Ok. I know that all six (or so) of you know me. You know my musical taste. You know I'm a classic rock/country sort of a guy. You know I love a solid bass line, tasteful guitar riffs, and tight harmonies. You've been in the car, turned on rap music, and I've shuddered and rocked like a child who's night-light has just burned out.
I went on iTunes and bought a rap CD. Yes. You just read that correctly. No. Joke.
So let me explain. I went snowboarding on Thursday, hitching a ride with a skier named DJ (yes, it's funny) who played rap the entire time. I didn't like much of it. I didn't need to hear about how many girls various rappers had "fooled around with" the night before, how many people they had killed, or how tough they were, rampant with swearing and dissrespect. Then DJ played a song with a rhythm I latched onto immediately. The guy doing the rapping was talking about stuff I understood, a song about injustice, political stuff, how everything is messed up in the world and it's our responsibility to get off our butts and do something about it. I identified with it so much, I logged the name into my memory to check out later: Blue Scholars.
The whole CD was like this. Political references everywhere, what he loved about his girl was not her body (according the the lyrics, at least,) but what she stood for, how she cared for others, how she wasn't scared to get on a bull horn in the street yelling "Power to the people." Socialist rhetoric was scattered throughout, and one of my favorite lyrics was a reference to Reagan's "trickle-down economics" (tax cuts for the rich in order to 'stimulate' the economy.)
Yeah, there's a few swear words in it, but not enough for iTunes to flag it as explicit.
So look it up. You may not think it's worth much. But keep in mind that country-rock lovin' Brandon thought it was worth enough to buy it.
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