Black Music

PostRe: Black Music by **Krafty** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:31 pm

Kool and the Gang

PostRe: Black Music by **Slartibartfast** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:32 pm

JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Tell your friend that pretty much all modern music if heavily influenced by Black music, essentially all from Jazz.

Blues.

I had a longer post which went into the little more detail I know, but ended with me admitting my lack of knowledge, being no music theorist. But, you know, Jazz originates from African music and has had a pretty hefty influence on lots of contemporary music, so it's not quite a facepalm moment.

Not quite, but the blues came before jazz maaaaan.

Woo! Reason beats facepalm! This is new era for GRcade.

But you were trying to be clever and got the wrong genre of music.

Ah I give up. :fp:

PostRe: Black Music by **Loire** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:33 pm

Nathanbrains wrote:
Loire wrote:The best rap album ever made says hello! Seriously, check it out - it's all stories, none of that fronting-like-you-gangsta stuff. Check the rhyme patterns on the first few versus of the second video. Amazing stuff.

Not just the best rap album ever made, it's one of the best albums ever made period. Nas at his mesmeric best.

Shame he couldn't be more consistent with quality.

PostRe: Black Music by **JNR** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:35 pm

Slartibartfast wrote:
JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:
JNR wrote:
Slartibartfast wrote:Tell your friend that pretty much all modern music if heavily influenced by Black music, essentially all from Jazz.

Blues.

I had a longer post which went into the little more detail I know, but ended with me admitting my lack of knowledge, being no music theorist. But, you know, Jazz originates from African music and has had a pretty hefty influence on lots of contemporary music, so it's not quite a facepalm moment.

Not quite, but the blues came before jazz maaaaan.

Woo! Reason beats facepalm! This is new era for GRcade.

But you were trying to be clever and got the wrong genre of music.

Ah I give up.

PostRe: Black Music by **Nathanbrains** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:39 pm

Loire wrote:
Nathanbrains wrote:
Loire wrote:The best rap album ever made says hello! Seriously, check it out - it's all stories, none of that fronting-like-you-gangsta stuff. Check the rhyme patterns on the first few versus of the second video. Amazing stuff.

Not just the best rap album ever made, it's one of the best albums ever made period. Nas at his mesmeric best.

Shame he couldn't be more consistent with quality.

Aye. His past two albums have been a bit hit and miss. Streets Disciple, whilst no Illmatic, is his most recent album of any real quality in my opinion.

PostRe: Black Music by **Pancake** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:52 pm

'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe,
Jamaica, we have a bobsled team!!!

PostRe: Black Music by **LewisD** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:09 pm

I really like Curtis Mayfield, Barry White and Jackie Wilson.

I mean, how can you not like this guy:

PostRe: Black Music by **LewisD** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:12 pm

PostRe: Black Music by **Alkaline** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:13 pm

I enjoy some BLACK music.

A good song is a good song.

PostRe: Black Music by **bigcheez2k3** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:14 pm

Mafro wrote:
Loire wrote:The best rap album ever made says hello!

oh hai

I really hope that is flava flav on that cover.

PostRe: Black Music by **Loire** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:35 pm

50 Cent... 50 Cent?

PostRe: Black Music by **JNR** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:36 pm

Dizzee Rascal covering Ting Tings 'That's Not My Name'.

:lol:

Amazing.

PostRe: Black Music by **Red Devil** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:36 pm

Cuban Pete wrote:Michael Jackson, Usher, Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Temptations, T-Pain, Dizzee Rascal, Timbaland, Barry Whiter, Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Kanye West, 50 Cent, Lil' Wayne, Ray J, LL Cool J, Mos Def, Nas, Next, Nelly, Ne-Yo, Outkast, R.Kelly.......etc the list goes on.

You might as well put Soulja boy in there if 'Fiddy Cent' is in the list. Awful stuff.

PostRe: Black Music by **floydfreak** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:10 pm

Soulja boy is a banana split with zero talent. Im suprised no real life gangsters or proper gangster rappers havent killed him yet. :lol:

He thinks he is sooooo "hard and gangster" in his "superman dat ho" video its hiliarous as he comes across as a 1st class banana split.

PostRe: Black Music by **Oblomov Boblomov** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:13 pm

floydfreak wrote:Soulja boy is a banana split with zero talent.

Didn't he create that track in his room when he was something like fourteen? I don't care if you don't like it or you think it's not 'good' music, it broke into mainstream sales, made him a lot of money and got him the recognition he needed to continue into the industry. Zero talent?

PostRe: Black Music by **Xeno** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:22 pm

I happen to like motown and rap from the 80's and early 90's and think a lot of what is out now is dull and uninteresting, I'm not saying it will always be like that as everything ebbs and flows, there are some exceptions, things that stand out but they run the risk of getting drowned out by pap just like all other music types.

I have a major soft spot for folk music but most people don't like it or if they do they tell you to listen to Dillon (although good not the second coming) but I prefer some of the newer stuff out there.

Old doesn't equal better just like new doesn't equal better, if it clicks it clicks.

PostRe: Black Music by **JNR** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:31 pm

Cuban Pete wrote:Love Motown and Northern Soul aswell, great stuff!

Amazing stuff, I was a barman at the last Northern Soul night in what was once the Wigan Casino.

PostRe: Black Music by **JNR** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:49 pm

Cuban Pete wrote:
JNR wrote:
Cuban Pete wrote:Love Motown and Northern Soul aswell, great stuff!

Amazing stuff, I was a barman at the last Northern Soul night in what was once the Wigan Casino.

THAT'S what I was trying to think of that was the Northern Soul thing, 'cos I know Wigan Pier is the mingin dance music for horrible charvers and scum, but I knew there was Wigan-something that was good! Thank you!

YouTube is your friend when it comes to Wigan Casino.

8-)

PostRe: Black Music by **Shadow** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:20 am

I like black music, but I'm integrated into black culture now, so I suppose I have too.

I don't like 50 Cent though, although his music is technically good, it seems that he just raps about things that he thinks will make the most money as opposed to telling a good story or carrying a message.

Kanye West is probably my favourite at the moment, although Timbaland's last album was superb.

PostRe: Black Music by **Oh Teh Noes** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:37 am

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