tpaine posted:i wrote that liking rap music makes you racist in a paternalistic way because it presumes it's the best black people can do and all i get is this guy throwing around words like gestalt and liebensraum and saying a rapper has prog-rock tendencies, i.e. an album that tells a story (?).
deadken posted:post ur book lol
daddyholes posted:deadken posted:post ur book lol
daddyholes posted:tpaine posted:i wrote that liking rap music makes you racist in a paternalistic way because it presumes it's the best black people can do and all i get is this guy throwing around words like gestalt and liebensraum and saying a rapper has prog-rock tendencies, i.e. an album that tells a story (?).
conec posted:i left some rings down in Africa (sonic hedgehog)
c_man posted:tpaine's anthem
trill as fuk
tpaine posted:
tpaine posted:a huge proportion of my favorite songs are about relationships,
sorry daddyholes, good luck with your funky fresh rap career
tpaine posted:if there was something to like or hold on to in the average rap song other than the lyrics, i wouldn't criticize it so harshly. a huge proportion of my favorite songs are about relationships, which is the most boring thing imaginable to sing about for anyone outside of the relationship, but i can tolerate it because there's something compelling in the vocal technique or instrumental flourishes or just the melody. rap routinely fails to call attention to anything other the lyrical content, because it's sold as a vehicle for some kind of street poetry, emphasizing the flow and wordplay over the accouterments. if someone rapped a really creative narrative, that would be one thing. but it's all dumb fucking misogynist crap
you see it's weird because you say all this as if you know anything about any rap music other than the party music bnw posts in this thread but you clearly don't. you only expose yourself to one form of the music and then castigate all of it for being like that. it's not. lil jon isn't attempting to be some kind of street poet, he makes dance music and is very good at it. you don't like dance music which is ok but there's plenty of rap music featuring interesting vocal techniques, innovative production, live instrumentation, and yeah creative narrative storytelling if that's your kind of thing. go listen to kendrick lamar, or fuck it some backpack shit given that's probably closest to what you'd be into, you might like it. sort yourself out son