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keyboard_arrow_downMegazine
544
Feb 2, 2019
@jaydunndiddit Wow, judging from your first list, I thought you liked a lot of modern Hip-Hop, but you sure know and love conscious rap. Just heard your link on Mumu Fresh; she's very poetic. I'm not a fan of preaching/poetry-rap (not sure the table of this genre), but she's definitely talented. She has a strong voice and I enjoy the live instruments. It's a great mash up the more I hear her. She does like poetry smash, sings, raps, and preaches, and combines all art forms into one. Her flow when she sings reminds me of Lauryn Hill.
@RayF You shared a lot. I agree that some hip-hop is very misogynistic and can be very dark with homophobia, drugs, sex etc., but there's a lot of this in other genres; maybe not at the same frequency. But there's a lot of layers of rap/hip-hop. Hip-hop was born in a community suffering from poverty, where the person that was looked up to was the drug dealer. The drug dealer was the one who had money to offer his family a full meal, and at the same time was doing charity work. The dealer who wore clean/new clothes, had jewelry on, owned a car, had women etc.. The jobs wasn't giving them enough, but enough just to get by. Some of these materialistic things transpired into their music, not because they are simply bragging, but because it showed a level of success. Let that sink in, having clean/new clothes meant success.. To the outside communities, not living in poverty had all these things, so to them it just looks and sounds very shallow, but to those living in those communities in poverty, they're things nobody has.
I know you're not a fan of the sound, but there's beauty in the genre. It's not just rhyming to the beat, theres art behind it, like having a flow, a rhyme scheme, lyrics, metaphors, truth telling, struggles. Give this a listen, I think it argues my point but in a musical way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NACMjwR5DE
RayF
22218
Feb 2, 2019
MegazineFirst, I appreciate you comments and the time you took to make them. I read them and watched the video you pointed me to. I couldn't help noticing (true as it was) that was a long time ago my friend--and while wine generally gets better with age, the same cannot always be said of the human race, the planet and the the quality of life. I could toss in music today as we know it, but that's more a mater of opinion. I get your point about the realities of growing up in poverty, maybe in a single-parent family. My circumstances were different, but faced with similar realities, I couldn't promise my outcome would be any better than the next guy's. It's tough to have face those choices at such a young and impressionable age when the decisions one makes can have life-long effects. I don't have any answers as how it all got that way or how to fix it, but I'm doubting hip-hop will change things any more then the protest music of the 60s and 70s did. I'm guessing people then were as sincere and well intentioned as you (or others) suggest those in the right kind of hip-hop culture are today. But humans have an annoying tendency to become what they have always become--generally more of the same, and rarely much better.
I do have some tangential understanding and appreciation for the consequences of making the wrong decisions though. As a kid, I spent summers visiting my Grandmother who lived in the Bronx. Back then it was just a middle-class borough populated by mainly Italian and Jewish kids. We didn't know anything about drugs or violence and the only gangs we heard of were in West Side Story. Years later, as an adult. I had occasion to work briefly within one the country's larger prison systems. I met a lot of kids who'd made a lot of bad decisions--regardless of the motivations. Faced with that reality, and a lot of time to think about it, I was surprised that so many of those young adults still clung to the false values/beliefs that put them there--a lot of which seemed to be reinforced by the music and media they gravitated to. I would have to admit, the experience slanted/colored my views of culture.
ElectronicVices
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Jan 31, 2019
RespekwamenDefinitely appreciate the vocal capability... found the instrumentation didn't quite grab me in the same manner however. Most certainly potential for some quality tracks here.
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RayF
22218
Jan 26, 2019
Excellent music, and great artist--pay no attention to that @jaydunndiddit fellow's comments down below (he's always had a bit of a tin ear). Seriously, I was impressed--very pleased to find that uncommon (these days) combination of pure music and voice (and he does have a great voice) presented in such an uncluttered but melodic fashion (frankly I thought that sort of thing died on the operating table several years back).
I'm generally kinda' hard to please when it comes to new music/new artists, but I'm definitely going to find and download at least these two songs.
Much thanks ;- )
jaydunndiddit
3262
Jan 27, 2019
RayFWell, you know what they say about opinions and assholes 😬
I still ❤️ you though.
jaydunndiddit
3262
Jan 26, 2019
Thanks for the new artist. Sadly, I wasn't a fan overall. While not a negative per se, he comes off as amateurish. Maybe that's my fault as going in I was expecting more blues/folk and this was definitely more acoustic + something else. Not bad, just not my cup of tea.
I saw the pic and thought, blues?! Sadly, I ended up listening to some Gary Clark Jr. and Keb Mo to scratch that itch for more modern blues artists.
RayF
22218
Feb 1, 2019
Oh--you young people and your vinyl!
Kidding--I see you're a true aficionado. I'm going to have to search around for more of their stuff.
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RayF
22218
Feb 1, 2019
Oh art form is it now?! Look kid, it doesn't matter to me whether you get you culture out of spray can or a beer can, the question you should be asking yourself is who put in there and why?
What you're referring to as culture is the same crap a bunch of rich white people used to convince a bunch of poor white people to vote for your pal trump. That bunch has books and history they like to thump and pound too (got a fairly popular TV station as well) and their faithful believe every damn word as the gospel. And guess what they call it? Their culture!
So you got yours, they got theirs, and just about everyone else on god's green earth got one too. Been that way for a long time--lots of little groups with their very own cultures, all competing with one another over who's is better, righter, stronger, and more enlightened. That's the way the guys who put it in little cans like it--keeps us all divisible, and most importantly, manageable!
Like I say, it's been that way for a long time--guess it's gonna stay that way a while longer, what with it being so popular and all with you young folks these days? Well, more power to 'ya! Me, I never could find a damn culture that fit me right--guess I just couldn't get past those first four letters?
By the way, did I ever mention:
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