liking rap music
I have always hated rap music, hiphop, whatever. Of course, I was always only exposed to the extremely marketed crap that is on the radio, and the lyrics of those songs are sooooooo stupid. Sometime last year, Bedroom Music for Bedroom People was linked on MetaFilter, which is a series of mixes by someone called CPI. I found that there was a lot of rap in his mixes that I like, particularly in his mix, Lyrical Ontology, which was "commissioned by CBC Radio 2's Brave New Waves," which caught my eye. Any mention of Brave New Waves brings back memories of the good old days in Kitchener when the boys would TAPE Brave New Waves and play it for us in the middle of the afternoon and imitate the announcer's voice at random times throughout the day, because they thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Anyways, my two favourite parts of Lyrical Ontology right now are the songs "No Regrets" by Aesop Rock (lyrics), and "Epic" by Josh Martinez. If you go to Josh Martinez's site, you can listen to some of his songs in Real Audio (though it says mp3s, they lie), and I liked BC Trees the most, as it's him being VERY happy to be in Vancouver and it's cute. :)
I like them because they're about something, they have deep thoughts in them and reflections about life, not just swearing and crap like "it's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes" that only gets played because it's got a catchy hook. The only problem so far is that they're not over-over-marketed, so it's harder to find albums to downl-- I mean, BUY, and it's hard to find lyrics online.
posted by Heather Ann @ 1:06 AM
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Ok, heres the plan. Start a company that transcribes lyrics from songs by indie and smaller bands and makes them available to the masses on your esteemed website. Pay small royalties to the artists, and raise that money buy selling advertising on your site. Now the payoff: buy as many cds as you want, and write them all off on your taxes as a business expense.
Also, (snow)!
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I never liked rap music until I heard music from the Ninja Tune label. Someone gave me the three CD "Xen Cuts" collection, and to my surprise, there were a lot of rap tracks on it. But they're definitely not "gangsta" rap by any stretch. I'm sure there is a name for the style of music on the Ninja Tune CDs, but I'm not sure what it is. It's closer to poetry, but with a sense of immediacy and improvisation. The term "kicking it freestyle" really does apply, and when I hear people string words together so musically, so perfectly, and most importantly, off the top of their head, it makes me feel a sense of awe. It takes me several revisions on the computer to come up with what I am trying to say usually as can be seen by my deleted, corrected and updated comment. But these people can stand up with a mic and just let ideas flow. See also: Bullfrog.
With regards to your comments regarding CPI. I believe that most of the artists on that mix, if not all of them are on the Rhymesayers label (Atmosphere). Maybe you could dig up some info with that.
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