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The Super Bowl always serves as a good barometer for American culture. It’s where ads seek to introduce upcoming blockbusters and “social progress.” Corporations made sure to start showing off gay couples in Super Bowl advertising in the mid-2010s. Nowadays every ad features a gay couple, as well as a mixed-race couple. The system’s marketing isn’t subtle in what behaviors they want to encourage . . .
The cultural showcase isn’t just limited to advertising, either. The halftime show and the game itself also reveal America’s decline. The back of one of the endzones displayed the stencil “END RACISM.” The NFL needed to remind viewers that it fully supports Black Lives Matter.
The halftime show this year was billed as history in the making. It was promoted as the first all-hip-hop performance at the event. Many rappers have performed during the highly-valued gig in the past, but they were never the main attraction. It was different this year. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem (the lone white guy), 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, and Mary J. Blige (the one non-rapper) all showed off black music to the world. With the exception of Lamar’s songs, most of the music played was at least 20 years old. It was a nostalgia show for millennials and Gen Xers. It was hardly the radical social innovation its performers saw it as. The only “rebellious” moment was when Eminem took a knee in solidarity with the BLM protests. He was allegedly told not to do that by League officials, but the white rapper did it anyway. The move was praised by the press and resulted in no penalties for Eminem, so it was hardly rebellious in any real sense.
The rappers nevertheless thought they were going against the grain by taking over the halftime show. “We appreciate the NFL for even entertaining hip-hop, because we know a lot of people that won’t,” Snoop Dogg said at a press conference before the big game. “But we’re here now, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it.”
The thing is that nobody except for boomers and the remaining members of the Silent Generation have a problem with rap. And even a lot of boomers like rap nowadays. Gen Xers may remember a time when rap wasn’t the dominant form of music, but millennials and zoomers don’t. Rap overtook rock 20 or so years ago as the predominant form of popular music. It’s reigned comfortably in that position ever since, even growing in dominance.
Publications that used to focus mostly on rock releases in the 2000s now dedicate most of their energy to rap and other black genres. Critically acclaimed music is no longer indie rock; it’s just rap. Rappers have supplanted rock stars as youth idols. Can you even name a new rock band that has a large youth audience? SoundCloud rappers are much bigger than SoundCloud rock bands.
Most other forms of music now incorporate rap elements as well. Most bro country is heavily influenced by it. Just listen to this hit song about eating at Applebee’s. Pop singers love including rappers in their songs, and many try rapping themselves as well. Rap’s influence on rock goes back all the way to the ‘90s with nu-metal. While most rock bands eschew the trashy elements of nu-metal, they still show off hip-hop influence. Take, for example, Imagine Dragons, the most popular rock act of the 2010s.
Hip-hop beats also inform commercials and children’s TV nowadays. There are very few aspects of American culture that aren’t shaped by rap. The Super Bowl halftime show is just a delayed reaction to a long-present reality.
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And it’s not just limited to America. Rap is popular throughout the Western world. Europeans listen to Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar as much as Americans do. Every European country has its own rap scene, and it is displacing other popular styles. Sweden, of all places, is one of the leaders in European rap. Euro hop is just as bad as its American form, of course. Artists — if you want to call them that — still rhyme about gang culture and debauchery in Europe, just not in English.
Even Right-wingers love rap — or at least most of them do. Gone are the days when nationalists would proudly boast that they refuse to listen to black music. Many meme videos come with a rap soundtrack, and prominent commentators will express their excitement over new rap releases. Hip-hop has taken over the music tastes of the younger members of the Dissident Right.
This will all sound pretty dismal to Counter-Currents readers. An “artform” associated with the worst aspects of black culture is now the West’s defining music. That is a pretty grim reality, but there are precedents for this. Jazz was the pop music of the early-to-mid twentieth century, and it was also “black” music. Rock ‘n’ roll, as liberal critics always love to gush about, was initially informed by black music. Over time, white artists were able to make rock into their own music. Rockers were not seen as the wiggers of their day.
But rap is firmly tied to black culture. Eminem is a testament to that. Unlike Led Zeppelin, who aped the blues but didn’t pretend to be black, Eminem performs rap and is by all standards a wigger. He dresses in a black style, talks in Ebonics (now known as “African-American Vernacular English”), and supports black causes. He even kneels for black lives at the halftime show. Eminem doesn’t even add any white influences to his music apart from his voice. Zeppelin and many other rock bands, for their part, added European flourishes to the blues, and they remained white British guys. They were not wiggers.
