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Don't be so sensitive. My post was to show the humor of it (as portrayed in the movie). I actually like some rap, but like anything else, only in moderation. It's too bad that for so many youth, that's all they listen to, so to them, that's music and nothing else counts (just like to many, everything else is music, but rap doesn't count). Put music programs back in our schools and we can fix that problem. But to each his/her own, I guess.
I like listening to DCTalk, but a lot of what they do is very melodic, with rap interspersed. I just can't listen to 4 sampled bars over and over and over and over and over (are you bored with the "overs" yet - then you get the idea) while the rapper tells some story over it. To me, we're now moving more into poetry rather than music. And that's okay. But hey, that's just my opinion. On the dance floor, however, I can stomp roaches to just about anything.
I find it interesting, how in interviews with rappers, they always talk about "their music". The irony is that the "music" part of it is often a sampled version of someone else's music behind "their" lyrics.
What I can't abide with is gangsta rap - women, police officers, and people in general deserve better than that kind of attitude. I'm okay with singing/rapping/telling/reading stories about bad things that happen to people (be they women/men/police/etc), but encouraging the behavior is going in the wrong direction.
Craig - yep, sus4chord is for a suspended 4th. I love the sound of the sus chord played and then resolved. At church, I tell people my favorite chord is the Gsus chord.
Peace.
Don't be so sensitive. My post was to show the humor of it (as portrayed in the movie). I actually like some rap, but like anything else, only in moderation. It's too bad that for so many youth, that's all they listen to, so to them, that's music and nothing else counts (just like to many, everything else is music, but rap doesn't count). Put music programs back in our schools and we can fix that problem. But to each his/her own, I guess.
I like listening to DCTalk, but a lot of what they do is very melodic, with rap interspersed. I just can't listen to 4 sampled bars over and over and over and over and over (are you bored with the "overs" yet - then you get the idea) while the rapper tells some story over it. To me, we're now moving more into poetry rather than music. And that's okay. But hey, that's just my opinion. On the dance floor, however, I can stomp roaches to just about anything.
I find it interesting, how in interviews with rappers, they always talk about "their music". The irony is that the "music" part of it is often a sampled version of someone else's music behind "their" lyrics.
What I can't abide with is gangsta rap - women, police officers, and people in general deserve better than that kind of attitude. I'm okay with singing/rapping/telling/reading stories about bad things that happen to people (be they women/men/police/etc), but encouraging the behavior is going in the wrong direction.
Craig - yep, sus4chord is for a suspended 4th. I love the sound of the sus chord played and then resolved. At church, I tell people my favorite chord is the Gsus chord.
Peace.
I just thought I had to stand up for my Hip Hop friends out there.
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