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Originally posted by Xtokalon
There are purer- even spiritual - forms of rap. Unfortunately they are all but extinct now.
what other forms are there? There's "party rap" and there's the kind I listened to, closely related to "party rap" and distantly related to the other forms: reflexive or wisdom rap (for the lack of a better term). This rap is pure self-reference, flauntation, quasi-philosophical and even intellectual dialect (literally rap) and exhibitions of strength in the medium of words, rhyme and percussive meter.
are you thinking like, de la soul, digibal plantes, the roots, the beastie boys, jurassic five, black eyed peas (the last two are pretty new!) <---something along those lines? that is the stuff i like alright. i got the outkasts album 'atliens' when i was a freshman in highschool and it blew my mind. IMO, they are pretty original. hmm....i was hanging out with friends one night, and one of them was this crazy black dude who was carrying around his radio and a bunch of tapes...and he rode with me to my friends house and i played him some emperor. he thought emperor was alright-and he played me this guy NATAS, a satanic rapper...the shit wasnt too impressive but it was quite hilarious:
"i cant touch a bible, it burns me when i touch it, so fuck it!"
very funny.

you left out the most annoying form of rap ever created-there are like 20 sections in the rap area of my store of things like "BASS meckaninc" "BASS alien" "BASS explosion" "BASS speakers rattling"-and people buy these cds that are purely bass noises, to ride around and litterally blast it-but i still appreciate these people! if i want to play my metal loud as hell, which is definately something rude to do, i can justify it by saying im covering up their noise pollution.

haha i have a twisted way of rationalizing things....

but honestly, before id buy any rap cd id probably grab a traditional reggea something. i really love bob marley-his songs are fun to play and sing on guitar when your in a simple, sad and wistful mood. or to play trumpet with for that matter. and i like this dude ekk a mouse-i just have to be in the mood for it.
i would imagine it sucks to work at a chain music store. i can't even shop there, much less work there.
for the most part your right!

these have always made it possible to endure the bad aspects....ahh this new company bought us a while back though and they are horrible, a lot of the perks are dissapearing...that is mainly why i want out of there.
and the metal store we had right in my area closed down anyways


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