Oh my fucking god I just wanted to say how otherworldly bad music is right now (pop has always been stupid to varying levels but oh my fucking god they have raised the stakes). I just listened to a bunch of pop tracks from various genres and I literally think I’m about to die. Rock, country, indie, folk, hipster white rap, whatever you call home, is aggressively bad. It’s like Walmart made a gun that can shoot cum and blood and piss and shit and puke into your soul. We are so fucking fucked. I want to saw my own head off.

    • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Nah. Sampling =/= stealing; we not doin this tonight. Beyond that, rap battles have distinctly African roots; while I’ll allow that troubadour ‘flyting’ is very similar, I’m not gonna let the reduction of rap battle to ‘troubadour type shit’ slide like that.

      We just not doin any of this tonight.

      • Bureaucrat [pup/pup's, null/void]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        10 hours ago

        nerd ummm actually the vikings engaged in rhyming duels and they travelled to north africa at the very least, so this means that all rap is actually scandinavian in heritage

        (I’m being ironic, but there is some good scandinavian rap. There was a thread on here a few years ago where people shared non-anglo music and I still listen to a little bit of a group that got shared. No clue what they say, but I like the beats. They’ve apparently produced for NWA?)