quoted 3 lines i'm getting admonished by a roommate as> i'm getting admonished by a roommate as
> i write this. he says "what about the beastie boys?" well, i hardly
> call the beastie boys hip hop much less rap anymore.quoted 7 lines I know we're getting off-topic here but I have to call you out on this>I know we're getting off-topic here but I have to call you out on this
>attitude -- it's complete bullshit. You want to be able to prop up this
>bogus theory that an entire genre is creatively defunct so you
>oh-so-cleverly define the stuff you happen to *like* out of the genre? Give
>us a break. ("Disco sucks!" "Yeah, well, what about that Giorgio Moroder
>record I see in your collection over there?" "THAT'S NOT DISCO!
>It's...uh...it's ELECTRIC EUROPOP! Yeah! Not disco!")
You make his comment sound like part of some insidious plot, Lazlo.
The man just doesn't think that the Beasties fit into the prevalent
bought-n-sold, give-the-black-man-the-WORST-image-possible
gagsta scene. And I second that. Rap is one of their ingredients,
but I too would honestly hesitate to broadly label their stuff
'rap'. Brad.