What is your stance on hip-hop and rap?
It is a valid genre of music like any other, it has its fans and haters. The pop charts at the moment are dominated by it and popular artists are also incorporating it into their own style of music.
Rap has been around for a very long time an early example is Grand Master Flash.
What do you think of the subculture that accompanies it?
You get people that are fully into it and try to live it, those that sit on the sidelines happy to wear the 'outfit' and regular people that dabble in it - just like any genre.
I personally think there is an element of violence to certain sub-genres of rap i.e. gangster rap and this can have a negative effect on those with a disposition to anti-social behaviour.
How do you think women are treated in the hip-hop/rap scene?
I haven't heard too much of it but from what I gather the music is misogynistic.
The Glam Metal in the 80's was about getting women into bed, driving fast cars and having good times but it still didn't put women down as much with name calling. I guess it was more about taking advantage of what was around and being happy to enjoy it.
It's for an article I am doing on metal vs. hip hop.
Don't forget the two aren't musically exclusive as you have mixtures of both genres in songs and bands. Aerosmith and Run DMC, Anthrax and Public Enemy and Ice T's band Body Count just to name some examples that worked well.
Then you have some pretty band bands out there I won't care to name.
Metal also has many genres and Metallers won't agree to like them all.
For example my band Lycanthia has Doom Metal and Gothic influences but the elitists into Troo Doom don't like us and those into Gothic music think we are too heavy.
A lot of people do like us so feel free to have a listen
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/lycanthia/398872-lycanthia-discography-mp3-samples-lyrics.html
Let me know what you think.
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