9-year-old white girl rapping in Mexican restaurant full of black folks

My kids are around that age and they get to hear plenty of music from me and my wife that they probably shouldn't. We have to give lots of reminders that just because some words are used in expressive art, doesn't mean they should be used in conversations. But teaching your 9-year-old the complete lyrics to "Chicken Head" is pushing it a little bit far for my taste, lol.
 
rodoheel said:
My kids are around that age and they get to hear plenty of music from me and my wife that they probably shouldn't. We have to give lots of reminders that just because some words are used in expressive art, doesn't mean they should be used in conversations. But teaching your 9-year-old the complete lyrics to "Chicken Head" is pushing it a little bit far for my taste, lol.
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My kids are 10 and 8, and they are both obsessed with Eminem. They know— and can rap— the lyrics to a number of his songs, almost none of which are age-appropriate. Funny thing is, I was never a fan, so they didn’t get into his music from me (or their mom).

It’s funny to think of the early rap music I was listening to back in the mid-80s. I was playing UTFO’s self-titled debut, which had the back-and-forth rap battle consisting of “Roxanne, Roxanne,” “The Real Roxanne,” and “Calling Her a Crab.” As I played the “The Real Roxanne,” there was a line that went: “Now Educated Rapper, I’ma give you a fit; ‘Cause when you tried to talk to me, you was full of shit.”

My parents’ jaws dropped when they heard that line and they became disturbed that I was listening to a song that had the s-word in it. They didn’t have a problem with me watching movies with that language, but for some reason it bothered them that I was listening to music with that language. Of course just a few short years later, the language would get much worse in the rap music I was listening to.
 
Icky Mettle said:
My kids are 10 and 8, and they are both obsessed with Eminem. They know— and can rap— the lyrics to a number of his songs, almost none of which are age-appropriate. Funny thing is, I was never a fan, so they didn’t get into his music from me (or their mom).

It’s funny to think of the early rap music I was listening to back in the mid-80s. I was playing UTFO’s self-titled debut, which had the back-and-forth rap battle consisting of “Roxanne, Roxanne,” “The Real Roxanne,” and “Calling Her a Crab.” As I played the “The Real Roxanne,” there was a line that went: “Now Educated Rapper, I’ma give you a fit; ‘Cause when you tried to talk to me, you was full of shit.”

My parents’ jaws dropped when they heard that line and they became disturbed that I was listening to a song that had the s-word in it. They didn’t have a problem with me watching movies with that language, but for some reason it bothered them that I was listening to music with that language. Of course just a few short years later, the language would get much worse in the rap music I was listening to.
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The Roxanne Wars were awesome. I love rap from the 1980s through 2000s. After 2009 it just fell off for me.
 
Carolina Fever said:
The Roxanne Wars were awesome. I love rap from the 1980s through 2000s. After 2009 it just fell off for me.
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I still listen to current hip hop, but it closely resembles hip hop from the mid-late 90s to early 2000s - for example: Griselda and RTJ, along with current projects from the artists of the 90s/2000s that I like.
 
Carolina Fever said:
The Roxanne Wars were awesome. I love rap from the 1980s through 2000s. After 2009 it just fell off for me.
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When I hear the rap music of today, I feel like my parents must have felt when they heard me listening to the early rap music of ~40 years ago. And I’m someone who otherwise listens to a lot of current music.
 
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