Posted on 04/30/2016 11:11:24 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
A couple of up-and-coming Toronto rappers — one of whom appears to be following in the footsteps of his brother and father — are among the suspected gang members accused of recently kidnapping and torturing two 17-year-old boys.
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Gardiner, aka Pressa, is a rapper from a neighbourhood north of Jane St. and Finch Ave. W., known by area residents as Up Top, who had some success recently with his song Deadmihana.
In Deadmihana, Pressa spits rhymes such as: “Run up and I’m blazing up this block. RIP and free the ones locked, locked. Headshot, headshot.”
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I just had to post this. Read the article, great family.
babydaddys to 23
Don' hear no bros denyin' it
So I guess dey mus be buyin' it.
Fo shizzle, eh?
Ha, the baby mama didn’t know how to spell the baby daddy’s last name. More obama sons.
Call the PC police but if I were an upstanding black person, I’d be identifying as anything but black. Every day trumps the previous for racial embarrassment.
That is not the case with rap music. And I've tried. I've listen to Snoop Doggy Dogg and Doctor Dre and Jay-Z and Eminem. I just can't appreciate this music. It's too angry, too nasty, too hateful. I am never put in a good mood or frame of mind after listening to that. And that's not to say these artists have no talent. They are quite inventive with their rhyming and there are lots of hooks and loops that are interesting music-wise. There are even some songs I learned to like a little. But I just can't get past those mindless, senseless lyrics and the constant beat-beat-beating of the electronic drums and synthesizers.
The best and simplest description of music I've ever heard is that it is "organized noise." Well with rap, it's more like noisy graffiti.
I despise (c)rap for all the reasons you mentioned, and I’ve never found ANYTHING redeeming about it. The rhythms are boring and repetitive, the lyrics just self-impressed doggerel, and if there’s any real MUSIC present, it’s synth crap that sounds like a bucket full of beer bottles falling down stairs. That that talentless genre has survived this long is a tribute to the dumbing down of America.
Don’t be too hard on the poor hood rat.
He was turning his life around.
He was going to get his GED.
He was going to start paying his child support .
He was going to quit rap music, and aspired to hold up liqueur stores .
I guess "aspiring rapper" is a little played-out by now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owutDdnIMUI
Snoop Dogg’s biggest negative is that he really used to be a pimp.
His “songs” aren’t so bad if someone arranges real music for them.
There is something surreal about the way he turned a trashy rap song into a kitschy cocktail-lounge ditty. And he did it without even changing the lyrics! Totally changed the entire song.
“spits rhymes” — My goodness, what an appropriate term.
Richard Cheese does that a lot.
Postmodern Jukebox will also renovate a trashy one now and then.
There is something lacking from rap music, like a frigging melody?
Kill my landlord
A lot of the rap from the 80s (until N.W.A. and Ice-T came out around 1988) did not have the hateful, nasty lyrics. Some did talk about tough inner city life but many of the songs were just fun songs. They also had more of a tune than stuff today, even if it sometimes sampled an older song. Here are a few of my favorites.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjeWGQ175g
Whodini - Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxni-FM-UVA
Run-DMC - King Of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzWlPL_TKw
Fat Boys - Can You Feel It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCSkw4roTEQ
Still don't care what They're yapping about.
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