“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.”
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If you figure out what I said above, let me know.
What I meant was — I’m just as guilty of the mistake you made.
@Hammer,
NP – I got it.
Good list(s)
Wow. Lighting fires is cool. I like “Baby Got Back”. That’s about it.
And no, I’m not a chick. However, I hole-hardedly agree with what lesbians do.
Again, just an opinion.
Ever hear of Classical music? It is also called Art Music and also called Serious Music. It is found in various countries under various names but it is all about ultimate quality, artistic integrity, a lifetime of learning and giving back. It does not necessarily use old instruments though much music does as those instruments have been developed over hundreds of years to be near perfect for the artists who play them or compose for them. Some composers choose to use electronic and digital means in addition or instead of those wood and ivory and gourd instruments and that is fine with me. The human voice naturally is one of those old instruments also and combined with the old and the new, it is transformed. What all of this has in common is that it is about true artistic integrity and skills which require the musician and composer to truly understand music,composition and have the integrity and ability to write and perform GREAT ideas. Sorry to say, 99% of what is supposedly music product today is exactly that…product for the masses of people who have never heard real art on their iPods..or good sound for that matter. Take a listen to Shostakovich or Mahler or Glass or Beethoven or (Ravi) Shankar or Varese or Stockhausen or..shall I go on? There is a world of great musical art out there and it is not the sounds of the street and the back alleys and of drugs and misogyny and louder and electronic fuzz to hide the lack of talent or idea. One cannot dictate to you what to listen to but if one person listens to what I am saying here and discovers this world of art music, it will be worth my efforts here.
“The ultimate rapper is Old Mother Hubbard”
Didn’t she carjack Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater?
Let’s hope it will be as or more affordable than the MacBook.
[However, I ‘hole’-‘hard’edly agree with what lesbians do.]
That is TOO funny.
Enjoy your lunch.
“Your crystal ball needs a new timing belt.”
– ChrissyOne to Rob Enderle
That’s my favorite for now. I’m still laughing.
@Mr. Squirrels
To state the music requires melody to be music is one of the more daft statements I’ve read for some time.
Drumming – not music then? African percussion? Hell, what about Clapping Music (Steve Reich).
Yes, the core of rap is predominately percussion – but a lot of styles also introduce harmonics and in some instances the melody.
Lumping almost 30 years of rap, hip hop and related genres in to one “it’s not music” bucket, is the equivalent of saying that Duchamp’s Fountain is not art because it does not use the brushes you’re familiar with. That is advertising your ignorance and hardly does music or anyone else any good.
@ LorD1776
For our next lesson, look for:
Thugz Mansion (Nas Acoustic version) – Tupac, J Phoenix & Nas
Gin And Juice – Snoop
Anything by Busta’ Rhymes
There’s a lot more to rap than you might think. It’s just too bad that people assume every rapper is as stupid as Fiddy.
“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.”
granted, it is only a matter of personal taste, but for my tastes more true words were never spoken….
Anyone can go into Garageband…loop together some beats…write some words about some girl…and talk about them over the beat while grabbing their crotch.
THAT IS NOT MUSIC! Music takes place when a melody is heard. Hip Hop degrades, separates, and isolates both the music and hip hop type people from the rest of us. Pretty much anyone can write and perform a hip hop song walking around lifting their arms, but who can play an instrument with feeling and passion and melody and true inner expression? Very few. Playing the race card either against or along with it is simply a very poor excuse for low individual self performance in this life we’ve been given.
HIP-HOP NOW SUCKS AND IS DEAD, IT IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED AN ART FORM FOR IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED, IT DIDNT SUCK BEFORE AND WAS AN EXPRESSION OF FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, AND IDEAS, PIONEERED BY THE GREATS ( NAS. JAY-Z. BIGGIE SMALLS. TUPAC. MOS DEF, TALIB KWELI. ECT. ECT.) NOW ITS SOULJA BOY ( HIS MUSIC IS GARBAGE, IF YOU AGREE… WHAT AM I SAYING, EVERYONE SHOULD AGREE) AND THE OTHER DUDE WITH EY BAY BAY HURRICANE CHRIS ( AS YOU CAN SEE HE CANNOT SPELL) Hip-Hop is dead. and is destroying the minds of african americans with their garbage ( hip-hop songs no longer have intelligence in them, just girls shaking their butts and guys throwing money at your television screens that their probably gonna waste the next day on 45 inch rims) =/. Now for the new mac, i cant wait to see what Apple has for us! macworld cant get here fast enough lol…. i wonder if i can afford to buy it, my macbook is slowy reaching its death here lol
-ken =)
Let’s remember that because you LIKE something doesn’t make it of high quality, nor does the fact that you DON’T like something automatically make it crap. Everyone has their own tastes and opinions….some good, some not so good. Too many people think their OPINION is objective fact….when all it is in reality is a subjective tendency. Anything that’s truly good will stand the test of time……so we’ll just have to wait 50-60 years to see where the music of today stands in the overall picture of quality.
