For example- putting gangsta-rap music on the screen completely takes it out of its historical and social context. In this context, the art was created as an expression of resistance to the feeling of domination in urban life. When white suburban kids see the videos, they have no understanding of the actual situational context- the videos are just images on the screen like all the others images on the screen that they see everyday. This takes away the "reality" of the historical context, and replaces it with hyperreality. By removing the context, MTV removes all resistant meaning. Pop music becomes a place of one-dimensionality. In the world of hyperreality, the lines between dominance and resistance, between high and low are collapsing. There is finally no distinction. There is a unification of opposition. Pop music becomes reified.
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it became popular and the mainstream was able to make money from it, eventually leadinG to exploitation of sorts...now it's a cycle, a hyperreality was created and eaten up, and for most part GanGster Rap perpetuates hyperreality and various social conditions that do not help urban, marginalized Groups advance as a community