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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Finished your holiday rapping, beotch?

A new documentary . . . "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes," questions the violence, degradation of women and homophobia in much of rap music. - New York Times, December 23, 2006
Evidently the documentary does not question the value of rap as music. Is much of it any more than simple/simplistic poetry based on rhymed couplets, set to a rhythm track? The songs could all be about the fall of Troy and the musical issues would remain. Of course it's music in the broad sense, but it's the sort of music about which it makes no sense to ask who is the Mozart or Horowitz or Hendrix of the genre.

Speaking of Hendrix, here's a tip for bands everywhere: don't try to cover "Spanish Castle Magic". It never works out.

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