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yourworldiseternallycomplete · 8 months ago

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i need to do some research (catchphrase of mine) but im having thoughts and feelings about how a lot of white people's exposure to rap in the mainstream comes in the form of comedy, and the way in which that delegitimizes rap as an art form...... so people whose introduction to the genre was epic rap battles of history or some snl slop understand it as essentially unserious ugh anyway im sure someone has written about this in much more depth

#txt #idk its like there are a lot of reasons why comedy and rap work together like wordplay timing referential humor etc #i mean its the fucking spoken word #but mediocre white rap is soooo often a crutch #and also what are the effects if that's the only rap a person meaningfully experiences #these are not novel thoughts obviouslyyyyy im just blogging #like ugh comedic rap is a thing like a real thing a subgenre that can be incredible #but like... novelty rap is a distinction i saw once... rap that emphasizes laughs over form or function

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