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Posted on 02/07/2012 10:03:38 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
As Jay-Z transitioned from hit song to hit song at a Carnegie Hall concert Monday night, so did the lighting, changing from red to white to blue.
The veteran rapper then performed his latest hit, "Glory," about his 1-month-old daughter with Beyoncé, Blue Ivy Carter.
"I didn't think I was going to make it through that one," he said, sounding emotional. "That was tough."
It was one of the many jams Jay-Z performed at New York's famed venue, his latest achievement in music domination.
The rapper is the second hip-hop act to perform at Carnegie Hall. Wyclef Jean did so in 2001 with Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton and Whitney Houston.
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I have even seen fawning coverage on this guy in the Wall Street Journal.
I don't get it.
Silk purse/sow’s ear
You must equate rap and hip-hop with classical music, or else you are a racist.
You must equate rap and hip-hop with classical music, or else you are a racist.
What does it say about American when it makes trash like this millionaires?
Low culture celebrated as high culture. The elites are slumming. Or is it slummin’ at DA CLUUUUUB?
Nasty rappers performing in Canegie hall!
Where actual music once was played.
How far we have fallen.....
Just another contributing factor to the stupefication of this great country of ours!
When I was young, variety shows on TV would showcase a juggler (low culture/carnival act) then break for a commercial and come back with someone singing an Aria from Verdi.
Once upon a time, we really had both low culture and high culture, and each might recieve some influence from the other.
Today, the remains of high culture seem to exist only in small niches and do not influence the world very much. Today, low culture is just about all the culture we have.
I remember that! Ed Sullivan was my favorite. Robert Merrill would sing right after the spinning plates act.
And DURING the spinning plates act, they usually played “Sabre Dance” by Khachaturian or “The Comedians” by Kabalevsky.
And of Course, it is where I first saw the Beatles!
Those were the days.
LOW culture would be a stripper, not a juggler, a carnival geek putting a pin through his cheeks, a bawdy comic.
There was “adult only” entertainment in the teens and twenties and thirties and forties and fifties of the previous century. NONE of it went on tv in the 1940s and 50s.
Listen to the x-rated Friar’s Club roasts to understand the difference.
Rap is thuggish music about pimpin’ hoes, slagging your competition, and boasting of your penis size while blazin’ a joint and braggin’ how many times you got shot. Bad grammer and stereotypes and phony bios.
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