Posted on 08/09/2007 12:37:21 PM PDT by ellenbrewster
The generation-long swim in a musical sewer may experience a mild sanitization thanks to the imprudent use of black gangsta-rap by a 66-year old, pasty-faced white guy from Westport, Conn.
The Associated Press reports that in the wake of the Don Imus flap, such superstar rappers as Chamillionare, Master P, Talib Kweli, and popular 17-year-old newcomer Sean Kingston aim for heavy airplay without the filth.
Hopefully, they’ll get it. Before the rhythmic idiosyncrasy known as gangsta-rap infested our cultural arena, composers purposed to soothe, entertain and energize the human spirit.
“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by,” says rock and roll piano man, Billy Joel. Rock ‘n roll may lack the elegance of Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine” but it can be fun and thought-provoking without grinding you into the muck.
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Give me the dirtiest gangsta rap anyday over what is popular now. Songs like Buy You a Drank have brought me far closer to killing someone than any gangsta rap song.
Just don’t listen to the radio or the TV “music” stations, and you can get away from most of that crap.
He really is more focused on Afrocentrism and avoiding the stigma of commercialism.
the only thing worse than gangsta rap is country.
gimme my sirius so i can listen to some jazz or techno.
I avoid it as much as possible, but any time I go out that is what is playing. And that makes it even worse because then I see people enjoying it instead of taking it as a sign of the apocalypse like I do.
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