The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for June 17, 2010
Transcript:
Huey: Who cares about what. Hip-hop is supposed to be? I'm talking about what it is. Most of rap music is violent and stupid, and that ain't the media's fault! Caesar: But most entertainment across the board is violent. You don't see people attacking Robert De Niro for being violent in movies! Huey: But in movies, everyone acknowledges it's fake! Robert De Niro doesn't kill someone in a movie, then look at the audience and go, "Bobby D, fool, what?!" Caesar: But, man, it'd be cool if he did, though, right?
Google Talking Blues for some examples of the same idea, starting in (maybe) the 1920s…