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- THINK ABOUT RAP! #
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- I am refering to the `Rappers`#
- article of Joe/E.B.F. published in#
- Zine issue 4. Joe draws a pretty#
- wrong picture of rappers which I#
- cannot accept as I am deep into#
- rap and the history of it. What he#
- calls rap is nothing like music#
- that is very superficial and does#
- not have anything to do with the#
- purposes of black rappers. It is#
- absolutely wrong to call the music#
- that `Technotronic` creates `rap`#
- for the simple fact that it is#
- only written for entertainment and#
- gain of fame and money. #
- Rap music always contains informa-#
- tion about the social circum-#
- stances blacks live in and is#
- supposed to bring out blacks`#
- problems of e.g. discrimination,#
- drugs, cops etc. Kurtis Blow is#
- not famous because of the lyrics#
- he made for the fact that he was#
- one of the founders of `the new#
- rap school` which mostly cares#
- about the music style like#
- scratching, mixing and stuff like#
- that. I am one of the only two#
- guys in my school who like rap#
- music and so I have a hard time#
- defending myself against others#
- offense saying that rap is primi-#
- tive and boring and can be created#
- by anybody witout any problems. #
- But it is pretty hard to make#
- these narrow-minded kids changing#
- their minds. They can`t see the#
- real purpose of rap music as they#
- do not care about the contents. #
- Most of them cannot understand the#
- lyrics told in rap-songs. It is#
- hard to make good music when the#
- message you want to bring about is#
- more important than the musical#
- composition. I want all of you to#
- see that rap music is not just#
- sampling shit, programming drum#
- computers and scratching records. #
- Think about it! #
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- HERZ0G #
- Hannover West-Germany #