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Zazie

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I also found ice “T” fascinating. His music was often a great deal more political than it initially sounded.
I concur.

Lord, remember the furor about "Cop Killer"?
You might also like “the last poets”. It’s some of the very first proto rap from the 1960s. Just drums. Very very political.
I loved the song of theirs on the Performance soundtrack, but for some reason never explored them further. A bad oversight on my part that I intend to remedy.
 
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I get it but don't sweat it! Most of us are over 40 it seems and don't need safe spaces.
Maybe so, but the red x makes it seems as though disagreement is a declaration of war--which is kind of emblematic of safe space culture, come to think of it.
 
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Wow, I wasn't trying to start a war with my "real song" comment. I was meant as humor and only about this one particular video. I don't hate all rap either. I used to like it myself (pre-gangsta) back when it was groups like Run-DMC, Fresh Prince (Will Smith), Fat Boys, DJ Magic Mike, Mix-A-Lot, and even Beastie Boys. I stopped listening when it all became about bragging about how tough they are, slinging drugs, killing (each other and cops), and abuse of women.
 

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I mean, I even own (paired with my kiddo) an "I'm on a boat "censored censored") T shirt, which has as many of the cuss words as we could find.

The only shirt I ever owned with curse words on it simply said "F:censored:k you I'm from Texas". I really liked wearing it when traveling. I was young then and didn't care what kind of "ambassador" I was being.
 
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It's okay. You didn't. @HauntedMyst, on the other hand . . .


Me? Trying to start a war? Never. Well, not since I started the rumor back in 2002 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. I learned my lesson. All I was saying is that life is like the IQ spectrum. Some things are at the bottom and somethings are at the top. Take art for example. At one end of the spectrum, in the modern art community, someone will think giving himself a multi colored, kaleidoscopic, psychedelic paint enema and then squatting and releasing it over a canvas. Some people will see that and love it and see it as creating avant garde, evolutionary, progressive art that expresses the artists inner turmoil in our tumultuous times. Others lean towards wanting to see a Rembrandt or Vermeer as great art. All I was saying is that in my humble, aging opinion, rap is the remixed, regurgitated enema of the music world. I don't think anyone in two or three hundred years will be heading down to Carnegie hall to listen to the classics featuring Kanye West and Snoop Dog. Time will tell if I am right. No one should care or need a safe space if their opinion differs.
 
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Here's a quick 30 second explanation of what can happen if you fail to follow ohm's law or properly use batteries.



The above video reminds me of a skit done by John Belushi on Saturday Nite Live. Could be the local dialect.



Is it bad that I understood every word of both, or just as Bad said, an indication of local dialect? :laugh:
 
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I don't think anyone in two or three hundred years will be heading down to Carnegie hall to listen to the classics featuring Kanye West and Snoop Dog.

By that standard, I doubt anything written in the last 20 years, in any genre would qualify.

Ok well maybe the Beastie Boys

@1:36
McCoy: "Is that classical music?":
Spock: "Yes Dr., it would seem to be."

 
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I have been reluctantly forced to love rap ever since I went to the Zooropa (I think it was) stadium tour about 8 months pregnant, I'm pretty sure that is why (even since I wound up crouched behind the stadium against my car, like with blankets and whatnot wrapped around me, the kiddo's eardrums were set in stone.

Know enough to be all freaking snazzy on the different scenes? Probably not. Know enough to be all pretentious about ALL OF IT? Definitely NOT.

Know enough to distinguish bad from good (at least to me?) ABSOLUTELY. I have a classical background, a really not discriminating taste, and I can still tell you that parody may be "Funny" and "even somehow meaningful TO YOU?"

It's just not good. And there is jazz I consider good, and I hate jazz. LOL. But well, we can't all be experts, some of us just gotta be reluctant moms who try their hardest as the ice pick of certain rap gets ice picked through their eyeballs.

Also, if I need "insider information' to love something... THAT is an AUTOMATIC TOTAL DISQUALIFIER for me. Because it's inaccessible. Etc.

But, I'm not going to tell you to get off my lawn, love what you love. I gave you plenty of "license" to love, and trust me if it's not something I would let my KID PLAY well uh, it sucks pretty hard.

I'm sure he'd tell me I was embarrassing myself, probably. I'm sure he has your insider info. If I cared, I would get him to give it a whirl because I value HIS opinion. Etc.

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80's gangster rap is OK with me. I don't really enjoy the new fangled music out these days. Michael Buble and Ariena Grande make me car sick. That girl has 3 songs on the radio. ALL of them are about capitalists exploiting the working class. tsk tsk tsk. 3 songs!?!?

The radio announcer said this morning "this is a first for me, Ariana Grande has knocked Ariana Grande out of the #1 spot on the charts, finally." I hear there is talk that Ariana Grande will be taking the 3rd spot, I bet Ariana Grande is jealous.
 

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Michael Buble and Ariena Grande

Who are these people? I have never heard anything by either of them. Then again I usually either listen to 80's stations or stations that play hard rock/metal. Modern pop/top40 with all the heavy autotune is just a horrendous mess. I have heard that most of that trash is written by a computer program that analyzes what people like in music then composes new music to specifically target similar beats and rhythms. Then they find some young semi-attractive female that is willing to dress like a street walker to screech into a mic. Then finally they mask her crappy voice with enough autotune that she sounds more like a robot than a human. Oh look the next "big hit".
 
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