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...band three years to release a new album. Rap has changed in that time, and members of the band have reached their early 30s -- advanced middle age by hip-hop standards. The result is that while Public Enemy is still angry, it has a new target to attack: the gangsta rappers who have come after it -- and who have also sold millions of records...
...easy shots. But then comes a song like So Whatcha Gone Do Now? in which Chuck takes on gangsta rappers, calling them "slaves to the rhythm of the master" for promoting negative, violent images of African-American life. To Chuck, the rappers aren't the only ones to blame for their albums. "Every story needs to be told," he says. "I just think the record companies would rather have that ((negative)) story told, and they're not accountable to our community. Personally I'd like to go to the record-company presidents and challenge them to a fistfight...
Where did all this mumbo-jumbo about "false teachings" come from? I could see it now: Immorality 10a. An introduction to corruption, crime, debauchery, avarice and murder. Readings from "gangsta rap" lyrics, the Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler, required of concentrators...
...1990s, music isn't the food of love -- it's too often the food of lust, angst, violence, misogyny and general nihilism. Grunge rockers are raging, gangsta rappers are boasting. The last thing anyone with talent seems interested in performing are songs about men and women who are crazy about each other. Love songs are for insipid, unit-moving "entertainers" like Michael Bolton -- and that's as good as saying the love song is dead...
...have moved outward from the back rooms of a few cities to the great plains of America's cultural space. Ideas and style statements that 40 years ago might have languished for a while in jazz clubs and coffeehouses now move in nanoseconds from the dance clubs and gangsta corners. Through MTV and the trendier magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie...