Rap or Crap?

All rap is either about

1) How great the rapper is
2) How great the place the rapper lives in is
3) How much stuff the rapper has

For the same reason they wear bright, oversized clothes.

....it's just their african-ness showing through
 
Well, it really is a lower culture, from music, to art, to society, to perception of the world. Primitive.
Before you disagree look at Africa, after the Europeans left the African nature once again shines through and all that you see is disorder, inability to govern themselves, constant hatred, torture and slaughter of the fellow man, no progress, only regress.
You don't generally get that anywhere else in the world.
 
I'll raise a glass to two rap projects I've encountered lately. Cancer Rising has a cool track out these days, and Optimus Rhyme is just damn nifty.

To the other, I saw a poster last night for the recent LL Cool J show in Seattle. What kind of credibility can he have with J-Lo on the album? I'll dig up the permanent link, but this week, at least, an interesting article on the formerly Cool J: "Doin' It; Not So Well", by Larry Mizell, Jr.
 
D'ster said:
I like rap,

because it give me another sence of how primitive humans once were.
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LOL... I can see past this statement and what your true intentions and beliefs are.
 
Of course, he's just a miserable troll, so don't feed him.

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Hahaha! Nice image. I can't help but laught at D'ster.. he brings me entertainment. At the advice of the Avatar, the wise one, I will try to laugh in silence.
 
That is the same retarded image he always posts. Only trolls post images of trolls.
Claiming that others are trolls, but unknowingly is a troll himself.
 
It's not tribal, because there is no tribe. And it's not tribal, because it doesn't deal with tribal and mythological issues.
 
Avatar said:
It's not tribal, because there is no tribe. And it's not tribal, because it doesn't deal with tribal and mythological issues.
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WTF, why are you so intent on not letting blacks be who they are?
 
They are gangs. Criminal entities.
A tribe is a social structure that consists of families in several generations (3+) living in a particular teritory having a particular culture and often language or dialect seperate from others.
Of course in certain ghetos there can form a tribe, but it's not a general rule.
 
D'ster said:
WTF, why are you so intent on not letting blacks be who they are?
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Because I happen to be interested in anthropology and I see no tribal accent in rap, just social in the narrow interpretation of the word.
 
In the 1970s, rap music began in New York City when African American youth began rhyming to recorded music and beats. This musical style can be traced to West Africa, where storytellers called griots told the tribal news, history, folklore and religion to the rhythm of the drum. Just like griots, rappers tell stories about their lives to a beat.

http://www.knowitall.org/gullahmusic/journey/history/hiphop.html
 
Everything can be traced to something, it doesn't mean rap is tribal at all.
Maybe and probably it's influenced by tribal music, but it's not tribal.
But I won't argue on this further, because I don't really have any good knowledge or interest in african americans.
 
D'ster said:
In the 1970s, rap music began in New York City when African American youth began rhyming to recorded music and beats.
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All blacks are African? Amazing. I suppose none were born in the US? Maybe immigrants of Puerto Rico or India or the DR? And I suppose all whites are from America and no where else. And in the past few thousand years, whites could have never come from Africa? I suppose you would never call a white guy born in African that came to America an "African-American."
 
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