[7thson]

The first paragraphs had me rolling. Speaking of black music, I dug most of it until rap came along. Even some of the early rap songs I thought was new and original - to me.

Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, Hank Ballard, Nat King Cole, Ray Charles, The Coasters, The Drifters, Clyde MacPhatter, Jackie Wilson, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey, The Supremes, the Stylistics, Commodore, Rightous Brothers, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Pointer Sisters, Parliment, Kool & The Gang -

the list could go on and on. Today - it is just noise promoting evil and death.

[Cecily]

Ella Fitzgerald singing Duke Ellington songs with his orchestra. Black American singers and musicians have hugely talented predecessors. The rap "artists" that dominate the black music scene these days can't even come close to those people in terms of talent and musicality.