Geraldo Rivera: Hip-Hop Is 'Very Destructive Culturally'

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"Hip-hop has done more damage to black and brown people than racism in the last 10 years," talk show host tells HuffPost Live

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/geraldo-rivera-hip-hop-is-very-destructive-culturally-20150218

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you are over the age of 25 and still listening to Rap. You need to re-evaluate your life.

[JoeTait75]

Not as much damage as Al Capone's Vaults did to his career, tbh.

[Spurminator]

I've never said it before, but if you're under the age of 80 and still listening to Geraldo Rivera, you should do the same.

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao Gerry Rivers

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I've never said it before, but if you're under the age of 80 and still listening to Geraldo Rivera, you should do the same.
He just finished Celebrity Apprentice runner up. More respectful than anything a rapper has ever accomplished

[DJR210]

This is a very interesting observation...only thing is, Geraldo Rivera is nobody and a huge faggot.

[Spurminator]

He just finished Celebrity Apprentice runner up. More respectful than anything a rapper has ever accomplished

DMX won season 3.

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DMX won season 3.
True

[Avante]

The thing about Rap is how it takes so little talent. And, it zeros in on the stupid.

[Jacob1983]

Rap music right now is softer than Greg Oden's knees.

[Spur-Addict]

DMX won season 3.

:lol

[InRareForm]

i dont give a fuck, i will listen to hip hop* until I am 80.

*good hip hop, not radio shit.

[313]

The thing about Rap is how it takes so little talent. :lmao

[Clipper Nation]

The thing about spamming almanac lists on a message board is how it takes so little talent. And, it zeros in on the stupid.
FIFY

[jjktkk]

I hate rap, but people in the 50s were saying the same thing about rock n roll, as well as people in the 70s and 80s complaining about heavy metal, etc...

[Spur|n|Austin]

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--wRE-13mj--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/18z5w90ban1q3jpg.jpg

:lol

[SupremeGuy]

He's probably right, but everyone is just going to attack him instead of discuss his point. His point isn't anything new, tbh. People(white and black) have been saying it for a while now.

[Rip-Hamilton32]

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[313]

He's probably right, but everyone is just going to attack him instead of discuss his point. His point isn't anything new, tbh. People(white and black) have been saying it for a while now.

Rap is about as detrimental to the black community as shooter video games/movies

[SupremeGuy]

Rap is about as detrimental to the black community as shooter video games/moviesI don't know man, the urban youth seems extra impressionable since they don't typically have a parent around to teach them any different. They grow up idolizing gangster lifestyle and it leads them on very dark path to start their lives.

[2pac > Kobe]

i dont give a fuck, i will listen to hip hop* until I am 80.

*good hip hop, not radio shit.
you ready for pt3 bra

[313]

I don't know man, the urban youth seems extra impressionable since they don't typically have a parent around to teach them any different. They grow up idolizing gangster lifestyle and it leads them on very dark path to start their lives.

If you have a 12 y/o kid growing up in the ghetto, being raised by a single mother, who's only father figures are the drug dealers on the block, I think hip hop is the least of his problems.

I guess you could argue rap has shone black culture in a bad light to white America, but there are tons of positive rappers that just don't get pushed by the industry.

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Because you know everything on the radio is just so meaningful and great for the youth like my 5 year old neice who sings Katy perrys song all the time. I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock, cock
Your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock
I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock, cock
Your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock
Never before heard this song. Evidently from 2010

[Jacob1983]

I hate the term hip hop. Just call it rap.

[z0sa]

Mainstream rap and hip hop, by and large, is not only shitty novelty-class work from a musical standpoint, it is extraordinarily immoral and unethical. And, in my opinion, generally reeks of insecurity (talking about your money which 99.9 percent of your fans cant even truly imagine, fucking 2 women a night, etc is all fine and dandy but it is honestly counter intuitive in most cases in the real world).

I think the real problem is minority groups have fairly little to attach themselves to in rock or even traditional r and b and jazz nowadays, so they follow the crowd because thats just what young impressionable youths do.

It invariably sports a funky bassline everyone can get down to, so there's that.