Hip-hop haters, you'll love this:
Fans of hip-hop music are likely to have had more sexual partners in the last five years, while many of those who prefer classical strains will have tried cannabis, according to a new study.
Psychologist Adrian North from the University of Leicester surveyed 2,500 Britons to find out how their musical tastes related to their lifestyles and interests.
Almost 38 percent of hip-hop devotees and 29 percent of dance music fans were more likely to have had more than one sexual partner in the last five years, compared to just 1.5 percent of country music fans. However, they were also more likely to have broken the law, with more than 50 percent of both hip-hop and dance music lovers admitting committing a criminal act.
Meanwhile, a quarter of classical music fans have tried cannabis, while 12 percent of those who liked opera had experimented with magic mushrooms.
North wants to recruit 10,000 people for a wider study (details: www.musicaltastetest.com).
So, hip-hop haters, I'm sure this confirms all of your assumptions about the vileness of hip-hop music. But what’s up with the classical and opera fans smoking weed and eating 'shrooms?
What's up in Charlotte? Hip-hop fans -- have you really been that sexually active? Country fans -- are you really that conservative? Actually, is having more than one sexual partner in the last five years a bad thing?
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Hip-hop fans have more sex
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"Hip-Hop Fans Have More Sex"
Awesome, good for them. For some of us, it just isn't worth the trade-off. I'd rather remain celibate than have to listen to that droning derivative gobbledy-gook being grunted loudly by stooped over thugs with gold teeth and and an IQ in the mid 40s.
They're also more likely to dress like 3 year olds, have awful diets, not graduate high school, commit a felony and brokenly speak English in code like Encyclopedia Brown with Tourettes.
The ghetto-ization of American culture.
Thanks, 2 Pac!
Plus,along with all that sex, hip-hop fans are having higher STD & HIV infection rates, plus 1000s of unwanted pregnancies,serving more jail time and producing more fatherless children than you can count.
Also, a good bit of our tax money is being spent caring for these bastard children and supporting the welfare grubbin', mo'-sex havin' hip-hop fans while they sit around being lazy and non-productive.
Your opened-ended question about drugs is simple. People endulging in a little pot or other weak hallucinogens every once in awhile is one thing(regardless of their background),BUT they don't make it society's problem, unlike crack cocaine, which the black community has paralyzed themselves with for almost two decades, mixing it with violence, crimes, and shattered lives and it's not going away.
Plus, I think you'll find most "Hip-hop" haters, don't really regard it as "vile" as badly as Tonya wants to believe that.
It's silly, juvenile, two-bit cons rhyming two-syllable words about "hoes", chrome wheels, weapons, and velour jumpsuits against a back beat written by a legit musician years ago, and it's holding back our young people under what Juan Williams (a black man) calls "an umbrella of failure".
Grow up, Tonya.
Here come the I hate black people bloggers. This will definately be a form where all the PC folks can get everything they cant say out.
Our society as a whole is sexually active and free, not just hip hop. Matt 2pac is not the blam.
"Matt 2pac is not the blam"
Yikes. I am assuming that this is coming from one of those individuals matt describes as "...not graduating from high school...." Last time I checked, blame had an "e" on it. I take that back, maybe you did finish CMS high school. Aside from my harsh rebuke, I am proposing a new question. In all honesty, what's the difference between "rap" and "hip-hop"? It all sounds the same to me. Is there a difference?
He blabbering in the paper and online is much more suited for a Creative Loafing alternative paper...not a city newspaper (at least not Charlotte).
Her writing is neither insightful OR informative for the reader.
Clearly Matt Thorsvold hasn't listened to hip-hop since 1997 (if ever?). The biggest buzz this week in hip-hop was Lupe Fiasco's album; he's an avowedly devout Muslim who name-drops Cornell West. Kanye West raps about moral dilemmas ("why does everything bad make me feel so good?"). These are both pretty mainstream artists...
Also, I'd say hip-hop is the vernacular of a wider section of the overall US population (of any racial or socioeconomic group) than either country or classical...so to say hip-hop fans have more sex than country or classical fans is to say that most people have more sex than these two sub-groups.
what i find intersting about this study is the grouping of hip-hop (read: black and/or brown) and 'dance' (read: gay) music...two groups consistently demonized (why was disco so objectionable? b/c it arose in black gay clubs). i'd question the validity/motivations of this study.
I am white, listen to Hip Hop and only have sex with one partner. Wow, I just learned that I should be having more sex with more people! Yeah!
Weren't you the one that was going nuts the other day that black women in Charlotte (who likely listen to Hip-Hop and have multiple sexual partners) don't recognize the dangers of HIV? Where do you really stand on this? What is wrong with you?
More hypocrisy from the desk of Tonya Jameson and her poorly-written BS. I'm hoping one day her girlfriend Leonard will get a job, and they'll both move somewhere far, far away from Charlotte.
Surely there are janitors at the Observer who would make a better journalist than she is. Thank you affirmative action!
I think some of the folks who have responded to this blog are making some inaccurate assumptions? Aren't there also studies that show that whites buy the majority of hip hop music? Are we interpreting the study the wrong way? Are hip hop fans having more sex because of the music? Many times statistics and studies are can only be used to reinforce what the reader already believes. Any one who has taken a college level stats course knows that. I'll give you an example. There is a correlation between rapes and ice cream sells. They both increase dramatically during the same months. Does that mean eating ice cream leads to rape? Of course not. Both ice cream sells and the number of rapes increase during the summer months. Moral of the story...if you are a bumbling idiot racist it doesn't take many statistics or studies to allow you to "stay the course" (to borrow fom another bumbling idiot racist).
Oh, come on. Generalizing from a nonprobability sample of self-reports from one city in the Midlands -- all told, 66 hip-hop fans -- gives us what meaningful data to take away about any other population on any other planet?
Having more sexual partners isn't the same thing as having more sex. Having smoked marijuana isn't the same as smoking it now. Please, at least read the tables and the discussion section before you write about a study.
I would like to answer the question about the difference between Hip Hop and rap. Rap is the term given by mainstream America to the Hip Hop culture.
Hip Hop used to be based on the struggles of the neighborhood. Now, it is so commercialized to where as the art of Hip Hop is only represented by a few MC's. There are upper class kids rhyming about killing. What? Also, you now have everyone making the same music, but because it sells, radio refuses to play anything different.
As far as sex and Hip Hop, I think for the younger crowd it could possibly trigger the notion that if you are truely about Hip Hop and you are a female, then you should be dressed stink and nasty, and prepared to take sex to the next level. For men, they must where baggy pants, gold teeth, and demand that the women they meet fit the commercialized role from videos.
I was raised on listening to Hip Hop, but it is definately out of control. It is not for people under 21.
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