Abbott
Master Don Juan
Haha....nope, not quite. Normal, IL is a town of about 45,000 people. It's right next door to Bloomington, IL which has about 55,000 people. It's one town for practical purposes, and we often call it the Twin Cities. It's a fairly conservative town, and it would take me about three hours to drive to Chicago (it's about 130 miles away).Originally posted by DJMaC23
Normal, IL...how close is that to a major city like Chicago? Cuz you sound like some kid from the damn boonies...
The fact it's a conservative town might have something to do with it. I'm not a conservative, though I do have some conservative values (like how I regard hip-hop). As you may have already guessed, I'm a white man. Here, I can go through a typical day and not see a single black person all day (not that I try to make that so, that's just how it is). Most people I talk to who are white, with the exception of white trash (which I rarely talk to anyway), seem to not like hip-hop here. My parents don't like it, and that's probably where I learned that particular opinion from. Now don't get me wrong...I'm sure there's plenty of people who are white, and not white trash, and do like hip-hop, but I just haven't seen too many. Man...I hate having to be so politcally correct.
It's true that I've only met one black nerd, but then again there aren't too many around here. And without wanting to be racist, it seems that the great majority of them live in the "bad" part of town, where most people in this town refuse to go.Originally posted by DJMaC23
I live in the DC/MD/VA area, full of all kinds of different ethnicities and PLENTY of black people...I know black nerdy folk who couldn't pick up a chick if their life depended on it, I know black guys who are crazy pimps, I know black guys who are just like your average white/azn/whatever guy, schmuck black guys, etc...
You can't really generalize like the above quote. There are plenty of other ethnicities in hiphop...when Hiphop was first born in the South Bronx it was BOTH latinos and blacks bboyin, rhymin and spinnin...now there are quite a few whites in hiphop (Alchemist, very popular hiphop producer, white boy from Beverly Hills, CA)....anyways
Maybe the black guys you have bumped into or whatever just happen to have a certain confident flair to em..and they just dont give a eff...
I love ignorant hiphop bashers, clowns who only go by that Nelly Ja Rule and Chingy CRAP they play on the mainstream radio...yet will pack up in the Chevy pickup trucks and round up the dogs if I were to say anything about "She thinks my Tractor's sexy"..elements of TRUE hiphop are in many different forms of music today, it's funny...anywho, I'm no teacher so I'm done with this lesson.
I'm Latino originally from NYC by the way, if anyone really cares.
It has seemed that the black men I have bumped into seem to be really confident. One friend of mine, who's half-black, is DJing two chicks (who are pretty) right now, and I don't think he's ever gone to this site. One of them I think is a bad fit (24 y/o w/ 8 y/o son, and boss at one of his jobs), but the other isn't too bad.
They play that sh|t on mainstream radio? I wouldn't know...normally all I listen to is music made before 1990 (rock, pop of that time, and so on), which the only recent stuff that I'm likely to enjoy is techno/club music. I want to find a rap song that I don't hate, but I haven't found it.
About hip-hop being born in the South Bronx: I wish I didn't know that. Given that's a very bad area (I hear the police are afraid to go in alone), that doesn't exactly help improve my views regarding hip-hop.
Now hip-hop's OK, provided that no ones tries to make me like it. If I'm at a party I can tolerate it, and I won't b|tch about it (like try to tell them to turn it off, etc.), but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Each to his own...it's just that I don't like where it came from (just bad areas, nothing to do with black people), and what it glamourizes (gangs, bad areas, explicit sex, etc.). Nothing wrong with sex, mind you, but hearing about explicit sex gets very tiring VERY fast.
While I may not like hip-hop, if there's ever a law proposed to ban it, I'll be one of the first people to fight it.
Ben