Bill Cosby has defeated Hip Hop

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RIP, heaven needed "Put It In Her Mouth" by Akinyele

not again!

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"I'm...

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EXPRESSING...

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...myself...

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I'm failing to see how him having marital infidelities immediately invalidates all of his points.

Not saying I agreed with what he had to say, but it's definitely not a good argument. If he was specifically attacking those who commit infidelities only, then that would be a different matter.

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RIP, heaven needed "Put It In Her Mouth" by Akinyele

-- Dom Passantino, Friday, October 26, 2007 4:13 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

That's actually Baby and Lil Wayne accepting the olympic medals.

pretty sure birdman doesnt own a FAG chain

someone bought it for him last christmas, after reading your review

Justice has finally been served. Bill for president!

I was at the first bill photo

pretty sure birdman doesnt own a FAG chain

it's a shop of his 5*G chain

as long as the discotheque club is open, dance music hip-hop will never die!

Read this as "Bing Crosby has defeated Hip Hop"

Disco died and rap will die too.

disco died?

Only melodic AOR will live on.

geir do you honestly believe theres going to be this utopian future where people don't dance anymore?

disco died?

-- and what, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:40 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Only melodic AOR will live on.

-- Hurting 2, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 5:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Thanks heavens for The Scissor Sisters for uniting our warring factions.

geir do you honestly believe theres going to be this utopian future where people don't dance anymore?

Sadly, no.

But if people absolutely have to dance they should do like they did during the new romantics/synthpop boom in the early 80s and do it to music that has more musical and artistic substance besides just danceability. Music made by people who write their own songs and take themselves seriously as artists, aiming for artistic merit, sometimes even with concept albums, but also throwing in a 4/4 beat for the sake of danceability or commercialism.

And I don't like Scissor Sisters btw. Not too much into AOR either. It has to be symphonic rock.

you are a horrible person

why does it bother you that people dance?

Music made by people who write their own songs and take themselves seriously as artists, aiming for artistic merit, sometimes even with concept albums, but also throwing in a 4/4 beat for the sake of danceability or commercialism.

Because, you know, danceable music is just a bone thrown to the common people that happens to sell well. Artistry is only found outside that sphere.

PLANET GEIR

Proper music may also be danceable, like "Dare" by Human League or "Cupid & Psyche" by Scritti Politti. But it needs more than just a dance beat to be good artistic music.

why?

Because art isn't about making people dance. There was dance music around in the 18th century too, but it isn't what people remember today. Because it was inferior to the more musically complex stuff people like Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Haydn came up with.

tschaikovsky, that unsophisticated, unartistic dumbass

Along with Strauss, he is often looked down upon by music history writers. Maybe exactly because they composed dance music.

if you measure art by how long something lasts or how many people remember it, what happens when genres you despise like rap and dance start to be canonized?

(Speaking of Johan Strauss here btw, not Richard)

Rap will only be canonized on a short term.

In 100 years, "Yesterday" is still around while nobody remembers any rap at all.

xps: no, that's wrong.

let's set aside the ballets, which i'm sure you'll argue are meant to be looked at and not participated in, but all four of those guys wrote minuets, pavanes, all kinds of social dances.

what about stravinsky?

does geir hate jazz & big band too?

geir i genuinely regret you won't be around in 100 years

I suggest you ask a man on the street to hum a Stravinsky piece.

based on geirstradamus here I'm glad I won't be alive 100 years from now

xpost lol

Geir I suggest YOU ask anybody to hum ANY classical besides the nutcracker suite

Like The Four Seasons or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or "Für Elise" or Beethoven's fifth, you mean?

yes, actually, that is what I mean

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At least here in Europe, most people are very familiar with those.

for our non-american friends, that is a u.s. postal service stamp commemorating the charleston, which is a dance that people did almost one hundred years ago

And as for big band music, those Tin Pan Alley songs are remembered as songs, not as big band arrangements. Some great songs though.

geir what about places like india and west africa with centuries of almost entirely rhythmic musical tradition? hundreds of millions of people remember dances and music intended for dancing from generations before their time and regularly partake in them today

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I was going to ask wtf you all were talking about but having seen those pictures of Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad I can only say...

...KUDOS

LOL

and xpost LOL

Seinfeld's trance blog is like the most awesome thing on the internet

Somehow I didn't read this until just now - god damn that's a funny thing to say

"Perhaps you're about even. Does Cosby care that Ghost Dad was a vexing experience to some?"

Well since he hasn't starred in a movie since, maybe.

Why are you retarded?

xpost

Tag, you're it.

BUT WHAT ABOUT PHYLICIA?

the first ad hominem. ILM is so disappointing sometimes.

The first, but probably not the last.

Damn........damn...DAMN....

This fuckin guy

Ik,r?

hi can we organise an airstrike on the naacp servers kthxbi

-- Just got offed, Monday, 31 December 2007 12:35 (3 hours ago) Link

wtf

THE SECULATOR strikes again!

like, ethan, i know arguing with you is like arguing with a stone, but if you keep on making out i have even a racist fibre in my body, then you show absolutely no perception, no decency, and a whole load of completely unnecessary and unwelcome personality traits. get off the horse.

i would just like to point out that i have been otm on this thread, and you are all causing this flame-out over absolutely fuck-all. i had little or no interest in the original thread, but you have caused it to be of interest to me with your colour-sensitive fingertips. the whole thing has been unnecessary. what i was trying to say with that sentence which nabisco couldn't make sense out of is that nothing either by us or in the original thread premise was actually racist, and your collective reaction has painted us all in a disgusting light. all the comedians and actors, gangstas, and ghetto boys are all still playing the race card. as far as I'm concerned, looking at modern day africa, they should be so lucky to be in great britain today. this is fucking pathetic of all of you.

-- unfished business, Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:58 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

str8 stuff from padg3tt

srsly tho instead of being abusive and misquote-happy you could explain why you're targeting me like this. is it because i said in passing upthread that bill cosby's attitude was for the best? look, i know you probably disagree with it but it's still an idealist, non-racist position. i'll admit i don't know enough about racial struggles in america to make a definitive judgement, but this doesn't give you an excuse to go around painting me in this light.

no, my excuse is its really funny to watch u spazz the fuck out

good sport on the nets today *cocks rifle*

it is pretty funny to watch lj spazz but it had just gotten more fun to watch matt continue to have no clues ever

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Two words: jello pops

always interesting to read what john d. has to say, but otherwise, why are people arguing with geir? you can make all the polite suggestions you want, but his worldview is completely hermetic and he will never give you a chance. i wouldn't pretend to be able to make a specific diagnosis but he's clearly mentally ill.

there's a basic ungenerosity, an unwillingness to engage the world as a complex thing, that marks geir's worldview (and doesn't really mark the worldview of even other, often infuriating, ilxors with mental disorders who have hobby horses). i've never met anyone like this IRL, i presume everyone would give them a wide berth. sorry to be belligerent and personal but i've tried arguing with geir and -- well the neologism "geirbot" was coined for a reason.

The Cosby Show is classic for all time. I won't hear a word against it.

I got season 1 for Christmas! I didn't realize that one of my favorite episodes of all time, the "Monopoly money" lecture episode, was the fucking PILOT!

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.

No wonder you get Ds in class!

err I'm sorry, that's "No wonder you get Ds in everything!"

I like the one where he dreams he gives birth to a hoagie.

Some David Lynch shit there.

so many classics.

does anybody remember what episode Cliff started talking about Theo's little league game where the game broke open on a grand slam bunt?

how about the episode when Claire asked Cliff to pee in her mouth...

?!

whoa, amateurist is back!

the gordon gartrell episode of the cosby show is one of the best of all time.

the cosby show is great.

i'll even rep for a different world. i did an appreciation thread on ile once.

cosby universe 4 life.

Hat tip to the Raggett on the other Cosby thread.

BILL COSBY KILLS HIP HOP DEAD

Of course, I just ripped all my Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band releases to my pod, and now I read this. ;_;

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omfg help.

help.

HELP

You know what, Mackro... I fucked up the other night, totally forgot Method Man : (

all is forgiven because you've provided evidence that Cosby can never get enough of that jell'oh!

the best part of that second gif is the gimp hand

He hasn't. He has my full support, and I hope he eventually will. But at the moment, there is still hip-hop around. The Billboard list is crowded with it.

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WITH MY BARE FUCKING HANDS

hongro + cosby = a force more powerful than you can imagine

Well then:

Did Cos just tell me to have a coke and a smile? RT: @BillCosby Now you will learn @QuestLove, to keep your mouth shut

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