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Originally Posted by Daisy Rimbaud  Artistic??
Let's see -
Step 1: Set a drum machine to go thumpety-thumpety without a break.
Step 2: Get some really crude, stupid words that just about rhyme and recite them in an affected way over the thumpety-thumpety.
Step 3: Get some vocalists to go "doooo-WAH" at the end of each verse.
The rest is marketing. You call that artistic? |
Hmmm....
Yup.. I find a lot of Rap dull and monotonous.. but when it shines... it shines.
Yes there are several bad Rap acts.
There are a lot of crap bands in most genres.
You just seperate the wheat from the chaff.
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Originally Posted by Fmeh And how often is it actually used to bring attention to and protest problems in society?
Yes, it can be used for good things, but how often does that happen? If it NEVER reaches the mainstream, like "911 is a joke", what difference does it make?
When Flavor Flav is putting out misogynistic shows like the crap he has on VH1, it seems that he really doesn't give a shit about making society better--it's all about the bling and turning women into objects. Maybe at one time he was about trying to make a positive difference, but those days are long gone--now it's all about the main message that MTV puts out--"I'm so hood". |
Hmmm
Public Enemy
NWA
Jesus.. the great grandaddy of Rap Gil Scott Heron was ALL about social issues.
Currentlt theres 4/25th... you probably haven't heard of them..
theyre so relevant the pentagon keeps trying to silence them.
And since when did music need to be striving for positive social change to be good
I don't see a lot of that in any genre.