Just because it is music by black people does not mean that rap is intrinsically based in gospel. Unless you're prepared to defend a statement like "niggas got so much SOOOOOUL!" I suggest you shut the fuck up.

@sacrelicious You just sound ridiculous. Do you want me to start naming every rap track ever that I can think of that does no hae gospel roots? Because it would not be difficult to start, although impossible to finish. Gospel is not the end-all be-all of Ameican music. Rap is a fudamentally post-modern form of music…

@sacrelicious You just sound ridiculous. Do you want me to start naming every rap track ever that I can think of that does no hae gospel roots? Because it would not be difficult to start, although impossible to finish. Gospel is not the end-all be-all of Ameican music. Rap is a fudamentally post-modern form of music…

That's sort of what I meant. He *could* hav discussed Sex Packets in this article, but he didnt. Egregious oversight? Not really, given everything ese going on in rap at the time.

That's sort of what I meant. He *could* hav discussed Sex Packets in this article, but he didnt. Egregious oversight? Not really, given everything ese going on in rap at the time.

Fucking crybaby. There are loads of albums he could have discussed at length, if he were writing a book. Wha! Wha! What about "Sex Packets"?!!

Fucking crybaby. There are loads of albums he could have discussed at length, if he were writing a book. Wha! Wha! What about "Sex Packets"?!!

It liberally rips off a harmony from "When Doves Cry."

It liberally rips off a harmony from "When Doves Cry."

There is nothing gospelly about much of hip-hop. Some, sure. But this is an egregiously wrong statement.

There is nothing gospelly about much of hip-hop. Some, sure. But this is an egregiously wrong statement.

I thought Vanilla Ice was from Florida?

I thought Vanilla Ice was from Florida?

I've deflowered just one virgin, but it was fucking great. I dated her for several months and basically schooled her in all kinds of perverse shit.

I've deflowered just one virgin, but it was fucking great. I dated her for several months and basically schooled her in all kinds of perverse shit.

Do you realize how much was going on in rap in the period that Rabin is discussing? Public Enemy were undoubtedly a very important group, but he has the right not to discuss them given the immensit of the subject.

Do you realize how much was going on in rap in the period that Rabin is discussing? Public Enemy were undoubtedly a very important group, but he has the right not to discuss them given the immensit of the subject.

Are you also a member of NOI and believe in all tha black nationalist bullshit that he preaches? "Farrakhan's a prophet," etc.

Are you also a member of NOI and believe in all tha black nationalist bullshit that he preaches? "Farrakhan's a prophet," etc.

Apocalypse '91 is a bloated piece of shit, if we're being honest.