Nobody really really wants to have that conversation! The NFL has shown that whatever the position is, IF YOU CAN PLAY, YOU WILL PLAY! Coaches want to win! Period! There is no racism in football.! If you can coach, YOU WILL GET HIRED. Fact of the matter is most white coaches couldn’t cut it in the league, so they became grad asst early on. Then have been in the system and scraping and scrapping learning the craft. Most black athletes in the league were able to go on and play. Numbers never, ever lie.
OT: Super Bowl Halftime Show
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Well Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre have been popular since the early 1990s. That would make them Gen X and later.
I was on the tail-end of the Boomers....so what rap I enjoy goes back a bit further.
Long before the days of CDs I would grab Elvis, Beach Boys, Beatles, etc. albums from my parents collections. Didn’t mean I didn’t still love the “modern” music just that I also appreciated other genres as well. My parent never quite had the same reciprocating ideas though. I could be wrong but I don’t think they ever popped in and borrowed a They Might Be Giants or Dead Milkmen cassette.
I’d still love to see Weird Al get a shot at the halftime show but that’s not likely to ever happen.
There was nothing that was not family friendly about that performance, whether you like that genre or not.
I wasn’t referring to the super bowl performance tonight, just the 99.9 pct of their historical music.
Well, I'll admit I haven't listened to enough of their music to determine whether 99.9% of it reflects what you say it does. Somehow, I seriously doubt whether you have either.
I'll grant that my age is somewhere between dirt and potting soil, but I concur.
Gen X...or all these new kid millionaires off of youtube. Lol
Dre got paid well in his career.
Respect earned
then he sold his headphones company beats by Dre. Paid again in the corporate world.
success stories are not the worst things going on these days
Respect earned
then he sold his headphones company beats by Dre. Paid again in the corporate world.
success stories are not the worst things going on these days
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That’s a matter of personal choice, but I thought it slobbered with hypocrisy.
He has more but it is a half time show so I want to see the game. He would rock out with 4. He would blow your mind obviously......
Saw his White Trash on Dope part of the Devil Without a Cause tour in Cincinnati. It was good....not mind-blowing, but pretty darn good.
I'd be interested in a showcase of some of the nation's best college marching bands.
Thanks. I do have a question. Outside of the singer’s name, how does one know the difference between old and new rap?
You would be wrong. But there’s no way for me to prove that or you to know that, so that’s that. I’m very familiar with rap and esp gangster rap from late 80s all the way up. Probably the best rapper that I’ve ever heard was Nas or chuck D, but that was back in the day when I was young and stupid.
I think there are several different forms of rap. I was talking more about era....The Sugarhill Gang, Tone-Loc, Run DMC, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Salt n Peppa, Grandmaster Flash, Ice-T, LL Cool J, and others from the 1980s.
I doubt I am wrong especially on their later stuff. Maybe if you said 2 Live Crew, I'd agree....saw them at the New Brookland Tavern. Interesting concert.
Sure you could look up the history from old school, gangsta, west coast, east coast, crunk. rhythmic, glitch, etc. Interestingly the first all female hip-hop group was The Sequence from Columbia, SC.
I eschew this genre. Not only not melodious or lyrical, but too many aggravating and overpowering listening experiences in drive-throughs and at stop lights. I was also force-fed brussel sprouts as a child. Such experiences create unshakable aversions.
Amen to the listening experiences mentioned!
I can guarantee you have 0 Kendrick Lamar albums. I bet you couldn't name Eminem's last 3 albums without Google and definitely doubt you have a Mary J discography in your ownership. Be honest, you know the 90s hits and Dre's NWA stuff but have no clue on the stuff any of last night's artist performed after.
I don't watch half time while at Carolina games.I don't watch halftimeshows.
I like music. I don't find much valuable in the so called "poetry" of any popular music. Mostly, it's destructive on some personal or social level. I saw a contemporary jazz band in 1989- the Rippingtons.- and since then 99% of music I listen to is instrumental.
As we know from this board, words are dangerous. And, as the last pop artist I followed, Jackson Browne, wrote, " Among the thoughts that crowd your mind, there won't be many, that ever really matter." The last modern music line I liked.
As we know from this board, words are dangerous. And, as the last pop artist I followed, Jackson Browne, wrote, " Among the thoughts that crowd your mind, there won't be many, that ever really matter." The last modern music line I liked.
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