OT: Ever thought you'd hear a rapper being backed up by a violin?
 

Go listen..
Pharoahe Monch w/Miri Ben Ari

Uh. They're only about, oh, 20 years too late. The Fat Boys' did this long ago with "Rap Symphony In C Minor."

Rain, snow, lightnin', thunder
Me and Cool Rock, that man, the boy wonder...

Kanye West also tours with a violinist. At least back in May when he played at RU...

Just double-checked. 18 years ago. It was on the "Big and Beautiful" album, released in '86. (Yes, I still have the vinyl album.) I actually heard Rap Symphony today. It is on my MP3 player, which I set to random play during workouts.

good to hear you started working out, you were always a little flabby to me....
:p


and I was not going to have any problem with you having the Big and Beautiful album still, until it clicked on me that you said it was on vinyl. I though only us punks still liked the vinyl. Rap on vinyl, very cool..........

Actually, I started getting serious about it last November, as I was approaching 35. I can probably count on one hand the number of weeks I've had less than 3 workouts since then. I had a physical a couple of weeks ago, and the doc was marveling at all my readings. I was posting a dynasty thread on it, but I quickly found out that I have much better discipline about exercising than I do about posting in the thread. :P


Well, when I bought it new in '86, that was the best option. I didn't get a CD player until around '88, and the problem with a CD was/is that you can't scratch with them, and they don't include Bonus Beats. Virtually all rap 12-inch singles, and many rap albums would include a track or two just entitled "Bonus Beats." They were invaluable for us teenage rappers who couldn't afford a drum machine on nights when my beat-boxer wasn't with me. :D

I know he does. The woman playing on this song is her. Miri Ben-Ari, she's from Israel.

It's nice to see rappers showing some class and using full string sections on their songs instead of those scratching sound effects, but until they change their mode of dress (backwards pants, chains, and holstered weapons) I'll stick to my modern country music (no backwards pants & chains) favorites thank you.

Ok, I'll bite.

Because class is only when there are strings in the back of songs. Yeah and every hip-hop artist wears chains (uh, it is 1988 mom?) and backward pants (Kris Kross, anybody?) and as for weapons....

Dude, its country. How many songs talk about weapons in them?

Hell, the Dixie Chicks killed a guy in one of their songs and no one even bats an eye. Ask Garth about the woman who killed her man for cheating in "The Thunder Rolls." Just two examples, there are far more. But don't mind me, I'm just "here for the party."

What gets me about people who makes comments like this, is that they don't really know the music they're talking about. It's just comments about something you see a glimpse of and automatically assume that its bad.

I understand the impluse. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you start to see it and actually realize there is far more depth to something you dismiss as [presumably] a lower form of music.

Musical forms have more in common that people like to think and even if they don't, who the hell cares?

Wow..never thought I'd rise to the defensive of hip-hop. That's pretty scary....

My friend and I always bumped Pharoahe Monch's song "Get the Fuck up" in his his 92 Ford Tauras (sp?) wagon back in high school...good times...good times.

A ignorant country listener, I'm shocked.