I HATE it when people criticize music based only on fucking assumptions.

I’m no expert in hip hop or anything, but don’t go hating on what I listen to when you know NOTHING about it.

Today as I was listening to my iPod, another guy in class was wondering what kind of music I listen to. I said I can listen to anything, but preferably hip hop/rap. He replies, “Oh well I don’t like listening to guys talk about picking up hoes and getting drunk.” My best friend and I were like, “Uh.. we don’t either. We don’t listen to that kind of so-called “music.” We listen to the songs with actual MEANING.” He says, “But you guys just said you listen to rap! And that’s all that rappers talk about.” My friend and I were getting kind of heated from his stupid ignorance and said, “Wow, what kind of rap have you even listened to? Because rappers who ONLY talk about picking up hoes, in our eyes they don’t even deserve to be called real hip hop artists.” But, he still wouldn’t shut up about how hip hop sucks because apparently it’s ALWAYS just some guy talking about shallow topics like getting drunk at a club, over a boring beat. He took out his iPod and was like, “I only have one rap song in my entire iPod. It’s ‘Handlebars’ because I think it’s so funny. But yeah alternative is so much better because everything is a metaphor” blah blah. I got nothing against alternative, I just hated how he attacked my kind of music as if there was nothing metaphorical about it.

So then we made him listen to Motion Movement by Blue Scholars, Feather by Nujabes, and Fighters by Lupe Fiasco. How can you not like those songs, right? With Motion Movement, he was like “They’re so monotone!! It’s so boring!” So we said, “Well, listen to the LYRICS then at least!” And he said, “But they talk so damn fast I can’t understand a single thing they’re saying. They’re probably just talking about how many hoes they can pick up or something like that.”

At this point, my friend and I were really just aggravated by his ridiculous assumptions. So we showed him Feather, since he wanted something with a “metaphor.” and after a bit he was like, “The music makes me think of an ice cream truck! Cause it’s like a kiddie tune on a piano.” WOW, I was really getting irritated. Afterwards, my friend wanted to show him Fighters, since we’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like Lupe Fiasco. Apparently he got bored 30 seconds into the song.

We just gave up on him. We tried to help assist him in opening his mind to hip hop but nope, he still stereotypes it as guys talking about getting girls at a club and whatnot.

And this is why my future boyfriend will HAVE to have an open mind to music. Good taste in it is just a major plus in my book.

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