Posted on 03/01/2007 5:11:49 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
NEW YORK — Maybe it was the umpteenth coke-dealing anthem or soft-porn music video. Perhaps it was the preening antics that some call reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit.
The turning point is hard to pinpoint. But after 30 years of growing popularity, rap music is now struggling with an alarming sales decline and growing criticism from within about the culture's negative effect on society.
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in 1987 hey did the Run-DMC music video, and their next album "Permanent Vacation" goes triple platinum.
http://www.aerosmith.com/history.htm
That to me is "revived."
On Rappers Delight lyrics-
I used to SWEAR that line,"I got a color TV on the wall so I can watch the Knicks playing basketball"went "watch the n****** playing basketball"
And that line"I'll put the ill t-t-tickets in your behind"was "I'll put the b** D*** in your behind"
Really,was I the only one"hearing things" back then?
"The pumps don't work, cause the vandals took the handles." ;o)
Yeh but, do the guys wear a leisure suit?? I always thought the fashion statement was the reason for Disco's popularity.
Yeah, but they seem to have replaced it with that God-awful warbling kind of singing that Mariah Carey made popular. I can't STAND it!
That was Great White.
Fiero,are you serious?You don't know any blacks who listen to ANY white artists?
Man,I got several black friends who LOVE artists as varied as The Beachboys,Michael Franks,Blood,Sweat and Tears,Tina Marie and Lisa Stanfield.
And most rap I hear is anti-BLACK,not anti-white.I must have heard a million rap songs advocating "smoking niggas".The bash whitey stuff ended with X Clan and Sista Souljah fifteen years ago.
Disco's main wave of popularity was primarily movie driven, it became "cool". Which is actually really wierd if you've ever sat down to really watch Saturday Night Fever because they're all incredible losers and their whole disco lifestyle is shown to pretty much suck. Though I'm sure part of disco's popularity was also driven by aging hippies getting too old to want to spend all weekend in the mud at some rock festival but still wanting to listen to loud music and do lots of drugs, which drove the invention of the discothèques from which the music gets it's name. Now discos are night clubs, and disco is dance music, and vinyl clothes have replaced the leisure suits (but really is there that much difference between polyester and vinyl), but really very little has changed on that front. No "dance music sucks" riots inbetween baseball games though.
"I get attacked by a kid with a stereo sound"
Funny,I have felt EXACTLY the same way when I hear certain Billy Joel songs coming from someone's radio!
That vandals took the handle line was what motivated the Weatherman radicals to take that,as well as ,"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"line to name their ill fated group.
I prefer the line from the song,"girls by the whirlpool,looking for a new fool"
Funnny....I was just listening to NAS's song "Hip hop is dead"....but I began to suspect rap was waning when some of them took to rapping about chicken noodle soup and a soda on the side. I don't include NAS amongst the group of illiterate rappers.
That has musical interludes involving actual instruments, played with some amount of skill.(Not much, I can still play them, but..)
And, look! The cops put him in JAIL! He didn't pop a cap in their asses. How quaint and innocent.
Rap is noise made by people with no talent for an audience with no taste!
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Warning sirens! Too much truth in too few words! I was out for a stroll a couple of days ago and walked past where some teenagers were playing basketball and I could not believe the hideous noise they were listening to.
daily I am assaulted by boom box cars going by my house with white kids, hats on crooked, blasting this aberration...probably looking to kill whitey....
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Some years ago, a next door neighbor's son, who had just been released from jail for burglary was blasting some of this crap at incredible volume and I went into one of my "I don't give a damn whether I kill you or not" moods, I strolled over and politely told him that if he didn't shut it down I was going to call the sheriff's office. He turned it off and I couldn't resist adding another comment, "you know, when I was your age someone would have shot you for playing that garbage that loud". I suppose I went a little overboard but the noise stopped anyway.
You are on to something with that.
I admit I liked Run DMC's album "tougher than Leather" back in the 80's...ok, i said it. :)
If that's a rap song, then so is "Big Bad John" by Jimmy Dean which came out in 1961. "Ringo" by Lorne Greene came out in 1964. "Hot Rod Lincoln" came out even earlier with various versions charting in 1955, 1959, 1960, and 1972.
That was "Coolio" not Snoop Dizzle
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