Posted on 08/21/2013 6:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The phrase “rap music” is a contradiction in terms. It can be rap or it can be music but it can’t be both.
(C)rap is not only not music, aside from its crude jungle rhythms, it is not even musicAL. It is piss-poor poetry produced by pushers, pimps, and posers. It sucks almost as bad as disco, and features the same caliber of talentless hacks who make it and the same tone-deaf cretins who consume it.
It's a testament to how low black culture has sunk that they produce it (quite a step down from Duke Ellington to 50 Cent), and even more damning of the children of middle class whites who consume it.
Reciting crude rhymes to a background beat has the same relationship to music as spray-painted swear words on public property have to fresco art.
What passes for "country" today is just generic pop sung with a twang or a drawl. It has more in common with Justin Bieber than with Hank Williams or George Jones.
And I'd add that rap is only marginally worse than today's mass market pop, which really seems like it's cobbled together by a marketing committee rather than by musicians.
Country ‘rap?’ Already been done.
Trace Adkins, “Rough and Ready”
(Wiseman / MacKichan / White)
Mud grips - white-tip
Cigar stickin’ out of my face
Earnhardt racing sticker on the window
Banged up fender
4x4 - straight pipe roar
Primer and rust all over the door
Scarred up knuckles, Mack belt buckle
White t-shirt - Ain’t afraid to work
Got a “what-are-you-looking-at-pretty-boy” smirk
Cold beer, hot wings
Wranglers, Skoal ring
Get just what you see
Gun rack, ball cap
Don’t take no crap
Ain’t a pretty boy-toy
I’ll rock you steady
Rough and ready
Work boots - one blue suit
Size too small - won’t wear at all
Unless somebody kicks - gets hitched
Thats a b*tch – that makes me itch
Up with sun - off on the run
Makin’ money money - cause I wanna have fun
5 o’clock whistle - off like a missile
Got a hot date, girl named Kate
Think’s I’m cool - ‘cause I shoot straight
Ain’t one thing about her fake
She’s long and tall - and she goes great with
Cold beer, hot wings
Wranglers, Skoal ring
Get just what you see
Gun rack, ball cap
Don’t take no crap
Ain’t a pretty boy-toy
I’ll rock you steady
Rough and ready
Rough and ready, Baby
To each his own. Light rock doesn’t cut it for me.
The only problem with the idea that rap is causing black kids to gun each other down is that they were doing it before the advent of rap. They’ve been gunning each other down in large numbers for more than fifty years...certainly before the pestilence which is rap music started infesting the nation’s youth culture.
doesn’t cut it for you
right
I didn’t know music was supposed to cut “it”, I thought it was supposed to be enjoyed not painful
Why make vast sweeping statements like that? Disco had no talented practitioners? Chic, Donna Summer, The Bee Gees? ABBA? Come on.
Something about their breathy falsetto voices always made my skin crawl.
Unless you just forgot the sarcasm tag, thank you for proving my point.
Donna Summer had one of the best voices of any singer of her generation. The Bee Gees and ABBA were great songwriters.
Calling those artists talentless is absurd on its face. The two guys from ABBA have written first rate musical theater pieces since ABBA called it quits.
Even if concede for the sake of argument that the “artists” you cited were not incompetent hacks, what were they doing squandering their vast talents writing and performing “music” whose sole claim to artistry was its ability to induce vomiting?
I can gargle better than Donna Summer could sing. And the Bee Gees and ABBA couldn’t write a decent used-car jingle if they joined forces.
More like an oxymoron. It ain't "music". Percussion and someone talking are not "music".
Saying something stupid doesn’t make it true. Donna Summer had a great voice which is admired by people who didn’t even like disco. Benny and Bjorn from ABBA were serious composers who’ve written Classically tinged musicals that have been performed in Carnegie Hall.
If you think isn’t musical or the product of inceomptent hacks then I don’t know what for...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtb1CVoDqTo
People like Yoko Ono too. I doubt future generations will recognize her as much of a musician. And if the B’s from ABBA are such musical prodigies, why did they waste so much of their careers with tripe like “Fernando” and “Dancing Queen”? Either you vastly overrate their talents or they were a pair of soulless sellouts who paid their bills by producing brain damage.
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