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Original probably isn't the first word you think of to describe 311. But come on, does any other band have a sound that even comes close to their ganjafied funk-rap-rock? And somehow the Nebraska natives manage to keep it all together, infusing their songs with enough melody to bind all the heavy beats and distortion together. That said, their new album Soundsystem doesn't actually break any new ground. It's your trusty old 311, complete with echoing vocal harmonies, staccato snares and spurts of laid back, good-natured rap. There's little innovation beyond the already...
Meanwhile, we stopped going to church so our values--whatever those are--disintegrated and our children started listening to rap and heavy metal and subsequently shot their schoolmates...
GIVING MOTHER A BAD RAP...
...Gwynne's article on the rap singers who moved into an exclusive gated community in Louisiana [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 30] has prompted me to write. I work with Johannesburg's street children. I talk to them about their lives and how rap music relates to the young people on the streets. I do not believe that rappers' recordings "celebrate gunfights, misogyny and the crack trade," as Gwynne wrote. They are merely drawing our attention to ghetto life and the ugly truth of it. In the ghetto you have to be tough or die. I know from being with these people...
...With music now, everything is mushing together like a melting pot. It's like we need to bring back segregation in music. Rock 'n roll ended up just being mixed in with rap, techno is being mixed with rock 'n roll. It's really depressing, all this electronic bullshit, with rap this and rap that and pop this and Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys, all with no artistic ability to create their own music. They're like made up by business people in a room somewhere...