Well It Is In The News Now

[-Talbot-]

Are you going to ban the news?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4881670/Rapper-sparks-outrage-video-showing-LYNCH-boy.html

[mikey4444]

This is just pop music....it will all be forgotten about by this time tomorrow.

[jackthehat]

Lordy! Misguided at best, inflammatory at worst.

Any points he claims to be making could certainly have been addressed in a less provocative manner.

[naomi24]

Mikey at 08:11, how easily you shrug this off. Had the child in question been black would you have done likewise? I doubt it very much. This is sickening.

[ummmm]

Mikey clearly doesn't understand music. It won't be forgotten about tomorrow!

[murraymints]

there are so many such videos especially of the Gangsta rap genre....can't police them all... it's the age we live in !

[fiction-factory]

I'm not sure whether there is a question here but yes, it's in the news now and he is probably benefitting from the publicity. The video is shocking but themes of violence, extolling drugs and guns, foul language and racism seem to common in this type of music now and it thrives as a result via the internet.
I'm not sure what is meant by "Are you going to ban the news? "

[mikey4444]

This is only really of interest to those that take pop music seriously. Of course the video is to be deplored but its hardly the first time that "rap" music has given offence is it ?

There will be something else to be excited about tomorrow.

[naomi24]

//This is only really of interest to those that take pop music seriously.//

???

[-Talbot-]

factory
I'm not sure whether there is a question here


There was a question in the original now deleted thread (in society & culture) nothing wrong with that thread at all but as ever there will be no explanation for its deletion.

[fiction-factory]

Okay, thanks Talbot. I have ony just come on and hadn't seen an earlier thread so can't comment

[-Talbot-]

Some strange replies ... this is a video of a child being hanged.

[fiction-factory]

Yes it's shocking.
As there isn't a question i'm not sure what sort of replies you want.

[-Talbot-]

I originally put it in S&C so it could just be discussed without the
'What's the question'

There is lots to be discussed imo.
Do you understand the message?
Is this just race baiting?
What was going on in the minds of the parents letting their child take part in this sick offering?
Would there be more concern if a white rapper lynched a black child?
Why haven't youtube required age verification for the video?


Why did the mod delete the original thread?

[murraymints]

Talbot..if live executions and similar attrocities get to youtube I doubt they will be conerned over the content..graphic as it is...of a music video...

[-Talbot-]

Youtube are deleting videos with impunity and asking for age verification on many videos that appear to be very tame in comparison to this.

7 million views already and 477 thousand likes.

[ToraToraTora]

Savage!

[kvalidir]

The context of this is perfectly fine since it's an anti prejudice video if any of you actually bothered watching it or listening to it. It's art for goodness sake, no-one is trying to spark a race war he's actually stressing how important it is that we halt all the hatred, and goes to great pains to demonstrate that. Artists have always opted to shock with imagery this is no different, but it;s sickening that it's message should be twisted by rags like The Wail.

[jackthehat]

Talbot - Do you want the content of this thread discussed, or the fact that a thread it seems precious few of us saw was removed earlier?

Many 'artistes' claim that there is a profound and important message in their work, often it seems simply to justify excesses and outrageous content.

I have no idea if that is the case here. Perhaps the white boys parents were swayed by such justification......who knows?

It seems ill-conceived and unappealling and I shan't be watching the entire thing to find out whether I am correct, or not.

[Spicerack]

/// Why did the mod delete the original thread?///

Mmm, strokes chin.
Did you add àn inflammatory/white supremacist message?

[Sqad]

I have no idea what is happening to the world and we seem to be living on a different planet to the one that I knew and was brought up in.
Music was either Classical or Pop, humans were either male or female, rich and poor, football was for the working class on Saturday afternoon.........stop the world, I want to get off.