Rap’s popularity has increased the level of black worship in the West. For those befuddled by the social revolution in the wake of George Floyd’s death, it’s essential to look at hip-hop’s influence. How did so many relatively normal white people turn to black idolatry over a felon’s accidental death? Rap’s popularity explains this. White people see the world through the lens of black artists. They imbibe their words, their ideas, their rhythms, and their grievances. The music you listen to shapes your soul and mind. If you listen to blacks rhyming all day, that’s going to have an effect. When an entire society listens to that all the time, then we see the George Floyd Revolution. And then anti-white racism taught in schools. And then Juneteenth supplant July 4th. And then the black national anthem replaces “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Rap as the dominant music doesn’t come without negative consequences. It’s not a sign of a society’s health when Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre are wholesome oldies music.
It’s a tough pill for some of us to swallow, but it must be said: Nationalists should not listen to rap music. It’s spiritual poison that promotes the system’s preferred religion — namely, black worship. The easiest act of resistance you can make is to listen to something that is not obviously black. Listen to country, classic rock, metal, video game music — pretty much anything besides rap. Even anime soundtracks are a better alternative. You can’t revolt against the modern world while blasting hip-hop beats. That’s the modern world’s soundtrack.
Be a rebel and turn that crap off.
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I had a rap phase for a few years in my teens, but grew out of it after getting into rock. I’ve recently become more anti-rap, probably because of my politics. If I am completely honest, I would probably say that rap — purely as a music form — is occasionally entertaining, but never impressive. It could serve as an adjunct to better forms of art in a sane culture if it weren’t accompanied by the worst of modern sensibilities. It’s vulgar, thuggish, and coarse.
I believe that it is natural for teens to rebel against society to at least some degree, and so a healthy society gives them an outlet for this that isn’t destructive. When you put vulgarity on TV in primetime and hand it Grammys, then kids will have to find something else so that they can rebel.
As for rock music, if a white kid listens to Black Sabbath (whose music I like), he isn’t exactly sipping tea while listening to Wagner, but neither is he listening to caveman lyrics, over an artless drumbeat, in a music form dominated by the worst of sensibilities. On balance, I think it’s healthy.
I know this is nothing new and I’m not the first to point it out, but this is your daily reminder that the first mainstream “Wigger” rappers were the Beastie Boys (originally a Jewish NYC punk band) and their producer was their kinsman Rick Rubin, who single handedly flooded the late 80s music scene with rap music as well as “innovating” the rap-rock cross-over genre when Aerosmith and Run DMC remade “Walk This Way”.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/walk-this-way/
Is this description really true? I’m a late Boomer who has never owned a rap song or album, and doesn’t know much or care about pop music or “culture” (except like Trevor Lynch, I enjoy movies, albeit less and less – which may have to do as much with aging as cinematic diversity and wokeness). I haven’t bought an album of any kind since the early 00s. Never heard of “nu-metal” or Imagine Dragons. I don’t watch sports. I don’t own a TV, and even if one day I do (for movie rentals), I wouldn’t watch mainstream programming on it (I can’t believe that END RACISM crap in the Super Bowl; this is the first I heard about it). So although I live in an urban progressive city, and work a regular job, I actually have little contact with pop culture, which suits me fine.
Everyone I know hates rap. The good news is, so do most of their now mostly teen to adult children, too. Not sure what Hampton is referring to. Most Gen Xers of my acquaintance hate rap. Until the pandemic, I used to have epic battles at my gym against the playing of rap. It started with a bunch of white females (all younger than I, 30s-50s) who initiated the complaint. I joined them, partly out of solidarity, and because rap makes it hard to read on the bike or elliptical (I’d prefer complete silence, but that’s asking for too much).
One thing I do consistently is get onto Youtube looking for old songs that pop into my mind. Since the pandemic, I’ve been doing this more often. I’ve started reading the comments. Does Hampton? I’m always amazed at how antagonistic the majority of commenters are to contemporary “s—” (they must mean rap). The “old school” (mostly white) pop music I like gets millions of views. Moreover, it seems like non-rap songs, like those associated with films (like the recent A Star is Born with Lady Gaga), get the most hits. Is Lady Gaga a rapper? What about Adele? I like many Adele songs. I don’t think of that as rap (though sometimes Adele does sound suspiciously black … but not in a rap way).
Indeed, while I know very little about this, my impressions (from auto-flipping through music stations when driving) are directly opposite of Hampton’s. It seems like female pop stars have overtaken male rockers and rappers. Are Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and all those types rappers? Not in my understanding. Does JLo still make music? She didn’t used to be a rapper.
And Hampton is painting with way too broad a brush. This statement is ludicrous:
How did so many relatively normal white people turn to black idolatry over a felon’s accidental death? Rap’s popularity explains this. White people see the world through the lens of black artists. They imbibe their words, their ideas, their rhythms, and their grievances. The music you listen to shapes your soul and mind. If you listen to blacks rhyming all day, that’s going to have an effect. When an entire society listens to that all the time, then we see the George Floyd Revolution.
