Brett a
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It seems a lot of people here dismiss hop-hop (or “rap”). It seems because it is associated with inner-city gangster culture (which I understand scares people). Do you realize that is only one of a diverse group of interests that use the medium? I don’t see anyone condemning rock and roll as a genre because The Stones, Frank Zappa, or Dead Kennedys made some music with misogynistic or violent themes.
As with every other type of music, if you ignore the stuff played on the radio (99% crap) and do a little poking around, you can find hip-hop that’s not only fun, high quality music, but is also intelligent songwriting with a social conscience. It can be modern folk in the truest sense of the word. Its relationship with other groove-oriented music should be obvious. Think of James Brown/The JB’s, Fela Kuti, the Stax sound, Gill Scott-Heron, Babatunde Olatunji. (If you’re familiar with African music such as Olatuniji or King Sunny Ade you might notice that often the vocal rhythms hang over the beat like a bell pattern.)
I won’t deny that there’s a lot of bragging involved even in some of the better hip-hop, but there’s a lot of bragging in music, and often it’s harmless fun.
Is there anyone here that agrees with me on this?
I’d recommend some of these:
Kool Keith – Black Elvis/Lost in Space
Jurrasic 5 – Power in numbers
Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly
The Streets – S/T
Welfare Poets – Rhymes for Treason
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
As with every other type of music, if you ignore the stuff played on the radio (99% crap) and do a little poking around, you can find hip-hop that’s not only fun, high quality music, but is also intelligent songwriting with a social conscience. It can be modern folk in the truest sense of the word. Its relationship with other groove-oriented music should be obvious. Think of James Brown/The JB’s, Fela Kuti, the Stax sound, Gill Scott-Heron, Babatunde Olatunji. (If you’re familiar with African music such as Olatuniji or King Sunny Ade you might notice that often the vocal rhythms hang over the beat like a bell pattern.)
I won’t deny that there’s a lot of bragging involved even in some of the better hip-hop, but there’s a lot of bragging in music, and often it’s harmless fun.
Is there anyone here that agrees with me on this?
I’d recommend some of these:
Kool Keith – Black Elvis/Lost in Space
Jurrasic 5 – Power in numbers
Missy Elliott – Supa Dupa Fly
The Streets – S/T
Welfare Poets – Rhymes for Treason
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
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