Why are Rap Music Listeners So Disrespectful? Turn the Music Down

JasonAnthony on Jun 24, 2008

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Music is good. Rap music is bad. Rap music played at maximum decibel level is torturous. Why can’t rap music listeners listen to their music like normal people?

I love music. Listening to my favorite songs and artists is a huge part of my everyday existence. It picks me up when I’m feeling down, and it makes the best of days even better. I shudder to think how dull and bland life would be without the gift of music and song. However, believe it or not, there are certain instances when music can be a little, how should I say, annoying to say the least.

Granted, music is supposed to be heard, and it’s supposed to be enjoyed by those with healthy functioning ears, but there should be respectful limits that go along with the enjoyment of music; after all, we all have different tastes in music, and what is pleasing to one set of ears might not be so great to another. Especially when there is rap involved!

I’m not a fan of rap music at all. I know that it’s one of the more popular genres of music out there, but I’m just not impressed. But the thing that really bothers me is that, no matter my particular tastes in music, more often than not rap music is intentionally crammed into my ears by people – drivers in particular – who seem to think that rap music is the greatest invention known to man and should be “enjoyed” by all people in the immediate vicinity of the person playing rap music.

I do a lot of driving. So, as would be expected, I spend a lot of time sitting at red lights. And, more often than not, when the weather isn’t too terribly hot, I have my windows rolled down so that I can enjoy a little fresh air – at least as fresh as possible in Los Angeles – and take in more of the sights and sounds of the surrounding areas. But the problem seems to be that more and more, as I find myself idling at a stoplight with my windows down, my fresh air seems to be accentuated with a healthy dose of rap music played at maximum decibel level from nearby cars!

This seems to be happening more and more. I mean, what the heck? I’m all for people enjoying their music; if you like rap, more power to you. But why does it always seem to be that rap music is played by people who just don’t have any respect for the eardrums of fellow motorists? Does rap music have some sort of subliminal programming that takes over a listener’s brain and makes that person totally clueless to the fact that they aren’t the only occupants of this world? I mean, I just don’t get it!

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Lisa on Jun 25, 2008
I’m with you on this 100%. I work at a company dealing with emails from kids aged 14+ and 97% of the time they write in using Ebonics. Makes me wonder what they’re learning in school – 50 Cent 101?
Crap, I mean Rap on Jun 26, 2008
I totally agree with you.
fm-wkgn-il. on Jun 26, 2008
Rap is fine if it has it’s own place and that place is just NOT in my ears.
I do not enter establishments where it’s played. Somehow it’s forced on me when & where I do not want it, usually in the public domain.

Towns are enforcing the 3 strike rule to cars with amplified music. So far almost a dozen cars have been impounded in my town & they do NOT get their vehicle back, it’s sent to the scrap yard & destroyed.

Personally if these idiots can not keep it to themselves when they are in public then it should be totally banned. This is rather extreme but these “people” are bringing it onto themselves.

When I have to call the cops to have the noise ordnance enforced, my point is, “I do not want to hear your noise as much as you do not want your car impounded”.

Have a calm & quiet day.
We're sick of it too!!! on Jun 27, 2008
It’s all about money. Rappers are sell-outs for million dollar contracts. The record companies pay them to glorify drugs, violence, death and misogyny. The young, the un-enlightened and the uneducated buy into the stereotype of what’s hip or what’s cool. It is a hellish fad. What makes it even more insidious is that many rappers are not from the ghetto that they sing about.

If concerned citizens wish to end rap, they must boycott and protest all of the corporations that use rappers as spokesmen, and the media labels who write the rappers contracts.

It was hypocritical to go after Imus when his exact words are spoken daily in rap videos, movies and radio stations.

Many people of all ages and races are sick of rappers, their music, clothing and culture.
f.lamothe on Mar 20, 2009
music people love rap is for persons under drugs retards or nothing
for them in life .you live with rap you got no feelings
The One and Only on Mar 30, 2009
I’m right with you there brother!!!!! Rap music is all about money, butt sex, and most of all…WEED!!!!! I F#@king love you so much!!! You are truly someone who is respectful and enjoys the right kind of music.
Jazz Man on May 20, 2009
I agree with this article. I\’m Black and I can\’t stand Rap. However, I do agree that it has it\’s own place. That means it should be enjoyed by those who like it, but not when it SO LOUD that it rapes my ears.
What I do now is give the rappers a taste of their own medicine. I simply drive around BLASTING Jazz music at a full high volume. Then the young G\’s look at me like \”what the hell is that?\”
misplacedperson on Jun 6, 2010
Errr ….. headphones, anyone? I’m sure they’re still available.

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