Posted on 03/01/2007 5:11:49 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
NEW YORK — Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.
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Isn't that where the Justified Ancients of Muumu used to hang out?
Or wanted you to think that they did?
Rap - the answer for people who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket and who were to lazy to put in the practice required to master a musical instrument.
Hey! Hey! what's this krap,
I can't sing so's i got ta rap,
My Ho' don't give me no respect - the witch,
Gonna snuff her soon an leave her ina ditch,
My gun gonna go Wham, Wham, Wham,
Don't mess wif me i'se da Masta Man,
Send some Pigs - send 'em roun' real soon,
My gun gonna go Boom, Boom, Boom,
Kill 'em once, kill 'em twice,
An take some snow so's I feel real nice,
Infantile Rap - can't take it no mo,
So I think I'll slide right out da door...
Well there ya go, where's my contract?
Gonna be rich, be a millionaire, gonna move right out to Bel Aire.
Whoa, I think that may have already been done.
Anyway you can see that it only takes the equivalent of a third grade education, familiarization with street slag, no talent, and you too can be a Rap star. Good luck and Good bye!
I always thought Blondie recorded the first modern rap song too, I think it was more like '77 or '78 though. I think there was a VH1 special about the birth of rap and that was the conclusion reached in the program.
I just recently "rediscovered" Blondie, GOOD stuff IMO. Their greatest hits CD is in my car's 6 disk changer, along with Rob Zombie, metallica, Gretchen Wilson, Celtic Women and a mix of Fuges (classical). I have a strange taste in music.
I think it has been at least that long since MTV had a music video.
Yup. You nailed it!
And "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean came out in 1961.
I'll ask the Lion........
I think this one started it all:
Give some propahs to my story bout a mutha named J-Ed
Po l'il homey wasn't bringin' in the bread
Til one day he was shootin' at something
An' out from the stoop come a whole messa bling
I have it on cassette. I love the Beastie Boys, in spite of their hatred of the president.
Make that awful movies, at least the ones that I've seen. And I tend to like "B" movies. (I'm still mourning the lost of MST3000).
Ice T needs a new gig. Or new writers. He and his character are pretty stale.
This one's pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/v/ic7rCw7SFjs
I remember buying the 12 inch 45 of "Rappers Delight". It's really amazing how much the lyrics have changed. Today it's about b*tches and h*s and putting a cap in somebody's a**.
Back then it was about being a dinner guest and worrying about hurting the hosts feelings when the food isn't any good.
Times have changed.
LMAO!
""I'm a Ding-Dong-Daddy from Dumas," is a prime example."
I never realized Rap(patter) had catchey melodies such as the above.
That explains the picture of a Ding-Dong Daddy in Dumas I saw after they had the tornado there the other day.
"I would say it's not rap's musical form that is losing popularity "
I don't know much about Rap, but what I do know of it has no musical form, only rythem. I believe it was invented so those with NO musical talent whatsoever could pretend to be in the music business.
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