I have a son that blasts this crap all day long. I dont want to infringe on his music listening and remeber my parents leaving me alone as I blasted my music, but this is making me insane. I really cant stand it. Eminem and Fifty Cent do not deserve to be famous. Why couldn’t he dig,,U2 or the Stones.
—Ear-plugged momma say whaaat?
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.
Hah, hahaha, ha.
Ahhhh….HAHAHAHA
why can’t he dig bono? Why can’t he dig Bono… why…
I don’t feel so good.
I’d take 50 Cent over U2 any day. Buy your kid some high quality earphones with a long jack cord and warn him not to damage his ears.
Amen, buddy. Remember when rappers used to shoot and kill each other? I miss those days.
Because you do that’s why. Did you listen to what your parents listened to? I highly doubt it and they probably hated what you were listening to too. Suck it up and deal, just like your parents did.
Listen to it with him? Even dance around like a wankster for shits/giggles. He’ll turn it down or move it to another room.
OR – just play your shit louder. If/when I have kids I’m going to make them pay rent or board if they want to blast their music in the house.
Just be happy your kids not listening to Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus. Eminem’s music isn’t even that bad, maybe you don’t like it, fine but he’s really an intelligent person.
Though, I really don’t see the point in blasting the music thought.
Eminem is intelligent? News to me.
How many albums can one jackass make about drugs, dissing people he’s not in the same league with and crying about his so-called shitty childhood?
The day Eminem is a real “artist” is the day tanorexic bitches turn purple.
Well, by rap standards Eminem was intelligent…in comparison to say, Vanilla Ice. *shudder* OP, I’d give your crazy son a nice early birthday present: Nixon Master Blaster headphones.
Why are you grouping Eminem and 50 Cent with rap music and not bad music, get your head out of your ass and maybe introduce your son in quality rap music such as Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest just to name a few. Generic rap music is the same as generic pop. Stop being so ignorant.
or can stop buying him CDs of music you despise?
however if the kid is paying for his own shit, make him buy his own headphones. i listened to rap as a kid but also enjoyed my parents’ choices in blue rodeo, rod stewart, u2 and genesis.
in recent years, i once had a teenager try and tell me that snoop dogg is deeper than phil collins. ironically, it was snoop who was sampling phil’s work for a beat….
That’s what’s known as grandparents revenge. All the crap you did and loud music you listened to that annoyed your parents is now your crap. Enjoy, I’m sure your parents are. LOL
I’m concerned over the messages in music these days. To think Ozzy got his wrist slapped and now these rap bands go on about fucking your mother, killing your brother and whoring out your bitch… all ANGRY crap. Kids can’t be getting angry negative messages like that all the time and not be negatively affected by it… I listen to that stuff in a good mood and soon the good mood is gone replaced by the mood of the music which is never uplifting, never fun.
Buy the kid a guitar in hopes the lyrics mean nothing.
kay, you probably believe that certain music leads kids to murder and commit suicide. probably think marilyn manson is the devil too.
I’m kinda with Kay on this one…to a point. I think that the kid should at least be made aware of what the lyric’s are saying..like nickleback..he’s awful with some of his shit. It doesn’t mean you’re going to go rape and murder anyone, but at least think about what you’re listening to.
1fa1, Cutie, that’s just Nickelback……
They could have John Lennon write their lyrics and they’d still be an abomination. 😛
and Phil Collins isn’t?
He certainly isn’t like Peter Gabriel, but at least he’s not like Chad Kroeger or Rick Springfield either.
By intelligent, I meant most of his songs aren’t about big asses and clubs or money and cars like 90% of the rap on television, but about life, politics and war, parody or satire. He worked with musicians outside his field like Dido and Elton John. If you honestly don’t think he’s intelligent, you’re just being pretentious.
UGH nickleback..
eew
The older my kids got, the more their taste in music ‘evolved’ – now we have a free exchange of sounds – my daughter got me hooked on current British indie bands and I haven’t felt that way about music since the fuckin’ Beatles. Your kid’ll listen to rap now but give him five years, maybe ten. He’ll probably end up ballroom dancing or something.
I went from rap to classic rock and house music.
When I bought my Tech 1200s, the first vinyl selections I picked up were hip hop exclusively. One more trip to the Velvet Olive and I was purchasing Moloko, Olav Basoski and Studio 45.
NGF: Nice choice of tables. Can’t get much better than that. I miss the Velvet Olive that place was awesome! Good food and great “Rave Nights”.
As a kid I listened to all the cock rockers, had bon jovi fried hair, and aspired to make it back stage when GnR played the metro center. It’s all a phase. Today I love Ray Lamontagne, Tori Amos, Damien Rice, etc. We come around in time and evolve. The skin tight leather pants and fringed leather jacket sit in my closet as reminders of shitty music but great memories.
