Re: Blues Legend Bo Diddley Disses Rap Music

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:03:16 GMT
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Analogeezer wrote:
> RAP is blues...just look at the origins of it and the subject matter
> of most of the songs; sex, guns, prison, killin, women, people who
> done wrong, money woes, livin large, etc.
If rap is blues, why are there different names for these two different
genres? Why is it so easy to differentiate the two after hearing only a
few seconds of either? Because they
>
> Like Blues, rap is based on repetition, simplicity, and the
> vocal/lyrics...if you think about it, your average blues singer was
> not considered a great vocal talent by the standards of the day
> either.
Most rock music is based on the very same properties.
>
> And just like the blues, suburban white kids that have no reason to
> sing the blues have embraced the form and will change it greatly from
> it's origins...Enimem is just the tip of the iceberg, it's all gonna
> be over for the original style rappers in a few years.
>
> If you think about it, Country Music was the same when it first came
> out...guns, prison, killin, women, money woes, etc.
You're right, all these different kinds of music - rap, rock, country,
blues have common elements and themes, but they are different enough to
have their own description.
One element that distinguishes rap from the others is the overt
violence, vulgarity, obscenity and profanity of many rap artists. Sure,
you'll hear some similar sentiments expressed in other forms of music,
but rap/hip-hop is easily distinguished from the others. It's the beat;
it's the ATTITUDE.
>
> If it wasn't for the overwhelming success of trickledown economics we
> wouldn't have all these problems at the lower socioeconomic scale of
> things to generate all this misery and angst that forms the basis for
> these musical forms.
>
> Analogeezer
>
> p.s. I don't like blues or country, don't like RAP/Hip Hop either, but
> I understand and respect those forms of music and realize where they
> came from.
AS someone who does like blues and country (and rock, jazz and classic
R&B), I reject the notion that rap is blues. Rap is rap and blues is
blues. I know blues when I hear it, and I haven't heard it coming from
Eminem, Ludacris, or any of that school of rap/HH.
Artie