Personally, I don’t care for rap & hip-hop, so I just try and make sure it never reaches my ears. If you like it, enjoy….just don’t blast it when you pull up next to me at the light. I must admit…..I have a hard time believing that in 20 years we’ll be listening to some of what passes for music today (not limiting things to rap and hip-hop, please) on the “classic rock” (or whatever they might be called) on the radio, in grocery stores, etc. But I could be wrong about that, too.
@ The Freeman
By the same logic, Country is just as dead, with songs about life and death and love in small town America replaced by blind, jingoistic pledge-of-allegiance clap trap like “Stars and Stripes” and “God Bless the USA”, or poppy fashion-show sludge ala Faith Hill or Shania Twain, right?
Go ahead and bury the Carter family. Goodbye Loretta Lynn. So long Lyle Lovett.
If you’re going to condemn an entire genre based on who happens to be doing it at the moment, you’re going to miss out on a lot of great music.
@mr_matalino
“I hope it’s not a notebook, rather a larger iPhone/iPod touch device…”
I hope it’s a larger iPhone like the one hanging in the window of most Apple Stores. Now, that would be cool to carry around!
@ MusicDoc
If you would have told me in the later 80’s, when Paula Abdul first got big, that she’d still have a job in 2007, I would have thought you were mad!
And if Paula Abdul ever makes a rap album, western civilization is finished.
It is really very very sad that someone like “Just Blaze”, (whoever the hell that is), is considered a celebrity.
@ Iron Acorn:
Fads come and go, in music and art as in other things.
There’s an old Yiddish saying that 98% of everything is dreck. Pick any time period and see what percentage of its music, literature or art survived. Note that what survives is rarely mindless drivel (like rap). Having been wildly popular is no indicator of permanence. Examples: “Rag Mop” and “Purple People Eaters”.
I saw comments that it takes talent to perform rap well. That was true of performers of “Rag Mop” also. But the likelihood that there will be demand for such talent ten years hence is low. So rappers should invest their earnings wisely.
As to what will be revealed at Macworld 2008, it’s likely that Apple will be selling me something. But I’m not likely to buy anything that was introduced for sale at MacWorld 1998.
Good grief people! Music doesn’t have a color. It’s just music, and it’s either good or bad based on your personal taste.
Now, it’s time for me to come out. I’m a black person and I can’t stand rap/hip-hop. And I’m not ashamed to say it. No one else should be either.
Now lay off my brother (or sister!) Ampar. On the internet no one knows if you’re black or white. Or male or female for that matter. If you’ve made assumptions about what MDN readers are like perhaps you should question them…
Back to the subject at hand. I’m sure there will be a new laptop at Macworld. A Penryn-based Macbook Pro. This guy never said it would be a new subnotebook, just a new laptop.
@ Chrissy One
i never said the entire genre is dead, i just said hip-hop now is dead ( thats why i mentioned that it was great back then, including Nas, Jay-z, MosDef ect.) NOW it is dead, that should not be denied, it cant be, artists are no longer inspired, or educated at all. There will always be a couple artists that are good and maintain what the greats have tried so hard to build ( Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli). Hip-Hop was an art form, there is no more art in hip-hop. ( If Dreadful artists like t-Pain and Soulja boy can receive a record deal, than anyone can get a record deal now.)
-ken =)
im currently listening to big pun – how we roll 98′
hi rhymes are amazing =D
(*Artists i Missed in my list of great Hip-Hop Artists* – Big Pun, Black Star, Little Brother, Common, Atmosphere)
“Now lay off my brother (or sister!) Ampar.”
Brother. And thanks.
@Ampar….
Best hijack of a thread ever bro. Well played.
now.. back to the argument. Having been a professional musician all of my adult life I would have to say I can’t stand hip hop myself. But it is music in my opinion. Just not the kind that I would listen too. Although, to quote that famous philosopher Marty McFly… “I guess you guys aren’t ready for this stuff yet. But your kids are gonn alove it!”
P.S. I grew up listening to classical music and heavy metal and I now prefer jazz. I respect personal preferences. I just don’t want to hear yours while I’m sitting in traffic.