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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 3893945" data-attributes="member: 264">Hmm...I'm kind of shocked I have to explain this, but I thought it was a common assumption that rappers--when glorifying the violence, misogyny, crime and drug use of their lives--were rapping about their lives before "making it big".I literally didn't think there was a person on Earth who thought that 50 Cent was out on the corner selling dimebags of rock between concerts.I honestly thought that it was a given that these guys were glorifying their previous lives...not their current ones.Where your analogy falls apart with regard to Rappers "playing a role" is that Daniel Craig doesn't endlessly go on about how his actual life as a Secret Agent for MI-5 is what makes him best-suited to play the role of James Bond.Well, I already pulled the quotes above, but I can do so again if you like...See right there, where you say I'm not describing Rappers? That's the beginning of it.Then you change your tune a bit, to the following...So...I am talking about Rap, just not the Rap you are talking about...I thought you were about to tell me your campaign was about beat-boxing, break dancing  and Graffitti.Except you then said the following...So--after taking me to task for assuming that the elements of Rap you were bringing into your game were Gangsta Rap elements, and bitching to me that "that's not Rap"--you are in fact doing exactly what I said?What is your argument man? You are all over the board here.Would that be Beat Boxing? or Grafitti?Because the rest of what you are selling appears to be Gangbanger culture and not--by your own insistence--"Rap".</blockquote>

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