geauxbrown

About a month in

Nope, but own two West Highland Terriers.

They’re so bad

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Acapella singers

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Extremely talented. Learning vocal parts where the individual notes are so close to one another in the chord structure takes years to learn to do well.

The issue here is when i think of the voice as an instrument, i think about individuals taking years to develop their voices in order to hold notes and exhibit pitch and meter. When rap fans think about the voice as an instrument, they think of artists talking, mumbling, shouting in an almost rhythmic chant.

I have zero problems with rapping. While no one will ever convince me it takes as much practice to become a proficient rapper as a singer, my main criticism revolves around a part of the music industry built on the sampling of others work.

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Dude, you're talking with someone who saw the Beastie Boys BEFORE Licensed to Ill dropped....

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Then you have a solid understanding in the difference between two guys barking into microphones and a third scratching on records all to a pre recorded track versus the same three guys walking out with nothing but the instruments they're gonna use to entertain you......no prerecorded tracks, no samples, just musicianship?

Not sure why you're coming at me so hard over this.

The post was about Wu Tang being admitted into the Rock and Roll HOF and somehow you're now using the Beasties as validation for Wu. :lol:

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quote:I loved how they decided to become musicians


Tell me you don't know squat about the Beasties without...


Right?

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See above........ :pimp:

Are we certain his name is Braxton?

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Paul’s Botique

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Good stuff. I loved how they decided to become musicians. Earned my respect.

If by “samples” on the Iron Maiden tracks you’re referencing SFX or historical dialogue, I have no issue with that. Think Living Color and Cult of Personality. “All we have to fear, is fear itself.”

But I bet it would only take him a few seconds to figure you out.

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…those are still instruments.

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How do you create anything original using a sampler?

My intense dislike of rap is based on the inability of the vast majority of “performers” to write an original piece of music or play a traditional instrument or actually sing.

Those three things are pretty important to me.

I’m no big fan of Iron Maiden, but those guys spent decades learning their instruments, perfecting their song writing and developing their voice. To become that proficient with a guitar means spending a great deal of your younger life alone, dedicated to your instrument.

Meanwhile Wu Tang gets in for sampling the original creations of others and talking into a microphone.

I’m sorry but that’s simply a slap in the face to bands like Maiden. Give the rappers their own HOF.

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They didn't believe ND fans

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ND fans were salty as hell when he left. :lol: