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Author Topic: Saul Williams and Trent Reznor team up to single-handedly destroy rap music.  (Read 23358 times)

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That face is saying to you, "Try harder."

To me that face communicates the message "I am having trouble pooping".
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May i see the blubbering photo?

Apparently it's deleted? The closest I have is one of me with a pouty face.

To me that face communicates the message "I am having trouble pooping".

No, see, my face would me redder and my eyes would be skyward.
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Sorry guys, I completely zoned out at the mention of metal and ska

part of the problem
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To me that face communicates the message "I am having trouble pooping".

No, see, my face would me redder and my eyes would be skyward.

Don't worry we can sort that out with the aid of Photoshop.
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Bonus points for Impact font reading, "I'M POOPIN"
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I was going to say that I enjoyed the album, but I'm not sure anyone is still talking about that.

I won't try to vouch for its "intelligence," but I don't think its true that it can't be intelligent just because it tries to be, and I thought that most of the songs did a good job of staying catchy without getting too repetitive.  I also think it's going to take a lot more than this to take out rap music.  See: the aforementioned rap-rock, 50-cent, soulja boy...
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We WERE talking about it.

I agree that one album cannot destroy/take out a whole genre of music but if it gets enough attention hear and there it will change it and force it to mutate, like cells in the human body. Rap-rock/rap-metal is a cancerous growth within the genre in question.
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I was reading this thread and feeliong a bit disgusted but then Ohm Sweet Ohm by Kraftwerk came up on shuffle and oh my god guys i am crying.
anyway, this thread should now be about kraftwerk.
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Kraftwerk are German. My German teacher would educate us about German culture on Friday afternoons, she'd play Nena, and only Nena. Despite my rational argument on why we should listen to Kraftwerk instead she never played them for us.

did I mention that I've never actually listened to Kraftwerk?
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I was going to say that I enjoyed the album,
You're braver than me.  I wanted to say that I liked the album but never did 'cuz everyone was talking bad about it.  Now that I have a fellow soul, I feel more brave.
I don't usually listen to Rap or Hip-Hop.  But I liked "Niggy Tardust".
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You had to wait for someone else to say they liked it before you felt comfortable saying that you too liked it?

This shows a weakness in your own opinion of you opinion. Though it really won't change a thing, it's important to believe that it will.

In short, wuss.
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It's a pretty good CD because it's like Nine Inch Nails without Trent's godawful lyrics. I mean I don't listen to much rap that isn't basically NIN with some random guy shouting 'niggeh!' over it so I can't really compare or talk about its impact on the genre in general, but it's a solid album. Awful, awful name though.

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It's a pretty good CD because it's like Nine Inch Nails

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Yeah that doesn't really work out of the context of what I put after it because Trent fags that band up something fierce. Some of the fuzzy instrumental bits are cool though, and silly rapping over the top is even better.

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It says a lot about Trent Reznor that the best thing he's ever been associated with by far is the Fixed EP, where he was remixed by musicians with actual talent and most of the vocals were removed or chopped up beyond recognition.

It certainly wins the award for "most appropriate CD title ever".
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I hate feeling like the odd man out here.  It happens too much!

Personally, I'm a huge fan of melding of genres, especially those at seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum.  Rap and metal/hard rock just work together.  Jay-Z/Linkin Park's Collision Course album is proof of this.  Even if I wouldn't call Linkin Park metal, or even really hard rock for that matter, that album was fucking brilliant.  Even the songs Linkin Park has done by themselves with a rapper over the top (I can't remember the guy's name, but songs like Bleed it Out, Nobody's Listening, etc.) are awesome.  The remix of Crank Dat Soulja Boy that Travis Barker just did is also fantastic.

I now feel obligated to check this album out in the hopes that it will appeal to my tastes.  Then again, I also have Evanescence on my computer, so what does that really say about me?
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Jay-Z/Linkin Park's Collision Course album is proof of this

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Then again, I also have Evanescence on my computer, so what does that really say about me?

I wouldn't speak for anyone else, but to me those statements say "I have awful taste in music."

I'm sure you're a nice person though, and I'm not trying to be a dick, but SRSLY.

To be fair, I love Transvision Vamp, so I'm equally guilty of liking music that some would politely term "dubious".
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I thought Collision Course was pretty decent, actually.

But, I'm a huge fan of remix albums. Me & This Army, Ratatat's remix albums, Silent Alarm Remixed, Romance Bloody Romance, All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone(Remixes), and Kicking A Dead Pig come to mind.

Edit: Evanescence = a bag of dicks. :(
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None of the other ones you've mentioned include Linkin' Park.
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Sorry, I liked Reanimation too.
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I actually think Reanimation is a solid album, as opposed to the rest of Linkin Park's discography.

X-Ecutioner Style, with Black Thought (of The Roots) on it, and High Voltage with Evidence and DJ Babu from Dilated Peoples and Pharoahe Monch on it are great tracks.

In short, low-quality nu-metal scratched and remixed somewhat beyond recognition provides a great backing track for talented rappers.
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I actually think Reanimation is a solid album, as opposed to the rest of Linkin Park's discography.

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I gave examples, asshole.
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