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Posts Tagged ‘Rap Songs’

The RIAA are Culture Rapists: Save the Mixtape!

By Q Ball • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up and watch a snake swallow its own tail! It is the dumbest thing you will ever see! Watch this serpent eat itself at its very own existence while it publicly rationalizes its witch-hunt against piracy! Don’t you dare laugh at its foolishness. It does not care about innocent people or respect culture. One day, if you are ever caught blasting your car sound system at a red light, you too will be crucified as a pirate!



The DJ Needs A Pacemaker!

By Da Emazing One • Jun 11th, 2008 • Category: Wheels of Steel

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Don’t you think it’s challenging enough for DJs to cut and scratch with CDs ever since they did away with vinyl? Nowadays, it’s even more of a challenge for DJs to find two songs of different tempos to mix with. Is it me or is it the same non-talented producer making all of [...]



Lyrical Trafficking

By Q Ball • Apr 20th, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

I have been reading an interesting story published by Sarah Yang of the University of California-Berkeley, regarding research on references to illegal drug use in rap music from 1979 to 1997. From what I read it was not necessarily an anti-rap music campaign according to its data. It was a fact finding analysis based on the lyrical content of the most popular rap songs (and other music genres) and illegal drug references.