☠ GROOVY GHOULIES ☠ - "I'm as serious as cancer, when I say rhythm is a dancer."

[CrazyCracka420]

Talk like what, a beat is a musical term.  I guess I could have said "there is no crescendo/climax until 2:40". 

Good song none the less...


Gangstarr - Above the Clouds

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Fucking lame wont' imbed!!

Nas Oochie Wally

These are classics, you must not like old school rap like you say you do.  No rap list would be complete without a song from Twista's Adrenaline Rush album...you could pretty much pick any song off the album and enjoy it:

[Spook Island]

That is some of the worst shit I have genuinely ever heard.  I feel like my IQ dropped during the first 5 seconds of skipping around it. 
Please, spare this topic your musical tastes and save them for trying to impress the 14 year old, prepubescent skate betties at your local Sonic parking lot.

[Spook Island]

I desperately need some modern classical music to save the intellectual/cultural pollution that just got dumped like so much festering sewage into the crystal mountain stream that is this thread.

Thank you, Philip.

[Spook Island]

Old school rap =/= made in the 90's.  I'm not even a fan of the genre and even that is well known to me.  It may seem old to you since it was created before you were born, but considering when the genre emerged, it's not even remotely close.  It'd be like playing some Nirvana and calling it old school punk.

Old school pioneer rap had heavy beat and rhythm connotations to disco music and often sampled or remixed heavily as demonstrated by one of my favorites:

I shouldn't have bothered writing this because it will just encourage you to respond and bring more bad taste into the topic, but I couldn't help myself.
If you're going to heavily promote the genre and pretend to be a connoisseur, at least try to know what you're talking about.

Do us all a favor, why don't you just play one single, individual nickelback song and call it a year.

[CrazyCracka420]

Well I was only about a year old when White Lines came out, but that's besides the point.  I don't really enjoy the pioneer rap from the late 70s and early to mid 80s.  The genre of rap and hip-hop I like, is the music from when I was a younger kid and teenager, from the early 90s to the early 2000s (mainly ending before 2000 though). 

When I say old school rap, I should have said gangster rap.  But I enjoy a lot of the other hip-hop/hip-pop music that was on the radio in the early and mid 90's as well, lots of rhythm and soul music.

And cmon, nobody likes Nickelback.  I do enjoy NIN, Seether, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Marilyn Manson, Korn, etc.  I like all sorts of music from all genres.

[Spook Island]

[Spook Island]

I remember back nearly a decade ago when I was a junior or senior in high school; we had to bring in a piece of music to play for our English class, print out the lyrics for everyone, while we went over them and analyzed them in front of the class after giving our interpretation.

This was the gem that I chose.

I was doing A LOT of drugs back then, but I'm  pretty sure I got an A.
That was a funny class.

[Spook Island]

[In Cauda Venenum]

[Spook Island]

My first RTS that planted the seed of industrial music into me as a lad growing up at 10 years old.

[Spook Island]

[Tears of Destiny]

That is some of the worst shit I have genuinely ever heard.  I feel like my IQ dropped during the first 5 seconds of skipping around it. 
Please, spare this topic your musical tastes and save them for trying to impress the 14 year old, prepubescent skate betties at your local Sonic parking lot.

If you can't make a point without resorting to insults, it's a pretty good indicator that you don't have a decent argument in the first place.

Like I said before, ad hominem is not an argument.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[Spook Island]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

1.  There is a large difference between having an intellectual discussion on situations such as protocol and conduct amongst officials and simply voicing subjective opinions based on personal preferences such as cultural arts.
2.  You must not understand what ad hominem is considering that you're attempting to apply it to what I said.  Let me give you some education on the phrase.

Ad hominem is essentially trying to discredit someone, belittle, or nullify the point they are trying to make by drawing a connection to a negative personal trait or past historical belief they might have that is often completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

According to wikipedia:
An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to negate the truth of a claim by pointing out a negative characteristic or unrelated belief of the person supporting it.[1] Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as a logical fallacy,[2][3][4] more precisely an informal fallacy and an irrelevance.

Now considering that is definitely not what I did with anything said.  This leaves me to believe you have no understanding of what the word actually means.  To give an example of ad hominem:

While Spook Island defends himself against administrators who have a pension for abusing extremely gray and subjective areas of rules for their own desired benefit, despite being proven to be hypocritical and unbalanced in such methods of their utilization, he is attacked via ad hominem by a third-party spectator who hopes to stir up trouble and discredit what he is saying by accusing him of faking his own death; a belief completely irrelevant to the context of the discussion that also happens to be rooted in fiction as opposed to reality.

This is an example of ad hominem.

Would you like me to go into further detail in case you aren't quite grasping the concept of it?  I could always go grab more definitions of the word for you to look at.
On a related note, do you need me to also explain to you what a logical fallacy is or maybe even a strawman argument?  I mean all it would take was a simple google search on your part, but I know some people still need to have things explained in a simple manner.

It's times like these I wonder if I should have listened to my undergrad marketing professor and become a college teacher like he insisted. 
Don't worry, you don't need to thank me or tell me how smart I am.  Your newly acquired education on this subject is reward enough for me.

[Tears of Destiny]

Well that was ridiculously easy to get a massive post out of you with minimal effort. My post was merely for renown farming and inspiring amusement for a few readers (both of which succeeded), thank you for participating like the good sport you are.

[Spook Island]

Well that was ridiculously easy to get a massive post out of you with minimal effort. My post was merely for renown farming and inspiring amusement for a few readers (both of which succeeded), thank you for participating like the good sport you are.

I've seen some pitiful attempts at damage controlling someone's own lack of understanding of the only language they speak, but this is definitely a contender for taking the cake.
It essentially boils down to "Hehe, I was just trolling you by acting stupid!"

Frankly, I don't mind embarrassing you and educating you on things you clearly don't understand.  Somebody has to give you the education and lessons your parents and public teachers clearly failed to give you.  You can try to play it off by lying and saying you were just trolling, but that clearly just shows a lack of personal integrity and character on your own part.  If you'd like, I can teach you how to be a man since your father clearly never did.

Just let me know.  I used to do volunteer non-profit work with troubled teens so I don't mind working with charity cases.