Posted on 12/16/2018 8:57:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
You just don't expect the words 'Putin' and 'rap' to appear in the same headline.
But here we are, with the Russian president extraordinaire declaring that the Kremlin must "take charge" of rap music. Lookit:
...and here's what the BBC story said:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked the government to "take charge" of rap music after a number of concerts were cancelled across the country.
Efforts to ban rap were "impossible" and so the state should play a greater role in controlling it, he said.
The Ministry of Culture would find the best way to "navigate" youth concerts, he added.
His comments come after Russian rapper Husky was arrested after several of his concerts were cancelled.
In December, authorities in the southern city of Krasnodar called off his planned performance for "extremism".
The musician - real name Dmitry Kuznetsov - was then jailed for 12 days after performing for fans on the roof of a car.
Bad as rap can be, both musically and lyrically, this won't end well.
O.K., to start with, I get it. Lots of rap music is total garbage. It sounds bad, and when you hear the lyrics, it is bad. We learn all about baby-daddies, hoes, benjies, cop-hate, and the failed values of the underclass that, well, ensures its aficionados' continued stay in the underclass. And we see it spread like poison to the socially ravaged middle class, kids of divorce and single parents and political correctness, with gangly white teenage boys, fresh from being browbeaten about being white males by their female teachers,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Next up,’Evenink Vare’.”
Regarding rap, I have to believe that someday people with ears will wake up and realize that the emperor has no clothes.
It’ll end just fine.
Wonder what the rap coalition of America will say?
Hey! Do you like rap music? (Pointing gun at #2’s head) 2)Yeah, I like rap music. 1)You like rap music. Well turn around real slow then. I’m from the Rap Coalition of America.
Take that gun off, throw it over there. Throw the gun over there. If you like Rap music so much how come you ain’t smiling? 2) I’m smiling 1) Smile, smile real big. Now let’s do a rap together. Yo baby! Yo baby! Yo! 2) Yo baby! Yo baby! Yo! 1) Say Auuuuu! 2) Auuuuuu!
He’s doing it wrong. He should make Rap the Official State Music and demand that it be played everywhere, all the time.
Things will self-correct in about 3 weeks.
RE: someday people with ears will wake up and realize that the emperor has no clothes.
Yes, but as long as we get government involved in supporting or opposing something, nothing good ever comes out of it. Let our culture determine for themselves whether or not the emperor has clothes.
Now, Trump can’t do it.
“O.K., to start with, I get it. Lots of rap music is total garbage. It sounds bad, and when you hear the lyrics, it is bad. “
A marketing professor came up with a math formulae that said if you invested x amount in publicity you would make y amount of profit. To prove it, he got funding and sold The Pet Rock. His formulae proved out.
Back in the hippy days marketing discovered a new demographic, the Counter Culture. I knew the first time I saw a hippy girl being used to advertise pre-torn jeans that the counter culture was finished. Sure enough, it just got subsumed into the main culture and therefore couldn’t be marketed to anymore as a separate profit center. So, marketers started looking for another counter culture. They settled in on blacks and started applying that special marketing formulae to RAP “music.” They knew that RAP “music” had no musical value, but the formulae held true. Thus marketers made some really bad people who said and did bad things into cultural icons. (It’s similar to the cookie cutter, talentless one year white rock stars and movie idols that were created and destroyed in the ‘70’s. X amount of investment, Y amount of return. Dispose of. Rinse, repeat.)
I suspect that there are enough rich RAP stars to keep the trend going. But it’s unlikely that you will hear RAP on the radio or in elevators fifty years from now. It will still be old rock music. And, in 100 years it will be less known than ragtime is today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynW-O1Tpqe0
Just say “Nyet.”
I miss REAL music, like this rendition of Impossible Dream by Jim Neighbors...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJlgio-UOng
I appreciate real music.
It seems at every public event outdoors there is endless lite rap blasting.
I avoid those things as much as possible.
This is why he’s at least admired
It’s not just rap
It’s all this compressed voice oversexed warbling
It’s awful
You should watch kids as they discover good rock or rock and roll or interesting country and western or even fusion jazz with strong guitar like Spectrum
They are like damn dad this is really good
My kids are jelly of the music I grew up with from early Brit invasion onwards
Show me a teen boy who doesn’t like AC DC or Black Sabbath
Or southern rock
Or early to mid Alice Cooper
Very little good stuff now and it’s so obscure
Highly Suspect
Greta Van Fleet
Every now and then I hear something and go that’s not bad
If TV still introduced rock videos with albums like 80s and 90s it would help the creative juices and push artistry
How much Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato or Robin Thicke and Bruno Mars or Timberlake or Drake can kids take
It’s commercial pap
All contemporary music is blacked up because of who produces it and distributes it
Like homosexual mafia influences TV and film
Contemporary music is Africanized
And it sucks
This ain’t Smokey Robinson or Percy Sledge or Otis Redding
How much worse will it get?
You mean, crap music.
“Very nice.”
My personal definition of “rap”, is “bitchin’ to a jungle beat”.
No “music” involved.
Meanwhile the people upset about this a trying to ban Baby It’s Cod Outside......
I’m in favor of controlling the trash.
I can’t stand it and banning it would create more problems than it would solve.
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