I’m not telling you this as a BY teacher or a Rav or something, but as somebody who has been there themselves -I listened to rap from when I was a little kid for like 15 years. It’s like a drug. You may be very desensitized but every now and then I listen to some rap after not having heard it for a long time and I feel really dirty afterwards. It’s not a guilty feeling like, “Oh no! I’m going to burn!” It’s more a feeling like I just dipped my neshama in the toilet. And I can tell you I actually still like rap music and find some of the lyrics to be really deep and applicable to my life! Even though I still to this day find those good points in rap, something deep in my soul just feels grossed out with it, but it took weaning myself off of it and a lot of growing closer to Hashem.
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