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In Reply to: Academia and Hip-Hip posted by musetap on March 5, 2007 at 10:28:03:
I've personally never understood the "rapper" mentality, and those who have tried to do so seem to be way off the mark.I think the biggest mistake outsiders have made toward rap and the hip-hop community is failing to realize that rap isn't really intended to be a musical artform, but a high-effective conduit for getting messages to a lot of people. This is what the rappers themselves claim. And once viewed in that light, we realize the simple rhythms are mostly for attention (note that "unplugged rap" doesn't exist), and remain simple to hold attention, yet avoid distraction from the message.
And since this does cater to the desperate, the offensive lyrics and style seem more bearable. Although I do think it's divisive because it has been sending the community's youth a lot of what I think are the wrong messages. And messages that I think will perpetuate or exacerbate the despair, rather than curtail it. I think the ultimate key is whether a rapper with a Martin Luther King vision comes forth. For that's the only tangible solution to break the community's shackles of despair. The motivation must come from within. For outsiders who try their darndest to understand the community's needs have been, as I stated, way off the mark.
In regard to academics, the whole deal has grown into intellectualism merely for the sake of being intellectual. But when they have to apply their institutional knowledge to the real world, there's a disconnect between theory and what actually works. And I think this is true for those trying to understand digital signal processing as much as for those trying to understand the hip-hop community.
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- Re: Academia and Hip-Hip - Todd Krieger 23:54:52 03/05/07 (1)
- Re: Academia and Hip-Hip - yotacowboy 07:57:39 03/06/07 (0)
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