Posted on 03/01/2007 5:11:49 AM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
IMUS has taken rap language maintream.
“(As I secretly hope for the day when “classic rock” stations “rediscover” the joys of the music of the Reagan Era...1981-89)”
I secretly hope for the day when classic rock stations rediscover the other 99% of the music, much of it very good, but obscure, that’s contemporaneous with the stuff they do play. But not, it’s the same old tired Beatles, Stones, Who, etc stuff almost all the time. And yeah, let’s bring back the 80s - heck, I’m almost 40 and they’re still largely playing music that was hip to people only slightly younger than my parents.
Obviously this stuff is subject to interpretation, and "Walk this Way" certainly had the fast-paced rhyming lyrics, but I've never heard of anyone who categorized the original as a "rap" song.
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