
I’m around a lot of blacks and they find it weird that I listen to Rock music and nothing but. “You on the s wrong side of town listening to that shit, you need to be on the West Side with them white folks“. What the fuck man? I love my Rock music; why does my color/skin pigment have to be apart of the equation? Every where I go whether is on the bus or in a store its people asking me “Is that YOU listening to Rock music?” I look at them and just walk the hell away cause its not that I am pissed about it I’m actually growing impatient with these simple minded idiots that tend to cross my path on a daily basis.
The blacks especially sit and start a conversation off the bat like “when you start listening to that pointless ass music?” my rebuttal to that is “probably around the same time you start listening to them coon tunes.” Or I get the occasionally “you hang around white folks, what got you so hip to that garbage?” My retort to that is “Do you hang out with Blacks? Yes? So they got you hip to that garbage you listen to?” They then get mad and call me “racist” wow I’m racist when I ask the same question they asked me? Do they not know what they’re saying when they’re saying it? Apparently not. Its so hard not to ignore these clowns and most of the time I do. These chumps around here are a scared of people who are different. They expect everyone stick together in the same race and skin pigmentation and listen to the same drawn out, tir
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ed, women bashing music. Sorry but Hip-Hop/Rap is NOT for me and it never will be. I listen to 70′s through 90′s old school R&B cause this new garbage is not cutting the funk what so ever.
I don’t know what or who is brainwashing these people to think you have to be a certain skin pigmentation to listen certain music. The day I listen to Rap Hip-Hop and actually like it, I’ll be dead and gone or too old to care. Which I know even then it wouldn’t happen cause this music they got now has put us back so many years. Even back then the music was the same topic. Now its just worse. So I’ll listen to my Killswitch Engage, Disturbed, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Korn, Metallica, and every other Rock Artist before I listen to the garbage that blacks expect me to listen to.
I even get people saying I’m Gothic or Emo. What does listening to Acid Rock Music have to do with being either one of those? Yes I enjoy my dark colors, bright colored anything makes my eyes hurt. I’ve worn black all this summer this year and occassionally white too. I don’t understand how people putting two and two together and getting 8. [Rock Music + Black clothes to me does NOT = Goth/Emo]. I shake my head sometimes becaus
e I’m being judged cause of the music I enjoy listening too. I also get judged for liking Anime and playing Video Games. Its just something about Rock music that I can relate to its hard to explain but the lyrics especially Linkin Park’s I can relate to half of their music, even Disturbed’s. I all their albums especially Indestructible. & When I play Rock Band 2 the first song I play on there is Down With the Sickness; I love that song a lot. I’ve always loved Rock music, this isn’t no “phase” or a “trend“, I’ve been listening to Rock Music secretly until this year and finally when I open up about it, people do exactly what I knew they was gone do. I can’t even walk around with my Zune out and people asking me “Is that Rock Music?” Why the hell are you all in my Zune? Why can I be at peace with my Rock Music?
Regardless of what anyone say, I’m going to rock on and rock hard. Damn the words of the doubters, judgers, and discriminators. Rock Music trumps most music of today.
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kevmoore
June 5, 2010
I love this entry!!
Some years ago, I was playing at an American airbase in the UK and a black guy came up wanting to hear some Van Halen, saying “bet you didn’t expect that, huh?”
But the thing is, music pigeon holing is a terrible thing. I love Rock funk, the sort of music played by multi racial bands like Mothers finest, Dan Reed Network, Living Colour etc. Because all the best rock has SOUL. Two of rock’s greats were black men:Jimi Hendrix and Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy. If black peopl can make some of the best rock on the planet, surely it’s perfectly normal that black people will want to listen to it?
Mothers Finest in particular have suffered at the hands of Radio stations blinkered attitude. One of their albums was called “Black radio wont play this record”!
You rock hard!
Christina
December 5, 2009
I love you!
never in my life did I think I would see another black women with my same views and your a sims fan. +
I get called white girl all the time because of how I talk and my love of rock music.
Asilee M. Barnes
December 27, 2008
Can’t stand when idiots have to act like shit that I’ve experience doesn’t happen..keep that shit to yourselves seriously cause its not the same every where you go. Damn fool.
Asilee M. Barnes
December 27, 2008
Um, K White, 1 I did not ask for your experiences I’ve discussed what I’ve experienced. I’m in Cleveland Ohio, shit is different here REGARDLESS of where you stay. 2, you’re not me and I’m not you, again you don’t live here and I don’t live in Harlem nothing you have mentioned is relevant. 3 come back when you have something relevant to add to the post. If you haven’t noticed Blacks started Rock Music if it wasn’t for them it wouldn’t be no Rock music.
K White
December 26, 2008
I’m African American and I came across this post and I just have to give my experience. I don’t know how old you are or where you lived in your life but I am in my 50′s and have lived all over the country and in all those years not one African-American or any other person has ever asked me about listening to rock music. I grew up in Harlem listening to The Temptations, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Earth, Wind and Fire, Jimi Hendrix and Duke Ellington.
The very first party I was ever allowed to go to featured music from all over the musical map and was hosted by a Hispanic neighbor and this was in 1969. Every African-American I know listens to some rock of some kind. And that includes my 19 year old nephew and his friends as well as my nephews and nieces in Tennessee. At parties I have given, people have always enjoyed my eclectic mix of music and no one has ever said ‘what is that shit?’
Asilee M. Barnes
December 14, 2008
Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
theblacksentinel
December 14, 2008
I don’t understand how music tells anyone whether or not you are truly black or some sort of sell out. That does perturb me. What happens to the people saying these things who love rap get the same smack down from blues or jazz lovers.
I personally love rock. I can relate to you in that. I rock my Disturbed, Korn, Linkin Park. But yet I can also turn on some Marvin Gaye etc. I don’t think that music is any type of indicator as to your racial preference and is just plain stupid.
Keep on listening to whatever you like. And just brush off those losers who feel that the only way to show you are black is to limit your exposure to the plethora of music, art and other things in the world.
Good luck
Ann
December 14, 2008
Good post.
I sometimes wonder what rock many Black people have left their brains under.
Rock music evolved form Black R&B. If not for Black Americans there would be no Rock ‘n’ Roll.
There would be no Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, Allman Brothers band—-nor Linkin Park, Metallica, korn, Living Colour, King’s X.
The foundation, the bones, the sinews—-the blood of rock ‘n’ Roll IS Black.
Sheesh.
I got so damn tired of people equating Rock ‘n’Roll with White people that I had to put up a post on it:
http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/on-this-day-in-black-music-history-november-17-2008/
……..as well as devote daily posts to enlighten people on the true history of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Yes, I am a Black American woman who loves her R&B, Blues, Bluegrass, Country & Western—-and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
“Its just something about Rock music that I can relate to its hard to explain but the lyrics especially Linkin Park’s I can relate to half of their music, even Disturbed’s.”
Maybe it is the Black influence that has been copied for decades and decades and decades by Whites singers that you are relating to?
Afterall, if it was not for Chuck Berry, Ike Turner, Muddy Waters, Little Eva, Bo Diddley……………..
………….there would be no Rock ‘n’ Roll.