did that new c-bo album drop?
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I know he's been making that kind of music for the last 10 years.
The problem is that he is not making good music of that kind. I personally listen to a lot of southern rap and I have no problem with the style itself; the execution is what's the problem here.
Also, I don't know what he likes, if he wants to do that kind of music, he absolutely has the right to do it (just as people have the right to not like it), but it should be remembered that you can still make harder-sounding music without it being southern. This is often forgotten because over the last 10-15 years the South has almost monopolized the market for that kind of sound, but it need not be that way, and ironically C-Bo himself and the whole AWOL Records catalogue from the 90s is one of the best examples of the alternative.
The problem is that he is not making good music of that kind. I personally listen to a lot of southern rap and I have no problem with the style itself; the execution is what's the problem here.
Also, I don't know what he likes, if he wants to do that kind of music, he absolutely has the right to do it (just as people have the right to not like it), but it should be remembered that you can still make harder-sounding music without it being southern. This is often forgotten because over the last 10-15 years the South has almost monopolized the market for that kind of sound, but it need not be that way, and ironically C-Bo himself and the whole AWOL Records catalogue from the 90s is one of the best examples of the alternative.
That's because characters like Sheldon Cooper are your model for what scientists are and it's not really like that (and I have to admit I've never watched the show I've only read about it). Yes, the love for hip-hop, especially in its more gangsta forms, is rare, but science has diversified a lot over the last 50 years and it's not just WASP and Jewish kids whose whole life revolved between piano and math lessons that go into it; it has never been only them, in fact, a lot of Nobel laureates have come from rural backgrounds or from what was at the time "the streets" in big cities in the US. Also, I am from Eastern Europe, and I grew up in a time in which there was no segregation of neighborhoods according to social status. Now it has started to develop but at the time you had all sorts of kids in the same classroom - from juvenile delinquents who are now in jail (the social fabric of the communist state was quickly desintegrating at the time), to kids that were into breakdancing, basketball, etc. to the stereotypical kids that were studying hard and doing nothing else. And I didn't belong to the latter group, BTW, I've never studied very hard, I just somehow manage to pick up knowledge by reading and hearing things, but the point is I picked up a passion for hip-hop in the early and mid-90s and I haven't lost it even though I am in the scientific research world now so I am not supposed to be listening to that kind of music according to the social stereotype (and cursiously, the people I have picked it up from have long lost theirs).
P.S. Regarding Sheldon Cooper. Another very common stereotype is that of the child prodigy who amazes everyone with his ability, gets bachelor and doctoral degress in his early and mid teens and then goes on to become a great scientist. Everything in that sequence does indeed happen in real life, except for the last part which is very very rare - there are a few examples of such prodigies who made a lasting mark in the history of science but they are probably in the single digits, the majority crash and burn and never achieve anything of substance. Just something to be aware of and sorry for the off-topic, this isn't the Gathering of Minds forum, but I had to clarify these things.
P.S. Regarding Sheldon Cooper. Another very common stereotype is that of the child prodigy who amazes everyone with his ability, gets bachelor and doctoral degress in his early and mid teens and then goes on to become a great scientist. Everything in that sequence does indeed happen in real life, except for the last part which is very very rare - there are a few examples of such prodigies who made a lasting mark in the history of science but they are probably in the single digits, the majority crash and burn and never achieve anything of substance. Just something to be aware of and sorry for the off-topic, this isn't the Gathering of Minds forum, but I had to clarify these things.
