Run-Dmc star Darryl Mcdaniels has launched a scathing attack on modern hip-hop music, accusing today's rappers of popularising gun and drug culture.
The hip-hop pioneer is convinced too many current chart stars focus on negative themes in their music, without making any tracks with a positive message, and justify it by comparing their work to Hollywood movies.
He tells Britain's Metro newspaper, "A rapper will use this excuse - 'Man they don't go after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis when they make their violent movies' and I go 'If you're going to use that excuse get off the mic, don't produce'. I'll...
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The hip-hop pioneer is convinced too many current chart stars focus on negative themes in their music, without making any tracks with a positive message, and justify it by comparing their work to Hollywood movies.
He tells Britain's Metro newspaper, "A rapper will use this excuse - 'Man they don't go after Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis when they make their violent movies' and I go 'If you're going to use that excuse get off the mic, don't produce'. I'll...
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