General Music Chat

MC Yo Wassup - Turned Me Into Gangsta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kazty8GWNiI

Is this for real?

This guy sounds like Ned from Bubba The LoveSponge.. LOL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzXm1nkYaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZ2v797GEI

"Me and my men were pinned down in a dry creek bed"..

Instead of "yo yo" he says "oy veh". Fo shizzel my gefilte fish.

Last thing we need is another "gangsta" in this country.

I love rap so much. I've even considered listening to some of it. But for now, I remember the drums in Tarzan movies and that will have to do. When guys are blaring that sh*t next to my car I ramp up the classical - they start to freak and pull away fast!

No I don't want ho's and don't smoke crack - never even seen it. And I despise the arrogance of the rappers. (and some of the rockers too). Pride is something that is earned - you don't just reach out and claim it.

What the hell ever happened to blues and Motown?

Talbot

MC Yo Wassup - Turned Me Into Gangsta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kazty8GWNiI

dude, that's dark!


welcome to the jungle. Everyone gets this treatment at first. so yo yo...wassup?

Ah no, I beg to differ. He really bad but not as bad as that chick with the you tube video, she was worse but not by much.

Yod you really can get into this?? I find that hard to digest/believe.

And yeah I really do think he sounds like "Ned". Uncomfortably close to the real article imo.

I didn't say that I "get into it"...only that it was "dark".

Yes, its very dark indeed....like a lot of music being made today. But it was more professionally approached than most of what I see on bandmix today, at least. The message seems to be that he is going to defend the innocent. I can agree with that premise. The music production is pretty good actually, and the video is professionally done. The performance is at least in the same key.

Whether I personally like it or not isn't the issue. He's a musician (of some sort) trying to make a go of it. I have some opinions about it being a middle-age crisis .....and we could discuss his motivations further if he hangs around after that bitch-slapping everyone just gave him. But I see no reason to destroy him over one video, like every newbie going through the gauntlet around here gets.


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I am glad you got some message out of that video.

I thought it was completely bereft of anything substantial, but I've been wrong before and it's no secret I dislike rap intensely.

Furthermore you can attempt to make anything well if you have enough ducats and the people that actually have the skills to produce something worthwhile.

Someone once told me that "you can't shine sh*t" and I believe that wholeheartedly. I don't know what's in his repertoire, but that one I didn't like. Hopefully if he's got more, it's better than that.

Otherwise if you suck, you suck. You want to coddle the diseased and the infirmed, hey that's great. But please do call them as you see them.

We don't all get the luxury of those rose colored glasses or people that are willing to encourage others even when we know "that horse don't trot no more".

It's a rough game and if people can't take the full monty of it all, why bolster their confidence falsely?

Do you think THAT will progress into a prospective artist?

Now what's worse; telling him that it's not ok in some form or sticking him in front of a crowd and letting him burn all the way to the deep dark bottom.

Remember these jokers hear what you say and then act upon it.
This could be the next act at your local open mic..

(Bartender, gimme 3 Long Island Ice Teas and hold the coke-a-cola and ice.)

PS: I disagree that every newbie around here gets torn down. Merely the whack ones with the worst music imaginable, they do take a feather ruffling but if it was me, I'd want to know before I made an ass out of myself in public. (been there, done that)

You want examples of new people that didn't get "the shoe to the head"?
I am thinking of one right off the bat.

"Play your music for people that know you".
What do they say about it? If they say it's awful, you might want to get another opinion. If the second person says it's awful, you might want to give it a go around again to a third. If the third person tells you it's awful, it really is.

You've heard of "read, write, review, recite". I think most have at one point or another.

Try "write, recite, perform, review, rewrite".
Nobody gets along without doing the legwork and there are no shortcuts to the golden cut and I am not talking "photography".

let's see, the old testament says "an eye for an eye" but this "gangsta" gets rolled by a few mopes and then tracks 'em down and stabs them all? seems like the gangsta has a little too much "angsta". seems a little meshugah to me.

into all our lives some tsooris comes.....seems to me our gangsta's reaction was a little over the top. he should have talked w his rabbi before going all bronson on their tuchass.

and points off for the cross he wears at the end. sooooo wha.... he couldn't find a nice star of david, a mezzuzah, or maybe a chai to wear?????

The cross works for me.

As to new guys - I certainly got treated well - no complaints and BM helped me get up to speed since I wanted to get back into playing with people.

And since I just got a call to play Saturday night I guess I better go practice.

Talbot

Shock rock has been around forever. It's pretty obvious he did that song and video to get exactly the reaction you guys are giving him.

My bet is that he's going through a middle age crisis and trying to act like a badass...it's all a fantasy designed to get attention.

Professionally done, of course.



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"Shock rock" is ok by me, although I fail to see how any of THAT is rock or "shocking" by rap standards.

More like badly constructed regular old rap to me. The boys straight out of Compton are more shocking when they wake up in the am than this fool and they aren't even rappers.

I thought the production quality was good but...the rest was bilge.

If there has been ANYTHING redeeming about it besides production quality, I would have to said nothing at all. (shrugs)

(squeezes bad of rotten tomatoes) "I think I'll name you Apollo 13, my sweet little babies". LMAO

"Shock rock" is ok by me, although I fail to see how any of THAT is rock or "shocking" by rap standards.

More like badly constructed regular old rap to me. The boys straight out of Compton are more shocking when they wake up in the am than this fool and they aren't even rappers.

I thought the production quality was good but...the rest was bilge.

If there has been ANYTHING redeeming about it besides production quality, I would have to said nothing at all. (shrugs)

(squeezes bad of rotten tomatoes) "I think I'll name you Apollo 13, my sweet little babies". LMAO

yea, but opinions of someone's talent is always subjective, as long as they are singing near the correct key. You're welcome to voice them all you want, of course, but there will always be someone who hates your music and says the same things about you too.

Again, I see no reason to destroy the person trying.

I always thought Dylan was horrible. As BB King says, "Bob Dylan wants to play harmonica so bad.....so he does". I have finally been able to accept that he's a pretty good songwriter only because so many of my friends like him.







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So in other words, if any newb comes in with a decently produced pile of trash, we are supposed to regale the positives in it even if the only positive is the production aspect>?

Yod are you drinking? If not, you should. You pillock!!!

Should we all fleck ourselves with red paint and pay real $ to have the utter crap produced?

Nah pass, if it has no redeeming qualities, there is no real point in having it produced.

I've got tons of garbage music I don't consider worthwhile and I leave it buried, because it belongs buried.

IF THE JACKASS HAD ANY MERIT AT ALL, WE'D BE GRASPING FOR "IT" IN ORDER TO HAVE EVEN 1 THING TO COMPLIMENT HIM.

You don't like his music, but you wanna extol his production virtue(s).

AND WHO SANG? That bitch didn't sing even a note. He just rapped like he was on crack and couldn't stfu.

He needs a harmonica and so you do, Yob. You are just looking for an argument, as usual.

HE SUCKS, period. And if you let that unrefined, uninspired, crude oil, bog garbage out in a recording, I'd say YOU suck too.

You wanna argue that? Call it for what it is.
I'm well aware that not everyone likes everything, but this chap is a joke even for people 2 minutes old.

Tell us something else redeeming about that piece besides the production.
I am scratching trying to find anything at all and coming up EMPTY!

What have you got, YoB? I am waiting for this, Neddy ole boy..lol
(rubs hands together)