“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.
Full article here.
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.”
Full article here.
Oh is that right Mr. Squirrels? Well tell me then, what kind of music do you perform? We’ll see if what you do is really music.
I write singer-songwriter stuff, play lead guitar for an r&b;/jazz group, and mess around with straight jazz.
@Hint Hammer:
Add
Stylistics
Ojays
Parliament
George Clinton
5th Dimension
Patti LaBelle
Lionel Richie
Commodores
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Tupak (yes)
Run DMC (yes)
Good lists.
Hardly in the same league as the current batch of “musicians”
Nobody will know who this folks are in 10 years.
James Taylor!!!!! LOL
He’s great, but I can sooo picture all these hip hop haters encouraging others to drop rap altogether and listen to James Taylor as an alternative.
Ampar rolls up towards a group of 5 black kids in an urban neighborhood with the family station wagon:
“Hey there fellas, I hear your rap-tap music playing on your nice Sony boombox there, but I thought you should give this ol’ cd a try. He’s a great guy named James Taylor!! You ought to give him a listen and tell me what you think! I’m off to the flea market to buy some garlic bread, I’ll see you fine fellas in a week!”
What it really comes down to is that these haters are all old farts who are stuck in the past.
There’s plenty of genres that I can’t stand, country, folk, punk, heavy metal. But even though I don’t particularly enjoy them, I still respect the genres as forms of music expression.
@Chrissy,
Good list, even better idea!
My iPod, if examined, would have a good shrink in tears.
I’ve all kinds of music – a little light on the current Hip-Hop, but otherwise, a good cross-section of music.
I saw Stevie Wonder two weekends ago at the Nokia Center in LA – that man is a GENIUS!!!
Well when the jazz movement began, the ‘establishment’ hated it. It was the hip hop of it’s era, and you should know this. It was a new form of expression that a lot of people didn’t understand.
That is same for hip hop
do you think I’m unaware? I know the history of jazz. However, jazz broke the rules of classical music theory, but still involved tonality. Rap is monotonous, and creates dissent in the culture in which it was created; how is that at all revolutionary or ground-breaking?
ChrissyOne,
I hope you come back.
I checked out the video of California Love on You Tube. Now that’s what I was talking about. That shows talent and ability as far as I am concerned. I liked it. Well, not the rap part so much, but I can accept it since it accompanies actual music. In fact I will probably buy it. The song, not the Mad Max video.
I’m with Mr Squirrels on this. Rap/hip hop may be a legitimate art form (and, as ChrissyOne implies, a social statement), but I don’t regard talking to a beat while jiggling as music.
Ok then Mr Squirrels, because Hip Hop doesn’t fit the mold of your definition of music, tell me, what do you call Rap/Hip Hop?
And you’re so ignorant about Rap it’s really stupid arguing with you at this point. You said:
“Rap is monotonous, and creates dissent int he culture in which it was created”
Tell me how many rap songs have you actually heard? If you’re going to lump all hip hop artists with your statement, then you’re just an ignorant piece of trash.
You’re on a high-horse and you need to be pushed down to the ground for a reality check. Your same argument today was the same argument people said way back when jazz was emerging into the fold.
You’re the typical kind of guy that studies what you do really hard, but in the end you lose the true meaning of what something is really about. Go ahead and continue with your definitions and standards. I bet you can read music, but I wonder whether you have ‘soul’.
Mr. Squirrels,
Ever played with the Squirrel Nut Zippers?
@ Lor…no
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”smile” style=”border:0;” />
And to Iron Acorn…
I think you’re the one being a bit short-sighted here. I’m not saying that I don’t enjoy rap, or that I feel it is a valid form of artistic expression. All I said was it isn’t music, by the definition of music. yes I can read music, and I also understand the concepts behind expressive art versus music; there’s a distinction.
Iron Acorn,
Please don’t use the world ‘soul’. The way things work here the whole discussion could switch to religion. Then it would progress to politics. I know it’s nuts, but it happens all the time.
Rap music (hip hop/whatever) is certainly a valid form of artistic communication… but music it’s not. My two cents.
And another thing…
Popular music in general has sunk to such amazing lows in the last ten years that it proves beyond a doubt that if you feed people swill for long enough, they start to think it tastes like food.
Hint Hammer…
What about…
Miles Davis
Kenny Garrett
Ronny Jordan
Robert Johnson
Al Green
Marcus Miller
The Chic Organisation (Niles Rodgers / Bernard Edwards)
We are presented with some artist making a statement about getting an Apple notebook for a performance he did.
We go to a discussion of how a certain genre of “music” is or is not valid and the supposedly PC, socialist, brain dead crowd yelling how everyone is white and racist if you don’t like it.
Really?
You can tell my ethnicity from words typed on a page?
Isn’t that in itself a racist assumption, as well as assuming that if I do not like something or if I like it I must be of a certain ethnicity or race?
I have gone to a country bar with an African American who dressed in a cowboy hat and boots-loved country music and dancing to it. Rocked out in a car, radio cranked up singing “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses with another. Had a Caucasian recite/rap/sing(whatever) some fifty cent “song” to me. My Mother (who is of non-hispanic ethnicity) enjoys Tejano music.
Why is race even of importance?
We like what we like, regardless of your narrow little world view that dictates we shouldn’t or should like something because of the stereotypes in your head.
Like the doormouse said: Feed your head
@nekogami13,
You’re 100% correct.
Also notice how the “not racist” folks of other cultures assume all us honky’s listen to James Taylor? (OK, I do)
The amazing thing about generalizations is that it appears to only be OK for certain people to make them.
I know more racist “minorities” than white folks.
I grew up in Chicago, and I had no troubles.
I see today that political correctness and some sort of guilt has made it OK for some to act like idiots and others are expected to rise above it. How’s that for low expectations/standards?
To say I am racist because I don’t “get” or like Rap/Hip-Hop is BS.
I would guess that those true African-American musicians like those on the lists above would agree that the current music scene is a relative joke if they weren’t quoted publicly.
Look at all the grief Bill Cosby got/gets when he tries to talk about race and the Black community.
We got 100% derailed here, but I guess if some don’t like it, they can ignore.
After all, the original topic is pretty boring and lame.
If a new notebook arrives, we’ll, know about it soon enough and then we can discuss that…
‘Me in LA’,
No need to add:
Parliament
George Clinton
Lionel Richie
Commodores
as I already listed them as:
George Clinton/Parliament
Commodores/Lionel Richie
Tupac/RunDMC wouldn’t make my list, though.
I could add Black Eyed Peas. But, are they hiphop or R&B;?
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
MCCFR,
Yeah, and Stanley Jordan too!
Boney M!
I mean, how could we forget.
Did we not all hear: Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord — atleast 10 times during the Xmas season?
LOL
To end the argument:
The ultimate rapper is Old Mother Hubbard
I guess if nursery rhyming is cool, knock yourself out.
oh yea, Kanye West doesn’t like white people.
I think we’ve got a live one.
Sorry – I didn’t see them as noted.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
OK, my bad
I put them separate as I liked them both ways.
Forgot:
Donna Summer
No need to pad the list, by re-listing either
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />