Posts Tagged ‘“Rap is Crap”’

Tim Slagle

In Closing: My Response to Ben’s Response to My Response to Ben’s ‘Rap is Crap’

by Tim Slagle

My friend Jane’s church has two services every week. The Sunday service is called the Seeker Service. It’s light, and the focus is on music and the positive aspects of religion. Sometimes they even have an entertaining play as part of the service. The Wednesday service is when the fundamentalist gospel happens; the hardcore stuff that might chase away new converts still questioning their faith. The concept has been hugely successful and these churches boast millions of members nationwide.

I look at Big Hollywood as a Seeker site. We are here to attract people questioning their politics, and welcome them into the philosophy we call Conservatism. We want to be a political home for those strays: people who are uncomfortable with all the flags and Greek columns that the Left has recently embraced. We want to support the new stars of Hollywood, those who have suddenly found themselves in a tax bracket they never thought they could reach, and are suddenly questioning the injustice of a progressive tax code. We want to comfort those who have grown tired of being called a racist for simply questioning the wisdom of putting a community organizer into the most powerful office on earth. (more…)

Ben Shapiro

Response To Tim Slagle’s Response To ‘Rap is Crap’

by Ben Shapiro

At the risk of entering an infinite regress here, I feel it necessary to respond to Tim Slagle’s response to my “Rap is Crap” post.

Let me start by stating that I don’t hate all rap.  This is quality:


 

But seriously, as much as I admire Tim, rap is total garbage.  I’m a member of the younger generation – I just turned 25 – and I still think it sucks.

That’s an artistic critique.  That’s my personal opinion.  But what’s unchallengeable is that the rap culture, which is granted enormous deference by the higher-ups of both political parties, does tremendous harm to this country.   (more…)