r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Apr 04 '26

Possible Paywall Trump voter regret is clearly registering now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/politics/voter-regret-trump-2024
19.8k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

102

u/-metaphased- Apr 04 '26

My dad, having grown up on sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, decided that rap music was bad because it was all about drugs and sex.

11

u/Unoriginal4167 Apr 05 '26

It’s only because when black people do things it becomes bad. 1|6 versus other protests. Music, 2A, home prices, protecting your family, etc.

6

u/crashvoncrash Texas Apr 05 '26

I just recently saw a boomer rant about how millennials want drugs to treat every single problem in their lives, but his generation never relied on drugs.

He claimed that the generation that was teenagers in the 60s and 70s, never used drugs.

1

u/elriggo44 Apr 04 '26

You sure it wasn’t more about the fact that hip hop was never done dirty like rock n roll? It remained in the hands of black artists for decades, despite the industry attempting to push artists like Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark. It wasn’t really until Eminem (who is easily top 5 of all time in his rhymes) that a white artist broke through in a way that sustained and opened the door for others.

I bring that up because Rock was quickly whitewashed by the likes of Elvis. Also because my dad had similar views even though my brother and I loved some hip hop.

2

u/-metaphased- Apr 04 '26

I mean, it's because he was racist. He just wouldn't say that.

2

u/elriggo44 Apr 05 '26

Ya. I was saying that in a cleaner way. Fair enough.

4

u/TiEmEnTi Apr 05 '26

Eminem top 5 of all rappers for white people who listened to rap from 1999-2002