Kansas City Rap Battle Legacy Endures

Like it or not, hip-hop culture has impacted our Kansas City discourse, history and social norms beyond demographic considerations . . . Here's an amazingly well-written examination of a local music tradition:

Sympathetic Vibrations | Voice of a Forgotten Art

If you turn on commercial radio or check the pop Billboard charts, you'll see any number of performers who represent themselves as hip-hop artists. But many of them offer only a carefully-crafted street image and a few stanzas mumbled over (usually poorly produced) beats.

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  1. People that listen to hip hop and rap are total dumb asses

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  2. It’s not real music, regardless it’s total crap

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  3. Now that Hitler could bust a rhyme!

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  4. Mindless and should be outlawed for it's impact on rape, cop killing, and violence.

    Oh and lets call it racist too, it's backlash time!

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  5. Fuck rapper scum.

    Go live in Haiti, or, an African shithole.

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  6. Call me when they have a Set a Rapper on fire night! I'd probably go to that.

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  7. Any women that gives rap any attention is a fool.

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