They are teenagers and college kids, for the most part, for goodness sakes. I have stopped count on the times that teenagers, from all cultures, have done things that got on my nerves. I laugh, shake my head and keep it moving. Further, you are showing your age a bit. Kids don't blast their music in their cars as much anymore. They are usually plugged into some airpods or wireless headphones. I take it you don't have teenagers or haven't reared teenagers in awhile.
What many people that are late to the party when it comes to rap is that Dr. Dre began his career in an Electro/Hip Hop group called the World Class Wrecking Crew. They were one of the first groups to merge R&B and Rap to an Electro sound. Think "Whodini" except they were singing too. Dr. Dre has like five segments to his career and this is the one that most forget unless you are really into Hip-Hop/R&B. Most people think of his beginnings with N.W.A.
You need to get out more. The music thumping loud is still there blaring out of car windows in warmer weather.
I guess I am more used to it than you. If music is based on a heavy bassline, you think people are going to be playing it low? I know I am getting old too. In my 50's now, but old people, boy. We always have to be complaining about something.
That’s how my son does too, but he has his windows up and isn’t bothering anyone. ....and he has been warned too. Black teenager in a nice car. Police will use noise ordinance to pull you over. Just think the noise issue is not as some make it out to be.
First, you have it wrong. He was warned by me. Not the police. It’s a shame you think so negatively. My son has been driving two years, and knock on wood, hasn’t even had a speeding ticket. If you are so bothered by the bass from a kid’s stereo with the windows up, that’s a “you” problem in my opinion. The reason I tell him to keep the windows because it limits the sound projecting some.
They don’t bother you with the windows rolled up in my experience and usually it just a precursor to get in your car if they think you are doing something else. I practice defense law so I know very well what the authorities are looking for. Guys with windows rolled down with their speakers obnoxiously blaring. Look for rolling stops too. However, for the most part, authorities could care less about a noise ordinance. It’s just a start for further investigation.
That’s why you don’t go in neighborhoods with that. The advice DeeDave gave earlier in the thread was perfect. It’s the same thing I tell my son. I recognize that they have people out there like you that just want to rat out kids for the heck of it. Police stopping you and old people forgetting what it was to be young and ratting out kids are two different issues altogether. Like DeeDave said, I probably listened to my music louder than my son does now. In the 80’s that’s how we grew up. You probably grew up differently and loitered at fast food restaurants and plazas. So, if that bothers me, is it okay for me to call the police on your kids? No, I think we all need to have a little more grace than that. However, some people tend to think their way is the only way.
I guess either we were all bad kids or you didn’t have a lot of friends. Everything AdCoop commented on is perfectly normal for a teenager.
Well, singing and rapping are two different things. Rapping is more like poetry over music. There are rap songs that are observed in some poetry classes. It takes years to develop certain abilities in rapping like multiple syllable rhyming. Anyone can rhyme single syllable words like mad, dad, glad, and sad but it takes talent and ability to rhyme 4 and 5 syllables and still make coherent thought. I at least like knowing that they write their own lyrics. How many musicians are there out there that don't or can't write their own songs? For me, you are not an artist if you aren't the one doing the writing. You are just an entertainer or performer. That's one of the things I loved about Prince. He wrote his own music and wrote a lot of music for others.
They sort of already are. There is already a lot of friction between fans of "hip-hop" and fans of modern rap. I started listening to rap from its beginning. My older cousin had the Rappers Delight album. I remember watching rappers evolve lyrically from mostly single syllable simple rhymers to these complex highly technical and often metaphorical rhymers(doesn't get much more metaphorical and technical than Aesop Rock who has the largest vocabulary of any rapper in history). It peaked and now it as regressed to a simpler form of music again. The popular artists today are very simple and often mumble out their verses.
