OT: An A Legend Is Gone

[Hugh Manatee]

It is art, it's just art about *****, *****es and Hoes(not very apealing, and possibly destructive in some senses and very simple or shallow but art none the less).

Also it seems to be there are certain sub genre's within rap depending on the type of beat, lyrics and style of the atists just like with rock(me, I want to punch evanessense, 30 seconds to mars, avril and most of that 'i'm angsty because my hair is black and I wear earrings where they don't go and have a pale powder white complection' genre in the throat, but that doesn't mean I can't rock to Metallica or Sponge if I want to).

I don't have much experience with rap, it's like land mines in CD format, mostly certain catchy songs from tv shows or videos I like, stuff I know is good going in, but there is some good, fun stuff out there. I do like Cee Lo, the Danger Doom album, Gnarles Barkley, and some of the free stuff they used to post on adultswim.com(some is catchy, some is funny, other stuff is just good poetryand it was free), but not much of it focuses on the *****es and hoes aspect. The N word however seems to be a staple though, hard but not impossible to get away from, but then most rock at one point or another makes refference to motherf***ers, s**t, drugs, and probably degraded women as much as or more then rap did, so you can accept some vulgarity as a part of the lyrical content, approaching it with a sense of humor or intellectually or go listed to christian rock. I don't get the double standard or why it is somehow acceptable when said with the A instead of the er at the end or how it became some sort of term of empowrment[reminds me of how the brittney/paris/lohan generation of girls is somehow sexually 'empowered' by being ****teases wearing ****ty outfits with 'spooge bucket' printed on their too tight short skirts, but thats a paradox for a whole nother topic...] , but however or whatever it has lead to some very interesting if not vulgar works. Give Cee Lo green and His Perfect Imperfections a spin, it's the one that won me over, n-word and all, not much of the *****/hoe references and much of it seems to defy the genre.

As for James Brown, he sang, he danced, he innovated, he entertained, he owned, and I kinda wish some ofthe artists nowdays would get some more "influence" from him then they currently seem to. Here's to the Old School....