[clintonbaiter]

A humorous and perceptive essay worth reading.

[mhking]

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[TomServo]

Bookmarked and bumped..

[Maceman]

I’m unaware of any faith tradition that has looting, murder and sexual promiscuity as its core beliefs.

It apears to me that Islam is pretty close.

[vetvetdoug]

It is ironic that this article came on the FR today. I sent my truck to the car wash today and when it came back there was a tape in my tape deck that I had not put there. I thought I would give it a listen to see what this rap tape was about...you guessed it, "ho", "white PuXXy", "kill the honkys", rape, drugs, and just about every offensive thing one can think of. If it had been recorded by a white person, one would have to pull the FBI off of them for a hate crime. This hate crime thing and political correctness is utter hypocracy.

[cake_crumb]

BUMP for a great read.

It's amazed me for years, ever since I first heard a rap song not done by Will Smith, that teenage girls actually ride around, in a car, with a LOAD of guys....and listen to this stuff without feeling in the least bit threatened. Scary.

[Nathan Jr.]

Graffiti becomes art, profanity becomes refined expression and blasphemy becomes religious ecstasy.

This guy's obviously not a fan of Stravinsky either...

[Madame Dufarge]

And 50 to 75 years after the American public rejects postmodernism, it will finally dawn on the denizens of Harvard, Yale and Berkeley that the postmodernist agenda was a preposterous fraud.

Thanks for posting this excellent article.

[Notforprophet]

Excellent find! Bumpitty bump bump bump...

[IronJack]

Brilliant essay! William Grim goes on my list of must-reads. I especially liked his observation that

the path leading from Duke Ellington to Snoop Doggy Dogg has not been one of evolutionary ascendancy.

I see it as a decline so rapid its travelers must have gotten the bends. It truly is a "musical" journey back to the jungle.

[GSWarrior]

I'm surprised that a corporation such as JC Penney would play objectionable musak in their stores. In a retail establishment that plays musak, there are usually several music channels from which to choose. Technically, it is a violation of copyright law for an employee to "pop in" one of his/her CDs at work.

My guess is that the district manager would have a fit if he/she walked into a Penney's and was assaulted by profane music.

[Paul Atreides]

It seems the only thing you can find in department stores and restaurants now are:

1) cRAP music;

2) musicians who all sound like Nirvana

3) soul music with someone moaning for 30 minutes on one note

As a marketing minor, I can tell you that there is a reason that Muzak was played over the speakers of department stores; slower, more easy-listening music makes people walk slower, look longer, thereby increasing the possiblity of seeing more to buy. Now, they play crappy music so loud, you want to get your business done and get out as quickly as possible.

[Paul Atreides]

I handed my purchase to the cute 20-something college coed clerk who smiled at me and asked if there was anything else that I needed.

Given the attitude of most 20-somethings in the workforce, he should consider himself lucky.

[KineticKitty]

The featured song is a mellifluous refrain entitled "Bone It," and its lyrics consist largely of the phrase "Bone it, bone it like you own it" repeated ad infinitum.

The context of the rest of the song’s text makes it perfectly clear that the phrase is not in reference to the Friday night Kiwanis fish fry at the town hall.

Thanks for posting this article, I got a kick out of it, and a few laughs I might add. :)