That’s not what explains Floyd (and already there is rising pushback everywhere to the post-Floyd BLM agenda). Evolutionarily defective white liberals have been sucking up to blacks, and Jews have been using them as instruments of societal subversion, since the 1930s. Far more influential than rap has been decades of scholastic and media (and I hate to admit this, institutional Christian) brainwashing in racial egalitarianism and white guilt mongering and the theologically asinine Social Gospel. Even that, however, doesn’t fully explain this. Black racio-political solidarity has to be added to the mix. When blacks get enraged, Democrats have to respond to their most loyal and group-conscious voters. That’s hardly the whole of White America.
I do agree with Hampton’s conclusion – and am shocked and appalled that any nationalists listen to rap. That, however, is probably a function of modern dysgenics, which is an intra- as well as interracial phenomenon. There is no way the USA is going to remain a superpower for much longer with this type of a younger population. The good news is that America’s ongoing racial and dysgenic decline is hastening Red State Secession – and that in turn is merely a hop and a jump away from ethnostatist sovereignty.
Hampton likes to make everything look impossibly bleak (excessive pessimism is no more warranted or useful than its opposite), but our day is coming.
I don’t think Hampton is being ludicrous with that statement, Shang. If anything, he’s being acutely perceptive. I’m surrounded by Whites (18-22 y/o demographic) whose cultural conscience has been shaped by an urban Black sensibility (e.g. rappers, comics, entertainers). YouTube music video views and Spotify streams are predictably dominated by rap.
That said, I’ll provide a quick anecdote that supports your view. A former English professor of mine (brilliant woman who performed rock/folk and had a PhD in medieval literature) recently got promoted to VP at some east coast Catholic college. They did a video series asking administrators what was on their playlist. So she lists all her favorites ’70s bands and then obligatorily lists rap music for when she goes to the gym. It made sense she said that because she is constantly promoting D.E.I. initiatives. It was apparent she was trying to sound hip and inclusive, but I’m still cringing at the disengenousness of it. Maybe this kind of posturing is more widespread than I imagine, but she is also 60 years old.
The main point is that Robert Hampton gave good advice: reject rap in favor of anything.
The thing is, Rap/Hip-Hop derived music is used often in TikTok and Instagram story content. Many young people (young children to young adults) I encounter listen to that type of music mainly through through these mediums, ie basically through sound bites for memes which quite arguably. Another thing is that when it comes to actually listening to music for enjoyment, they will listen to a broad range of music such as country, and general pop too. They might listen to Kendrick Lamar but also listen to Dan and Shay, Maroon 5, etc. Younger girls listen to Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, but I always make fun of them in front of this demographic. When you start mocking these cultural idols, kids start thinking and reflecting the way we do.
I am not saying that this is all good, I am saying that we need to use Social Media and these tools to our disposal. If we do, we are only going to get more people on our side through cultural interests.
Most of the critical moments in my move to White-positive politics were seeing friends and family voluntarily listen to rap. I have always been excited by the vast world of music, which was so mysterious, rich and fascinating, and I couldn’t understand how kith and kin gravitated towards unimaginative beatmaking, monotone chanting, and aggressively inane lyrics. Music is best shared, and increasingly I was finding myself having to seek out the company of eccentrics and holdouts.
After decades of this, it had dawned on me that hip hop was almost always the choice of music for those who put music in the background of their lives. If you read any rap music record review of the last 20 years, there will be almost no dissection or commentary on the music itself. It’s always about celebrity, personal spats, leftist politics, social justice, or lyrics.
Mr. Hampton’s final paragraphs that begin with “Rap’s popularity…” are in my view some of the most important words written on this website or anywhere. It is precisely rap idolatory, along with the help of our Jewish tastemakers, that explains our backwards cultural priorities. Getting a diet of anti-White rap all day is analagous to watching animal torture videos on loop: You’re going to be numb to the anger and cruelty, and oblivious to beauty, subtlety, and integrity.
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Interesting that you and I had such diametrically opposite reactions to that paragraph in particular. I stand by what I wrote. But I don’t have much close contact with young whites, so I’m really not competent to comment on the level of their embrace of rap. Perhaps the few young people I do know are, due to their parents being solid rightwingers, totally unrepresentative of their demographic.