NW: You MUST be a Michel Deveau fan also! Or familiar lol
I purchased my 1200s in 2003; they’re about 10-15 years older than that though. Maybe 15-20. What I enjoy is that they have the dense-silver colour – which I lovingly refer to as “Electronic Foghat”
You don’t want to infringe on his music listening? Fuck. He’s a kid (assuming), and he’s living in YOUR house which means he HAS no rights.
Tell him to turn that shit down.
Or turn it down yourself.
Go rent CB4 and learn from Albert Brown’s father. He’d beat his son’s ass in front of his son’s woman!
Or put on Phish…
Kay makes a good point. The role models of so many youths are jack-asses, and no-one confronts their messages, or the civil rights doofuses would cry foul. So how else are they going to act? Look at all the thugs walking around these days, but no-one can say anything about that (Except Bill Cosby).
For the most part rap is for fucking idiots Exept for Eminem because his lyrics are hilarious. I believe this music directly contributes to tons of otherwise “good” kids sagging their pants, wearing fake gold chains with spinner medalions outside of the coller of there dollar sign fucking hoodies… fuck 50 cent .
Get the kid some Beastie Boys. Now that’s rap.
My son loves rap too, lucky for me he doesnt listen to it when I am around.
But these rappers are such great role models! Doesn’t everyone want their kid to look up to these guys? They are the true leaders of the world. Kids will listen to the messages of rappers b4 a parent or teacher. Thats why our world is heading down the tubes. Kids want to be gangsters not doctors, lawyers, teachers, or even garbage truck drivers. Just look at the crime rates among young teens!!!!
Give em a Doob ane sit down with some pink floyd and the doors.
“why can’t he listen to Bono” haha because Bono is not good in my opion
I’m a HUGE fan of Marlyn Manson! Beautiful People is one of my favorite tunes… but I’m not 15 either. I’m all for freedom of expression and I love disturbing art but, again, I’m not an impressionable teenager anymore. I wouldn’t say my kid couldn’t listen to the music he wanted to but I would try to limit his exposure by giving him music lessons or something else to ensure exposure to everything else…. a lot of everything else.
If I were a parent this would be my nightmare! What you gotta do is start listening to rap yourself and act like you’re REALLY into it. The kid will change his tune (haha) in no time.
Well find a happy medium with Rap music its not all bad
Get them on Sage francis or i will admit kayne west….
Nappy Roots is another one
happy medium people
I normally abstain from musical discussion (it can be as dangerous as politics or religion) but Kay loves Marilyn Manson? Fuckin’ A.
There is a huge difference between the rap that most kids listen to these days, and good rap, or even hip-hop. Most intelligent hip-hop lyricalists infuse strong social and political messages in their music, just listen to Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots etc… Lil Wayne has an interesting style and it’s fun to listen to his lyrics just to wonder how he even comes up with what he says, but it’s nothing to be taken literally by any stretch. 50 Cent is garbage, plain and simple. Send him to a Ghettosocks show.
What would be great is if you could buy your kid a juke box, make it seem like a nice present at first, but if it were really a pay for play deal. And then if you could make the songs you didn’t like far more expensive. So anytime he wanted to listen to rap, it’d cost him $1 a song, and you’d get the money, but anything you liked to hear was free. You’d be happy to hear anything he played!
em-in-em or 2 quarters shy of a buck…they SUCK ! But then again so does the Doors… Give me some Supertramp or Floyd, GBS, ELP or Midnight Oil.
If all there was available for music was Em ,.50 or Jim…I’d rather clean the ear wax outta my ear canals with a sharpened pencil ah, deafness…I mean silence nice .
Okay guys time to gain some perspective here. I am not a rap fan (but Dr Fever – You’re right the Beasties are fucking THE bomb! Funkiest band ever!), but holy shit as if none of you listened to angsty music when you were teens that your parents hated. We’re talking 20 years ago, but I was listening to Slayer and Iron Maiden when I was 16 and I definitely wouldn’t say these bands are role models. Ultimately, it’s the parents responsibility to monitor their children’s behavior not 50-Cent or Eminem.
I was one of the nerds (still am) who listened to the same music that my parents listened to growing up. Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Wilson Pickett, Nick Drake etc… I’ll probably be as much of a music nazi to my kids, too.
Funny… I’ve played tuba (and bass) all my life… When I was in my 20’s, playing tuba in a military band… kids would come up and ask me if I could do anything by Led Zepplin… LOL
One of my friends asked the kid if he thinks people ask Led Zepplin if they can play any marches!! LOL
Now, as a retired military musician, I’ve busked on the waterfront the last few years… a young lad (about 13 perhaps) comes up to me and asks me if I can play anything by 50 cent… LOL
I replied with the same answer both times; “Do you think that Led Zepplin/50 Cent have a tuba player in the band?
LOL No dude, but I DO know a lot of cartoon and kids tunes… Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad… even a few “oldies” like Flintstones and Adams Family…
I just thought that was funny… your mileage may vary…
😛