In a takedown of the violent and misogynistic music of the legendary Snoop Dogg and newcomer Odd Future, Cord Jefferson invokes a broader idea:
Why was I so into [Snoop's] “Ain’t No Fun” but now can’t tolerate Odd Future’s woman-hating? I’ve stopped turning off my brain when I listen to music. One of the greatest things about music is that it doesn’t really ask you to think. People call it the universal language because so much of it is about how it makes you feel. When I was younger, it was easy to separate my physical impulses from my mind—Snoop sounded fun and made me feel fun, so I screamed Snoop. Nowadays I know women who have been raped. I know women who have been beaten up by men. … Violence and misogyny are no longer musical devices to me; they’re real problems that make the world a truly worse place.
Erin Gloria Ryan rips into Odd Future even further.
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