So it turns out that, according to popular interpretation, you're not supposed to be proud of your circular karate chop. Or your telescopic roundhouse kick, for that matter.
This would normally be the part where my princessona reprimands you for not calling it "The Scottish Play" but I can't be bothered with that shtick right now
As both a theist and a theater nerd, enough with the superstitious bullshit.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
@Kexruct: I do it not because I believe it, but because I think it's funny
This would normally be the part where my princessona reprimands you for not calling it "The Scottish Play" but I can't be bothered with that shtick right now
As both a theist and a theater nerd, enough with the superstitious bullshit.
you best walk around with a backward-facing salt shaker taped to your left shoulder boy.
i don't know much about the history and culture of hip-hop but his lack of cohesion, high-school freshman introduction and rambling pointlessness (like it comes down to some vague platitudes about how, to paraphrase, "hip-hop was on the outside looking in but now it's on the inside of the whole cultural zeitgeist") give a very strong impression that he doesn't know what he's talking about, or at least that he's not good at articulating what he wants to say. And he's been rapping for like almost 30 years now IIRC?
I had never heard of them before this hullabaloo over their most recent album, which has even reached my sleepy corner of the interwebs. though i'm not sure what the ruckus is all about to be honest.
I have to say the album cover is pretty cool, though the title seems overwrought.
I'm told that ....and then you shoot your cousin is a very typical Roots album. Its title is an extended KRS-One reference, for the record.
You're probably better off going back and listening to one of their earlier albums since I think those are near-universally regarded as being better than anything they've done recently.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of The Roots actually, "What They Do" is a classic song, if not one I'm super fond of.
#6. Same-Sex Touching Is the Most Normal Thing in the World Here
South Korean boys and men practice a thing called skinship, where they pretty much touch each other nonstop. Platonically bonding through skin with your best pal is an accepted practice here, and no more sexual than a handshake. I teach at a mostly boys' high school, and they're constantly holding hands, sitting on each other's laps, and feeling each other up. Even when it veers a little too far into what non-Koreans would consider creepy territory (like an over-the-pants hand job that a fellow teacher of mine once witnessed), none of the boys involved see it as anything but basic friendliness.
This actually seems pretty neat to me. I've always been a pretty tactile guy, much to a good deal of my friends' annoyance.
It's also part of why I enjoy theater so much because people in there are just as tactile as I am.
I think people have mostly taken issue with the fact that ?uest is still writing about the same things he was making statements about in '98, without really acknowledging that hip-hop has changed a lot since then.
Whether that's a fair criticism or not I can't really say. The essay's not meant for me to read, so I'm not going to read it.
Having spent the last semester studying the history of black music, I can say that black America doesn't really own most of the music that it created in the same way that the white Western world does. In fact, a lot of American pop music can basically be described as something originating in black culture and then everybody else copying it until it's either considered international territory and/or predominantly white (minstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, hip-hop, pretty much anything that relies on sampling). Gospel's still considered a black genre, stuff like the Gaithers aside, but that's about it. In contrast, consider classical music and folk music, both genres that are still considered to be whites-only clubs.
And while that sucks for us, I can't say that it's intrinsically a bad thing. In many of the places where hip-hop and rap spread to because of it becoming 'international', it's still serving the same role that it originally did in those tenement buildings in the American inner city. Ragtime and jazz spreading means that people were exposed to syncopation and improvisation as an art. The rock 'n' roll thing...that still kind of sucks. Stupid Elvis overshadowing Little Richard and Chuck Brown (who, in turn, overshadowed Rosetta Tharpe, but that's a topic for another day). In short, while the whole thing sucked majorly in terms of black people getting recognized for what they made, it was important for developing the current stage of music that we all enjoy.
Of course, this means we have to protect the few things that black culture still has for its own. Which is why the Harlem Shake meme and Miley's '''twerking''' are terrible. Taking something that's intrinsically black and commercializing it with no respect to actual Harlem Shakers or professional twerkers (which is a thing)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Honestly, the current state of hip-hop was unavoidable as soon as Rapper's Delight hit it big.
Anything outsider-y that becomes sufficiently popular and/or marketable is inevitably watered down for mass consumption.
(Then again, we do remember a good deal of jazz artists who were recognized in their time; but man, you can't tell me that there was no Vanilla Ice to Dizzy's Tupac)
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I couldn't figure out what to do in it and it lagged horribly, but, as implied there, I did murder a guy and get naked in the rain.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
The rapper for The Roots is Black-Thought. Who, at least musically, has problems of his own.
Which, incidentally, is why old people like them so much, and probably part of the reason they're regarded as rather out of touch.
Though I think Black Thought's solo album from last year was decently regarded if I remember right.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You're probably better off going back and listening to one of their earlier albums since I think those are near-universally regarded as being better than anything they've done recently.
I'm surprised you haven't heard of The Roots actually, "What They Do" is a classic song, if not one I'm super fond of.
Whether that's a fair criticism or not I can't really say. The essay's not meant for me to read, so I'm not going to read it.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i mean it's small, like just a few millimeters long, but the skin irritation is obvious and it hurts a bit if i touch it
Not that people don't have a reason to get mad about this too, I'm just surprised that the other thing didn't make as much of a ruckus as it did.
Anyway, as for the rest of this post my response is mostly just a "yep" with no further comment. As I said, ?uestlove's essay is not intended for me.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead