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<div dir="ltr">Regarding the subject of instrumental tracks to rap over,
as Guru (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal) put it, “Rap started with,
what they did which was so ingenious, was to create a whole form of
urban style music from just two turntables and two records and a
microphone.” They looped a few seconds of breakdowns in records before
samplers were around to do that. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regarding examples of intelligent rap, see by KRS-One:
<a href="https://youtu.be/67Ei4FmRLaY" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/67Ei4FmRLaY</a>
</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>From his bio:<font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">KRS, an acronym for ““Knowledge Reigning Supreme”, has been called the
“conscience of Hip Hop” (Rolling Stone), “the greatest live emcee ever”
(The Source), the “spokesperson for Hip Hop” (Wall Street Journal),
“master teacher” (Zulu Nation) and the “son of Hip Hop” (Kool DJ Herc).
With 20 published albums to his credit and his numerous appearances with
other artists, KRS-One is believed to have written the most rhymes in
Hip Hop’s history. In the 1990s as “hip-hop” grew more and more
commercialized and corporate, it was KRS-One that openly rejected such
cultural exploitation and materialism grounding Hip Hop in its original
principles of peace, love, unity and safely having fun. Teaching
everything from self-creation to stopping violence; from vegetarianism
to transcendental meditation, from the establishment of Hip Hop
Appreciation Week (every third week in May), to establishing Hip Hop as
an international culture at the United Nations (2001), KRS-One has
single-handedly held the history and original arts of Hip Hop together
now for over two decades. </span></font><br><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-weight:normal">In addition to lecturing at over 500 universities in the United States
and publishing three ground-breaking books; “The Science of Rap” (1995),
“Ruminations” (2003), and the Gospel of Hip Hop” (2009), KRS-One has
also established the Stop The Violence Movement (1989), influenced the
creation of the “West-Coast All-Stars’ anti-gang anthem “We’re All In
The Same Gang” (1990), warned the Hip Hop community against giving up
their humanity for technological advancement (H. E. A. L.—Human
Education Against Lies-1991), and has established the Temple of Hip Hop
for the spiritual exploration of Hip Hop’s culture (1996). It was
KRS-One who first argued that “rap is something we do; Hip Hop is
something we live” and introduced the “I am Hip Hop” philosophy in 1994
which Black Entertainment Television uses as the title of their Hip Hop
Lifetime Achievement Award today. Without question, KRS-One has been the
loudest voice for the actual preservation and expansion of original Hip
Hop worldwide. </span></font></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 6:31 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"> How many times have </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">you heard second and third albums from promising bands, and thought "Not </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">nearly as good as the first one"? Why do you think that is? ben</span><br></div><div style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I have read several things about hot streaks in various sports. Or sometimes they call it momentum. Statistical studies show that there is no such thing as momentum or hot streaks. Consider how a first album gets published: only the very best songs are included - nothing held back. They want to take advantage of the popularity of the album but it takes time to come up with more great songs. Same thing in novels: second one not as good (like the next one after Ready Player One).</font></span></div><div style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Some of these effects fit regression to the mean as well. bill w</font></span></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:25 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">SR Ballard wrote:<br>
> I like their work, I give them money. It’s not complicated.<br>
><br>
> I will often buy a physical or electronic copy of a book I have <br>
> pirated, if I liked it. I buy merch from bands, pay for concert <br>
> tickets, buy tracks. I donate money to streamers...<br>
><br>
> Piracy is no different than borrowing your friend’s book/CD/movie. If <br>
> you enjoyed it, you’ll get a legit copy for yourself.<br>
><br>
> SR Ballard<br>
<br>
Thank you, a lone sane voice among the brainwashed (so it seems to me, <br>
anyway).<br>
<br>
Ask Charlie Stross how he makes a living when he routinely puts his <br>
fiction on the web for anyone to read without any strings whatsoever.<br>
<br>
My experience and opinion, is the same as SRB's. I have paid-for hard <br>
copies of several works of fiction (by Stross and others) that I first <br>
read for free. I decided that I wanted to give these guys money to <br>
encourage them to keep writing the stuff that I like. I have also read <br>
for free, stuff that I didn't like so much, and declined to give those <br>
authors money, not wanting to encourage them further.<br>
<br>
What could be fairer than that?<br>
<br>
The people who profit the most from the current system are the <br>
middle-men. The publishers and big media corporations. You know, the <br>
ones who lobby for these crazy copyright laws that benefit no-one but <br>
them. The sooner these parasites wither away, the better.<br>
<br>
Regarding the notion that amateur musicians create nothing but <br>
poor-quality pap, consider what the word 'amateur' actually means. And <br>
think about who is more likely to produce good music: Someone who does <br>
it for love, or someone who does it to pay the rent? How many times have <br>
you heard second and third albums from promising bands, and thought "Not <br>
nearly as good as the first one"? Why do you think that is?<br>
<br>
This is one area where I'm quite dismayed to see extropians so deeply <br>
entrenched in the same mental rut as the vast majority of people. We're <br>
supposed to be good at thinking outside the box and looking to a better <br>
future, not enthusiastically toeing the corporate party line that's <br>
threatening to drag us down into the kind of dystopia that Cory Doctorow <br>
etc. keep trying to alert us all to.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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