Random Crap

Why am I creating a blog? Well the same reason as anybody else out there I suppose...boredom. I can't say that I really have anything of worth to talk about in my life, but when has that ever stopped me from saying random crap that's on my mind. For anyone unfortunate enough to stumble onto this waste of internet space, first let me apologize, then let me warn you that you are unlikely to find anything of any sort of value located within these posts. Now that my guilt factor is taken care of I feel free to hone my jabbering skills. Let's begin with a topic that has recently been an issue in my life, and will most likely continue on until I'm a slobbering old man (no offense to any slobbering old men that may be reading), and that issue: RAP.

Rap is perhaps the single WORST thing to come out of modern society. I love music. I love it's subtleties, it's patterns, it's melody...everything. I play drums and guitar and I listen to music as often as possible. Rap, in my opinion, is busting a cap in music with a sideways-held gat. It has no melody. No quality. No message of any VALUE to our culture. It's simply an angry black (in some cases white or hispanic) male who wants to treat women like crap and make some money selling crack. Granted this is a generalization. I have heard a FEW rap "songs" (I use the term lightly in this case) that have a message of value that can speak to us as a people, but the majority of these ear-raping noises simply destroy anything they touch. What bothers me MOST is that they wrap this filth in what almost anyone who likes rap will tell you is "a good beat" and they sell it to the masses. Simply because they put a good beat and some rhythm into it qualifies it as something worth listening to? Might as well wrap a turd in christmas paper and put it under the tree. I'm not naive in thinking that I'm the first to say these things, and I hope I won't be the last, but I just can't help it. WHY DO WE NEED RAP?! ...ugh...okay. It's out of the system now. Thank you. Until next time.