. Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act which removed all restrictions on how many radio stations a company could own. Then Mitt Romney's company, Bain Capital (the parent company of Clear Channel), bought all the AM and FM stations across the U.S.A. and more than half the large music venues.Clear Channel owns all the AM and FM radio stations in the country. 50 years ago radio stations were locally owned. People used to call their favorite radio stations and request their favorite songs and radio station DJs would play requested songs and entire albums sometimes. All of that is a thing of the past because of corporate mergers. Thanks to Clear Channel, there are no more locally owned radio stations and now there are automated playlists of the same few songs all across the country (since DJs are being let go from their jobs).Clear Channel is a monopoly. Therefore, people don't have a real choice of music when it comes to radio.In the 1980s there were 50 big music labels. There used to be 4 gigantic music labels just a few years ago: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, and EMI.Universal Music Group bought out EMI recently.From Wikipedia:"Universal Music Group (USA based) which owns EMI Music -- 32.41% + 6.78% of EMI GroupSony Music Entertainment (USA based) which owns publishing arm of EMI Group -- 30.25%Warner Music Group-- 19.15%Independent labels-- 11.42%"Now there are 3 gargantuan music labels that control 88.5 percent of the market share compared with all of the independent music labels combined controlling a paltry 11.42 percent of the market share.The aforementioned record labels are an oligarchy. Therefore, people don't have a real choice of music when it comes to music distribution.There is a thing called the Internet with instant clickable access to all the wonderful and overlooked music in cyberspace. The brilliant music out there is opulent.Therefore, people DO have a real choice on music when it comes to the Internet......BUT.....................The people will ignore all that magnificent music because of the conformist mentality.Thanks to the conformist mentality, the afflicted downtrodden masses will always defer to authority figures. These authority figures are considered omniscient and omnipotent by the plebeians. These authority figures will sell the most banal products to the lowest common denominator (i.e., mainstream music). Once the dumbest people start following the metaphorical carrot on the stick, the people with average intelligence will follow suit and start liking the same exact drivel that the stupid people all like. People with average intelligence and slightly above average intelligence fear not going along with the group because they will be outcasts for bucking the fads and the social norms. As a result of corporate hegemony peddling to the lowest common denominator, a ripple effect is created where people of higher intelligence are duped into having an affinity for liking crap (because of the fear of ostracization from society). When so many people like crap, then society changes and it changes for the worse. People are dumbed down. The irony is that people think they like the crap because of free will when it is the farthest thing from the truth. These people are so intellectually lazy that they are detached from reality.To summarize, today's music sucks because of unfettered capitalism. Clear Channel owns all the FM and AM radio stations and 3 gigantic record labels control all the manufacturing and distributing of mainstream music. Viacom owns all the music TV channels including MTV, VH1, BET, and CMT. The music industry is an oligarchy and because of that, there is no more competition from other record labels that can make a dent in the business.It is too bad people can't search for music on the internet rather than the damn radio. If people were exposed to good music, they would break away from the corporate brainwashing. Unfortunately, most people are intellectually lazy, conformist, and would rather listen to what everybody else is listening to. I surmise that these people are authoritarian in nature and need an authority figure with a suit and tie to guide their lives and tell them what to do.People will never rise up and demand that their bought and paid for politicians fix all the myriad problems in the U.S. if they are distracted with the subpar entertainment on TV like "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" and "Dancing With The Stars."***** Here are some real bands that will change your mind about music: Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, James Brown, Sam Cooke,Otis Redding, Ray Charles, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops. The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, War, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cream, The Eagles, Girlschool, Rock Goddess, Hellion, Saxon, Angel Witch, Tank, Diamondhead, Raven, Tygers of Pan Tang, Fleetwood MacKey = = = = Music channel content compared to network news content and cable news contentMTV = Fox NewsVH1, BET = MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBSALL CRAP TO DUMB PEOPLE DOWN!!!*The Democratic and Republican parties are both right wing parties. The Democrats are to the right of center and the Republicans are far right. Both parties are puppets to their corporate masters.All music channels and media channels are owned by the same few conglomerates. All the music channels and media channels are owned by right wing capitalists who brainwash people with sound bites. The 'liberal media' doesn't exist on privatized TV networks and AM/FM radio. It's just a ruse by the ultra right wing to make all the 'liberal' non-FOX channels/stations move more further to the right.PBS is the closest thing we have to fair media on TV and that is because it is funded through tax dollars. The ending of the Fairness Doctrine by Ronald Reagan in 1987 was an impetus for talk radio AM channels being reduced to peddling to the lowest common denominator. TV followed suit as well.Conformity is not cool!!!!! Conformity is all about following trends, traditions, the zeitgeist, authority figures, propaganda, half truths, and lies.Non-conformity is about logic, reason, critical thinking, education with a vast vantage of a historical perspective, being an individual, and fighting for social justice!!!!!Capitalism rewards stupidity!!!!!_________________________________________________________________________________________________________To reiterate irrefutable reasons that why rap is not music:Music has to have rhythm, melody, and harmony. Rap only has rhythm and not melody and harmony.There are no instruments used in the making of rap. And if there are instruments, the rapping negates the separate musical aspect of it and the playing of said instruments are done with minimal effort (i.e., The Roots).Even though the human voice can be considered a musical instrument, rappers don't change their vocal pitch. To change the vocal pitch, one needs to be able to sing. Singing is music. Muttering, talking fast, and beat boxing is not singing and therefore is not music.Rap cannot be transcribed into musical notations. That is why you never see any rap songbooks where you can play along.The computer is not a musical instrument. It cannot produce notes and chords. It can only sample notes and chords. Ergo, it is not an instrument.Anybody can sample beats on their computer from any downloadable sampling program. It is just as easy as cutting and pasting on a Microsoft Word document. It only takes a day at the most to be able to sample some beats and then mishmash them together into a loop. When songs from other musical genres are sampled in rap, those songs are being stolen from the original bands who created those songs.The turntable is not a musical instrument. Like the computer it cannot produce notes and chords. It only produces noise via scratching with the hands. It is so ridiculously easy to scratch a record on a turntable and press buttons to turn on prerecorded sound bites, any idiot can learn how to do it in a matter of a few minutes. To call DJs musicians is an insult to anyone who has taken the time to learn musical theory, pick up a musical instrument and master it, and write songs. Calling these hacks DJs is a misnomer. Real DJs work at radio stations and play music over radio waves.You can't take any sound of nature and label it music. If rap is to be falsely labeled music, then so is the screeching of cats, the roaring of lions, and the buzz of a chainsaw.