“Rumours abound that hip hop star Just Blaze has told all about Apple’s much talked-about sub-notebook, after he was promised one for performing at a recent Apple Christmas party. The mystery machine is allegedly to be announced at Macworld in January,” Scott Snowden reports for Reg Hardware.
“According to website boygeniusreport, Mr Blaze was one of several music celebrities who performed live at the company-sponsored music event for Apple’s employees. In exchange for their work, each artist was promised a free notebook that will be unveiled at the Macworld expo in San Francisco.,” Snowden reports.
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The Boy Genius Report says, “Apple will 100% be announcing a new laptop at MacWorld. We’ve also heard the laptop will go on sale a week after MacWorld, too.”
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Have you ever tried to rap? Do you you know hard it is to do? Why don’t you try to learn the lyrics, and sing along with it a few times, you’ll understand then. Im not a rap fan myself, but you have to give credit where credit is due. It is a legitimate form of music period.
In no place did I see one racist comment from Ampar. But is hip-hop is what you call music, you don’t know what real music is. It is at best R&B;with cacophony mixed in. Not all of it is “bad”, in fact some of the lyrics are great and sometimes downright hilarious (“I’m so high I can eat a star!”). But I’ll take classic rock any day over hip-hop.
Besides that debate, the comment Just Blaze does not tell us anything except a notebook will be introduced at MacWorld. Nothing about touch screen, or giant iPhone/Newton 2.0, or subnotebook. It could just be a new style MacBook. So before we all piss our pants, let’s wait until the keynote. Period.
The MacSlate and it’s Multi-Touch UI driven.
anyone else think he won’t get one now that he’s blabbed about it?
Hip-hop, rap = crap. Whatever happened to music? Just wait for 20 years and see how much of the noise of today is remembered.
All these people complaining about hip hop have no clue what they’re talking about.
It’s like me saying Opera singers are all crap when I really have no clue about Opera or Opera singers in general. Ampar is just ignorant. and her statement clearly represents that.
So Ampar, besides macs, tell me more about your interests and I’ll give you my opinions about them.
Every previous generation calls the current generation’s music out. It’s an effing cycle you stupid morons.
All of you old farts like Ampar and Ron, you idiots probably grew up listening to the Beatles and whoever the hell else you were into back in the 60s. And you know what? You’re parents probably hated that music and encouraged you to listen to Sinatra, or some other old crooner that you couldn’t stand but that they enjoyed.
It’s the same crap over and over again. This generation enjoys hip hop, get it in your head and shut the hell up. All these idiots being so self-righteous about what they deem as ‘real music’ need to get a life.
This isn’t the 60’s anymore, times are a changing. The world changes, culture moves forward. Things ‘progress’ even if you don’t agree with the definition in terms on this argument. Nothing stays the same. You old farts should realize this but you’re blinded by your ignorance.
Ampar is a chick? I mean a woman?
@ Antiracist
So what would you say to a black person that thinks rap isn’t music? Or do they all like it?
Hey Ron,
hip hop is already over 20 years old you ignorant piece of garbage. And there’s plenty of classics from the original era that are well-known and loved by the enthusiasts.
Just like you and your beloved folk singers.
It’s all relative you moron.
@ Ampar
I don’t think I can party with anyone who thinks California Love isn’t music.
Jus’ sayin’.
Ha ha! I guess he told you Ampar and ron, ya old farts!
Hip hop and rap: the unintelligent listening to the untalented.
Rap may not be easy to do, as several of its supporters on this thread have pointed out, BUT that doesn’t make it MUSIC. There are a few songs that blend in rap that I enjoy. But music needs MELODY and songs require SINGING. On the whole, rap is junk compared to real music. And we’re stuck with it because a bunch of wannabe suburban white boys like to pretend that they’re street thugs–that’s the embarrassing part.
Music implies tonality; even percussive instruments have tonality. Rap is largely monotone, without any sort of sense of pitch or tonality. It is speaking with rhythm; however, just because there are notes being played in the background doesn’t mean that rap itself is music. The act of “rapping” is not music.
ChrissyOne,
“California Love”. Was that by the Beach Boys?
@ LorD1776
Well no, but the harmonies would have been stunning.
@ Jake
Thank you for showing us the proper rules for music. How very rock & roll.
“If you don’t bring back my m****f*****n money or my m***f****n dope, you can forget about Christmas n***a, cause you ain’t gon even see New Years.”
Walk around singing this.
Unfortunately Dipper Dapper, all too often these days ‘progress’ means dumbing down. I have 10 and 14 year old kids and they tell me that rap and hip hop are excrement – and I believe them.
Mr Squirrels,
You sound like a left-over from the 50’s. Thanks for the Webster Merriam definition, but hip hop IS music. Go climb a tree and chomp on some dingle-berries with your buck-teeth.
Sincerely,
The Iron Acorn
Here we go again with the race card. I thought Cochrane was dead.
Anyway, this bears repeating…
Actually, the only thing worse than – and even MORE boring than rap or hiphop ‘music’ – is country music. Same ig’nant jerks, diff’ent ‘hoods.
But, if you’re really interested in ‘black music’, try those that are worthy:
Louis Armstrong•
Chuck Berry
James Brown
Tracy Chapman *
Ray Charles *
Jimmy Cliff *
George Clinton/Parliament
Sam Cooke
Nat “King” Cole
John Coltrane
Commodores/Lionel Richie
Bo Diddley *
“Fats” Domino
Earth, Wind and Fire
Aretha Franklin *
Marvin Gaye
Jimi Hendrix *
Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
Stanley Jordan
B. B. King **
Lenny Kravitz *
Living Color *
Bob Marley
Thelonious Monk (I’ll bet someone at these forums knows this dude!)
Johnny Nash•
Aaron Neville
Billy Preston•
Prince *
Otis Redding *
Seal *
Smokey Robinson
Sly & the Family Stone *
Staple Sisters *
The Supremes
Tina Turner
Luther Vandross
Muddy Waters
Stevie Wonder *
War *
@ Iron Acorn:
I’m actually 23 and a a writer/musician who has listened to and occasionally enjoys a little hip-hop. That doesn’t mean its music.
Hip-Hop – hip-hop is dead
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-NAS
I love how people come up with arbitrary criteria to justify their own music taste, then project that on to everyone around them. Why do people do this?
Music is expression. Expression of your loves, your hates, the struggles and challenges in your life. And above all it’s personal. Who are any of you to judge what is important to someone else? What do you know of what it’s like to grow up in an urban black neighborhood while your sitting in a big house in a wealthy white suburb? You think everyone should just pop in some James Taylor while they’re rollin’ with their boys?
This conversation always pisses me off, so I’m going to leave it now. Have fun trashing me while I’m gone. I’ll be in my car, listening to a playlist that includes rap, country, teckno, and a little bit of Bach.
Enjoy your one-genre wonders.
-c