Will Thuggish Hip-hop Culture Destroy Austin’s SXSW? – IOTW Report

Will Thuggish Hip-hop Culture Destroy Austin’s SXSW?

American Thinker: It is Austin’s most important and coolest festival: South by Southwest. But after two gun-related incidents at this year’s SXSW, both involving volatile hip-hop crowds on March 18 and 20, the festival’s organizers and Austin’s liberal political leaders must be in a panic — wondering how to get rid of all the thuggish hip-hop shows while maintaining their high-minded values of political correctness.  

The mayhem at SXSW’s music week together with other hip-hop thuggishness over the years — including the deaths of four festivalgoers three years ago caused by a black rapper who was eluding police in a stolen car — has stirred public outrage. The talk on social media and in online posts in recent days has veered into the politically incorrect, with many slamming hip-hop’s thuggish culture. They worry that unsavory rappers and volatile hip-hoppers have hijacked large swaths of SXSW — and are causing mayhem that now overshadows SXSW’s trendy music, film festival, and hi-tech media exhibits and trade shows, among other events.  MORE

10 Comments on Will Thuggish Hip-hop Culture Destroy Austin’s SXSW?

  1. We feel restless, we feel blue,
    We feel lonely, and in brief,
    We feel ev’ry kind of feelin’,
    But the feeling of relief
    We feel hungry as the wolf felt
    When he met Red Hiding-hood
    What don’t we feel?
    We don’t feel good!

    There is no-one you can blame!,
    No one in the world,
    There is no-one you can name
    That is going to take the blame!

  2. Three of my four sons live in Austin. They tell me they are just about done with the douche-baggery that has taken over and will be moving outside the limits of the city where there are still several livable communities.

  3. I hate fing rap. Several times I’ve made young wiggers from well to do families turn that shit off while fueling up at the local gas station. But hey, everyone around here knows the horseshoe.

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