In my head there's a line between hip hop and violence," said Jesse Winfrey, who performs with the group Reality. "People forget that line exists because now the music is associated with violence. "The lyrics that people are writing by-and-large represent the reality the young people are living in," said Eric Wissa, one of the coordinators of the Critical Breakdown event. "People shouldn't get upset about the music, they should get upset about the conditions the music is reflecting." "We're losing people left and right," agreed Ruth Henry, a teen activist. "Looking for answers in a "Stop Snitchin'" tee shirt or some hip hop lyrics is like trying to put a Bandaid on a bullet wound."
Many more people likely agree with the lyrics put forth by [MC Lars] on "Download This Song." The number features a sample of the guitar riff and "la la la" vocals of Iggy Pop's underrated gem "The Passenger" along with Lars pleading for a new record industry paradigm. The chorus finds Lars rapping: "Hey, Mr. Record Man, the joke's on you/ Running your label like if s 1992/ Hey Mr. Record Man, your system can't compete/ It's the new artist model, file transfer complete. Lars, a former Monterey County resident who spent his high school years at Pebble Beach's Stevenson School, has a handful of songs on his latest release, 2006's The Graduate, that deal with his generation's relationship with technology, and specifically, the Internet Rapping like a cross between Eminem and "Weird Al" Ya...
On "Banana Ghost" the listener is so blanketed by cacophony that it's easy to miss how conventional and meaningful the following line is: "Please don't go and build a fence around your heart/Like you've done before when you're losing ground." The song crashes to a finish seconds later, as if [Honus] realized how close he'd come to baring his real feelings, how they almost penetrated that gauntlet of irony. Love comes up again on "Skin Tension" and again it's a refreshing foil to sinister lyrics like, "You should always run with a loaded gun in your mouth. Despite ties to the same Scranton scene that birthed the Prison Jazz label (which released the A-Sides' stunning Hello, Hello last year) and the Sw! ms (which [Mike Quinn] used to play in), Okay Paddy have been low on the totem pole o...
Mrs. Tottendale (Georgia Engel, who hasn't changed a bit since her days on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; now she is a matron-ingenue) and her butler open with a song about the "Fancy Dress" that she is wearing to the upcoming wedding of the divinely handsome Robert to the super-talented musiqal comedy star Janet. It isn't a happy occasion for her agent, who is losing his meal ticket. Having the dumb blonde, Kitty, waiting in the wings, doesn't help. Kitty's attempt at a mind-reading act ends with her reading her own mind. Then there are the twin gangsters disguised as pastry cooks who whip up a gourmet treat in "Toledo Surprise." And an aviatrix who just happens to land onstage. There is Adolpho, a Latin lover who is paid to seduce the bride but gets the tipsy, Drowsy Chaperone instead. Ja...
... never heard any of the songs, and with lyrics like "I put a monkey on a pedestal," you probably ...
There is a new documentary in theaters about a group of 80-something-year-old musicians who belt , out rockin' tunes. No, not Shine A Light, the Rolling Stones' documentary. Close. It's Young@Heart, British filmmaker [Stephen Walker]'s documentary, which chronicles the Northampton, Mass.-based Young@Heart Choir as it rehearses for and finally performs a huge, sold-out performance in its hometown. Take, for instance, The Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" which, through the capable lungs of The Young@Heart Choir, becomes a comedic thesis on elderly survival. Or The Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated." With lyrics like, "Put me in a wheel chair! Get me to the show!" and "Nothing to do, no where to go-o-o-o," the poppy punk hit becomes a cry against nursing home stagnation. A performance at a prison-with...
If you were a University of Maine student 20 years ago and had doubtful taste in music, you could put on a Donovan record, hear the lyrics "For every boy there is a girl," and know it to be treacly true. The next line in "Boy For Every Girl" goes "For every dream there is a real world," which is about where we find ourselves today. A recent university system census comparing the early '80s with today finds where once the sexes were about equally represented on Maine campuses, the 11,953 fulltime female students now outnumber males by more than 3,000. It is a phenomenon evident nationally (133 women will graduate from U.S. colleges this year for every 100 men) and internationally, has been lamented at length and then stacked alongside global warming and the federal debt on the Big Proble...
Both of these "holidays" have paganism as their origin and are not based on any acceptable Christian theology. Serious study will prove this truth. Using "Hip-Hop Sundays," calling church "Da Hous" and mixing gospel music with hip-hop music is not the way to do it. My son and I often debate this very argument. Am I saying, he asks, that all Hip-Hop rappers are evil? No, but I am saying the essence of the music is. Can't the music be changed by changing the lyrics? No, if we put human clothes on a monkey, he's still a monkey. Hip-hop is what it is.
Both of these "holidays" have paganism as their origin and are not based on any acceptable Christian theology. Serious study will prove this truth. Using "Hip-Hop Sundays," calling church "Da Hous," and mixing gospel music with hip-hop music is not the way to do it. My son and I often debate this very argument. Am I saying, he asks, that all Hip-Hop rappers are evil? No, but I am saying the essence of the music is. Can't the music be changed by changing the lyrics? No, if we put human clothes on a monkey, he's still a monkey. Hip-hop is what it is.
... time in the history of the Court--the lyrics of Bob Dylan in a published opinion. (1) Sprint Co...
Hard to imagine whether the scrawny kid wearing prescription nerd glasses and ordering a pumpkin chai spice tea would know what to do if someone were to actually obey his lyrics and "put, put, put that pussy" on him. But the soft-spoken 24-year-old Naeem Juwan's alter-ego--a big-chain-wearing, dirty-talking, party-rocking, Baltimore-raised but Philly-turned-out MC--has the Internet in a frenzy with his hyped-up, high-energy blend of pussy-smashin' rhymes over assbreakin' beats. Welcome to Spank Rock. Spank Rock--Juwan's MC name, but also the name of his act, which includes his producer Alex "ArmaniXXXChange" Epton--describes himself as a hip-hop artist. But he doesn't fall anywhere in the traditional rap spectrum. He's underground but not backpacker, pop but not mainstream. His grimy, g...
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