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[rockinrehab]

More evidence that rappers are of below-average intelligence:

"The media has been using Mars and his music as a scapegoat for this terrible tragedy," reads one post [by Mars, whom Jeff Weise claimed was an inspiration]. "Mad Insanity Records* do not condone the events that took place in Red Lake, MN and would like to state that the music released

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[plumpychunks]

whuteva foo.

u just a wanksta, u aint never gonna be in da club!!!!

FITTY IS HOT!

[lesion]

i certainly hope that this is tongue-in-cheek

[rockinrehab]

I certainly hope you're not defending a ignorant, arrogant, and pathetically delusional man-child like Mars.

from his webpage's biography:

Living on the streets of Pittsburg and homeless at 15, Mars has not had an easy life, which carries over to his music with an obvious edge. What he spits is real, and is what gives his words distinction from others. Running dope for local cartels and drug lords to support himself and his family, he turned his hustling skills from slanging dubs to slanging his lyrics, and hooked up with the MIR crew from the Bay Area, selling tapes out the trunk of their car. Mars released his first solo album, S.I.D.S. (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in 1998. The extremely controversial album which features the murderer of Polly Klass, Richard Allen Davis on the intro, became a forewarning for the rapper’s own life. Soon after its release, he found himself facing life in prison for badly beating a young woman that had set him up and who was pregnant unknown to him, killing her unborn child.Even if there is some

[lesion]

i don't defend anyone. especially not musicians.

wanna go to this with me?! http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/821199

PLEASE?!

[rockinrehab]

I would, but Seattle is a long way to go to see some 80-year-old soul singers.

[conformity]

uhh i think it sort of states that the people who do investigative journalists are of below average intelligence.

and no, im not registering for that shit

[rockinrehab]

The only thing that shows that this journalist is dumb is that he didn't make the article show Mars in an even worse light, which could easily have been accomplished simply by quoting him more often. You see, this Mars fellow is not very bright, which of course is no fault of his own. Rather the fault lies with those who distribute his music (and adults who listen to it).

[limaceous]

But some girls DO deserve to die!

[inclementine]

I've found a lot of local rap that's not violence centric and totally fucking rules.

I'm not defending Mars, but don't drag all hip hop down with him.

[rockinrehab]

I guess the popularity of hip hop worries/bothers me because I tend to like the harmonic aspect of music most. As you may have noticed, hip hop includes very little harmony, and certainly no harmonic development. In fact, hip hop tends to focus on timbre primarily, and occasionally on lyrics, to the detriment of pretty much every other characteristic of music. Sometimes there is interesting rhythmic aspects of hip hop, but more often they lay down a backbeat and forget about it. I don't mind if people who only enjoy the timbric aspect of music listen to hip hop, I'm just afraid there will be a movement away from holistic music towards that which focuses primarily on timbre. I understand that rock music led this movement before hip hop even came into the picture, but it seems to me that hip hop takes it to a new extreme.

[inclementine]

I think I understand some of what you're saying, except for the difference between tibre and melody, because I'm not edjumacated, but I don't think hip hop is by nature a devolution of music, more like an evolution of poetry. I like poetry.

timbre

n : (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely";

So timbre is about how a specific part of the sound stands out, and melody is about how the sounds are arranged to relate to each other? Help me out here.

[rockinrehab]

You know what a melody is, right? A series of notes arranged in time and having a subjective relation