On 2016-09-09 5:57 PM, Je�us wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 17:47:47 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> It is one of the great mysteries of the age. It isn't really singing
>> because they are just... rapping. Some sort of afrocentric whining
>> about social conditions in their community and their street cred, a
>> bunch of finger gestures and crotch grabbing. I suppose maybe some of
>> the words sound like they rhyhme... in ebonics.
>
> I kinda enjoyed rap back around 1979. But at that time there were only
> a few bands (yes, bands) doing it and it didn't have that mindless
> retarded attitude we are so familiar with today. I never thought it
> would take off like it did, I thought it would be a passing fad since
> it is so limited in scope... but take off it did. I have no time or
> tolerance for what it has become since those early days. It's just so
> mindless and so, so very repetitive and one-dimensional.
>

I may be getting old, but I listen to a wide range of music. I find rap
music<?> to have such a sameness that exceeds that of reggae and bluegrass.