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November 16, 2005
What's Your Beef With "Rap Metal"?
Presenting: The Real Rap Metal Mixtape
Radio shuns it. Critics hate it. Maybe y'all might change your tune if you listened to the following mixtape. Maybe not?
Anthrax & Public Enemy - Bring Tha Noize
Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy
Ice-T - Cop Killer
Beastie Boys - No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Kid Rock - Devil Without a Cause
Incubus - Redefine
Korn - Freak on a Leash
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Faith No More - Epic
Chuck D on steroids - the, "D to E to F to I to A to N to C to E," of Rage - the lyrical flava of DMC - the artistically poetic "Incubus" - The ambiguous and enigmatic "Faith No More". What's not to love? Chek these lyrics if you're not convinced.
"Well, Farrakhan's a prophet and I think you ought to listen to what he can say to you; what you ought to do". Follow for now, power to the people say, "Make a miracle. D, pump the lyrical." Chuck D.
"The finger to the land of the chains! What? the land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy. Now something must be done about vengeance, a badge and a gun." Zach de la Roche.
"Cop killer, better you than me. Cop killer, fuck police brutality! Cop killer, I know your family's grievin' (fuck 'em). Cop killer, but tonight we get even." Ice-T.
"On location touring around the nation, 'Beastie Boys' always on vacation. Itchy trigger finger but a stable turntable, I do what I do best because I'm illing and able." Beastie Boys.
"It's highly appraised when the hell is raised, so demanding and commanding that you all stand dazed. The unbelieving receiving prophecy so true. I cut the head off the Devil and I throw it at you." DMC.
"I went from St. Claire Shores and drink specials at Winners to New York City and 700 dollar dinners; from hangin' with sinners and second hand cheap sex to gettin much respect from top record execs." Kid Rock.
"Picture the scene, where whatever you thought, would, in the blink of an eye, manifest and become illustrated. You'd be sure man that every line drawn reflected a life that you loved not an existence that you hated" Brandon Boyd.
"Something takes a part of me; something lost and never seen. Everytime I start to believe, something's raped and taken from me." Jonathan Davis.
"No human contact and if you interact your life is on contract. Your best bet is to stay away motherfucker. It's just one of those days!" Fred Durst.
"It's alive, afraid, a lie, a sin. It's magic, it's tragic, it's a loss, it's a win. It's dark, it's moist, it's a bitter pain. It's sad it happened and it's a shame. It's it. What is it?" Mike Patton.
Revolution, rebellion, frustration, jubilation, irreverence, pride, positivity, dispair, being overwhelmed, searching; you don't get all this for a buck twenty five at the five and dime. Give it a spin or give your two cents.
Posted by i220 at November 16, 2005 01:45 PM
Comments
Haters, haters, haters. Is it me or do all the haters like to conveniently forget Rage when their fogettin' Rap Metal. They wanna act like their latest garage punk/emo came from such rebellious backgrounds (as corporate as it gets) and forget that Rage came up thru the kids and was shunned by radio/video bitd. The first album is a rap metal classic and one of the more revolutionary of our times.
RATM renunion now!
Posted by: RATM at November 17, 2005 09:09 AM
Chuck D has much better lyrics than this (ie. "The minute they see me, fear me - I'm the epitome-a public enemy. Used, abused, without clues I refused to blow a fuse. They even had it on the news.") but man, the energy and everything up to the part where the lead singer of Anthrax comes in is legendary.
P.E. Chuck D Flavour Flav foreva neva die.
Posted by: P.E. at November 18, 2005 09:55 AM
What, nothing off Mos Def's latest album?
Posted by: Mos Def Master at November 25, 2005 11:37 PM
Looking for more oldschool shait but Def might definitely appear on a newer mixtape... Maybe a MkII... Peace and nice weblog.
Posted by: Klassik at November 26, 2005 12:08 PM
It's not the music and it's not the lyrics that I have a problem with . It's the blatent lack of musical ability and lazy-ass attitude that says... why bother learning how to play an instrument and why bother writing my own music, when I can just sample legitimate musician's efforts and edit ,re-mix and sell ! I'd be a lot more appreciative of the style if DJs could play and sing !!!!
Posted by: Tom Carriere at December 1, 2005 10:38 AM
Now that's a legitimate beef! You've got me wonderin' if either Jam Jay, Terminator X or Lethal can play a traditional instrument? Wouldn't it be wierd if Jazzy Jeff was a prodigy viola player but didn't see a place for it as a relevent instrument in the late 20th century so became a DJ to make an artistic statement? Dude, you got me wonderin' - gotta go do some research on that one.
Peace.
Posted by: i220 at December 2, 2005 12:10 AM
My apologies go out to anyone who may have been offended by my last comment re: sampling djs . I do
appreciate that a lot of non-musicians have artistic vision . I just dont like to see (and hear) what I consider to be blatent plagarism being so prominent
and accepted by the masses, without due consideration for those who had the original vision and who poured their souls into their craft to give us the gifts that we now call classic .
Posted by: Tom Carriere at December 14, 2005 12:14 AM