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Location: big island | got a car you'd like to get rid of? apply this bumper sticker to it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Anti-Rap-Music-Bumper-Sticker-4-Martin-Guitar-p... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | You know, I have a lot of responses to that but, for some reason, not a one of them is appropriate for mass consumption.
Imagine that. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'll confess to a personality quirk.
When I see a bumper-sticker and am able to get up next to them, I look over and imagine the person turning their head toward me and saying what the sticker says. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | No bleeding eyes, stapled nipples, or peanutbutter!
You call that a personality quirk? |
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Location: south east Michigan | I said I'd confess to "A" personality quirk. |
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Location: Central Florida | I like it! |
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| What's wrong with rap? I agree that most mainstream rap is bad, but I like some more underground stuff. The major problem that I have is most mainstream rap lyrics are shallow and 99.9% are the same. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Jeff:
I like it! what is it you like, jeff?
the bumper sticker, rap or brad's quirk? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by nonis:
What's wrong with rap? I agree that most mainstream rap is bad, but I like some more underground stuff. The major problem that I have is most mainstream rap lyrics are shallow and 99.9% are the same. You answered your own question. |
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Location: East Tennessee | It says it's 4 Martin Guitar players. Have Ovation players got to wait for their own version? :confused: |
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Location: big island | this way, all the martin guitar players who sport this sticker get shot and the ovation players rock on. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I think Ovation Players are more intelligent, (I'm hopin')
So we get a Better, Wittier, and More Profound Sticker.
I'm open to suggestions...
Previous Offerings---
RAP MUSIC - The "C" is Silent!
WWSD - What Would StandingOvation Do?
[Credit to original Authors, excuse the Plagiarism] |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | That Sticker is like a nice song with dangerous lyrics.....
Vic |
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Location: CT | I hate rap, and it certainly ain't music! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I don't mind the rhythm and beat of rap music, but far too much of the lyrics espouse violence, disrespect, and vengeance. |
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Location: NJ | I have a bumper sticker on my RoadCase that says:
"Discourage In-Breeding - Ban Country Music".
A bunch of years ago, we pulled a prank on a co-worker (and good friend of mine):
Out of computer-cut vinyl, I made a bright, 3-color bumpersticker that read:
I Support N.A.M.B.L.A.(the North American Man/Boy Love Assn.)
and put it on the back bumper of his pickup truck.
We honestly thought that he'd "spot it" after a day or two . . .
He drove around for TWO WEEKS with this thing on (including a trip from NJ to Atlanta & back).
He was walking across the parking lot of his gym late one night, and said "I don't have a bumpersticker . . ."
When he got closer, the first thing out of his mouth was "f@ckin' CLIFF!!!"
The "Icing on the Cake" was that the vinyl was on the bumper during two weeks of BRUtally cold weather, and when he tried scraping it off (with a car key), it came off in 1/4" squares.
Not wanting to drive any FURTHER with it on, he had to squat behind his truck (in the cold) for an hour while co-members of his gym walked back & forth . . . |
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Location: Orange County, California | I once raided our scrap bin for the appropriate colors of vinyl and the stuff we made magnetic work truck signs out of... Voila!!
Cool thing was these being magnets, they could be applied just walking by, did no damage (accept to some homo-phob's ego), and the were re-used by many :p :D :p :D Good times. They were only 3/4 tall so one guy drove around for a month and never noticed, accept he kept getting winked at and phone number given to him while driving through Laguna Beach. ;) |
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Location: TX | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I think Ovation Players are more intelligent, (I'm hopin')
So we get a Better, Wittier, and More Profound Sticker.
I'm open to suggestions...
One with only 4 beats in the second measure? |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Anderson Cooper of CNN did a major piece on Rap/HipHop this week. The main point he brought out is the consistent message in the music that no matter what crimes you may see, a black man does NOT tell the police. It's a message of living in an occupied country where the police are the army, and non-cooperation with police is the theme.
One can dissect this ad infinitum, but the social consequences of this message are alarming and well documented. It's more than a matter of taste.
I should hasten to add that I grew up in an era and subculture in which the police were referred to as 'pigs', and music in praise of anarchy was abundant. My generation has had it's share of social consequences, but we've kept the bridge open to responsible involvement in the greater community.
Is that getting political? My caffeine must be kicking in. :eek: |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I love that sticker!
I guess what bothers me the most about (c)rap is that it is all the same stupid f@ckin beat and anti-everything-that-aint-me words. No real talent involved, if you can recite poetry, you can do this. No musical talent required, NMTR, maybe that's what we should call it.
And then there's the playing it at volume 110 when driving through town at 5 mph with the windows down with their baseball hats on sideways and just their eyes above the window frame. And this is the white kids!
I do have to say it is a bit amusing to see the redneck kids in their baaaad pickup trucks trying to be whiggers. An interesting paradox. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Right, and you never saw a lowrider before hip hop & rap came along. Nor heard any adult scream "Turn that crap off! You'll go deaf!"
While I don't like most rap either I recognize that it's the first musical form in more than a generation to fullfill the first law of Rock and Roll.
Piss off your parents!
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | If I had to choose between the two, I'd rather listen to disco... (ewwwwww) |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Right, and you never saw a lowrider before hip hop & rap came along...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLaMipm01IY |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Fillhixx-- "first law of Rock and Roll. Piss off your parents! :cool: "
Rap Sux! Punk Rock? Now there's some music!
In the 80's, some of my Vietnam Era friends use to get on me for hanging with the Punkers. "Why you hang-out with them freaks? Look at them, Spikey-Green-Head-Jerks!"
I was like, Dude, look at yourself and your history. They are just rebelling against their patchouli-oil wearing parents.
So, to prove my point, I meet this punker-chick's mom...
The little chick had a mohawk-ish haircut, with a tassel on one side, and a "Circle Jerks" jacket.
Her mom shows-up with a peasant dress, Birkenstock's, and a Grateful Dead T-shirt... And some Weed.
How do Rebel against that? Cut your hair! Get Drunk, and Slam-Dance!
[BTW Slam-Dancing was fun!]
But Punkers didn't shoot-at each other, then write a 'song' about it! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yes, it is a style of noise that will piss of the parents, and that is one objective.
I bought a bunch of thiose stickers, we'll have fun with them down here. |
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Location: N.J. | Only rap I ever could listen to was Public Enemy's Yo! Bum Rush the Show album. Had a good anti-drug song on it and a good one about a 98 Olds which reminded me of the Green Hornet. Matter of fact its even mentioned in the song. This was before their strong black power message. As a rap album I thought it was very good for its time. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I don't care for rap, but I have been known to grab my package while trying to sing. :cool: |
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Location: Orange County, California | OK. I have ONE favorite rap song....
Here\'s the video |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Every generation has a responsibility to hate the next generations music. My dislike for rap is no different than my moms dislike for Three Dog Night.
What I hope I live long enough to see are the rap tribute bands and reunion tours of the future. There's something about the old fat guys who do a Herman's Hermits act at one of the local Injun Casinos that's oddly amusing. Imagine 30 years from now a similar group of losers wearing fubu jackets and rapping about slicing up ho's and shooting up cops. That'll be a sweet show.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Rap tribute bands? At Mohican sun? That's funny! I can't wait. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Oh, we can all wait. When that happens most of the show will be past us. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Does anyone else find it coincidental, in a stereotypical kind-of-way, that the seller is from Georgia? ;) :rolleyes: |
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