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So I read an article there the viral song Who I smoking was more or less compared with gladiator games. That the kids are listing to songs about gang murder, kind of the same thing as watching gladiator fights. For some reason I remember another article that I read a long time ago, shortly after the shooting of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. That article made the point that white musians who died young were killed by drugs or suicide, while black musicians who died young were murdered. I think the point of that article was the high level of violence the African American community was/is exposed to.


To make it personal. My teenage idols the band Broder Daniel from Gothenburg (they were white) had a member who committed suicide. (The guy was named Anders Göthberg and the band made a song called Hold on to your dreams about him after.) So if listing to music about gang murders is like gladiator games, what is it to listing to music from drug addicitic and suicide victim?

Btw I have always thought that if it’s true the K-pop group 2NE1 got a nerd following because they had imperial stormtroopers in a video, then Broder Daniel should also have an international nerd following, since they released a song called Luke Skywalker as early as 1995.

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