As I age, I’m continuously losing interest in ephemera, even wrt news and politics. More and more, in my limited free time, I find I want to bury myself in serious books in philosophy, intellectual history, theology and similar subjects; classic Occidental literature, too. I want to know why and how our people have adopted such collectively destructive morality and politics (and I like reading the European ‘greats’ because of their near-total lack of diversity, and thus can escape to a more racially congenial as well as intelligent place than my quotidian existence). I’m even losing interest in my old hobby of political economy. Once I retire, I’ll probably even quit the Wall Street Journal. None of it seems real to me, as my race (and I) edge closer to extinction.
Rap is basically infantile (or occasionally clever) doggerel recited over a beat. Yes of course there are breaks and sampling, and the wordplay of Nas makes him the greatest lyrical genius since Homer, Virgil or Schubert etc etc. But it all seems to me a regression from the evolved European conception of tonal harmony (Gradus ad Parnassum) of voices and instruments, back to the most primitive level of African tribal music: drumming, chanting and praise singing. I think we should experiment with turning it off and recharging our aural palettes with the best our own civilisation’s titanic artistic legacy can provide, be it classical or popular. Let Black people rejoice in what they have created: since they are so fiercely proud and possessive over it, there is no need for us to ape them.
Rap is a form of privatized workfare for unathletic blacks. As long as whites take it seriously, it gives black men a legitimate way to make a living. At least half of the black guys I’ve known have dreamed of being a rapper. It’s a clever way of giving blacks aspirations.
I used to think that rap was beyond parody. Then I heard Ben Folds’ arrangement of “Bitches Ain’t Shit” as if it were music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFRy8jQ_0U
Pure genius!
Did it ever occur to music critics that rappers don’t play instruments? And that quite often, they sample other people’s music? I never liked the Beatie Boys, they did eventually learn how to play instruments, though.
They knew how to play instruments long before they became rappers. They started out as a punk band.
“Even Right-wingers love rap”
*Retreats into the shrubs like Homer*
Seriously though, I’m putting my foot down. If weebs are allowed in the club then us ooga-booga appreciaters should be too.
I demand justice!
The truly demoralizing thing about white cultural degradation via African music is the affect it has had on white women. Greg Johnson posted the link to a “whitewashed” remake of “Bitches ain’t Shit” and every disgusting word of that crappy “song” is antisocial, toxic, garbage. I’m not criticizing the remake, because it is funny. It’s the original song that makes me ill. (Note: when I was much younger I still didn’t like the lyrics but I did like the catchy beat much to my chagrin).
Many young white women have absorbed this fundamentally corrupted cultural ethos about male/female dynamics to the point that they believe it is liberating to be treated as a worthless cut of meat. This isn’t even isolated with the lower classes. Educated women are actively defending “Sex work” these days as legitimate professions. Yes, prostitution and pornography are currently seen as totally legitimate ways to make a living.
And it isn’t just white women, or wiggers. The AF crowd as well as the Daily Stormer devotee, while being critical of black culture on one hand, they still idolize some rappers and will defend them and they have also absorbed the (and I hate to use this word) “misogynistic” attitudes of black culture. I’m going to add “hyper” to misogynistic, because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with perceiving women through a masculine lens, nor is there anything wrong with having gender roles that place men higher on certain power dynamic scales, but I don’t believe in social norms that reduce women down to the level of a “cum-dumpster” or a child.
Civilization exists for a reason, and gender hierarchies were natural components of white civilization. It is HOW we define those hierarchies that ultimately matter, and counter-intuitively, white women (at a cost to white men and stable families) have benefitted from incorporating black sensibilities into their sexual behavior. Acting like a slut ultimately increases the level that men objectify women sexually. Women gain far more power when they have sexual control over men than they gain when they try to act like men. It takes very little work, very little IQ, and very little talent.
I never listened to rap. It just never interested me. However, if Public Enemy’s Fear of a Black Planet and been released without vocals as an industrial album, I think I would have bought it. That was the one thing that I got from the brief listens to it that I did after it came out. A colleague on a job was a large Negro male who was a pretty decent sort and had he made me listen to N. W. A.’s Fuck Tha Police because he thought it was funny. I couldn’t make head or tails of it. There’s an out-take scene in a ‘summer season’ series called ‘Hot L Baltimore’ where two characters – an older White male and a younger Negro male – are sitting in car and they’re listening to a rap song that just consists of the lyric ‘Kill Whitey!’ repeated with some intermittent thumping. Now that’s honest rap.
Every other rap I’ve heard is just annoying.
As I become more sensitive to racial matters, I do think a bit harder about the race of musicians. And yet I still cannot turn my back on Negro artists. I adore Bob Marley and wish we had a musician of his caliber to sing our songs of freedom. I’m not going to hate Louis Armstrong no matter how bad things get. As a result of Still, I’m going out of my way to listen to Whites who perform jazz because they are White. Once you realize that White jazz musicians have bee excluded for a long, long time from support and review by the Jew-dominated music industry, it seems only fair to seek out the work of our people for special attention.
