The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 19, 2024

Couldn’t have said it better myself, Huey.

But Huey – he’s not a musician; he a rapper. Not the same thing at all.

Rap (like punk and grunge) is predicated on the philosophy “How dare you try to deprive of my inherent right to be a rock star just because I can neither write, play, or sing?!?!?”

I was going to lament the death and destruction of the daily newspaper, but cozmik’s comment has put me in mind of the things people said about the early Black Jazz musicians not playing “real music”.

I guess the whole history of music in the US is: when Black people do something musically, people in the US reflexively hate it for the first few decades of its existence until their children and grand-children come to accept it as its own form of music and it evolves into its own art form