Rap Is Crap

BigHollywood.Breitbart.com ^ | 29 March 2009 | Ben Shapiro

[AreaMan]

Rap Is Crap

Posted By Ben Shapiro On March 29, 2009 @ 7:05 am In Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 2 Comments

Today, [1] Grammy-winning rapper T.I. (Total Imbecile? Thug Idiot?) was sentenced to 18 months behind bars for illegally owning machine guns and silencers.  In the aftermath of his arrest, prosecutors informed T.I. that he could serve two decades in prison; he quickly agreed to 1000 hours of community service, touring around the U.S. talking to teens about the problems with drugs and gangs.  MTV made a show about him called “[2] T.I.’s Road to Redemption.”  This from a guy who dealt drugs as a teen and got busted for coke in 1998. 

[3]

Here’s the thing: no matter how many hours of community service T.I. does, it will never make up for the crap he puts into the minds of his listeners.  His biggest hit is “Whatever You Like.”  Here’s a sample lyric “Whatever You Like”: Late night sex so wet you’re so tight …Let me put this big boy in yo life / The thang get so wet, it hit so right. 

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[uncitizen]

That's what I call it when talking to my daughter. 'C' rap. She's starting to come around. I let her listen to my Rush 2112 and Deep Purple in Concert with the Royal Philharmonic.

When my kids were teenagers and they listened to that "music" i used to say: "K-Rap, Krap FM".

We always exposed our kids to our music and they finally came around to loving it. My son even plays some older stuff on guitar. I pointed out to them how RAP is all the same. It's about ME ME ME or money or ho's. Whereas older music has a bit more substance to it lyrically and that rap is all about a hook and that isn't really music. Now they appreciate Johnny Cash and CCR and Zeppelin etc. It's gotta be KRAP if even the intended audience is getting tired of it.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I'll admit, I like a lot of the rap from the 80's, and even some early 90's. Both the comedic and political had some musical value.

Somewhere in the mid-90's it lost its way when it became "gangsta".

[EyeGuy]

I wonder what the great black Jazz, R&B and Motown artists, individuals with REAL talent, think of (C)rap.

In light of the fact that race appears to trump all among many black Americans, maybe I shouldn’t ask....

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Government cheese? Is Weird Al a Levinite?

[uncitizen]

African-American music had a long illustrious run. But with hip-hop, they have finally produced some seriously bad music. And I mean bad as in not good. 50 Cent is a long way from Duke Ellington, or even Chuck Berry.

I was watching CMT the other day and i saw this black guy singing country music. I don't remember his name but his voice was great and his song was beautiful. And i was thinking that maybe Nashville is finding that they may have a potential audience with blacks. My husband mentioned that it makes sense since country music, many American musical genres really, sprung from African-American music. I read a lot about the history and progression of music and this is true.

On a related note i recently finished a book called "Hotel California". It's a biographical story of the singer songwriters who lived in the valleys in LA during the period from about 1965 to 75. People like Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Linda Rondstadt, The Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and many others. The commentary was how good the music was then because these people sang about their lives and the record companies gave the artists time to develop. But then the era of singer songwriters went away again and people were just singing songs that someone else wrote and it wasn't as good. And how the music business became just a souless machine. There's so much more depth to it, so if you're interested in music i highly recommend it.

[12Gauge687]

Or, how about Wes Montgomery or George Benson on guitar? The Modern Jazz Quartet was also one of my favorites. And, Ella Fitzgerald in Berlin doing scat beats C-rap anyday.

[Alas Babylon!]

Bwhahahahaha!!! LMAOFOTFF!!!

Weird Al still GOT it!

Show me the Washingtons, LOL!!!!

[12Gauge687]

Could it be Charlie Pride?

[uncitizen]

No it was a young guy.

[Mr. Jeeves]

OK, but from a very wrong messenger... ;)

This kind of thing needs to come from black jazz artists, who have every right to feel outraged by the damage rap culture has done.

[ßuddaßudd]

TCM - My son’s favorite song is High Roller, he cant get enough of it...

[JenB987]

I love real rap music from the 80’s.

Run DMC was/is great and Rev. Run is awesome.

And I don’t know how effective a conservative message is if we’re going to promote shooting people we disagree with...

[frposty]

I’ve never understood why the adults in this country have allowed such vile entertainment to be performed where children are in the audience. But it’s difficult to stop because of a combination of the 2nd amendment, the profits it brings the entertainers, and the difficulty of limiting access to the various froms of mass entertainment distribution.

[12Gauge687]

How about Darius Rucker?

[Dionysius]

Lets face it, 50 Cent is a long way from ten alley cats in a fifty gallon drum with the lid screwed on top.

[Cheetahcat]

“Hey, that’s “classy” with a K baby....Klassy!”

Yes Ole LBJ would be proud of How his Great Society worked out.

[AreaMan]

Nobody is saying to shoot people that disagree with you.

The writer of the piece is just points to the punchbowl and says, "Hey, see that turd? Rap put it there."

[bert]

• From the Rapper Million $$ Bill....

Kill the Rapper,Kill him dead
Shoot the scoundrel in the head

Crush his throat with his gold chain
Watch the video of his pain.

Hate the bastard, the illigit
Mouthing nonsensense, verbal shit

The story here that we must tell
Let the sob rot in hell

[AreaMan]

This kind of thing needs to come from black jazz artists, who have every right to feel outraged by the damage rap culture has done.

Not really a musician but:

All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
By John McWhorter

[JenB987]

I wasn’t talking about the article. I was talking about your bumper sticker in your comment.

Things like that make this site look bad and to the thousands of lurking idiots out there, it looks like we condone shooting people from cultures or backgrounds we disagree with. It’s why we are called racists and bigots. I’m sure there is some lurker here just waiting to see things like that for use in their campaign to shut this site down.