President-Elect Barack Obama Speaks on his music taste.

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

by the way, check out that video here on Youtube featuring Jay Z and Paul McCartney performing his song "Yesterday": wow! great "rap" input there Jay Z: a bunch of "uh-huh"s, "that's right" and other stinkin' stuff like that

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

maybe Obama is saying this as a means of proving his solidarity with black people (who mostly grow up on hip-hop & the like); but that doesn't justify anything; I'm surprised he said nothing about jazz or classical; great, he mentioned Jay Z but not, say, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington or other greats;

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

simply put, most hip-hop & rap SUCKS EGGS! (except some choice few songs - mostly original stuff like Rapper's Delight or songs by Grand Masta Flash and the Furious Five.

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

we currently have the misfortune of living in this day and age where the million-selling singles are not songs like "Bohemian Rhapsody", with such aesthetic intricacy & musical complexity (all in pop/rock song!) as to cater to the musical tastes and needs of a sophisticated human being; sadly, the songs that make the big bucks are hip-hop-ish songs with the same old chords and same old musical structure as a million other songs, with a melodic line that a one-year-old could probably write.

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

I agree with what he says about the "old school stuff", but I'm actually surprised he likes hip-hop so much. Nobody seems to realise hip-hop is, aesthetically speaking, worthy of little appreciation. Just because something is enormously popular does not mean that something is in good taste;

[UsefulChamber]

i've never heard such a profound opinion on rap music

[brianjm1988]

you know, white people make music too Barry.

[kittennyc]

but is it "good" music? LOL

joking, just joking, don't get twisted!

[Heyheyheyhobo]

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[Stephanie824]

good for him

[Zanetheforbiddenone]

Least he's down with music, better then bushes taste in music!