‘Offensive?’ Defining ‘Rap’ & ‘Hip-Hop’ As MUSIC Offends!
Big row in Germany over two award-winning ‘rappers’ – reason?
They recorded ‘lyrics’ of a ‘song’ about Auschwitz.
German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang won an Echo award Thursday night for their new album, including a track that contains the line “my body more defined than Auschwitz inmates’.”
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Controversy builds over German rappers accused of anti-Semitism
I’m sure Jews will be offended.
But it is also much more generally offensive that an organisation purporting to be responsible for music – the ‘Echo Music Awards’ – – should pay any attention to either ‘rap’ or ‘hip-hop’ which are no more identifiable as music…
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…than the noise my cat makes when it eats some rubbish it’s found on the street and ( ever-thoughtful!) comes home and pukes on my floor.
The grisly duo of course deny all malign intent.
However, when their turn came to get the prize, the hip-hoppers rebuffed the accusations and warned against politicizing the matter.
“I do not want to make a political debate out of it here,” Kollegah said…
https://sputniknews.com/europe/201804131063510606-holocaust-twitter-shaming-music-award-rappers-anti-semitic-lyrics/
But I have to wonder if making mockery of maltreated Jews might not be interpreted as seeking to widen the appeal of this sort of bestial noise to the most rabid beasts…
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….among those aliens whom Mama Stasi Merkel had deliberately imported into Germany.
Annie Laing is discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Annie Laing 10:47 on April 25, 2018 Permalink |
The pity of the thing is that some of these ‘rappers’ and ‘hip-hoppers’ do show signs of having music skills but then waste them on producing noise you expect to hear when you walk past the monkey-house in a zoo.
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