what do you find offensive? Options

[Note]

Just wondering.
[jerry]

[misoshiru]

^hahah but you dont seem like the kind of person who uses the word "like" as basically every other word of the sentence like some people i know.
our english teacher actually lectured our class about it, because for our oral commentaries, people were using the word "like" and "uhm" too many times.

okay, back to topic, brandon, could you please explain what you mean by

general population's attitude towards hiphop

[fameONE]

back to topic, brandon, could you please explain what you mean by

Why certainly!

I've tried my best to explain the difference between rap and hiphop on createblog, but my efforts go unnoticed. Rap being the garbage you hear on the radio and hiphop being the poetic artform that is greatly unappreciated. If you were to play D4L's Shake that Laffy Taffy (which is garbage) against Mos Def's Love, this distinction would be clear as a sunny sky.

Regarding my comment, its as if hiphop is this lesser form of music confined strictly to black people; and by that, I'm referring to the white (no offense) majority of America turning their noses up to the entire culture.

I love jazz music... with an icnredible passion. However, if someone white, over the age of 25, asks me what I mainly listen to, I say jazz quicly followed by hiphop and classic soul. When I say jazz, this look of pleasant surprise always comes across their faces, but when I mention hiphop in the same breath, I get the feeling that they're thinking, "Figures."

Hiphop needs to be shown in a better light and it needs to be respected. The popularity of all these bullshit rap artists on the radio can be accredited to their image and how the youth, regardless of race, somehow would like to emulate it. If Common were the platinum artist that the Ying Yang Twinz are, people outside the social sphere and influence of hiphop would be more willing to give the culture more credit.

The general population's attitude toward hiphop offends me.