I have to admit, the idea that rap is ‘oldies music’ give me a chuckle.
It’s interesting that you mention “Fuck Da Police” by N.W.A. When it came out the FBI put out a warning about that album. Now, the FBI is taking the stance that non-existent white supremacists are America’s biggest threat.
How are we supposed to feel about 70s and 80s R&B? Hall & Oates good, Kool & the Gang bad?
Celebrate Good Times is a universe away from “Bitches ain’t nothin but hoes and tricks”
Most R&B from the pre-rap era was glossed over with a pearly-white sheen to be broadly appealing to people of all age groups and demographics. The various progressions of Gangsta-rap has totally transformed the music industry and smote every other genre.
Most 70s R&B music only lightly integrated black aesthetics into them. Conversely, the white artists of that day that borrowed from R&B only mildly did so and most lyrics were interchangeable without regard to the race of the singer.
I think R&B was largely colored by a desire for blacks to appeal to the culture of whites, whereas the opposite is true with rap…rap is the total abandonment of white musical culture to follow black Pied Pipers into the ghetto.
Well said, Connor. I wasn’t around in the ’60 or ’70s to experience tracks like “In the Still of the Night” or “Be My Baby” or George Clinton’s P-funk. I would have to think that that music did not feel as brazenly unmusical and wholly alien as contemporary rap. Then again there’s that scene in the Buddy Holly Story where the music producer thought the quaint “That’ll Be the Day” was a n**ger record, iirc.
Today, rappers can make tracks entirely on their own, and when they are left entirely to their own devices, you get a lot of sludge that is an affront to Western ears.
They finally had a country singer at the Super Bowl this year. And she was black. As always, the national anthem was sung by a black woman.
And blacks still claim they are discriminated against despite every single institution bending over backwards to favor them. “White supremacy” you see …
First off great article. I’m a gen x guy who actually was a fan of mainly early 90’s gangsta rap for obvious reasons. It was extreme and rebellious like the death and thrash bands I was into. But as I got older I started to see it for the sub par shit “music” it is. Where as old classic rock and metal at least in my opinion have aged like fine wine, rap has aged like spoiled milk. I recently read on CC about WN rap music and was surprised by its existence. It seems really odd to me that any white nationalist would want to listen black music. I know the supposed reasoning is to “subvert” it, but the only thing being subverted are whites being indoctrinated into this trash culture. I completely agree with everything you said in this piece. Whites need to stop participating in this black culture period. Music, tv, movies everything. It’s poison and will drag us more than it already has to their level.
Amen. And let’s stop using ghetto slang like “based” while we are at it.
But we use it in a totally different way from rappers. Might as well stop talking about “the red pill” because it comes from Hollywood.
Some ass once asked me, spur of the moment, how I would describe myself, so I replied (really without thinking, except that I’d thought of this phrase a considerable time earlier), “I’m based, awakened, redpilled and ready.” I still sort of like the alliterativeness of it, but most slang leaves me cold.
One thing I noticed a long time ago is that many people today, especially blacks, dislike a white man with a confident vocabulary and direct writing style. What was once admired is now (implicitly) frowned upon. Maybe it’s a reminder of old superiority, or seen as a veiled assertion of power. In occasional meetings I have to attend, I enjoy flummoxing the diversity hires (and other morons) by making word choices that are just a bit beyond their grasp (speaking like I memorized the Thesaurus would look silly {describing “food” as “edibles” or something}, and backfire; but I refuse to use the simplest word capable of conveying my meaning).
Perhaps the CC community should have a discussion about which words proud white men should purge from their vocabularies.
what does “based” even mean, what is this nonsense ?
“Based” has meaning and context in Anglo English.
In internet slang, to be “Based” has a meaning of unapologetically holding beliefs, especially ones viewed as distasteful or unpopular.
The fall of language and everything else has a ways to go yet. If people think things are bad with zoomers, you should see what middle schoolers are doing, especially white girls. Language is dead as soon as texting happened and to give the final shove, emojis were created. This is by design. Cannot get rid of rap, rap is the only universal music, you have french rap arabic rap, korean rap, slavic rap, and indian rap, the jews have promoted rap as the universally dominant music for over 25 years. No one is reversing any of this. You may hate it, but by the time we get old, i am not sure we will be able to even communicate with “our” grandkids, whats left of the English language will be so deformed, thats to say if we arent speaking in ONLY emoji.
Maybe they all just need to replace gangster rap with groyper rap and listen to Bryson Gray and Tyson James. Right wingers can find rappers who rap for them.
