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In Reply to: I don't get it posted by Jim Austin on March 2, 2007 at 03:59:38:
Rap, hip-hop and related forms of noise is offensive to all the senses.It's not a question of taste. It's vulgar crap performed by surly louts who generally end up dead ( and not lamented) or behind bars (where they belong)
In my musiccollection I have classical ( all periods and opera), jazz, blues, folk, pop, rock, electronic, international, country and other odds and ends. I am embrassed to say I have one Kenny G album.
However, I have no rap or hip-hop aural pornography, but I celebrate and encourage it's demise.
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"Your opinion(s) don't mean shit to me!"
"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
Some connection or not?
Undoubtedly the toasting style of reggae, the djs who used to talk over rhythm tracks, were a big influence. But well before this, you had people like the Last Poets, and well before that, you had the beat poets reading over jazz. And you also have the griot traditions of West Africa.
I suppose you don't like the way some people of certain culture 'behave' too? Sagging pants, tilted ballcap, gold grill etc...? At one time BLUES was chracterized the same way as you describe Hip-Hop.
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"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison
> > It's not a question of taste. < <...surely you can see how nonsensical this statement is. Of course it's a matter of taste.
I am reminded of a guy I met during college, on a road trip to Richmond, Virginia, who told me "I'm not prejudiced. I just hate *******." I'm not accusing you or anyone of prejudice; I'm just pointing out the logic (or lack of it) in your statement:'It's not that I don't like it, it's that it sucks.'
Let be.
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