tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12658605.post111878872989293856..comments2023-05-23T15:12:59.365-07:00Comments on PeaceLove's Musings: Hip Hop - An Alternative ViewPeaceLovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05571571887644175214noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12658605.post-1118861398236519492005-06-15T11:49:00.000-07:002005-06-15T11:49:00.000-07:00There's nothing subtle or unacknowledged about his...<I>There's nothing subtle or unacknowledged about his ignorance and dismissal. It's only surprising that he's willing to say it publicly (albeit anonymously).</I><BR/><BR/>Ah. So all people who have the audacity to disagree with you are therefore immediately labeled "ignorant".<BR/><BR/>Right. That doesn't illustrate ignorance at all. Pot? Kettle?<BR/><BR/><I>It's fine to dislike a major art form (personally, I can't really stomach opera), but to dismiss it in its entirety brands you as clueless at best.</I><BR/><BR/>No. That is just some P.C. bullshit that while I am allowed to dislike something I should still have to respect it. I don't respect talking over someone else's music. Want to call it poetry? Fine. Want to call it art? Sure...that term means nothing in this age. Want to call is music? There you are wrong. It isn't. A rap "artist" isn't a musician. <BR/><BR/><I>That's great that Anonymous loves a fifty-year-old musical genre; I wonder if he would be so tolerant of Thelonious Monk if it were 1963?</I><BR/><BR/>Once again with your idiotic baseless accusations. You infer racism everywhere. That says far more about you than it does about the people you insist on pointing fingers at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12658605.post-1118797281475648792005-06-14T18:01:00.000-07:002005-06-14T18:01:00.000-07:00OK, where does one start in order do get a decent ...OK, where does one start in order do get a decent overview of hip-hop? I have SIRIUS radio, which has four or five hip hop channels. I've been brousing them for the last four or five days, and I'm having a hard time finding the great minds you write about. There is some I find interesting, but the huge bulk of what I've been hearing sounds cliche ridden to me. (Not that that's appreciably worse than the majority of popular music.)<BR/><BR/>Don't just dismiss this. I'd like to know what you consider to be the best of hip hop and why.<BR/><BR/>I think part of my difficulty in connecting with hip hop is that it's so divorced from my admittedly limited musical vocabulary. With rap, I can't figure out what makes for good musicianship. It doesn't seem to convey emotion in the manner of music I'm accustomed to. A small amount of what I've heard is kind of interesting, at least when it comes to the lyrics. Musically, so far almost none of it moves me.<BR/><BR/>I do think your immediate equation of dislike of a musical style with racism is assinine. I'm pretty sure I can acknowlege the cultural impact of hip hop without being a part of that culture or partucularly caring for the music it produces. I will grant that I don't know a lot about it, so educate me. <BR/><BR/>You can berate people who don't share your tastes, or you can be an ambassador for something you are clearly passionate about. It's your call.<BR/><BR/>--a different AnonymousAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com