A lot of you on here feel waaay too comfortable admitting that you don't and refuse to listen to rap music, and I'm not loving the incredibly reductive takes on rap because the kendrick/drake beef has it on some of yall's radar for the first time in your life.

I'm not going to sugar coat it-- for americans especially, if you consider music a significant interest of yours but still feel the need to search for acceptable reasons to keep yourself ignorant of black music, or think of rap as a monolith of hate and violence and not equally as diverse as any other genre, or can only name nonblack rappers… you should be embarrassed of that. And your embarrassment should not keep you from being active about exposing yourself to unfamiliar art and broadening what you listen to.

'I don't understand what they're saying/they rap too quickly' I'm surprised by how much I keep seeing this-- speed is not a stylistic trademark of most rap music, & clearer diction as a performer is much more necessary in rap than other genres?? Statistically rap has a lower bpm (here's an example of one person's study) and word-per-minute (another person's study of about 20 thousand songs) average than other genres. (of course these aren't all-encompassing, but you can look into this yourself using sites like bpmdatabase.com.) Do you really feel overwhelmed by speed listening to Kendrick or Biggie or Nas or 2Pac, or have you never actually listened to their songs?

'I have to look up the lyrics'-- so what? is it a bad thing to take an extra few seconds to engage with an artist's work? If you listen to lyrical music, do you care when it's the artists you listen to? Why does the thoughtful art consumption everyone talks about not also apply to black art?

'there is too much violence and misogyny and commercialism' this is not unique to rap, or true of all rap music. Artists exist that talk about other things, the way they exist in all genres. There is an entire wikipedia page listing alternative hip hop musicians and rappers if you consider seeking it out too much labor. Click one!

'i find it unrelatable'-- who cares? Being unable to engage with art you don't find wholly relatable is a deeply childish and self centered way to exist. You get on here reblogging feel good navel-gazey posts about the shared human experience and caring for one another, but a rapper talking about living with violence or poverty is stretching the limits of what you can imagine or empathize with too much for you to care about it? You don't find that embarrassing to admit to?

You don't have to love rap, you don't have to incorporate it into what you listen to every day, but a lot of you need to be aware you're parroting reagan era anti-rap (& antiblack) pearl-clutching talking points, and it's a very ugly look. It isn't racist if your favorite genre isn't rap, but you need to do some serious self reflection if you consider it inherently less artistic, intelligent or positive than 'whiter' genres when you don't actually listen to it. I am looking at you, people into other counterculture genres-- it's crazy how much I see this from self-professed punks and metalheads especially lmfao. If expression, counterculture art, anti-censorship in music and the right for raw and unfiltered music to exist matters to you as much as you say you do, you should care about rap's relationship to censorship & fight for its legitimacy just as much as what you listen to.

Wreck it Ralph as a (already pretty explicit) metaphor for classism and ableism..........

Like literally Vanellope's entire character would be entirely unchanged with her being in a wheelchair instead ov or in addition to being a glitch

thinking abt this post again bc its getting notes and. literally if the movie hadn't been in video games at all, ralph is Already literally a Heel, like. every Metaphor in the movie could b made Explicit and the story would still hit. ralph is a wrestler & a heel, vanellope is a disabled aspiring racer. easy peasy

Actually, disagreeing with my own tags here a bit but being exacting and precise with the level of quality you get with ingredients you work with, ie putting in the labor value, and extracting as much value (nutrition, creativity, tradition) out of those ingredients as you can with even as something that seems as simple as cooking pasta can make it really frustrating/irritating/etc when you do fuck something up and overcook something you put a lot of work into. because even cooking pasta isnt as simple as it seems, a lot of labor goes into the process of growing, harvesting, processing, preparing, cooking and serving food. when youre in the position in the labor chain where chefs and cooks are at, the environment of a restaurant kitchen which is hazardous in so many ways, high volume, often low pay, depends on food-as-profit rather than as nourishment, the conditions create kind of a pressure cooker effect where employees will lash out at themselves, the process, the pasta theyre overcooking, and even each other because the material conditions are geared in the same way any capitalist industry is, to extract as much profit and value as possible by squeezing labor and laborers to death. another point, but one i think about so much because i spend so much time in a kitchen: a lot of kitchens especially at the fine dining level operate on hierarchy, which necessarily attracts people who are more easily coerced into submitting to hierarchy and those who are comfortable enacting the violence required to maintain hierarchy, usually by way of trauma from their own material conditions, eg: abuse leading to unhealed violence and anger issues, capitalisms inherently abusive nature, etc.

and this goes hand in hand with the violence of men and patriarchy, the bro culture and male camaraderie and sometimes military, abusive nature of many, if not most professional kitchens is right in step in with the capitalist conditioning to create ideal complacent laborers who know their station. i wish i had more of the relevant history of modern restaurants and kitchens (which iirc is descended down from 18th and 19th century french aristrocratic institutions) on hand to back any of this up but i hope i make enough sense here anyway. thx for coming to my ted talk

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hey! I've published a new vanilla datapack! Go check it out! It's a rework ov my old datapack, Chronicle, now called A Lillie Bit of Books And Tomes; it adds 40 new written/writable books to the game, many ov which you'll recognize from my server. However, now they're all craftable!

The datapack also adds in the ability to remove the enchantment glint from any written book!

hey gabi & i gave our complex our 60 day notice & are trying to move into somewhere more accessible and affordable with other people, as rn i can't leave the house without assistance w/ my wheelchair, & can't make it back home at all by myself, & we're only Barely making rent. we're out ov groceries rn though & so if anyone wants to help out it would be massively appreciated. my paypal is @ paypal.me/athesiel

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