Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of rap songs about drugs


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The result was delete.  Singu larity  10:35, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

List of rap songs about drugs

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Overly broad list with lots of WP:RS and WP:OR issues. Spellcast (talk) 06:49, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete.  "Direct or indirect reference to drugs from alcohol to cocaine".   Jeez, this article might as well be called simply List of rap songs  :)   -- ShinmaWa(talk) 08:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, lists of songs are rarely a good idea. Punkmorten (talk) 08:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 11:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. We would probably be better off creating a List of rap songs not about drugs.  ;-)  (jarbarf) (talk) 16:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Does Cowboy Troy count? He's clean. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 20:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Way too broad a topic since, sorry, drugs are a major topic of discussion (both for and against) in rap music. Also, the reference to this list including "indirect" references pushes it into OR territory. It's possible a list relating to songs referring specific drugs might be viable, though I doubt it. 23skidoo (talk) 17:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as an indiscriminate collection of information, with no set criterion for inclusion (indirect reference? how indirect?), not to mention that 99.9% of rap mentions drugs in some way. (As opposed to 100% of rap mentioning "ho"s, and I'm not talking the noise Santa makes.) Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 20:22, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Like List of love songs, this could go on infinitely and is way too broad.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 22:56, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There seems to be an inherent bias here against rap. Fact: Most rap songs aren't solely about drugs and that's just ignorant to claim (to claim that parallels claiming most heavy metal songs are about Satan or that most country songs are about Texas). That's a commonly perceived, and also incorrect, stereotype against Rap/Hip-Hop. Also, there are many lists on this site for many different types of songs and if you're goal is to erase this one, in all fairness, the other ones should also then follow suit. Though, I do admit, the ambiguity in "direct/indirect reference" is misleading and too general and has therefore been removed. Jandcast (talk) 20:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF and WP:SEWAGE. If you find lists of songs as useless as this one, please feel free to nominate them for deletion as well.  -- ShinmaWa(talk) 14:07, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


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