Redneck Sheriff Bans Hip-Hop In Vegas

Y'all, I was reading today's Wall Street Journal (hard copy)...and on the front page there's an article about the peckawood Las Vegas Sheriff Bill Young who contacted the Nevada State Gaming Board to put pressure (read: intimidate) on the casinos, clubs, arenas, ect. to stop hip-hop (their words: 'gangsta rappers') artists from performing in Vegas because the violence associated with rappers.

This shit is really a muthafukin' conspiracy to to retard the African American artists, by limiting their sources of income. After all, just about all the artists in the hip-hop community are Black. Vegas is one of the entertainment capitals of the world, and a vital source of income for entertainers.

Did the muthafuckas ban rock concerts when a brotha was stabbed to death at a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, Calif. back in the late-'60s??? Hell no!!! Did they ban rock concerts when young girls got raped at Woodstock Rock Festival??? Hell no!!! How about when peeps got trampled to death at a rock concert in the midwest sometime back in the '80s??? Put all of that together with the drug deaths of teenagers ODing at rock concerts all over the country.

Here's a link to the story in a Vegas paper:

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2006/03/02/feature2.html

 

OK, I think you need to read some history. I dont know how young you are, but I do recall rock concerts being banned in cities. My very first concert was Alice Cooper in El Paso in the early 70's. The reason I got to go at such a young age was as a protest. MANY cities were banning his concerts as being morally repugnant. They tried to ban him in El Paso and my mother allowed the neighbor girl to take me and one of my friends.

Anyone who pushes the limits are harassed and censured. Today it is gansta rap, but in the past it has been such artists as Billie Holiday, Elvis, Link Wray, The Weavers, Chubby Checker, Janis Joplin, Bobby "Boris" Bickett, the Kingsmen, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Van Morrison, AC/DC, The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, Jeferson Airplane, Rod Stewert, Madonna, Prince and THE ROLLING STONES! They have alll been denied concert dates, had their songs censured, been denied TV appearance or sponsorships...even been investigated by the FBI illegally.

Just the last couple of years, Marilyn Manson was banned from playing many cities. Google Marily Manson banned and you will find it happens a lot to him. Among others.

 

I wouldn't worry about it Kid. Gansta rap ain't going nowhere anytime soon. First of all Its global and Las Vegas is a small piece of the pie. Second, casino owners basically brushed the guy off. Third, I wouldn't start getting excited until the Nevada legislature began discussing a ban.

 

thats awesome!! bravo sherriff

 

cant we ban it all over?? just kidding, no censorship even when it sux

 

lol at "today it's gangsta rap"...

Ma'am... The 90's happened over a decade ago.

Rap music is soft now.

 

Sadly it's true, rap music lures in the ignant element that fucks it up for everyone.

 

Sir, I don't think they heard you. ...can you repeat that again louder. ..

 

Agreed.

 

you speak the truth young grasshoppa.

 

I wonder if he had banned heavy metal music and suggestive country music? I doubt it.

 

Before we start with the self-righteous attacks on the "black community," I have to ask; do you people realize that the vast majority of mainstream rap fans look like this:




Rap musicians tour all over the world and generate millions and millions of dollars in revenue in the process. If the sheriff of Vegas county wants to put the city in even further economic decline, then that's his business.

BTW Freddy doesn't even like what's called "rap" these days.

 

When I was a correctional officer, I often hear the inmates rap. One inmate said that white people don't listen to rap and r&b music. I told the inmate that they do and I have seen white people blasting it on their car stereos. The inmate then remembered that he was not outside as I was. It was Phil Spector who once said that rap is going to be around for a long time. This, spoken from a man who had white Americans listening to black singers and musicians in the songs he wrote, co-wrote and produced.

 

One of the venue's that I once worked at also banned rap music due to the 'element' that introduced. As I recall, in the 4 years that I worked there, there was maybe one Jjay Z concert.

 

Before we start the self-righteous attacks on the self-righteous attackers, this is the first post in this thread to even hint at rap having anything to do with black people.

Edit: Aside from the first post which refers to the artists as being black, but not the consumers themselves.

PS: If someone says I don't want 'X' music playing at my establishment, and a certain race of people immediately say "That's racist! You're doing that because you don't want US at your establishment." It's actually the race of people who are self-identifying themselves to that music.

PPS: That "more whites thank blacks" is bullshit anyway. You can throw that out in any debate and you will be correct. Whites far outnumber blacks in this country, so of course they outnumber blacks in pretty much every aspect of life. Whites will win the "There's more wealthy" argument as well as "There's more poor" and "There's more middle-class" all at the same damn time. Percentage of whites in comparison to percentage of blacks is a far more convincing argument.

 

You should post more. You've been holding out. Or holding in.
Whichever, don't care, just post when you can.

 

Playing devil's advocate: Hip-Hop culture/rap music was started by minorities (Jamaicans and African-Americans) and the majority of the genres artists are African Americans,so when somebody says something offensive about the culture of course black people are going to take offense. That Sheriff's statement was intended for black people.

 

This. It's obvious what the game is here. What the Sheriff is doing is just as hamfisted and stupid as the towns in the South that are trying to make baggy pants illegal.

But if people want to be obtuse about it, there's no point in even trying to have a debate.

 

Yeah, but as you pointed out, the vast majority of rap fans are white.... so it's not really an attack on the black community as much as it is an attack on the white community, right?

 

You're absolutely right and I absolutely recognize that rap music is, for the most part a part of black culture.

Stolen from a poster in a news article:

While I wouldn't put the cart (music) before the horse (violence), I do think that the glorification of a lifestyle where thousands of blacks are killed yearly is just asinine.

Unless we're saying the only identifier of black culture is gangster rap music, this in itself is not an assault on black culture. Unless we're saying black culture does not have anything other form of entertainment to contribute to society, this is not even an assault on black entertainment. This is an assault on gangster rap culture, and a responsible action by the sheriff and venue owners. What in this statement by the sheriff is untrue?

'Most' rap music these days seems to be gangster rap, but that is not the only sub-classification of the rap genre.

Now.... when Vegas bans the Marleys, I'll be pissed!