by Mj Ferruzza

Created on: April 14, 2007   Last Updated: May 09, 2007

I was on the front of the battle lines. I roared in full approval when they piled up the enemy and then blew up the pile at baseball games and truck shows. It was a hard fought fight. The Germans were in shock when we abandoned the enemy after they embraced its next form.

Yes! I was there for the war on DISCO.
I remember Disco sucks. And anti-disco rallies.
Europeans embraced TECHNO which was the bastard step child of disco.

Now I know there are quite a few who look back on that music with some sort of fondness. The line dancing (The Hustle, the Bus Stop). The clothes (sequins, wide collars, platform shoes). It even had its own BALL!

But it took a huge contingency to conspire and end disco. And it died.

Beavis & Butthead all but ended HAIR BANDS by razzing and showing distaste for them on MTV. MTV, the new outlet to find hipness.
(American Bandstand now dead!)
MTV replaced White Snake and Poison with YO! MTV RAPS!
24/7 rap music.

Metallica was still cool. But heard and seen less on CABLE TV. Grunge had its place. But Hip Hop (watered down for mass consumption by artists like Paula Abdul, early Janet Jackson and Wil Smith) inspired the next Cosby Show raised generation.
Gangsta Rap was the Bad Boy lifestyle.
Kids wore no shoe laces (like they take away in LA jails).
Kids wore pants below their waists (like when they take belts away in LA jails).

Now..someone is going to stage an ANTI-rap campaign?
Good luck! You are not stopping Donna Summer from recording a new dance tune. You are trying to rid a whole lifestyle and voice from the streets.

You can't spell CRAP without RAP, but as for ending RAP (the negative references and glorification of drugs and violence)...
You got da street cred for dat?
Word out!

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