it's really funny to look back and read the like. intense moral outrage about hip hop and how evil it is cause i feel like for most people their mind jumps to gangster rap
but that came much later historically
you go back and listen to the stuff they were really mad at originally and it's a couple of music nerds going "be bop bow, dance, everybody move, i'm the biggest guy in the room" and every white person for 12 miles around immediately thought they were gonna die
@multiocular someone on cohost pointed out the original lyrics to the extended version of rapper's delight which i had not seen before
that's the funniest shit i ever heard. the song has an extended bit about a guy having a bad time at a dinner party???
@junebug @multiocular rapper's delight is so funny. there's a whole verse about trying to have sex with Lois Lane by saying his dick is bigger than Superman's
@BestGirlGrace @junebug @multiocular I love telling people about the fucking superman cuckoldry verse like 9 minutes into that song it's so funny
@multiocular @junebug my grandfather still thinks the beatles ruined masculinity, those fucking faggots with their long hair and effeminate twist dancing
@multiocular yep
but there's something so indescribably funny to me about the idea of someone getting really really worried about the CORRUPTING INFLUENCE of like, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_shxzlTRK44