Weekly Top 10 Rap Songs
Sunday April 16, 2006
Happy Easter to everyone!
This week, Rhymefest hangs on to the #1 position, while Diddy's new signee, Yung Joc, makes a hot shot debut. Check out the entire Top 10 Rap songs to find out who's running things around the chart this week.
This week, Rhymefest hangs on to the #1 position, while Diddy's new signee, Yung Joc, makes a hot shot debut. Check out the entire Top 10 Rap songs to find out who's running things around the chart this week.
Comments
I am a female African-American whose UC Davis degree is in African and African-American Study. I am sending emails like this to anyone in the Rap/Hip Hop industry that I can find on my computer. Every time I hear the “double standard” statement in the mass media now about your music, I want to shout out, “Learn a little of my people’s history in America”!!! “Rap” is a product of our being in the fields as slave passing time and scearing the “hell” out of our over seer who had no idea what we were talking about in our own “Black speak.” Rap is a (little known)major part of our African-American culture that has ‘backed fired’ in modern times due to the love of it by the White children who try too hard to do as Don Imus did; they try acting Black. This is a “Black thing” that non Blacks will never understand as being Black is not a social level, but a life long experince to be proud of, not a “Double Standard”!
Dear Irma,
I am a “white child” and i do not appreciate you criticizing us for listening to music. Since you evidentally went to college i would think you would know by now you cannot act a color. i think it is ridiculous that you are connecting rap to language used by slaves. Im sure slaves werent worried about telling someone to “slob on their knob” or calling women “bitches!” I would think instead of trying to protect your fellow africans you would be protecting women. Many of these songs are degrading women and the rest are about drugs. I just dont see why everything has to be brought back to race. If people like you would let it go the world would be a much more accepting place.
Irma, music is an escape from politics.
Irma, i am as you call it a “white child” and i agree 100% with Allyson. Whites shouldent be criticized because they lisen to “blacks music”. i listen to 2pac, biggie, nas, jadakiss, older jay-z, TI, DMX, Fabolous ect. And hell, i probally kno more about them than you do, try me. And i have great respect for what they do.You make it sound like blacks are a different species when you say “act black”. PLEASE explain to me what “acting black” is, last time i checked we were all human .And i dont try to “act black” i just dress in clothes that make me feel comfortable. i dont get how blacks think they own baggy clothes like Rocawear, Kani, Ecko ect. And im not even gonna get into jumpman. So can you please explain to me in your own words why/what: acting black is, why they think they OWN baggy clothes, why should a white man be criticized for listeng to this socalled “black music”, why the hell are you calling me a “white child”, and why the hell would black slaves be talking about hoes, how much money they have, and how they are all getting mad at there own race calling eachother the n word (but a white man would be killed for saying this)
Why are you calling me a white child? im a 26 year old full grown man, not a child, how many children would be looking at this webpage anyway? And you were born in america, your american, im part spanish, indian, and polish. but i dont go around calling myself a Spanish-Indian-Polish-American. i was born in america and im proud of it. And i dont appreciate being criticized because of the music i listen too. or beind called a “white child”. damn
These guys are right, you need to go back to school and brush up on your culture class. Just because a “white child” listens to rap doesn’t make them a wannabe. Who would want to act that way? Calling women bitches and hoes and shooting each other for no good reason. If people like you weren’t on this planet everyone would be better off. Those two said it the best. You are very unitelligent.
it’s all about WEEZY BITCH!
Irma,
Thank you for setting us back 200 years.
Music is universal and it belongs to everyone.
It’s this kind of ignorance that promotes racism. Society has progressed, but obviously you have not.
I’m 41 and listen to all types of music.
Honey, I was listening to Rap before you were even born. “It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder”.
Irma, darlin’, rap is NOT directly derived from slaves in the field. That would be spirituals, blues, jazz, and gospel. Rap/hip hop didn’t come until muuuuuuuccchhhh later. It has nothing to do with our roots.