Reply #30: Rap 'n I [View All]

I heard it first just before it really hit the airways. I was driving a cab in Queens and we used to ferry kids to a recording studio. They were VERY excited about it. One was playing a tape in the car and I was fascinated. The words were the percussion and how they fit together was intriguing for a word freak like me.

I never listed to the kind of stations that featured that music, so I was a bystander to its ascendancy, then some of the lyrics veered into juvenile obscenity and kind of soured it for me for awhile.

Now I don't listen to it on a regular basis, and find it tiresome in excess, but I can appreciate the artistry when it's well done, and often find the politics encouraging.

(but that's just me)