Rage Against the Machine’s “ Killing in the Name” had come out the year before, furthermore, and I suspect this also paved the way. Perhaps this made made it “okay” for usually-white rock fans to listen to them. Cypress Hill have done rap rock and - even though they repeatedly refer to themselves using the n-word in the song - they (like the other two rap groups whose songs get played on modern rock stations) are not black. I suspect, however, that what we have here is a case of musical acceptance/rejection and genre-definition depending on personality, reputation, and culture more than the music itself. One reason for its impact has been its popularity on “modern rock” stations - i.e., the ones that play music “from 90s grunge to the present.” Why it was accepted by rock stations and fans, when the song is most definitely rap, not rock, is a mystery to me. ![]() ![]() This is another one of those songs that never went #1 but has become part of the culture to a much deeper extent than most songs that do go #1. 1, that I’d do more rock and hip-hop for the Volume 2, so let’s do one of the only rap songs you will hear on rock radio: Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain,” from 1993.
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