[YouTube] Lotus Eaters Daily asks Is Rap Dying Because of USAID?
27 minutes. He opens with a stadium rap concert scheduled in Louisville for late October. A 47,000 seat stadium, several big rap names on the playbill, cheapest seat over $100 — only 160 tickets have been pre-sold. Joe Rogan asked whether this is due to the USAID shut down.
But Mr. Wife, who knows a bit about the business, informs me that rap has been on a steep downward decline for six or seven years. Each generation wants something different than their elders, and the kids prefer rock — a point he gets to later.
Then, at minute 17, talking about rap as a degenerate cultural form designed to control the Black population, he throws out the Israeli president of Island Def Jam records, who created gangsta rap, one Lyor Cohen, “…which is absolutely hilarious,” he says, “because his name is literally liar.” He is wrong, as it happens: Lyor means my light in Hebrew. Mr. Cohen also is not Israeli. His parents were, but they emigrated to America four years before Mr. Cohen was born. |