The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53573   Message #826056
Posted By: harvey andrews
14-Nov-02 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Rap Music
Subject: RE: Rap Music
It's just that I'm happy to be sung too but very soon wound up when I'm shouted at.

Some years ago when rap was just starting I was trying to buy some shoes for my son who has size 11 feet. Now not only was it difficult to find the size, we had to find a pair he liked. By the sixth shop I was a taut bowstring ready to snap and when the shop's speakers started yelling at me backed by a drum beat of two hundred to the minute I could take it no longer and found myself standing on a a chair beating the speaker with my hat and yelling "Shut up you moron..SHUT UP!!"

A crowd of people gathered to watch through the shop window.
I read an article on Mathers the other day and the lyric they quoted for my admiration had him rhyming "Math" with "Half". Now that's just plain lazy and not Cole Porter.

My feeling is that both black music as represented by Rap and the culture it comes from is a blind alley and I hope for the good of everybody that that young culture reverses out of there and finds a good road for a better journey.