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yes, the song feature ben shapiro rapping

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Isn't Ben Shapiro one of those "rap music isn't real music" type of guys? I get that he's basically a walking example of the Sartre Antisemite™ quote, but still

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ever since conservstives/fascists started doing this kind of music he's "changed his mind". But we all know it's a case of us-foreign-policy

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

lmayo when black people do something: "I'm not sure about that"

lmayo when other lmayo do it: "How wonderful"

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

He's fine with it so long as the rappers are white.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Anything’s “good” if the maker agrees with your trash views.

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He thinks it's talentless in comparison to classical music, but his main talking point with lots of it was about the 'values' - twerking, violence, etc etc the usual conservative hypocrises.

This sort of 'rap' is about personal responsibility and stuff so it's all good.

All part of their avoidance of material analysis so they can say rap music and single mothers make black people poor.

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[–] bestesttrash@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Homie, I'm epic, don't be a WAP

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

fucking D.A.R.E font lmfao

[–] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just listened to it. Save yourself. I’ve been so thoroughly owned with facts and knowledge - almost all of which did not care for my feelings - that there’s no coming back. It’s over for me.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

The left has been ownt and DESTROYED boohoo

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The comment section on Tom Macdonald videos I've seen are all like "Im a 78 year old from indiana and normally I call the police when I hear the neighbors playing rap but oh my heavens this new music is simply superior to the mumble nonsense! He says it like is and isnt afriad of the woke left!"

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So frustrating! Kanye ~~may be~~ is a Nazi, but at least he has some great lines. Tom can't even muster up midness.

[–] ComRed2@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

That's the dailywire employees earning their salary.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These astroturfed hog songs are so fucking awful. Bad writing, bad sound etc. I hate that they get so many views so quickly what-the-hell

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Every chud listens to it on repeat for like two days to force everyone around them to also hear it.

Very few of them are even there to pretend it's real music. It's just about forcing others to suffer, just like all of their politics.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

This reminds me of a family member forcing me to listen to one of these awful songs. It's excruciating ohnoes

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Remembering the time a libertarian roommate put on Whiteboy and was like "wow he's spitting bars"

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[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One thing I really love about Tom MacDonald is that all his lyrics appear to be written by random fifteen year old redditors.

Good on him for giving the youth a shot at the music industry.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, he's written a total of about 4 songs, and that's including the mostly-album-filler two of "You don't want the smoke" and "Started from the bottom".

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So he genuinely has other people writing this shit for him? Hilarious.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I meant it in the sense of "Gamefreak just made a second Pokemon game with Legends: Arceus" in that there is very little distinction between songs except that they fall into around four categories. Any from within a category are interchangeable and may as well be AI-generated.

Though there is a long-standing rumor that his girlfriend, Nova, does a ton of ghostwriting for him. Some evidence for this: She has long been a much stronger and more original writer than him (he had a whole album of aping Wayne), and can even do basic things like freestyling that you can't even imagine Tom doing. She herself never touches the right-wing edgelord stuff in terms of raps she delivers, even though she directs all the videos. Tom himself is defensive toward these rumors and has mentioned them in a song. Also Mac Lethal claimed to have dirt toward this effect.

Some stuff if definitely Tom, like his obsession with coining cute little catchphrases and other weird motifs, but generally we are expected to believe that he reinvented his style in a way that is way more like Nova right around the time he broke right.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

This hoodie make me hippier hoppier, right?

-expert-shapiro

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it just me or is this song just really ... racist? Like they wanna say the N word SO BADLY but somehow refrain from it for obvious reasons.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tom McDonald started his career on wanting to say the n-word

I'll never listen to any song he releases, but Ben definitely gave him the pass

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[–] kkitsuragisleftnut@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Damn this low-budget mid-90's PSA about doing drugs looks hella tight.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

I'm gonna be controversial and say that Eminem taught people that anyone can rap, even people with no musical talent.

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol, Who the hell is the "homage to the D.A.R.E. logo" hoodie supposed to appeal to?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Millennials who listen to Benny Shaps

[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I need someone to post a piped link so I don't have to give this person any more views.

I crave the cringe.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

https://piped.video/watch?v=5kGpohEpuTE (cw chud music)

it's currently ranked #2 on youtube music for the day.

[–] IDontHavePantsOn@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Oh lord. That was more than enough cringe. The hook of "I don't care if I offend you" really hammers home that they aren't offensive, just sheisty dramatic coat riders.

They're so offended that their opinions are largely considered shit that they wrote a song solidifying that they are "men," and disagreement with them makes them upset enough to attempt to write thinly veiled propaganda music in warehouse basements to broadcast to everyone as if they are somehow being silenced.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm not gonna pretend that I'm an expert on rap or anything but, like, this is shit.

Like, Ben Shapiro's verse has the stilted cadence of one of those YouTube videos where people splice together PragerU clips.

Lyrically the whole thing is dogshit, but it's especially glaring with Ben who has taken the same approach to rap that a child takes to poetry, creating rhyming couplets with no sense of flow or direction seemingly because that's how he thinks it's supposed to be.

I've heard better bars spat improvised at a wassailing, even after the cider has made a few cycles of the wassailers.

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[–] macabrett@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hasn't Ben implied several times in the past that rap isn't music?

us-foreign-policy

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ben Shapiro is a failed screenwriter. The truth is he was always jealous of the people who "made it" in entertainment so of course he would rap given the opportunity, despite his past statements on it.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Failed at art and got into fascism. Name a more classic combo.

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[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

yes, the song feature ben shapiro rapping

Catch a charge, extra large and extra hard, swipe your nose like a credit card

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Ngl Ben would be killing it at gay bars if he wasn't straight. Middle-aged twinks are a hot commodity.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i support gay rights, but i don't support what you just said

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

There are rights, and then there are wrongs.

[–] Poison_Ivy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Middle-aged twinks are a hot commodity.

Whoever told you this is trying to entrap you as a house boy by trying to addict you to meth.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would literally murder a 40-year-old twink, Shapiro has clearly made a pact with the devil

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Verse 1: You need a gun! The only person who can protect you is you!

Chorus: We don't push guns! That's bad for some reason!

Verse 2: You defunded the police so now you have no protection! What guns?

How can a track with about ten actual lines be so thoroughly inchorent and contradictory?

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You defunded the police

how did they convince themselves the police were defunded tf

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[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember when you used to see American flags in America? Now you don't. There aren't any. Just rainbows. Not a single American flag in all of America. Sad.

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

I know Benny boy gets a lot of grief here but Song Against Sex is fantastic even with his cameo in it.

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