Polls Apart - Token Raps in Songs (Best and Worst)

6. Credibility is hard to come by - especially if you rose to fame gurning like a simpleton on the Disney channel. You could try and earn it by challenging both yourself and your audience with an artistically rich and varied output that seeks to interpret our cultural melee from a fresh perspective. But then that all sounds a bit like hard work... Alternatively, you could just buy in one of those hip-hoppers, absorbing urban cool by osmosis and further reducing one of modern America’s most powerful indigenous art forms to little more than a neutered pop sideshow. It worked for Justin and Britney, so why not Christina? Looking like a walking VD clinic, Aguilera cast off her wholesome image with ‘Dirrty’ - a song whose squalid video revelled in sthenolagnia and featured faux-lyrical outrage that makes Jodie Marsh look like Kiera Knightly. Chuck in the obligatory rap verse courtesy of Redman and you essentially have the nearest thing to a nation-state masturbating furiously whilst looking at a nude photo of themselves.

Source: ClashMusic