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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Is Rap music? |
| Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:58:36 -0500 |
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Not to mention "I Shot the Sheriff," "I Fought the Law," "Folsom Prison
Blues," Some Girls" (black girls just want to WHAT?), Springsteen's "Murder
Incorporated," and all that screechy hair metal from the 80s (talk about a
genre that aint music.) Rap has no monopoly on violence or misogyny, and
sometimes it troubles me how it is OK (or more OK) to address these topics
in other genres.
I personally don't deny that rap is a viable form of music and art. Just
don't put it on if I'm in the room. And no opera either. (And I think my
opinion of 80s hair metal speaks for itself. Although I'm dreading
Stewart's treatise on the topic.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "ronald and karen sanchez" <eldeluxe@mcn.net>
> Hey didn't Cheap Trick do a song called She's A Whore?? I think they might
have written about drinking and partying too, and we all want to write songs
about not having a job.
>
> you guys think too much. just turn up the hi-fi and relax
>
> nonstoppop@cox.net wrote:
>
> > > While Rap is obviously a unque branch of "music"...the negative
connotation
> > > of a lot of it is a real turn off, especially when you have dudes
filling a
> > > whole album with rhymes about bitches, ho's, poppin' caps, drinkin
40's, not
> > > having a job and partying all the time.
> >
> > Of course it's a turn-off when it just focuses on those things. But a
point I was trying to make is that when an artist who practices within the
rap genre comes out with a groundbreaking album that expands the genre's
lyrical palate beyond just those limited topics and goes into different
musical territories as well, and people are saying as much, adding, "I don't
generally like rap, but I like this album," it just seems inappropriate for
the response to be a blanket statement like, say, "All rap is shit." Not
that you personally said that, you understand...but it's certainly been said
on the list, more or less...
>
> -- Ronald Sanchez
> Director Of A&R
> Career Records
> www.CareerRecords.com
>
> The Donovan's Brain Web Site
> www.Donovans-Brain.com
>
>
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