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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glad to see you have your finger on the pulse of the youth demographic. [/quote]

Yes, I'm sure you have a compelling counter-theory of why all the teens in my neighborhood have Lil Wayne hairdos, pants falling off their asses, and hoodies and ski masks. Nothing to do with popular culture. Such a coincidence that they've established all of the exact same cultural tropes independently of that gangster shit.

If you don't want to be mistaken for a criminal, start by not dressing like a criminal.[/quote]

Lil Wayne hairdos?  Seriously do you think he invented braids?

Popular culture <>criminal culture.
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Ah, yes I remember all the medium length Bo Derek hairdos and flat-lidded baseball caps all the youths were wearing in the 70s and 80s.

You can pretend the influences are not what they are all day long. But at the end of the day, listening to music that glorifies violence, and dressing in the exact same manner as the thugs depicted in violent popular culture is going to have repercussions.

[b]When you carefully tailor your outfit to look like a criminal[/b], there's a non-trivial chance you may be mistaken for a criminal. And it has absolutely nothing to do with racism and everything to do with making poor choices.

If there are numbers of people in your neighborhood dressing like the Guy Fawks character from "V for Vendetta" and you decide, "Hey I really like that movie, I'm going to dress up just like him and all these terrorists because they're cool" you're goingto catch a lot of shit. For good reason. And anyone who doesn't understand that is someone who is trying very hard not to understand it.[/quote]

Is Lil Wayne a criminal?[/quote]

Why yes, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Arrests_and_incarceration]he is a criminal.[/url]

Of course, that's irrelevant. As anyone who's ever taken a Black Studies class knows, violent, misogynist hip hop's cultural value is that it tells the real "story of the street" that dominant culture so often ignores. That's why there's so much ridiculous posturing and waving guns around. Although a lot of hip hop stars are criminals, or have criminal backgrounds, the ones who don't are usually desperate to hide the fact that they *don't* have a violent criminal background. Because that's what sells. It's ludicrous to argue that we're supposed to look at an entire subgenre of American art which derives from the culture of violent street crime and gangs, and pretend that any similarity between the cultural signifiers of the art and the cultural signifiers of the inspiration for the art are purely coincidental.

In case you're wondering what the kids are listening to these days, here's one of the fastest rising DC stars of hip-hop, Fat Trel. He's a local kid made good! If you spend your time running around DC acting like this, there's very little chance that the police would find your behavior suspicious! If they did it would be totally racist!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGMVd4kRacQ[/youtube]
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