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"I'm just a musical prostitute, really." |
"The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to do with embracing a hard-nosed truth about the world and letting the chips fall where they may." |
"We are big fans of "happy" music and stuff like that." |
) Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. |
A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation. |
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And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry as a funeral drum. |
As regards rap music, I believe that the "c" is silent. |
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. |