Signs You Should Stop Listening to Rap

The warning signs are all there.

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Rap is popular. Real popular. Were we to guess, we'd estimate there are probably, like, at least 600-700 people who listen to it each day. That's a lot. Sadly, some of those people are doing so in error. Appealing as it is, too much rap can be a bad thing. Some people just need to take a break.

There are, to be sure, certainly a solid portion of those 600-700 people that listen to rap that should not be listening to rap, just as there are, to be sure, very certainly a bunch of reasons that the people listening to rap that shouldn't be listening to rap shouldn't be listening to rap.

Here then, are ten of the easier, most basic signs that you should not be listening to rap anymore.

Written by Shea Serrano (@SheaSerrano)

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You type "da" in lieu of "the" in work emails.

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You know four ways to pronounce "Hundred."

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The only measurements you know are kilo and trey-pound.

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You throw a party, the ladies ask for something to dance to, and you put on "Yonkers."

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You keep saying "loc" but you're neither from L.A. or a gangbanger.

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You keep calling your mom "ma dukes" or "thun."

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Nope.

Move around, hoe.

You remember when the song that a rapper sampled in his new song was a popular all by itself and the rapper that sampled it doesn't.

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You've said something like, "Hip-hop is dead."

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You're not Black and you think it's okay to say "n****."

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You want rappers to apologize for their lyrics.

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