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In Reply to: Re: I don't get it posted by mauimusicman on March 3, 2007 at 03:50:49:
Hey, if you don't like rap and hip-hop it, just say so!There's a vast list of great musicians that have contributed to the marvelous history of music that couldn't read music, or even play an instrument very well.
Muddy Waters, for example, could only not read music, he was illiterate! Oh, but that's OK, he COULD play an instrument - could sing a melody. Jeez, there's probably only about 40 million people on the planet at this very moment that can play an instrument, sing a melody.(And, eventually they are ALL going to be on American Idol...) But, I suppose, you being a "professional" musician, they don't qualify as musicians or possible contributor's to the musical lexicon. Maybe once they qualify for the Musician's Union?
Lounges all over the globe are full of "professional" musicians playing the same gig over and over, same time, same place every night of the week. They can read, (maybe even site-read!) play an instrument, show up on time, probably dress nice and in the long run will be musically forgotten soon after they depart this mortal coil, if not from the time they ended their last set. Chuck D will not be forgotten. Being a "professional" musician doesn't mean one is particularly talented or inspired (or inspiring!), it just means they're disciplined. It doesn't make their overall contribution any more important than a talented amatuer.
You're obviously very full of yourself if you can even conceive of comparing a professional musician (which you consider yourself to be) to a doctor or physicist. It's nice you have standards, but to go to that extent- to actually compare yourself to a doctor - in order for you have to try to invalidate hip-hop/rap as a musical form is just pathetic! It sounds like sour grapes from someone that has probably sold less recordings than some 20 year old that just learned how to say motherfucker, put out a CD, and sold 100,00 copies just on word of mouth alone.
Hey, if you don't like rap and hip-hop it, just say so!
Rap and hip-hop certainly have many wanna-be's, posers, phonies and "talents" that don't even resemble the word, but most popular musical forms do. The amount of unlistenable rap and hip-hop for me is only matched by the amount of hair band metal that was the rage in the 80's, or the Country music posers of today. That doesn't make the overall genres any less legitimate, just unlistenable.
Don't try to elevate yourself by cutting off others' legs!
Hey, if you don't like rap and hip-hop it, just say so!
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
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Follow Ups
- What a bunch of bullshit! - musetap 11:29:34 03/03/07 (1)
- Re: What a bunch of bullshit! - mauimusicman 03:20:08 03/04/07 (0)
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