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
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;
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.
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.
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;
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 8 months ago
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 8 months ago
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 8 months ago
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 8 months ago
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;
IbraheemalZawahiri 8 months ago
i've never heard such a profound opinion on rap music
UsefulChamber 2 years ago
you know, white people make music too Barry.
brianjm1988 2 years ago
but is it "good" music? LOL
joking, just joking, don't get twisted!
kittennyc 2 years ago
want to chat with singles
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Heyheyheyhobo 3 years ago
good for him
Stephanie824 3 years ago
Least he's down with music, better then bushes taste in music!
Zanetheforbiddenone 3 years ago