By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:41:29 +0000

David, the truth is, you are older and your sensibilities are different from rap music. I grew up with hip hop music in the 1970s but cant listen to the stuff on the radio today. However I like Lecrae because he does something mainstream rap stopped doing over 20 years ago: telling important stories.

I am in my 40s now and my sensibilities are different. I still enjoy rap but mostly the kind I grew up with.

What I am fascinated with is how rap music is becoming the voice of global youth culture.

By: David Nickol

David Nickol — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:38:27 +0000

It is impossible to deny the popularity of rap music among certain groups, including some respected music critics. As someone who grew up with rock music in the 1960s, I like to think that I am not like my father back in those days, who had an aversion to whatever music I and my contemporaries were listening to. (My mother actually enjoyed a lot of rock music.) In any case, I do not respond to rap music. My father used to say of the music I listened to, “It all sounds alike.” Well, of course it didn’t. If you couldn’t tell the difference between The Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones, the problem was with you, not with them. But I confess that all rap music sounds alike to me. I could not bring myself to listen to Gravity all the way through. Am I just too old (like my father) to accept a new genre, or were I a young person today, would rap music still not be to my taste?

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