Six murders in Philadelphia first day of the year

[Al B. Sure!]

Sitting at 21 murders in the first 18 days of the year.

[giblets]

Rap music is popular in Philadelphia. COINCIDENCE...?

[Al B. Sure!]

Rap music is popular in Philadelphia. COINCIDENCE...?

This is the era of Kanye West. You think rappers make violent songs? Get with the last decade, fool.

Top 3 rap songs on the billboard charts... 'Niggas in Paris' by Jay-Z and Kanye West, 'Dance' by Big Sean and Nicki Minaj, and 'Make me Proud' by Drake and Nicki Minaj. Sex and materialism yes but not a single reference to violence in any of those songs.

And that's even assuming that music could motivate criminal behavior.

[Elok]

I believe he was actually suggesting that listening to terrible, terrible "music" kills off the parts of your brain responsible for civilized behavior such as chess and not killing people.

[Al B. Sure!]

I believe he was actually suggesting that listening to terrible, terrible "music" kills off the parts of your brain responsible for civilized behavior such as chess and not killing people.

Impossible:

[Elok]

"The Queen can move in all direction," eh? See, it also kills the part of your brain that says "don't pretend to know chess by copying chess instructions from a manual written by a barely-conversant Chinese person."

[Al B. Sure!]

I believe he was actually suggesting that listening to terrible, terrible "music" kills off the parts of your brain responsible for civilized behavior such as chess and not killing people.

Study, please? I'd like to see some evidence that music causes brain damage.

"The Queen can move in all direction," eh? See, it also kills the part of your brain that says "don't pretend to know chess by copying chess instructions from a manual written by a barely-conversant Chinese person."

Something tells me you didn't watch the video. Like you never saw a typo before. Typos in uploaded youtube videos become impossible to fix because you have to change the text in the original video then upload it anew.

[giblets]

This is the era of Kanye West. You think rappers make violent songs? Get with the last decade, fool.

Top 3 rap songs on the billboard charts... 'Niggas in Paris' by Jay-Z and Kanye West, 'Dance' by Big Sean and Nicki Minaj, and 'Make me Proud' by Drake and Nicki Minaj. Sex and materialism yes but not a single reference to violence in any of those songs.

And that's even assuming that music could motivate criminal behavior.

It's too late. Gangsta rap's damage has already been done

[giblets]

Study, please? I'd like to see some evidence that music causes brain damage.

Listening to headphones at max volume has been proven to damage your hearing, and by damaging your high frequency hearing you become more like Ben.

Something tells me you didn't watch the video. Like you never saw a typo before. Typos in uploaded youtube videos become impossible to fix because you have to change the text in the original video then upload it anew.

If their brains were functioning they would have watched the video before uploading it to make sure everything was done correctly.

[Al B. Sure!]

I believe he was actually suggesting that listening to terrible, terrible "music" kills off the parts of your brain responsible for civilized behavior such as chess and not killing people.

You've clearly never played against (and lost to) someone who took up chess in prison. Actually, the guy I lost a chess match to played chess in school before his incarceration. So all that being a chess nerd didn't stop him from committing a felony.

[Al B. Sure!]

Listening to headphones at max volume has been proven to damage your hearing, and by damaging your high frequency hearing you become more like Ben.

Are we discussing volume here? The position was that rap music (or terrible music in Elok's case) could damage your brain. There was no mention of volume. I'd like to see a study that shows that a genre of music, in general, causes brain damage. Cite, sir?

If their brains were functioning they would have watched the video before uploading it to make sure everything was done correctly.

Their? It's a dude. He made a rap about chess. Maybe you should watch it because it's a cool and entertaining video, instead of just hating would you don't understand. This guy does a lot of other interesting rap songs (like one about solving a rubik's cube). Expand your mind, *******.

[giblets]

Are we discussing volume here? The position was that rap music (or terrible music in Elok's case) could damage your brain. There was no mention of volume. I'd like to see a study that shows that a genre of music, in general, causes brain damage. Cite, sir?

Rap music is the only form of music I hear people blasting in their cars at high volumes. Check.

Their? It's a dude. He made a rap about chess. Maybe you should watch it because it's a cool and entertaining video, instead of just hating would you don't understand. This guy does a lot of other interesting rap songs (like one about solving a rubik's cube). Expand your mind, *******.

You don't need to explain the subject of the video as if I didn't realize it was a rap about chess, *******. Also, solving a rubik's cube can't possibly be an interesting subject to talk about. I think you're lying. Checkmate!

[Aeson]

I've been doing it wrong all these years. After watching that chess rap video I now know that if you take an opponent's piece you get another turn (sometimes), pawns can move 3 times in a row ... black seems to move first ... also that river rhymes with delivered.

[Dinner]

I do like how they have tables in public parks with chess boards already built into them. You meet some cool and interesting people playing chess in public parks.

[Al B. Sure!]

I've been doing it wrong all these years. After watching that chess rap video I now know that if you take an opponent's piece you get another turn (sometimes), pawns can move 3 times in a row ... black seems to move first ... also that river rhymes with delivered.

It's a music video for dramatic effect. He's portraying it as a war.

And river is an imperfect rhyme with delivered. I don't know the terminology but it's between a perfect rhyme and assonance/consonance.