Bane of your existence

I can't stand this. I've heard either this, or some guy just like him a long time ago. His lyrics are lullzy or whatever, but he's hardly breaking open some new sort of sub-genre or pioneering anything. At least I hope not.

GuitarBizarre

Its better than another vapid boast about how much money/girls/power you have. Or talking about guns, or talking about being cheated on (Is it me or does every rapper have a song about a relationship that went badly?). I couldn't really be any more bored of that kind of thing. And talking about how good a rapper you are became old hat for me when I listened to Canibus and realised how much of a copout it is.

Far better to listen to Professor Elemental talking about cups of tea, or building a flying machine, or performing dental surgery, or exploring new frontiers and having absinth parties with midgets, or diss tracks about boxing, or how everything is splendid and he has a special hat. Or about Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Or a Fete. Or Steampunk. Or snuff. And thats in the space of one album.

Really. Rap needs to get over the rut its in. What better way to do that than to remove any element of its original culture lyrically and apply the same techniques to what is essentially unlimited fantasy? Professor Elemental could be reinvented as a character a million times over and still ome from a new slant, be it sci-fi, high fantasy, stories of the supernatural, etc etc etc. It has unlimited potential, and it makes the rap about characters who can be anything the rapper wants them to be, rather than about a bunch of predictable cliches that are eating themselves to survive by handing on references and props to each other as if the approval of other artists matter more than the approval of the fans.

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Listening to: Professor Elemental - [The Indifference Engine] Fighting Trousers [foobar2000 v1.0.3]

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Bane of your existence

Yeah, but there are plenty of rappers that don't do that. Tons and tons. And their voices don't all annoy me, and their flow doesn't sound so awkward. I mean, I can see why you like it, and it's not horrible, but I definitely don't think it's great.


Try this for interesting, unusual rap stories.

GuitarBizarre

I can't really say I enjoyed that. It wasn't really all that compelling to listen to. At the end of it, I don't remember a single standout lyric, and the musical background wasn't particularly interesting to listen to, so it was a voice I considered dull enough to forget, over a background beat that became mundane by the end of the song. The actual story was kind of interesting, but if you're going to tell a story, shouldn't your music reflect the events in some way, rather than there being a big disconnect between the two?


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Listening to: Professor Elemental - [The Indifference Engine] Splendid [foobar2000 v1.0.3]

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Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra

Technically, rap is just a mixture of spoken word, and sound collage. I think both need to be explored extensively. Especially sound collage which is why it's good that Girltalk is somewhat known.

Or at least be like Saul Williams, and give off an aura of intellect. I can see where the standpoint is coming from being tired of the "booty and ho's" style of hip-hop. This I don't see breaking any ground since it's just a parody of hip-hop something that's existed for almost as long as hip-hop itself.

I think though the Ukulele in Mr.B is actually a welcome surprise for the gimmick that it is. It's actually fun to listen to.