[ExI] Direct Music

Wed Feb 19 06:07:26 UTC 2020

The hippest of the really hip hip hop is chap hop.
Your life isn't complete without enjoying professor Elemental and Mr B the
gentleman rhymer.
/Henrik

Den ons 19 feb. 2020 06:20spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >…LOL Spike it is too perfect that you are related to the Linkin Park
> guy.  That is some grade A hilarity.  They are kind of bad so no shame for
> not liking them.  There's some really poetic shit out there though…
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> Ah, OK then.  I have a young 4th cousin who explained to me who this
> Shinoda character is.  She said the group is big, football game halftime
> big.  I asked for a link to one of their songs, she sent one.  I listened
> to about 30 seconds of it and wrote back: please alternate link?  Do they
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> She knows my taste leans more towards Merle Haggard, Elvis, Roy Orbison,
> James Taylor that sort.  She considered my question and answered:  Ehhhhh,
> not really.  They get worse however.
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> She didn’t bother sending another link.  {8^D
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> Regarding hip hop.  Rock and roll is all about how guys feel about their
> girls.  Most of it is anyway.  Dancing, copulating, that sorta thing.  I
> can’t understand the lyrics the hip hopsters are rapping.  I heard Mr.
> Hussle was slain, so I Googled on Nipsey Hussle lyrics.  This came up:
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> https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nipseyhussle/bulletsaintgotnonames.html
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> I know I am being geezerly here, but from my point of view, it looks like
> this is an entire genre all about murder and racism.  I clearly recall the
> geezers commenting that rock&roll suggestive lyrics inspired young people
> to copulate.  Entirely possible.  OK then, consider this:  I found a list
> of about a dozen rappers who were slain in just the first quarter of 2019:
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> Please can someone please explain why we need rhythmic poetry about
> murder, which appears to somehow quite inexplicably inspire murderers to
> slay those reciting rhythmic poetry about murder?
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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 23:12 spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> > *On Behalf Of *Will Steinberg via extropy-chat
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> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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>   But eventually someone with such a device will attempt hip hop.  Then
> the arm will reach over, pick up the 44 magnum and blast some hapless prole.
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> Sensa huma, Will!  If I stopped my snarky ways, I would be nothing.
> Understatement, I would be negative, less that nothing.  I would be
> subterranean, total garbage, wriggly goo under the trash can!
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> I don’t want to be any of that, so I keep my sensa huma.
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> >…There is a lot more to hip hop than 'Straight Outta Compton'…
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> I don’t know what that is, but I play the sax.  I tried to do hip hop on
> it.  I didn’t even need to move my fingers.  But no one recognized it.  I
> can’t imagine playing Name That Tune in hip hop.  Think about it: the
> Beatles were so great, but decades later they violinized it and made it
> into elevator music.  How will hip hop ever be violinized when the
> surviving fans are in their 60s?
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> >…  I can turn you on to some if you wish…
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> Eh, probably at least 4 decades too late for that, me lad.  Fun aside, not
> even kiddng.  I did DNA and learned I have a second cousin once removed who
> is a hip hop star.  His name is Shinoda.  His mother and I are second
> cousins, so the rap star is second once removed.  I talked to her (my
> second cousin) on the phone, she seemed very nice.  Never met her in person.
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> Hipsters, is there a rap star Shinoda who is in a group called Lincoln
> Park?  I looked it up once and hated the music, so I fear I won’t get
> turned on by it now.
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