Dre- numerous credible claims of extreme violence against women, brother murdered
Snoop- acquitted of murder but his driver convicted, Snoop’s been robbed at gunpoint
50- shot nine times by a friend and bodyguard of Mike Tyson who was shot and killed two weeks later
Not a white supremacist in sight.
Swell role models, paragons of sportsmanship.
Also, Doctor Dre (not a real doctor) apparently has an adult daughter living in poverty and homeless, her four kids, Dr. Dre’s beloved grandchildren, having to stay with other people.
Meanwhile, Dad and Granddad will be performing at the Super Bowl as an increasingly soulless conviction-less willingly-duped America cheers.
One of the women he beat up was pregnant.
They’re helping to save our masculinity, dude.
What would you rather have young white men listen to – Air Supply?
Listening to emotionally incontinent black guys talk about themselves is helping to uplift our boys into manhood.
Wuz talkin about the appropriateness for this event, Negroidal casual acquaintance with violence and murder, and politically-motivated hollow gestures.
Don’t have a problem with rap at all.
Would metal maybe be the white equivalent for ruffling feathers?
Would they have Metallica? It’s possible I guess.
I used to listen to Death Row artists back around the 9-Trizé.
I will still play the occasional Beastie Boys or Snoop.
It was definitely a phase for me. I’ll wager most my age would say the same.
Rap is utter trash. Rock, metal, classical or pretty much anything else is better. I’ve grown to like the Viking bests by a Danish electronic musician Danheim. I want to connect more with my Scandinavian roots and his music gets me pumped unlike anything else.
When I first heard rap, two or three marriages ago, I said this is absolute crap and I haven’t changed my mind in any degree at all-except now I’m physically and mentally repulsed.
Rap’s popularity explains this. White people see the world through the lens of black artists. They imbibe their words, their ideas, their rhythms, and their grievances. The music you listen to shapes your soul and mind. If you listen to blacks rhyming all day, that’s going to have an effect. When an entire society listens to that all the time, then we see the George Floyd Revolution.
One thing I can’t stand about whites (yes, I’m a white guy, but that doesn’t mean I can relate to everything that whites do, and yes, I’m sure there is a reason whites do what I’m about to describe, but I don’t care what it is because it works against them) is that no matter how bad reality gets, they always find a convoluted way to turn it into a whitepill. If the entire political right were in death camps about to be executed, I guarantee somebody would say “At least when we’re dead, none of this will matter!”
The pervasiveness of rap is sometimes seen by the right as a whitepill because listening to it helps young men gain some semblance of masculinity. (The same people who say this also complain that young men are emasculated – the same young men who were raised on rap, so a lot of good it did them…)
The message young men get from rap is that the objective of life is to draw attention to yourself and explode in rage when someone treats you disrespectfully. The first step toward becoming a man is learning how to govern your emotions and rap is manifestly opposed to that.
Good points. Rap certainly isn’t interested in building good men. It’s interested in destroying whiteness.
Rap is degenerate. There can be no dispute about this. In musical terms it is clearly a reversion to primitivism and from it’s typical lyrics we see that it’s “artists” have the minds of savages. And so it’s cultural ascendancy is contributing to the reversion of the entire human race to primitive savagery. I don’t expect popular music to have the depth and artistry of Wagnerian opera but when it’s clearly actively harmful it must be opposed. A homogenous society in which rap still enjoys musical hegemony would be a mockery of our civilization. We won’t be able to say we’ve won until rap is remembered only as a ridiculous bygone fad.
“Rap music is the soundtrack of a civilization in decay.” -Neil Kumar
I have to say, living in multi-culty city has made me very irritable when hearing rap being blasted from the outdoor speakers of local bars and the open windows of sports cars as they drive past me on my way to work.
Having grown up with Contemporary Christian music (not bad in comparison) and some classic 70s songs, my tastes can range from New Age (Enya), to classic rock (ACDC), to heavy metal (Metallica) and most recently I’ve been delving into the nordic metal/folk music. But out of all these genres, I can certainly say I skirt around the Black music like the mind plague that it is.
In the ethnostate, we will of course ban rap music under the “Unwanted Influences and Sovereign Security Act” (UISSA) under Section 2 of the Articles of Citizenship.
–courtesy of the Commission on Aryan Ascension and Practice of Culture.
I hated Rap from the first time I heard it. However, there is one rap song, don’t remember the name, which is a conversation between the great Friederick Hayek and John Maynard Keynes that I found kind of interesting. That said, I do like some black music. I like Nat King Cole especially “Mona Lisa” and “Chestnuts roasting on the Open Fire.” I also like the Sam Cooke song; again I don’t remember the name but some of the words are “don’t know nothing about history; don’t know no biology”. Anyway they played it in the excellent Harrison Ford movie “Witness” which, believe it or not, had a black man as one of the bad guys. BTW, Sam Cooke was murdered by another black. I have never known that to happen before.
