Music Is Meant For Consumption

I've been listening to these albums a lot lately and it reminded me that I used to hate "boom bap" hip hop. When I was growing up, I had a few cousins and friends that would recommend "boom bap" songs to me. I would give it a listen and agree that it was cool. However, I was turned off to the music because many times their recommendation came with a comment that "the stuff you listen to is trash! Radio music/bass heavy/synth heavy music is terrible! You need to listen to this stuff!"

I didn't mind the recommendation. I love being suggested to music that other people love. The thing that turned me off was the way that I was suggested to listen to the Little Brothers, Slum Villages, and Tribe Called Quests of the music world. It's great that you'll hope that I'll give them a listen, but to diss whatever I choose to listen to at the moment as well isn't a very good way to get me to listen to what you want me to listen to. Surely, if most everyone who recommends me to this music is intolerant of the music that I listen to, then the music that they're recommending to me supports this idea of intolerance of other's musical tastes, right?

That led to me deciding that I wanted to be tolerant of what other people listen to. I could care less what you listen to, as long you listen to what you want to listen to, regardless of outside influences.

The major use of music to me is to enhance or get you through different moods. I'll listen to mushy love songs when I'm feeling all mushy gushy about a girl, I'll listen to hardcore/ignorant rap when I'm feeling violent, and so forth and so on.

I could care less if you listen to soulja boy or the Beatles. The biggest thing that I look at when I see someone's musical tastes is whether or not that person genuinely listens to that music for them or if they listen to it because of outside influences.

I love this "boom bap" music. Obviously not everyone who listens to it is intolerant as far as musical tastes go. Some are, but that applies to any other musical genre. In fact, I've met some of the coolest people that I've ever come across and related to them because of our shared interest in "boom bap" artists.