I don't think you could consider GnR heavy metal though - that's more like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax, etc. What about "Sweet Child O' Mine" don't you like? It is a wonderful song. Sheesh. Mimsey
It's the whole point, Mimsey. Right over your head. You pick out 1 song that is positive out of the whole repertoire that is loaded with drugs, drinking and sex and abuse. Don't get me wrong I have every album up to the Use Your Illusions and listen to a lot of it.
Do you think it's a positive influence? A steady diet of this is good? The people that idolized this and emulated the lifestyle were they healthy in character?
There's a surface social acceptance reality and then there's reality that is beyond the veneer. The reality is that this lifestyle is destructive and dysfunctional to the extreme. Hard Rock, Heavy Metal whatever you want to call it...Grunge and various spins offs is drug worship culture. Hip Hop is gang banging.
Look at the list of overdoses in rock and the list of deaths from shootings for rappers. What the lists don't include are those who almost overdosed and those who recovered from being shot. It's nihilistic.
****
If you think any of that is something to base a culture on then I'll just hold this up to a mirror: I take it you have an extremely limited understanding of rap - maybe a cracker limited view point. You should perhaps check some out, with lyrics - they aren't all about anti-cultural messages.
It's a super superficial statement. My close friends who are black get pissed off at the SJW crap that rap and Hip Hop is "black" culture. That's equivalent to saying heavy metal is "white" culture. That means that Beavis and Butthead would be the extent of "white" culture...ignorant...sex-focused and massive underachievers...licking toads to get high. It's a slam...not a compliment.
Here's to Mimsey oh-so-enlightened un-cracker and being "white"!
Notice the AC/DC and Metallica shirts.
****adjective: nihilistic - rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless. "an embittered, nihilistic teenager"
.