A Music Thread

[C0ckney]

ah, poor baby.

i've only praised aahz insofar as i said that he is at least into his rap, whereas you posted a lot of poppy crap. it's hardly necessary to point out his narrow focus, because anyone who reads these threads can see that for themselves. in fairness you seem to have stepped up your game in recent times. although your focus is still somewhat narrow. not knowing who led zeppelin are, i mean seriously...

[Al B. Sure!]

yup. aahz knows a lot about one subgenre of a particular kind of music, and, errr...that's it, to the exclusion of all else. it's stupid and sad, a bit aahz himself.

Yet you the were one praising him before and denigating everything I posted. Go figure.


It's like gribbler in that Led Zeppelin thread, going out of his way to say that rappers suck because all they can do is talk. That's like saying poets suck because all they can do is talk. Like really? What is going on? Why does rap get no respect from you all? I wonder if a lot of it is because rap like AAHZ likes exists and is holding down the entire genre in the public consciousness. You hear rap and people automatically think bling bling *****es and hoes, cars and rims, gangster selling drugs and killing people with a real heavy window-rattling bass-line.

That's what all the 50 year old people like Sloww think; that's what the people in power think; even though rap in its present form is over 30 years old and has even older origins like I pointed out, and the styles of rap are as diverse as the styles of rock encompassing everything from the Rolling Stones to Marilyn Manson, there's this automatic tendency to associate rap with trash. No other genre of music is so misrepresented in the popular consciousness by the absolute worst dregs of it.

[C0ckney]

the rebel mc - street tuff

[C0ckney]

I've never known a person with such limited knowledge and appreciation of music, AAHZ. If you like the stuff that you post, fine. To shut out all else is stupidity.

yup. aahz knows a lot about one subgenre of a particular kind of music, and, errr...that's it, to the exclusion of all else. it's stupid and sad, a bit aahz himself.

[Al B. Sure!]

Better yet, let the teacher KRS-One school you some more, AAHZ:

[Al B. Sure!]

I think I need to take AAHZ back to where it started at.

Let KRS spit his philosophy with some relevant rhymes for AAHZ's type of music:

[SlowwHand]

That's easy. He's blinded by his own brilliance.

[Al B. Sure!]

It's crazy cause back in 1994, Common broke it down with a song in which he anthropomorphized hip hop as a woman and criticized this very thing.




For over two decades people like you AAHZ have been destroying an art-form from within. It's sickening.

You hear the Cassidy song "Damn I miss the game", AAHZ? He's "Tired of the dumb rap" and wish it would go back to what it used to be about.

As your boy Cass says,
"Yo what happened to the game?
All these niggas rappin the same and that's lame
Cats hustlin, bustin they gat
Curtis Blow never talked about hustlin crack
Yo, Everybody on the grind
But Run DMC never killed nobody in a rhyme"

Exactly, AAHZ. Cassidy gets it. Why the hell you don't?

[SlowwHand]

I don't think you should waste your brilliance trying in vain to educate such worthless people.

[ZEE]

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[SlowwHand]

I've never known a person with such limited knowledge and appreciation of music, AAHZ. If you like the stuff that you post, fine. To shut out all else is stupidity.

[Al B. Sure!]

The thing is rap is ultimately spoken word poetry over a beat. It should be able stand alone performed without music or as words on the page. Your crap looks utterly ludicrous on paper with nothing but curses and talking about killing people and selling drugs. ****, your **** isn't even clever. There's no punch-lines, no metaphors, no smilies, and they barely even rhyme!

**** that ****. It's irredeemable. There's nothing you can say. It's completely and objectively lyrically inferior.

[Al B. Sure!]

Your rap is complete trash devoid of substance that is popular for no other reason than a bassline and maybe catchy hooks. It's funny that you're the one posting stupid formulaic bling bling *****es and **** snitches crap rap and trying to act like you're posting something of value.

The dichotomy between good rap and crap rap is probably greater than within any other type of music. It's why a lot of people feel the need to differentiate the genre and call good rap hip hop (ignoring the fact that hip hop is a bigger movement than just rapping) and everything else crap rap.

Good rap:



compared to your ****... it's unbelievable.

[ZEE]

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[ZEE]

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