well, back the F*%K up…since, I (the poster) did not take offense to the (postee) because I know where this woman hails from, so her perception of music (ours, since i take it you are using your opinions based on growing up in this country or a country that listens to western music)is going to quite different…

Anyway, they used to sing beautifully to their women…”
What the hell? Where? On the cotton fields? All of them? ’Cause the black man sings so well? And he can do so because of his race? And now massabuana is disappointed because the negro does as he pleases?

and yes, black men did sing beautifully to their women, as opposed to “back that shit up” or comparing their woman to a “hummer”…if rap is your thing, thats fine, but your response shows your ignorance in not knowing the history of black music…

as someone who claims to be a music enthusiast, may i suggest black artists that didn’t sing songs that denigrated women, such as The Ink Spots, The Platters, The Mills Brothers, Cab Calloway…these groups were popular in the 30’s, 40’s 50's…i can guarantee you they DID NOT speak of their black sisters in this way…

And if you dug a little deeper, you would probably understand the significance and social commentary behind many gangsta rap songs and the thereto belonging social context.

if YOU dug a bit deeper, black artists such as those I have listed LIVED and SURVIVED their social underpinnings without having to resort to objectifying their black sisters..

through the late 50’s 60’s you had artists like Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, and Sammy Davis, Jr, The Dells, …once again, to sell records they did not denigrate women and they also suffered during their times as social norms (were paid less than their white counterparts, had to sleep in different hotels (or the bus) because blacks were not allowed..

there is also the Spinners, The Four Tops, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Chi-Lites, The Stylistics,Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes…

even up through the 70’s, 80’s you had artists like James Ingram, Jeffrey Osborne, Luther Vandross, Bill Withers, Al Green,Barry White, Earth, Wind and Fire, WAR (chicano funk), The Commodores, The Isley Brothers, The Whispers,The Gap Band, Con-funk-shun, Kool and the Gang, Brothers Johnson, Ohio Players, Rose Royse, Cameo…their music did not treat women so flippantly the way rap music does..

Before Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five there was the Sugar Hill Gang and their song “Rappers Delight”…there is one stanza that remotely goes to a sexual content, and so does “The Message” by Grandmaster…

i will leave you with your own words.. I just cannot stand ignorance and comments that clearly show that the commentator does not know anything about what she/he is talking/writing about. Peace.