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the only true gangsta rap and the only real gangsta rap and the only gangsta rap that matters is GETO BOYS!
GETO BOYS! GETO BOYS! GETO BOYS!
RATM had good goals and lofty ambitions, but to claim their lyrics were quality poetry is overreaching by quite a lot.
the only thiong RATM gave to many of it's fans is the ability to pay lip service to revlutionary causes and ideals, and as soon as the next metal act came around those ideals were mostly forgotten and tossed aside, because they were superficial. not RATM, but many of the fan's ideals.
Regarding Nirvana and Nevermind.
like I said, theye wre ethe pinnacle of something. they took the dynamic stylings of the Pixies, the lyrical obtuseness of REM and the heavy sludge of Sabbatha nd combined it into something that touched fans of all these various bands and genres. That is an achievement, but what has itinfluenced? the death of punk? yes.. the final straw in the commercialisation of independent music? yes. the preponderance of self-pity, self-doubt, self-destruction in lyrical styles lately? yes.
sonic youth Daydream nation affected more people who made more bands that affected others with originality and inventiveness and vision.
nirvana clones, a la silverchair and their ilk, influence no one of consequence.
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