Sam Cooke was shot and killed by a black woman motel clerk, the second woman that night who feared for her life from him. Both went right to the police. I have to say he had no history of this type of behavior that we know of so maybe chalk it up to alcohol?
But look at this:
He was mentoring The Womack Brothers who, as The Valentinos, did the original It’s All Over Now and Lookin’ For A Love. Bobby Womack was obviously banging Sam’s wife and he immediately moved in with her.
Sam’s brothers didn’t like this and they beat the shit out of him. As they were doing so, Sam’s widow took Womack’s gun and began firing at her brothers-in-law but Womack had the foresight -or lack of it?- to take the bullets out.
Otherwise there would have been more bloodshed and likely death.
It wouldn’t be long before Ms. Cooke was aiming the gun at Womack for banging her and Sam’s underage daughter.
Mary Wells was married to two Womack brothers (at different times of course) and alleged extreme physical abuse, but everyone said she gave as good as she got.
One of the Womack brothers was stabbed to death by a girlfriend.
Look at ALL this violence and messiness and shittiness surrounding this ONE guy, an absolute giant of 20th century music and by all accounts a decent gentleman as popular with whites as he was with blacks.
You’re right. Wonderful World was a wonderful record.
Thanks for the correction. At least I had the race right!!
I think you’re referring to “Fear the Boom and Bust” and/or “Fight of the Century” produced by EconStories w/r/t the Keynes and Hayek rap. We were played both of these in my macroeconomics class in high school.
Thanks for the references. I will try to check out at least one of the songs.
“Eminem doesn’t even add any white influences to his music apart from his voice”
I think his lyrical content was also different. Most rap music at the time was about gang culture, drug-dealing etc. Eminem didn’t rap about that.
Also, most rap lyrics involve showing off about how rich, tough and successful with women the person rapping is.
There was little of that in Eminem’s music. Instead, a lot of it was self-deprecating and angst-ridden – rather like a lot of white rock and indie lyrics.
“The music you listen to shapes your soul and mind.”
Totally. Rap ruined a generation of girls. All those degenerate lyrics. At least in most rock songs there’s usually subtly and innuendo.
When alt-right was becoming a thing I remember seeing the memes and thinking, “what’s all the fuss over a cartoon frog?” This was back when I was a libertarian/liberal. On a whim I searched for “alt-right music” on youtube and this dude Xurious popped up. I pretty much listened to Xurious all 2016 to 2020. His music and the whole fashwave meme sort of captured the Zeitgeist of the Trump era. In some way I feel that Xurious helped me along the way the libertarian to alt-right pipeline.
With the way the world is going right now metal music is sort of my copium. I admit, I used to like rap but I think that phase has passed. I don’t think I’ll get into it again.
Whitney Houston, Deniece Williams, The Jets, Kool and the Gang, Lionel Richie … you know, black people, you don’t have to be degenerate. There are other options.
If anything from one of those acts came on the radio I wouldn’t trip over my feet to change it the station (even though I’ve had a strict no-black-music policy for about the last fifteen years). In the 80s it wasn’t impossible to occasionally hear something from a black artist that was actually–dare I say–wholesome.
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https://youtu.be/wgltMtf1JhY
As I believe Greg Johnson mentioned with his “shit” reference from YouTube, rap can be excellent parody, especially when leftists are trying to be serious about “racism” or “white privilege”, “climate change”, etc. Just hold up the mirror when they start to preach with some good ole fashion ode to bitches, hoes, limousine liberals, etc.. You can even claim your status as a marginalized “white rapper” in the process.
As recently as 2009, there was a Facebook page called “Everything I Know About Black People, I Learned From Rap Music.” I’m not exactly sure when young White kids crossed the fuzzy line between “ironically” listening to rap music and laughing at it, to “unironically” listening to it and role modeling it, but I know this: Hampton’s observations about young Whites and their musical tastes are correct and accurate.
In concurrence with rap, another way that young Whites copy Black culture is when White girls go to the gym and work *only* on their asses, then post pictures of it on Instagram or Reddit. I’ve seen those types of girls at the mall as well. Impossibly thin wastelines combined with bulging, protruding buttocks, and decked out in yoga pants and gym tops.
