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    Quote Originally Posted by Bethere View Post
    Between you and the Gifted One? It was pretty cool when it was just amateur screaching, too! I can see why they used them on battlefields.
    I think that was the original intent. Shock and awe.
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    Rap music needs social euthanasia.

    Let it die.

    If it shows any signs of revival - kill it with before it lays eggs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
    Rap music needs social euthanasia.

    Let it die.

    If it shows any signs of revival - kill it with before it lays eggs.

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    It definitely corrupts and influences youth, glorifies misogyny, violence, drug peddeling and other lovely traits for youth to aspire to.
    There is no God but Resister and Refugee is his messenger’.

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    In fairness you can’t really top old Eminem, Tupac, Biggie, and N.W.A.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Green Arrow View Post
    In fairness you can’t really top old Eminem, Tupac, Biggie, and N.W.A.
    Tupac and Biggie were the only two I ever thought talented, they made being a thug sound glamerous, as opposed to just thuggish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    That was great. I think the Army was better in general, although when the Navy loosened up, they were very good.

    The Army sucked canal water!! As a Navy Vet there is no way I could ever support those ground pounders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    The Army sucked canal water!! As a Navy Vet there is no way I could ever support those ground pounders.
    LOL. OK, I understand your bias. They were both technically very good. I favored the ground pounders artistically because they were more spontaneous. I'm sure Navy was capable of spontaneity but were trained to maintain form. Military regimen and art are not really compatible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    As this forum is populated by mostly older white people, it is unlikely that a large amount of our members have much familiarity with rap music. Most older people consider rap music totally worthless and unappealing. That said, even these people would probably notice a significant decline in the average quality of rap music over time. As someone who has been listening to rap for around twenty-eight years, this decline has been both obvious and unfortunate because I very much enjoy good rap music.

    Now, it's true that as people get older, they tend to view newer things with excessive amounts of skepticism and cynicism. It'd call this the "back in my day" mentality. I've seriously considered the possibility that my reaction to newer rap music is a consequence of this mentality, but I must conclude that I am not suffering from old guy syndrome. Newer rap music is, on average, much, much worse than older rap music. Just as one obvious example, the lyrical complexity of rap songs has declined IMMENSELY. Anyone who has been listening to rap music will have noticed this. Most newer rap songs lack even the most basic sense of coherence or meaning. It's usually just overly repetitious, vacuous references to increasingly arcane terminology and situations. There is really no narrative to speak of, whereas older rap songs generally were about something. Granted, that something was often very simple, like romance or personal success, but most songs are like that (John Lenon often complained that The Beatles wrote too many simplistic love songs, for example), so being simple does not preclude a song from being lyrically complex or substantive.

    So the question becomes, what's happening to rap music? Why is it becoming so much dumber? Do you even agree that it's getting dumber, or am I just a grumpy old man shaking his cane at the sky?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Early rap...

    Not so early rap (74')


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    Quote Originally Posted by jigglepete View Post
    Not so early rap (74')

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