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Something to consider

Friday, 4 March 2022, 19:15 BFH Uncategorized 29

From Shake n’ Bake –

I’ve seen the comments on the site about certain videos. What I want to express to everyone is you don’t have to like it (I hate the Beatles…sorry, but I appreciate them and what they gave to the music world.)

I have 5 children ranging from 16 years old to 29. Every single one of them know everyone in this video. This is their music.

Sure they like other things, but they are well versed in the whole rap music and culture. It is not going away. We need to embrace the few who are speaking (or shall I say spitting ) truth.  When they are laying out the verses that ring true, and are not about the utter stupidity that most of the crap rap that is out there, we (I’m 51 now) grey-hairs need to be more accommodating and accepting of it.

Just throwing it (rap) out as a whole is about as smart as wearing your cloth hello kitty mask.

Your grammatically challenged friend,

AKA ShakeNbake

Have a great weekend

29 Comments on Something to consider

  8. I’ve always had an open mind when it comes to music.
    Like anything you have to sift through the muck to find the gems.

    A lot of rap music lyrics I find funny as shit.
    From “The Rap Game”- D12
    “I’m scattless, I’ll blow you two niggas off the Atlas
    With a gat that’s bigger than Godzilla’s back nigga…”

    And from Eminem:
    I’ma get snuffed, cause I ain’t said enough to pipe down
    I pipe down, when the (White House) just wiped out
    When I see that little (Cheney) dike get sniped out
    Lights out, bitch adios, goodnight [gunshot] (AHH!)

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  13. Listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately, not so much the later stuff, but the early 70’s albums, when they were really stroking the ball: “Meddle”, “Dark Side of the Moon” and “Wish You Were Here.” The last two sold millions and millions of copies and have had a lasting effect on the culture. A basic theme of those big selling albums; alienation from society.

    I watch a Tom McDonald rap video and I hear…alienation, but also betrayal by an uncaring ruling class who can’t be bothered to even lie anymore about some kind of connection to the rest of their society.

    I wish McDonald the same level of success with his messaging that the Floyd found during their peek creative years and those who are uncaring are pounded with his music until they come down off their soap boxes and join the rest of society.

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  16. The message is great, ShakeNBake! The delivery (to me) is boring beyond belief. And that’s what I think of rap “music”. Maybe “boring” isn’t exactly right; at least not in the general sense of the word. It does actually feel like a woodpecker trying to bore a hole into my skull.

    Live a few more years with five kids. At some point you’ll regain your own sense of entitlement and put the hammer down on what you’ll accept and what you won’t. Trust me on this; they’ll adjust and not even raise the subject in your presence.

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  23. Pressed rat and warthog have closed down their shop.
    They didn’t want to; ’twas all they had got.
    Selling atonal apples, amplified heat,
    And pressed rat’s collection of doglegs and feet.
    Sadly, they left, telling no one goodbye.
    Pressed rat wore red jodhpurs, warthog a striped tie.
    Between them, they carried a three-legged sack,
    Went straight round the corner and never came back.

    That’s one hell of a message! /s

    I don’t remember getting many messages from songs. Most lyrics don’t mean shit but what you want them to mean.

    I DO remember people saying Seger’s Fire Lake was about suicide. WTF?

    How about this one?

    Forty thousand headmen couldn’t make me change my mind
    If I had to take the choice between the deaf man and the blind
    I know just where my feet should go and that’s enough for me
    I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea
    Hadn’t traveled very far, when suddenly I saw
    Three small ships are sailing out towards a distant shore
    So lighting up a cigarette, I followed in pursuit
    And found a secret cave, where they obviously stashed their loot
    Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose
    I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
    I ventured forth before the dawn, had time to change its mind
    And soaring high above the clouds, I found a golden shrine
    Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
    Quickly rang the bell hoping I hadn’t come too late
    But someone came along and told me not to waste my time
    And when I asked him, who he was, he said, “Just look behind”
    So I turned around and forty thousand headmen hit the dirt
    Firing twenty shotguns each and man it really hurt
    But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload
    And by the time they’d done that I was heading down the road
    Heading down the road, forty thousand headmen
    Going around the lane, going around the lane, around, around the lane
    Forty thousand headmen on my trail, oh…

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  26. It’s more of an “Actual Talent vs Personal Preference” kinda thing for me.
    Yeah, there’s plenty of R & R I don’t care much for either.
    Common with rap, there’s too much anger/hatred in it.
    I’m so old fashioned, I actually favor melodies that are melodic; imagine that.

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  28. Tom has powerful words.

    I’m 78 and my mother never understood the ‘stuff’ I called music. “it’s not going to last through history, like the CLASSICS”.

    The budding music of the 50’s that was overwhelming the bonds of the ‘civilized’ is now classic.

    There has always been a generational lack of understanding of the ‘new’ generation.

    Everyone, young and old, needs to remember how it felt when your parents wouldn’t even listen to The Everly Brothers, or The Big Bopper, or Chuck Berry, and if those and many more weren’t bad enough, oh my gosh, I listened to Country/Western music and a bit of jazz, also.

    I nearly drove her and most of my family nuts by setting my 45 RPM player on constant repeat, while doing my homework playing, “The Marcels – Blue Moon”

    Open you ears and listen to these wonderful SPEECHES of Tom and his contemporaries ‘rap’ their Poetry. They are amazingly well done, and the message is priceless. And there are other artists writing amazing speeches.

    And I really do like the styles, hair colors, and the self expression of our younger generations. They are doing exactly what they should be doing, what EVERY generation has done. Antistagnation.

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  29. @CC

    Yes! Way too much anger. But he isn’t rioting, destroying property, stealing or free loading.

    RAP isn’t a sound I want to hear all of the time. Thank goodness, so far, we can listen to what we want. On type of music, one song, one artist or a mix of all available.

    The lyrics of most types of music can be offensive, their stories are often sordid and unpleasant. We get to say, “Nope, not that one”.

    I remember my son listening to Prince. I really liked his music. But when I learned the lyrics, I quit telling my contemporary that. But I still like Prince music.

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