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When will rap music be less mainstream?

First time I heard MC Hammer’s song many years ago, I like the rhythm and thought it is quite unique. After that, all kinds of rap music pop up. I never thought rap music would be mainstream for such a long time in US. If you look at the music award ceremonies, you will find it being flooded with rap music. Sometimes I am not even sure rap can be considered as song because you don’t sing but speak. Now you start to hear rap music in some other languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean that don’t sound good in rap format. It would be interesting to hear rap music in Italian.

Time will tell if a song is good or not. A song is good if somebody want to play it for their loved ones on the radio 20 years later. I can’t imagine someone will play a rap for their beloved one 20 years later. Just curious if any A’gon member keep any rap collection?

Besides rap, I also have a feeling that the music industry in general is getting cheesy now. American Idol show gets huge attention while lots of singers perform at the bar or hotel can easily sing better than the idols. The show also asked Barbara Streisand if she watched the show and who was her favorite idol. What do you expect her to answer? People said Justin Timberlake is very talented singer/songwriter. I know him because I saw lots of headshot of him on commercials and magazines, but can you name any popular/well known song from him?
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thomastrouble
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Entrope

No, no, no - you are doing it all wrong. Critical listening at traffic lights really is not the way to go, especially with your windows up. I used to do this all the time but decided to spend all the money I was losing on parking tickets and traffic violations on hip-hop CDs instead. I swear to god, it sounded way better on my own home system.
Now i have all these guys with Audiogon stickers on their cars pulling alongside ME for a quick listen. One even made his fingers into an "A" shape and flashed me the Audiogon gang sign.....pretty scary. I hear there has been a spate of drive-by listenings out in the burbs recently, that is why me and HI FI snob prefer to stay at home on the sofa whacking off over John Denver.
Be safe, and keep it real....peace out!
thomastrouble
145 posts
 
Hey guys, what happened to the original poster? Seems he started a brawl, ducked under his keyboard and ran out the back door when it all hit the fan. My buddy said he saw him a couple of streets away, down an alley with a boom-box practicing his MC Hammer dance moves.
bongofury
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Tpreaves

If I am not mistaken, Gregg Allman is known in music circles as 1) a cokehead 2) a wife beater 3) a person who had a abusive relationship with an underage porn star that later committed suicide. Next.
thomastrouble
145 posts
 
T.PREAVES

Who is that - is that that old dude from the Allman Smothers?
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tpreaves
2,515 posts
 
Bongofury.....BINGO you win,that's him,the one and only.He also ratted out one of his roadies to save his ass from going to prison.No ones perfect!!!!!!!!!(LOL)He is also one of the most respected musicians in the business regardless of his obvious misgivings.Evidently he doesn't like rap music and that's his choice,just as it is your choice to like it.
Poor Thomas was feeling lonely because no one was talking to him so I just stirred the pot up for him.I didn't want him choking on his rice.

Thomastrouble...I'm glad you have found a friend that shares your enthusiasm with rap music.Friends are a great thing to have.Have you bought any more equipment lately?You do know the new Absolute Sound's recommended systems are out,don't you?BTW,did you ever figure out how to connect your speaker cables to your amp?As you say,keep it real and peace out.
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