Spotted by ★ Star ★: A great article on the BBC news website about Rizzle Kicks views on hip-hop music today.
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"I can't listen to hip-hop at the moment," says Jordan Stephens. "I really struggle." "The stuff I'm hearing in the mainstream... it's overly-misogynistic and it's still homophobic," he says. "It does my head in.".
Rapper's Delight, the first rap song to make the US top 40, featured a bizarre put-down of Superman: "He's a fairy I do suppose / Flying through the air in panyhose". But, as recently as last month, Eminem's Rap God won five star reviews despite lyrics like: "You fags are all the same". "But when it's vicious, I don't understand why you'd bother. Think of somethign more inventive to say. It's a culteral thing that needs to piss off, basically.".
The article goes on to discuss the attitude towards women:
"I think it's even worse for women. I had an ex-girlfriend who was seriously up on her hip-hop and I played her this song Clique with Jay-Z, Kayne and Big Sean. The first lyric is 'I tell a bad bitch do whatever I say'. And she just turned around and said, 'what's that?'". "I don't think we know any women - smart women, who you'd want to be friends with, that would proclaim themselves as a bad bitch," he adds. "If anything, the only women I've seen saying 'bad bitch' seem pretty insecure."
"I don't want a bad bitch," spits Stephens over a thundering drum loop. "I want a chick that would slap up a guy if he calls her a bad bitch." His anger feeds into the song This Means War, which opens the band's second album, Roaring 20s.
"We wanted to use our platform to mention some social observations." he says.
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