@whipsaw have you listened to the young female British rap artist ENNY? |
@ebm thank you for following instructions and contributing constructively to the discourse. |
@ggoggin -- Yes, just click on my name that will take you to my page you can click on the send message button there |
@whipsaw Who would you name in terms of lyrical delivery?
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Yes! My former wife introduced me to MC Solaar. She was a French teacher and thus could understand his lyrics. I could not, but his music and delivery really hooked me.
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@orpheus10 you know what else sing sing has? A lot of paranoid bigoted white people. You'd fit right in. |
I was telling my students that country and rap have in common the ability to deliver a great metaphor or play on language that makes you look at things differently.
Like in "Django Jane" when Janelle monae is talking about being devalued as a female rapper by the entertainment industry and "I cut em off, I cut em off, I cut em off like Van Gogh." Followed by
" move back, take a seat, you were not involved
And hit the mute button
Let the vagina have a monologue…"
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@orpheus10 don't feed the troll. Just stick to the posts original intent |
@glupson -- when mine have, they've been in reaction to someone else's vitriol. I admit in that case I'm no better than the progenitor of that adolescent id. But I don't think I've really posted anywhere live straight so far off the topic as to make the original topic unrecognizable |
@audioguy85 -- please see the original posts last paragraph for clarification on how to contribute to this discussion. |
@ghasley idk. I would differentiate between spoken word and rap as genres. |
Ah.i get you. And yes, I guess I would have tried to do the same thing had I been in sing sing!
Although looking at Puzz pachinos track record, I'm not surprised
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@franklinb66 - yes! I've had his PTSD disc streaming for a bit.
"Draw blood like chucacabra.."
Research like George Washington Carver"
Perfect rhyme and allusion! |
So I’ve been listening to a lot of Pharoahe Monch lately, diving deeper into his catalog. What a gifted lyricist and perspective!
And yes, rap is a worldwide phenomenon, but MC Solaar was not the progenitor of the genre. I mean, one of his main influences was South Bronx MC Africa Bambaataa, the South Bronx arguably being the birthplace of turntable DJ’ing and rapping as we know it (also tied into the huge graffiti movement and breakdancing crews of the time).
I mean, you couldn't have your finger on the pop-culture pulse of the early-80's without having moved to "Planet Rock" at some point.
That being said, Solaar was as influential as any artist in helping spread rap and hiphop from the American shores.
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@ggoggin -- as a kid in Washington Heights, NYC, in the early 80's, that whole wave of early hiphop, corner crews, and rap swept over me. I remember actually seeing DJ's plug their tt's into lampposts and hearing them cut a record. Tried to do it with my mom's tt at home and broke it. Not good. As Kool Moe Dee advised, "only under hip hop supervision."
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No - but a 1BR in Washington Heights averages $1830/mo. I remember my mom paying $325 in 1983.
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