Cruising Music

H2O_Doc

Noooo. Lots of good, now becoming classic, rap. Tribe, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and the lis could go on. I think it's easy to let a lack of understanding of music emote stereotyping and thinly veiled bigotry.

Dwight Frye

Rap is not music. Childish, pretentious rhyming with sampling and drum machines and your posse grunting ebonics in the background is not music.

There is no lack of understanding involved. Quite the contrary. I am like the little kid in the fable The Emperor's New Clothes. Being pure of mind and spirit, I see that rap is not the gilded robes but is a figment of mass hypnosis of those who were afraid to criticize it for it's lack of recognizable talent

H2O_Doc

Dig deeper. Similar sorts of things said about the Blues.

njobe89

idk why, but i just wanted to put that there lol

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Duc_Z09

Dunno if I'd go that far, I'm sure it takes some talent to rhyme that fast. That still doesn't change the fact that I think it sucks though, no different than the crappy pop stars who don't play instruments. But to each his own.

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H2O_Doc

I think that's a fair statement. Thinking something sucks is an expression of a subjective assessment. Saying something "isn't music" assumes one can be the arbiter of truth on what is a largely subjective matter.

And you are absolutely right "to each his own."

I have a nice drive in WV coming up and this thread reminded me I have to put together music for the drive. I don't want to be hunting for Hanson or the Bieb on my winding drive.