Rap Music

Subject: RE: Rap Music
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 07:27 PM

Check out Rick Fileding's thread about Rap/Folk. Some very interesting stuff.

Subject: RE: Rap Music
From: Mark Clark
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 07:21 PM

Beyond scope? Please point me to the Mudcat statement of scope so I can satisfy myself that no other posts are beyond scope.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Rap Music
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 05:25 PM

I didn't see the thread... What was the reason for its deletion?

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: Rap Music
From: alanabit
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 05:17 PM

For some of us, chanting (often violent,sexist and indeed racist) doggerel over drum machines is not really a serious attempt at making music - thus rendering the expression "rap music" a contradiction in terms. I personally loath it, although it may be defensible as a form of folk "music" on the basis that it now has a tradition stretching back some fifteen years. Fot me it's a very good reason to turn off a radio.
Now I am going to put my head down and duck for cover - because I know there is something unfragrant and messy coming my way!

Subject: RAP Music. Ignore it?
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 13 Nov 02 - 04:56 PM

Mudcat has just closed a thread posted by a Black rapper requesting lyrics about a song that already has developed many folk variations, "Fifty N-----."
I agree that rap is beyond our scope, and understand deletion of the thread. On the other hand, we are rejecting a large part of new Black composed and folk music. Anyone who has read anything about ebonics knows that there is another language out there and that it is affecting the English we speak.
Yoyotlg apologized for submitting his request to this Forum ("My bad"); but is it "our bad" for cutting him off without an explanation?
I think some discussion is needed here.