I think there are several things going on here:
1. Rap music and Black culture are undeniably considered “cool,” hip, trendy, and fashionable.
2. At the risk of feeding into RadFem narratives, its an objective fact that White Men aren’t what they used to be. If Black culture is being turned to for emulation, it’s because there aren’t any White Men worth emulating (speaking for myself, the only two famous White Men I truly admire and look up to are Tom Brady and Chris Pratt)
3. Hear me out on this one: White Culture itself might have become boring and stale by the late 1990s. As Bane said to Batman, “peace has cost you your strength. Victory has defeated you!” Its possible that decades of prosperity and ever increasing living standards, combined with a lack of appreciation for those living standards (due to social and moral deterioration) and a proper understanding of how those standards came about in the first place (White Ingenuity + Capitalism) caused our people to lose confidence in the “coolness” – in the greatness – of their own culture. Hence, the turn to Black culture out of a sense of boredom and desperation.
4. This is me projecting out of bitterness and spite, but sobeit: I do unironically suspect that something is spiritually sick with White people who listen to rap music and like it. There’s that old social truism, “not everyone likes the same things as you, and thats okay.” In this case, music. Sorry, but sometimes thats just not okay. There needs to be a discernment for topics and tastes that are subjective, such as ice cream flavors or the stupid debate between “new” Metallica and “old” Metallica, and tastes that are objective, like the fact that rap music is spelled with a silent C.
As far as pop culture is concerned, there are very few instances in which modern white men exhibit authentically European traits that are considered “cool.” James Bond comes to mind as a rare exception though based on the last installment, his days are numbered.
Do you think those authentic European traits fail to be expressed as something “cool” because we as a people are brainy and provincial? I don’t mean that negatively either. Europeans in general, NW Europeans in particular, and Germans above all else, have a reputation for being “autistic” compared to the other races and peoples of the world.
Its almost like the more technologically advanced a people is, the less “cool” they are. The only “cool” part of European culture I can think of is the pagan parties on the beach where they would get drunk and dance to music around a giant fire. The Vikings were known for this.
I agree with you that Ian Fleming’s character is a notable example of White Masculinity in action. Certain comic book characters appeal to me as well, especially Bruce Wayne (although I identity with his moodiness and not his playboy style).
BTW, the last Bond movie with Daniel Craig wrapped that franchise up with a bowtie, so the next time 007 appears on screen, I’m sure they’ll make it a Black guy. Or worse yet, some mocha colored tranny.
I don’t believe that to be the case. Equating afro-mannerism with being trendy/cool is a new phenomenon. It’s a consequence of Europeans losing confidence in our culture coupled with the relentless barrage of anti-white propaganda and black worship.
The westerns of 1940s-1970s come to mind when thinking of movies that depict white men as strong, and courageous.
Rap stems from the belief common among modern ghetto African Americans that charismatic speaking supersedes truth, reason, and melody. Better yet, in their minds, if said charismatic speaking induces a narcissistic trance in the listener.
Intelligent people can often better comprehend melody and therefore are more likely to like melodic instrumental music rather than charismatic speaking with beats.
The entertainment industry centered on rap as a way to corral the lowest common denominator in terms of intelligence and character to permit big profits over single artists, but since 2017 music tastes have become more diverse, and it seems more difficult for them to corral such large numbers.
While there is something to speaking charismatically, to rhyming and to making the tunes (the last of which non-blacks often do), the genre is mostly bad, and hopefully it will begin to fade.
If young white guys knew what the average ghetto black man aged 18 to 50 thinks of them, then they would ditch it yesterday.
This didn’t happen in a vaccume but was pushed by j media for a very long time. Un ironically listening to rap happened in 2000. I recall carson daley on mtv chastising a rocker for criticizing rap, calling it ignorant. Many white women expect rap to be played in the background during intercourse.
by 2005 rap was a monoculture and all ither art forms were not promoted or banned by j media. I recall a club in japan, with everyone surrounding the one black guy dancing at the club, like he was jesus.
rap is decreasing in importance but only because people are turning away from music. Also the hispanic population explosion are forming a hybrid with it.
I don’t really care for ‘rap’ music per say but I do, occasionally, enjoy a hip hop beat without lyrics. This is mainly due to my preference in music without lyrics. I mostly listen to electronic, indie and rock music.
I just wanted to add my own 2 cents to this long list of commenters.
I agree with most of this article, but rap music from the 80s and 90s sounds very different than modern rap. Modern rap music has been chopped up and bent to fit into the subcultures of today’s youth. Some of the major influences I’ve seen are goth/punk aesthetic and appeal with trap-like beats. This sub-genre reached it’s apex with a rapper know as Lil Peep (there’s an article on CC about him so you can read more about him there). This aesthetic emphasizes negative emotion, heartbreak, drugs, and nihilism. In my opinion, goth/punk aesthetic is implicitly white and Germanic in origin.
Here are some artists that fit into this broad category (Lil Peep, Bones, Ghostmane, $uicideboy$)
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