What is the point of Jay Z when you guys still have your old Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash records?

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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the point of the black album when you still have the white album?

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

None! (Even if you don't have Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash, actually).

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE, GEIR!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is so necessary

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the point of unmelodic black music when you still have nice melodic white music?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

To make you mad

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the point of mimic'ing another thread title if you change the capitalization?

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn I was gonna be all pissed at this dumb comparison but it was just GEIR

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the point of all pop music ever when you can whistle

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Whistling has no social context to get excited about

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Because the Sugar Hill Gang is from New Jersey, Grandmaster Flash is from the Bronx, and Jay-Z is from Brooklyn.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Because our culture foregrounds rhythm.

Because, as educated people, we like wordplay.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Whistling has no social context to get excited about

not to mention that whistling has pretty limited melodic possibilities!

― Geirbär (llamasfur), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

not if you whistle out of both ends. My contrapuntal emissions are killer.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:26 (twenty-one years ago)

this meme is the death of ILM (again)

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

what is the point of the sugarhill gang and grandmaster flash when you still have all your old last poets and john cage records?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

USENET THOUGHTS on RAP ARE GOING TO DIE by Geir Hongro
Newsgroups: rec.music.hip-hop Date: 31 Mar 1996 00:10:55 GMT From: Geir Hongro

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the point of Norway when you have Sweden?

― Some Dadaismus Implied (Dada), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

[Apart from Annie]

― NRQ, Friday, 4 March 2005 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

USENET THOUGHTS on RAP ARE GOING TO DIE by Geir Hongro
Newsgroups: rec.music.hip-hop Date: 31 Mar 1996 00:10:55 GMT From: Geir Hongro

At the ten year anniversary there should be a celebration of rap's predicted demise.

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the point of writing about music you don't understand?

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

cos jay-z sounds absolutely nothing like sugarhill gang, not lyrically, vocally, or musically.

unless old rap automatically = new rap, just cos, yknow, its all still rap.

― um, Friday, 4 March 2005 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

with a silent c

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 4 March 2005 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, like youre an unt, with a silent c.

― um, Friday, 4 March 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

don't let my white skin fool you!

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Friday, 4 March 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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