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Gangsta Rap On Death Row As The US Tunes Out
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 6-30-2007
| Tim Shipman
Posted on 06/30/2007 5:17:39 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:17:44 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Is Tim Shipman the only writer for this newspaper?
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:19:07 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
To: blam
-—you can’t spell “crap” without “rap”—
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:20:39 PM PDT
by
rellimpank
(-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: blam
Tom Vickers, a former talent spotter for Capitol/Mercury records said: "Rap has gradually degenerated from an art form into a ring tone. . . ." Some art form.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:25:16 PM PDT
by
Logophile
To: blam
Now if only we can get Jazz-z and Diddy to stop ruining songs by making guest intros.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:25:19 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Perdogg
kinda’ funny there’s a Tom and a Tim; maybe like the Hitchens boys.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:26:05 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: rellimpank
They like to rap, cause they full o’ crap.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:26:09 PM PDT
by
Free ThinkerNY
((((Truth shall set you free))))
To: blam
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:26:19 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We go into the dark places....)
To: Perdogg
the original nasty rappers?
why the native Americans,the Arapaho
badda bing.........
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:26:51 PM PDT
by
advertising guy
(If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
To: blam
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:27:17 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
To: blam
Disco died on schedule. Rap should have died at least 15 years ago.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:27:23 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: blam
Since when is inept poetry set to drum machine “music”?
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:27:40 PM PDT
by
Boundless
(Legacy Media is hazardous to your mental health)
To: rellimpank
-—you can’t spell “crap” without “rap”— Well said! May rap go the way of disco, a stake driven through its heart and buried beneath an unmarked crossroad.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:27:53 PM PDT
by
LibKill
(Bush betrayed conservatives on Immigration. NO support for Bush.)
To: mad_as_he$$
Awwwww, who’s gonna’ call women ho’s and bitches? Who’s gonna’ talk about the joys of rape and murder???
(GOOD RIDDANCE!!!)
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:28:42 PM PDT
by
bannie
(Is the amnesty bill the REASON our Founding Fathers insured our RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?)
To: blam
But America’s rappers are now trapped in a corner they don’t seem able to shoot their way out of, with either weapons or words.
Uh no. Any rapper with any brains headed for the “mainstream” years ago. Ice-T, Ice Cube, Queen Latifah, etc. etc. etc.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:28:52 PM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: blam
Rap is really on the decline. Why, just the other day they held the Miss Rap USA contest and could only muster 49 contestants. Seems nobody wanted to be Miss Idaho.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:33:42 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Logophile
When it all started with Rappers Delight by Sugarhill Gang it seemed so innocent. :)
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:34:38 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: blam
When your selling trash,your not going to be around long.
All I can say is good riddance too bad rubbish.
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:34:47 PM PDT
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: blam
What folks may not realize is that the UK has it’s own “gangsta rappers” replete with cars and woman etc, as does France and Spain and Russia and interestingly the Arab World has it’s own rappers...no, I’m not kidding....
What shipman is trying to do (IMO) is tell the “youths” that gangsta rap is out of date in the US, not many people listen to it anymore, in a “hipster” country, that is the kiss-o-death.
And the 20 year culture cycle is moving to 1987, rap was dying then and heavy metal was on the rise into the mainstream.
Rock on dude...it’s Slayer!
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:35:40 PM PDT
by
padre35
(Quod autem isti dicunt non interponendi vos bello)
To: xp38
well it's on & on & on & on
the beat dont stop until the break of dawn
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posted on
06/30/2007 5:38:08 PM PDT
by
skeeter
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