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B.E.T. to ban ems just lose it. Michael Jackson to sue?
SGV:
Thanks for the publicity? Do you work for Shady Records?
7even:
Blink 182 ran around naked alltogether in the Clip for "What's my Age Again" or some other single Im not sure.
But hey it's Black EnterTainment, and while Em is white they prolly just waited for a chance to ban him. Racists. 8)
Don Seer:
( bjax gets a prop for appreciating the boondocks..)
dexter:
Two sides of the same Coin
BET AND MTV owned by the Same Company.
Shallow:
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Okay, I don't particularly care for the song, but Rap in general is not about letting the music speak for itself. The man making the music was always more important than the music itself. Whether it be thugs proving how gangster they are, or "real MCs" who talk about how "real" they are, and how fake everyone in the mainstream is. You name me one rap artist that's puts his music before who he is as a person. Rap has been built upon selling who you are, or who you want to be, and putting the music second.
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yeah, that's a point, but rap being used as a platform for self-portrayal is not necessarily something negative. Musically, it is often quite simple, but IMO it's the MC's who make those minimalistic compositions dope. I see "NY State Of Mind" and "Shook Ones Pt. II" as two of the greatest examples of how to make a (almost) perfect song, but that is to a considerable extent because of Nas/Prodigy/Havoc on the mic. If you had to listen to those beats for 5 minutes you probably wouldn't think it's that great and be annoyed by how goddamn repetitive it is
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I didn't actually say it was a bad thing, I was just responding to what that guy said. As for putting hte man before the music, I wasn't talking about the "music", I meant the lyrics of the song. Most songs by most artists are about themselves, or how they want to be. You rarely come across as song that is simply that, a song. A song that can be covered by others, and doesn't directly involve the artist. I'm not saying there aren't any but if you find one, look at the rest of the songs by that artist and over 75% wil be about him and how good he is, and maybe 25% will be just songs about something else. I mean, how many times do you hear a rock n rolll band sing lyrics about how good they are at singing, or how great the guitar player is? Why are rappers so self obsessed?
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