Posted on 05/23/2018 9:23:37 AM PDT by rktman
Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis said that the racially charged and profanity-laced creations in rap and hip-hop are "more damaging" to the culture and to black Americans "than a statue of Robert E. Lee."
During a recent interview with the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, Marsalis -- the first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1997 -- said: “My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don’t think we should have a music talking about niggers and bitches and hoes. It had no impact. I’ve said it. I’ve repeated it. I still repeat it."
"To me that’s more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee," said Marsalis, who plays the trumpet and received the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
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Wow. Good for him!
There goes Wynton Marsalis excusing slavery.
Or is he trying to slam Kanye West?
Put this up on my facebook page. Waiting for the libs to read it. Bet they stay totally quiet. 4 likes from conservatives in the first 40 minutes.
I’ve caught his Jazz For Young People show a few times and listened to the whole thing.
Musically illiterate me got a lot from it.
I have 0 musical ability.
BTT
I love jazz and R&B but rap is crap.
No, he’s been addressing the destructiveness of moving from real culture (music) to the sordid one that isn’t.
WOOOAAAAHHH!
‘Bout time!
Me too but I go to three jam sessions a week and they still let me pick me pick at my guitar. ;-)
“They only thing we may disagree on is that a statue of Robert E. Lee is not damaging. “
How is it damaging?
A toxic culture needs a toxic anthem.
The first I'm hearing of this, I guess the media doesn't report it much. Good for him.
Wynton call Kanye
Good for you both,
Expect charges to be brought about some phony claims from some women or worse....
The libeal playbook....
I agree, 100%. And they have the nerve to call it “music”. It’s nothing but NOISE, annoying NOISE.
If you have not heard Wynton’s trumpet....you are missing out.
I keep saying, “Trump WILL take the Black Vote!”........................
I have Wynton Marsalis’s Loved One album. I put it on when we have a party at the house. If you want a mellow mood, that’s the way to get it.
Never heard of him till Sting.
No more “damaging” than street name, statues, and tributes etc to Malcolm X, AC Powell, and certain liars, adulterers, race baiters, whoremongers, and plagiarists
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