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garysully1986 wrote: »

Lol love the quote about dre.

I can agree that some rhymes can sound very similar and especially some of todays rappers can rhyme like that just to make money.

but if you look at some of the game changing artists like Nas, 2pac, Jay-z, Their lyrics are more than putting two words together that sound the same.

I am a huge fan of Bob Dylan, Dont think twice its alright is one of my favourite songs, However there are rappers who can compete while Dylan can mask some of his lyrics most rappers say exactly what they mean;

Look at Nas, his most commercial song he had out in the last few years was probable I can with lyrics like;

"be'fore we came to this country,
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys.
There was empires in Africa called Kush,
Timbuktu, where every race came to get books
To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans,
Asians, Arabs, and gave them gold; When
gold was converted to money it all changed,
Money then became empowerment for Europeans.
The Persian military invaded,
They heard about the gold, the teachings and everything sacred
Africa was almost robbed naked,
Slavery was money, so they began making slaveships.
Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
He was in shock that in the mountains were black faces.
Shot off their nose to impose what basically
Still goes on today you see."

There are plenty of rappers that can hold their own against Dylan.

That's just a rant.

Paparazzo wrote: »

I'm sure there's good rap lyrics, but that's a bad example imho. It looks like ralph wiggums essay on african history.

I was thinking of going through it line by line to point out the absurdities, but life is too short.

"be'fore we came to this country,
We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys.

No. They weren't all kings and Queens.

There was empires in Africa called Kush,

Yes, probably not black though.

Timbuktu, where every race came to get books

This minor city is 12th century, which is 2 millennia after rome was founded.

To learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans,

Nope. not that city. The teachers of Greeks and Romans might have been African but not sub-Saharan African.

Asians, Arabs, and gave them gold; When
gold was converted to money it all changed,
Money then became empowerment for Europeans.

This is an unproven assertion. Europe came to power for lots of reasons. The Enlightenment for one.

The Persian military invaded,
They heard about the gold, the teachings and everything sacred

Timelines flecked up again have to go back in time to the Bronze age for the Persian empire to take over a tiny part of Northern Africa - Eastern Egypt.

Africa was almost robbed naked,
Slavery was money, so they began making slaveships.

Is "they" here the Persians? Or the Europeans? Also slavery was part of Africa for centuries prior to Europeans. Mostly Arabic slavers and black slaves, but sometimes black on black.

Egypt was the place that Alexander the Great went
He was in shock that in the mountains were black faces.
Shot off their nose to impose what basically

Shot with a gun? Alexander might have killed some black Africans but he killed lots of people.

Major issue here is North Africa is not black sub-Saharan Africa, the time lines are all fecked up, the Arab invasions are replaced by Persian invasions, the caricature of European power is nonsense, and on and on. Its about as historically correct as Harry Potter.