![]() ![]() ![]() Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License additional terms may apply. Was it a watershed moment? I think Walk This Way in combination with MTV starting to play rap videos did more than The Chronic, but that could be age basis.Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile. That said people I knew that had no interest in rap were all the sudden all about Dre and Snoop after the Chronic. So I was already big into rap by the time The Chronic came along. For me I grew up in the 80's loving punk and thrash, but it was Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet that got me fully into rap (Fight the Power is such a strong song and statement). I use the excuse they are a product of their time, but does that make me a hypocrite (I say yes)? Like I said above at times I do find it hard to listen to, and I have to completely ignore the lyrics.Īlso about what got 'white people' into rap, The Chronic was very important for making rap mainstream. That said I do own The Chronic on vinyl, and it has been on my phone since Apple released it on Apple Music (to be honest I still have NWA and Geto Boys on my phone and they are by far worst). Artist and listeners both need to be responsible for the message of the music. Times have changed, and I think for the better. Still I take blame myself, because when the albums came out I ignored that myself. I do find it hard to listen to sometimes, given how homophobic and misogynistic the lyrics are (this is true for several groups I loved like NWA the underrated Geto Boys). I am 47, and this album was big in my life during the early 90's (honestly Ice Cube's Death Certificate was more important to me due to the storytelling). ![]()
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