anarchohedonism forever!

i know im guilty of reblogging posts like this but i find it annoying that people twist themselves into knots trying to explain how rap is actually intellectual or funny or emotional or poetry and not all violent and etc etc etc and all of that is true but also it feels like meeting people in the middle at their belief that black art is antithetical to those things, and that rap isnt worth their time. and i dont think ppl should have to do that. black art doesnt have to be any of those things to be good art or culturally significant. black people should be able to make lyrics as fuckin dumb as trent reznor without it being seen as a fault of black people or the genre of rap. as edgy and violent too, and that shouldnt be a problem because they experience extreme and constant violence by the state, and it makes sense that its reflected in rap. but also, that is to say, white musicians and artists have the complete ability to make stuff that is violent, a bit bad lyrically, not poetry, not emotional, and they are loved for it in a way that black artists are criticized for, even in the context of rap (ahem cough eminem cough). black art should not have to be extraordinary to be good and recognized as good art. there is also an issue of exceptionalization of black people and their art. and like i understand this is a tempting thing to do if youre trying to be antiracist and conscious of these issues or if youve been fighting people for a long time over their deeply internalized racism. but exceptionalization can be a form of dehumanization as well

unfortunately my new haircut and color makes me a little afraid that i look like the progressive girl from the early 2000s