Texts from Bennett

guys like whiney have been pissed forever that rap is literally the most popular music in the history of the world though - it ruins shit for them and they're gonna stay mad

the 'soothing white announcer voice' spoken word version of "Gin & Juice"

Dude, that's the version on the legendary J0hn & D4ria wedding mix CD-R thread on 77 and no one knew what it was!

xpost, you got me confused with deej

like i think the white girls with acoustic guitars covers arent actually racist, if anything i kinda love them for their strange sincerity but the whole autotune the news OMG CRUNK HAHAHA shit is just nagl

well, exactly, which is why predicating a joke on ITS WHITE PPL... AND THEYRE RAPPING! is really p racist and also stupid, like rap is hardly this outrageous and foreign thing to point and gawk at

this is well-put

remember when that one indie white musician (bon iver? will something?) covered i gotta feeling

the 'soothing white announcer voice' spoken word version of "Gin & Juice"

Dude, that's the version on the legendary J0hn & D4ria wedding mix CD-R thread on 77 and no one knew what it was!

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haha i think i only vaguely skimmed that thread once...i'm pretty sure i heard it for the first time in like 1997 or something though

IMHO it's p much ok to assume all lol wites rapping covers are racist otherwise wed have to engage w/each of them individually

indie rock dropped the ball with no jewish indie all-star version of "i gotta feeling"

cooper otm

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i just wanted this in here to have u dudes read the comments

coop otm, this is a situation where i feel pretty comfortable painting with a broad brush

i mean part of what is at play here is that acoustic or whatever covers of rap songs are such a heinous crime against art that "racism" is one of very few concepts that really approaches how truly horrendous they are

haha totally

um that seems slightly anti-rap...?

i basically hate rap

I think these covers veer towards racist when they go to great lengths to make it clear that they've "rescued" these "secretly great songs" from "rap crap" and put them to "real music". Or maybe thats just rockism.

i mean part of what is at play here is that acoustic or whatever covers of rap songs are such a heinous crime against art that "racism" is one of very few concepts that really approaches how truly horrendous they are

haha otm

I came in to find out why "Texts from Bennett" was churning up so much dust in New Answers. I should have known the answer was simple: clusterfuck.

remember when that one indie white musician (bon iver? will something?) covered i gotta feeling

Jeff Tweedy iirc

that was supposed to be a lacuna

texts from clusterfuck

like obv the underlying production of rap resists being able to be co-opted by 'musicianly' means (and obv there has been a long long tradition of of disregarding hip hop as not real music bcz of lack of melody or instruments or etc) but to say that ALL acoustic covers of rap songs are inherently evil + unforgivable crimes against art (even if every single one up until now has in fact been; a dubious claim anyways) is to do it a real disservice and to deny one of the most amazing things about rap, which is the pop music universality of it that aero was talking about in his previous post

(thank Ned for no SB)

ll cool j doing "mama said knock you out" on mtv unplugged was so racist

mtv unplugged is indeed a shameful reminder of our racist past

reconstruction era mtv

real talk one of the first rap albums i ever bought was Arrested Development Unplugged. that's so corny i'm almost kind of proud of it.

A GAME OF HORSESHOES

sry I am racist

I just listened to a black lady covering a jazz standard - it was terrible. I feel awful about that though.

i listened to ladysmith black mambazo cover a paul simon song. it was exquisite.

reverse racism

now thats what i call REAL MUSIC

She breezed through, "Why not use your mentality, wake up, stand up to reality" and messed up the meter of the rhyme. Still mad.

I mean REAL RACISM

reverse racism taste

chill, http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/toilet-llqq-001.jpg

I think these covers veer towards racist when they go to great lengths to make it clear that they've "rescued" these "secretly great songs" from "rap crap" and put them to "real music". Or maybe thats just rockism.

Does this really exist? I mean hip-hop isn't exactly easy to adapt to other genres without sounding "off" which I guess is supposed to be "hilarious"

Either way I don't think this is racist in the slightest. Songs get covered between genres all the time and the results are usually terrible. IMO all the racism talk ITT is coming from the idea that it's white people dealing with "things that black people do (?)" so it's easy to call them racist scumbags w/o any thought whatsoever

Given the real pain and peril in the world, worrying about this is like getting bummed out by a pimple while the earthquake liquifies your street.

jesus h christ dude

but we can squeeze the pimple xp

message board people who are worried that other message board people are too worried about something trifling are like the kings of concern trolls

or i guess reverse concern trolls? i'm confusing myself now.

concerned

or just a little thick

sexts from bennett

You may refer to me as 'Your Majesty'.

i mean really, everything that gets popular from Hootie & the Blowfish to Li'l Wayne to Nickelback gets torn apart by everybody, this whole "debate" is dumb as hell

yep, that makes sense

coop has a point here j0n A; i mean the 'lol rap' cover version thing does exist and there is an unsavory racist subtext within it bcz the lols are at the expense of certain cultural signifiers