My point is you need to know what your talking about before you post. You are generalizing and stereotyping all rappers.
The same could easily be said about you (
especially in light of your excessively prideful and threatening last post).
While the whole race and culture discussion is more appropriate to the politics & current events forum, it is worth keeping in mind that
race is not culture. Many of the cultural elements identified today with urban black culture historically comes from the white southern redneck culture and started being championed in the 1960's by the nihilistic, militant black identity movements. Dumb down those messages, and you essentially have modern hip-hip (not necessarily early hip-hop).
“[A]n aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness [and] lack of entrepreneurship" is
extremely culturally and socially destructive. Unfortunately, modern hardcore hip-hop and hip-hop culture is all but
defined by those elements.
Dr. Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" is a great book to break through the dogma and misconceptions surrounding this issue. Most of those "insightful" rappers engaging in social commentary are simply useful idiots caught up in that dogma.
Here is a link to
Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Additionally, Dr. Walter E. Williams has also done a lot of research on this issue as well.
All that said, if you are looking for music simply to make noise and test out bass. Hip-hop is not bad (though Lonely Island is about as close as I get to that). If you want to test overall sound quality, get away from heavy bass. Jazz is pretty good. For some reason, in America so many seem to think heavy bass equals good sound quality. It doesn't.
Accurate musical reproduction (especially in the midrange) is where it's at.
