Serious question for the etymologists of P99

[Elfminster]

They'e both music though and they're both used to share fake news so in that regard they're no different.

Rich liberals have hijacked folk to send bad messages and make tons of cash for themselves. It's a big business now just like rap is.

When you're singing in front of 100,000 people selling merchandise and you need 1000's of low paid workers to help you setup your stage and carry your instruments for you then it's purely a business.

Music just like a lot of great things has been stolen, rap though can't change. rap, gangster rap that is, feeds off of fake news and folk doesn't have to so gangster rap is very shallow.

Wealth, equality, freedom...they all destroy gangster rap. The only way for gangster rap to survive in an equal world is for rich rappers to sing about the good old days when they were poor but nobody wants to be poor. Not the same with folk. Folk can be about the past, present and the future.

[Elfminster]

TL;DR gangster rap can't exist without hate, folk music can.

[Homesteaded]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Poor people don't own ranches and horses or live in the country so why would they make country music?

Rap receives way more coverage around the world than country does and there are black rappers in the UK too but not country singers. Country is only popular in the US, rap is popular everywhere. And poor blacks don't just make rap music they make other types of music too like soul and blues. It's all very one sided and the bigger side is the one whining all the time.

When was the last time you saw a rich black man make gangster rap and I'm not talking about rich rappers, I mean a rich black man. Because Garth Brooks and Taylor Swift are rich people who made country they were never poor they're not even cowboys. Country is a rich man's game.

If poverty = country then every black man should be wearing a cowboy hat singing about his horse and the good old days.

White and black culture isn’t the same. Did you really need to be told this? Economic status isn’t your culture.

[Reiwa]

Originally Posted by Elfminster [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Folk singers don't call each other peckerwood and create diss tracks.

Sure they do.