quoted 6 lines I didn't grow up the 'hood, but I find that rap is an
>I didn't grow up the 'hood, but I find that rap is an
>outlet for rage and anger geared towards young black
>males that don't know any better than to 'buy' scads
>of cds by artists that churn out mindless amounts of
>repetitive drivel speaking of some woman's 'bootie'
>they 'boned' last night.
i think that's a bit of stereotyping don't you?
there's plenty of hip-hop artists, both vocal and
instrumental, that don't fit into your view of what
hip-hop is. it's true that a lot of commercialised
shit you hear on the radio is crap but there's plenty
of underground material that doesn't fall into the
"bling-bling" category.
quoted 5 lines I find rap to be complete crap quite plain and
>I find rap to be complete crap quite plain and
>simple. The days of creativity have obviously run
>out with todays rap, and if you think electronic
>artists should look towards rap as influence, the
>genre itself will be ruined.
to me it seems that some electronic artists aren't
even really making the music anymore. they're more
programmers that develop software that "randomly"
makes their music for them. i think that it is much
harder to make an album that is 100% sample-based ala
dj shadow than it is to buy some drum machines, a
keyboard/sequencer or an all computer-based system and
make music.
obviously both sides look to each other for
inspiration. people like autechre and boards of
canada have nothing but good things to say about
producers like the rza and they admit that their
background is hip-hop based. obviously early hip-hop
(electro type shit) was heavily influenced by
electronic music (i.e. afrika bambaataa looking
towards kraftwerk, etc...) i think that it all goes
hand in hand. both are musics based on technology,
just different approaches.
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org