Tapes got skipped in the retro movement. All the best sex is on vinyl…
Holy shit yes…
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I’m not a huge eminem guy, homophobia and all, but i think he gets more of a pass because his writing voice was so raw, and he had a hard-knocks backstory lent him authenticity for his tone and words. He also clearly busted his ass to become a genuinely good and original writer. Contrast with someone like Iggy azalea, who really sounds and feels like she’s doing a character, and has the weird, overly polished feel of someone created in a pop-star workshop by producers trying to create a frankenstein of other popular pop sounds. Vanilla ice too, his name alone is clearly a parody. That daid, the specific heat she’s getting is undoubtedly disproportionate to her authenticity crimes, and mysogyny for sure is a part of it.
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Have chainsaw, will travel.
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Both Fab Five Freddy and Basquiat show up in that video. so there’s that!
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How about this?
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OMG… I had that tape… I totally had that tape…
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Macklemore interview discussing these here very issues… for what it’s worth:
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I love how he shoots Jason Lee at the end of his rant. Because, we all want to shoot Banky in that movie, if you ask me.
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Macklemore sounds like a cool dude and all, but as a rapper he reminds me more of Vanilla Ice than Eminem. His music has the sonic quality of an after school special.
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and Elvis is in Joan Rivers, but he’s tryin to get out!
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Verse 2, Amanda Blank
makes me think of this lyric
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All the best sex is on vinyl…
Are we talking fetishes for records here or clothing?
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Have to admit that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of rap, though I can appreciate things like the video that someone posted here a while back of Eminem doing the fast portion of “rap god”.
I have a beef with the very synthetic Ms. Minaj, specifically in that I believe that she’s doing a grand job of dumbing down popular culture. Not to say that there’s not some brilliant social commentary with lyrics like "Even when my dad was on crack i was crack/ now the whole album crack.” or “Shitted on em…put ya #2s in the air if you did it on em…” or even “Ice my wrist’s then I piss on b-tches/You can suck my diznik if you take this jizzes/You don’t like them disses, give my ass some kisses”. I mean, who would have thought of rhyming “jizzes” with “kisses”?
Not completely talentless, but at best overrated.
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Pffft. Philips Laser Disc.
/twirls imaginary hipster 'tache.
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But if you’re not keen on rap, how do you know how she is doing within her musical context? Rap, like other forms of music, have it’s own contexts and means of measuring talent that is internal to the genre… would you say that a particular free form jazz artist sucks, even though you know nothing about free form jazz? how do you know they suck? What are you comparing it to?
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New band name!
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Sheesh people, is it so hard to let someone have the opinion that “X” artist sucks on ice? As I stated, I’m not a big fan of the genre. It’s not that I don’t listen to it at all (like free form jazz, where I’d feel wholly uncomfortable making any statement of the quality of “X” artist as I have little to no understanding of the genre). I find it amusing that I have to list my “Rap listening CV” to be allowed to have the dissenting opinion that Ms. Minaj is both detrimental to popular culture as well as not really being as skilled as people make her out to be.
To make my point, Ms. Minaj is no Jean Grae, MC lyte, Monie Love, Rah Digga, or even Missy Elliot. Is that an educated enough statement for everyone? I’m simply not a fan of Ms. Minaj. All the ad hominem arguments in the world aren’t going to change that.
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Oh. Of course you’re not a fan of rap but you totally dig that one white man that rapped pretty okay. How … not surprising.
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