it's really funny to look back and read about the Moral Outrage to hip hop music and how white people reacted and thought it was so evil cause i feel like for most people their mind jumps to gangster rap when they think of that

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 in danger

The extremely fun thing is this is cyclical to a ridiculous degree

Before hip hop it was rock what corrupted our kids, them devils the Beatles and that demon Elvis

Before that it was jazz which DARED to replace classical music in big concert halls, oh how far has the west fallen

Before then it was *checks notes* the phonograph. Sousa of absolutely-exhausting-parade-march fame lamented,

There was a time when the pine woods of the north were sacred to summer simplicity, when around the camp fire at night the stories were told and the songs were sung with a charm all their own. But even now the invasion of the north has begun, and the ingenious purveyor of canned music is urging the sportsman, on his way to the silent places with gun and rod, tent and canoe, to take with him some disks, cranks, and cogs to sing to him as he sits by the firelight, a thought as unhappy and incongruous as canned salmon by a trout brook.

Per this article:

Sousa was concerned that recording would cause “social decline,” he writes, as people stopped making music together.

I come at this with a strange perspective.

I used to one of those "anything but hip-hop and country" furries, because hip-hop was adored by... fashy middle-class white kids pretending to be all tough and gangsta. But I didn't know that's what specifically what they were at the time, nor where it came from.

Then I go back, over a decade later, listen to the lyrics, and most of it was...

"Yo I was poor as shit, Kraft Dinner for Christmas, dealin' paid the bills, cops lockin' us up for blunts while we tryin' to live, now I rap"

Which I would've fucking to see expressed in the open even then, if it weren't garbled through assholes and sensory processing difficulties that make parsing lyrics nearto impossible unless I'm actively trying.

I wonder if that's getting hit with the moral outrage secondhand. o.o

To spin this positive, if you are looking for some super interesting hip-hop:

• Milo — Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!: for when you want lines like 'jejune as Dirk Diggler', samples from The Rite of Spring, or references to Godspeed You! Black Emperor. (NB: the album is well worth it, but I absolutely cannot afford it on bandcamp, so I will have to admit to listening to it on Spootles ;.;) Pick: Take Advantage of the Naysayer
• clipping. — Splendor & Misery: for when you want a sci-fi concept album that was absolutely an inspiration for @post-self. Pick: A Better Place
• Nostrum Grocers — Nostrum Grocers: Milo and Elucid! '98 geweher is so good it might be my sole reason for recommending the album. Pick: '98 geweher, natch
• Sylvan LaCue — Apologies in Advance: amazing album couched in a support group meeting. Cannot find this on bandcamp, alas, so Spootles it is ;.; Pick: Coffee Break
• Aesop Rock — The Impossible Kid: I will be honest and say that I am still trying to internalize this, not least of which because Aesop Rock is...a lot. Catfriend says: "the lyrics demand focus". Pick: Supercell. Bonus song: All the Smartest People, because come on...Blockhead? Heck yeah.
• Hail Mary Mallon — Bestiary: more Aesop Rock! Still taking some work. But come on, Dollywood is so good. Pick: Dollywood, natch.