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02-20-2003, 11:29 PM

"True musical diversity isn't simply accepting whatever MTV or the radio throws at you because it's got a good hook as you seem so ready to do."
Now i'm so ready to accept whatever the media throws at me? In my last post I said I don't accept much of MTV.
GT....calm.....please....I know you've worked in these music stores and noone can listen to everything, but realistically some people can. If rap isn't music...what is it? Dont say thugs b***in about this and that...put a noun to it...like perhaps music. I also want you to define the 3 criteria's you mentioned. All music is is entertainment...every form of it comes down to entertainment. Why does Eminem say or sing the things he does....thats who he is and what he's gone through and those are his thoughts and it's through his music that he expresses it. 50 Cent...has been around for a longtime....not like mainstream like he is now..but isn't that everyones dream, to make the money. If they weren't in it for money why every produce a cd and put it out to sell. 50 Cent also puts his thoughts and past history into his songs, it's called expression. People hate eminem for sayin this or that gays or whatever. It's his freedom to say it and your freedom to listen. It doesn't make anyone less of a person for having there own opinions....personally...I like some of eminem and some of it isn't so appealing...if it's just some good hook that doesn't go into who the person is or doesn't pertain to his history i don't get to into it. You listen to Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Jay Z....any of these "rappers" and tell me you don't get somethin out of it, some truth of the life they've led or gone through growing up. This appeals to me much more then hearing every punk song bangin this and that...and crying over another breakup..how many girlfriends have broken up with'em...sure there are a few good ones...but tell me a band that hasn't put out a song or a few on the same disc...that involves breaking up or getting dumped.
All in all..rap is music...3 criterias or what? Workin in a music store doesn't mean you have an up on the rest of the world knowing what music is music...delete the word music and it's all just entertainment...everyone gets somethin out of it different from the next.

02-20-2003, 11:29 PM	#29
zm_dawg Posts: n/a	"True musical diversity isn't simply accepting whatever MTV or the radio throws at you because it's got a good hook as you seem so ready to do." Now i'm so ready to accept whatever the media throws at me? In my last post I said I don't accept much of MTV. GT....calm.....please....I know you've worked in these music stores and noone can listen to everything, but realistically some people can. If rap isn't music...what is it? Dont say thugs b***in about this and that...put a noun to it...like perhaps music. I also want you to define the 3 criteria's you mentioned. All music is is entertainment...every form of it comes down to entertainment. Why does Eminem say or sing the things he does....thats who he is and what he's gone through and those are his thoughts and it's through his music that he expresses it. 50 Cent...has been around for a longtime....not like mainstream like he is now..but isn't that everyones dream, to make the money. If they weren't in it for money why every produce a cd and put it out to sell. 50 Cent also puts his thoughts and past history into his songs, it's called expression. People hate eminem for sayin this or that gays or whatever. It's his freedom to say it and your freedom to listen. It doesn't make anyone less of a person for having there own opinions....personally...I like some of eminem and some of it isn't so appealing...if it's just some good hook that doesn't go into who the person is or doesn't pertain to his history i don't get to into it. You listen to Tupac, Nas, Biggie, Jay Z....any of these "rappers" and tell me you don't get somethin out of it, some truth of the life they've led or gone through growing up. This appeals to me much more then hearing every punk song bangin this and that...and crying over another breakup..how many girlfriends have broken up with'em...sure there are a few good ones...but tell me a band that hasn't put out a song or a few on the same disc...that involves breaking up or getting dumped. All in all..rap is music...3 criterias or what? Workin in a music store doesn't mean you have an up on the rest of the world knowing what music is music...delete the word music and it's all just entertainment...everyone gets somethin out of it different from the next.