elstaffe’s Reviews > Let It Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns > Status Update
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"The idea endures that country music is based on wholesome values, but studies are finding otherwise. Country and rap lyrics, once you peel away the cultural differences, have generally similar violent through-lines. (What's more, country music actually makes more references to drugs than any other major musical genre, while rap makes the fewest.)" (23) I wish these studies were in the endnotes for my own nerdiness
— Mar 13, 2026 07:19PM
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"That was when I learned from Lizzie that you don't comment on how many guns a person has. You don't ask how many guns they've bought. You don't ask how many guns they've sold. 'It's like asking how much money you make, or how many times a week you have sex with your wife,' Lizzie said. 'You just don't do it.'" (17)
— Mar 12, 2026 05:04AM
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is on page 22 of 192
"I brought up the idea that country music is just as bad as rap music in its characterization of violence. That it was just as bad as hip-hop in its depiction of women as objects, and to act as if that statement wasn't true was the sort of exercise in arrogance that black people weren't allowed." (22)
— Mar 12, 2026 05:02AM
