dubq said:
nudes of a girl i smashed said:
Incandenza said:
No rapper will ever be the voice of a generation. In spite of the genre's long-running popularity, it's still too much of an alienating music to ever give birth to one artist that can make a lasting cultural impact.
I was originally going to take issue with this, but the more I think about it the more on-point it seems. Rap's plenty popular, yeah, but there's also tons of people out there who don't even view it as a legitimate art form. I mean, it's been around for 30+ years and it's
still seen as little more than a silly novelty thing by large swaths of the population (cf.
all this stupid bullshit). I see no reason to think that this is going to change anytime soon, either.
Oh, come on. MC Chris is a comedian for crying out loud. What did you expect? That's like saying "rock" (or whatever) would never be taken seriously because of Weird Al.
Sorry, but I'm not from "da hood, y0." I don't care for ugly faces and big fat asses, I don't want to "get crunk," and I don't do drugs. I believe in a hard day's work for my pay, I believe in mutual respect amongst my peers. I believe in talent above marketing. I'm familiar with Star Wars, indie horror/sci-fi, and punk rock. If rap is meant to be the "music of the people," why would I listen to a bunch of men who don't look, talk, or act like I do, let alone have entirely different belief systems, ramble on about topics I have little care for? The few rap artists I do listen to are either better-than-average at what they do (Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Run-DMC) or have something about them that I can associate with. I'm a white nerd from the suburbs. So why the motherFUCK would I want to listen to a hundred thousand different people rhyming about how the "white man has got me down" (Immortal Technique, anyone?) or about "backin' dat azz up." MC Lars speaks to me. He, along with other rapcore artists, take rap music for what it was meant to be: fun. There's a quote from Run-DMC that I can't find, but the summation of it is that 80's MCs would do party-rap because they didn't want to be reminded about the world of shit that they lived in. Plus, how many rappers do you know could take the Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane" and sample it into a dance beat? How many could do rhymes about Edgar Allen Poe one minute, and then break into ones about depiction of Hell throughout literature? Shit, how many rappers actually even KNOW what the fuck Dante's Inferno actually is?
Fake edit---dammit I confused MC Lars for MC Chris...they're basically the same though, right? I'm blissfully ignorant of the whole nerdcore scene except for the time, one of the annoying nerds (who ended up my college roommate for about a month during my freshman year) ended up stealing an MC Chris (Lars?) verse word for word and won a school sponsored freestyle battle. Boy, I bet the black kids were pissed that day.
