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Title: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: TwentyFo on December 09, 2008, 07:01:40 PM
It's nice to see that some people aren't being affected by the poopeous global economy!

But of course, those that aren't affected are the ones with the millions.

To celebrate Lil' Wayne's 26th birthday, rapper Birdman threw him a huge party on Monday in Miami hotspot Mansion nightclub.

Birdman, who Lil'Wayne calls his "adopted father", really went all out for the event. The two even have matching cross tattoos on their foreheads.

There was large Cash Money Records ice sculpture in the room. And the sculpture was holding bottles of Cristal, which usually retail for $1,000. There were 30 bottles there alone.

Other ice sculptures had $100 bills frozen inside.

But that isn't the best part of the night.

Pretty boy Lil' Wayne got an even better gift from Birdman.

A Lui Vuitton briefcase filled with a MILLION dollars in CASH as a gift!

Seriously!

We hope they both have some really good accountant, cuz you know the IRS is gonna want to see if that money is on the books. And, even if it's a gift, Wayne has to report that money!

Wonder if anyone stayed around for the ice sculptures to melt?

(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9845/lilwayne02wenn51958152oqx1.jpg) (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwayne02wenn51958152oqx1.jpg)

(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/8195/lilwaynebirthday03wenn2rd6.jpg) (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwaynebirthday03wenn2rd6.jpg)

(http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8228/lilwaynebirthday15wenn2qw7.jpg) (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwaynebirthday15wenn2qw7.jpg)

These cats are ballin. I think Wayne sold the most records of 2008. His album was out of this world. What would your dream party be?
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 09, 2008, 07:13:23 PM
i could care less about rappers and the stupid things that they do
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: TwentyFo on December 09, 2008, 07:14:16 PM
i could care less about rappers and the stupid things that they do

You're just jealous.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: glock89 on December 09, 2008, 07:14:25 PM
i could care less about rappers and the stupid things that they do
Same.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 09, 2008, 08:18:54 PM
You're just jealous.


nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the "voice of this generation", if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music, instead they buy into this catchy garbage.

what are people going to sing to their kids at night, definatly not a kanye or lil wayne song or whoever, this music isn't timeless, its a fad
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: glock89 on December 09, 2008, 08:20:56 PM

nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the voice of this generation, if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music and not just catchy garbage
I know what your talking about my brother play it all the time it just the same sound noting different noting new just talking about having sex with some girl and killing a guy.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: trax1 on December 09, 2008, 08:25:28 PM

nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the "voice of this generation", if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music, instead they buy into this catchy garbage.

As for Kanye West I can't agree more, he just seems like a self righteous sweetheart bag.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: glock89 on December 09, 2008, 08:26:39 PM
As for Kanye West I can't agree more, he just seems like a self righteous sweetheart bag.
Thank you someone said it.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: bj229r on December 09, 2008, 08:35:15 PM

nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the "voice of this generation", if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music, instead they buy into this catchy garbage.

what are people going to sing to their kids at night, definatly not a kanye or lil wayne song or whoever, this music isn't timeless, its a fad
Rush Limbaugh said it much more succinctly:

"If I can do it, it's not art"
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Beefcake on December 09, 2008, 10:03:23 PM
Kanye West took one of my favorite songs by Daft Punk and turned it into a pile of dog crap. All they do is take other peoples songs and then add their own crappy lyrics into them.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAP1 on December 09, 2008, 10:09:20 PM
know what's REALLY funny?

you throw this exact same bait out every now and then, and you still get bites.  :rofl
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: uptown on December 09, 2008, 10:17:33 PM
Lil Wayne and the rest of those hood-rats ain't got sense to pour piss out of a boot.................werd.  :aok
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Curlew on December 09, 2008, 10:29:09 PM
thats sick
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 09, 2008, 10:59:55 PM
Take out melody and harmony and you get rap. its art of some kind, it just aint music.
rap does not = music

sorry if that sounds harsh (and it is) but ive been a professional musician all my life and will never equate
rappers with musicians nor will i equate rap with music. it just aint music. I think its fine if one likes that sort of thing but that don't make it music. Rap is certainly valid entertainment of some kind but not the same as music.

zuii <S>

Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Fulmar on December 10, 2008, 12:28:22 AM

nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the "voice of this generation", if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music, instead they buy into this catchy garbage.

what are people going to sing to their kids at night, definatly not a kanye or lil wayne song or whoever, this music isn't timeless, its a fad
Amen
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: 1pLUs44 on December 10, 2008, 03:22:04 AM
RAP - Rob And Plunder, Retarded And Poor...
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: kamilyun on December 10, 2008, 07:34:56 AM
Hehe,  TwentyFo has got you guys all riled up again. 

On a serious note, the last rap group I thought had something worth listening too was Public Enemy.  I lump current rappers with boy bands and the Nickleback-esque bands all in the same category:  SOS.  Same Old 'Stuff'
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 08:04:43 AM
lmao @CAV and zuii. you guys would have been there in the mid-70s sayin punk isnt music. and in the 50s sayin rock'n'roll isnt music. and in the 30s sayin jazz isnt music. and the C19th sayin ragtime isnt music. and in the C16th sayin baroque isnt music...
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: texasmom on December 10, 2008, 08:18:03 AM
As for Kanye West I can't agree more, he just seems like a self righteous sweetheart bag.
agreed.

lmao @CAV and zuii. you guys would have been there in the mid-70s sayin punk isnt music. and in the 50s sayin rock'n'roll isnt music. and in the 30s sayin jazz isnt music. and the C19th sayin ragtime isnt music. and in the C16th sayin baroque isnt music...
I thought it was less about rap being a legitimate form of music (which it is) and more about what total sweetheart bag some of the rappers are (which some are)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAP1 on December 10, 2008, 08:55:11 AM
Hehe,  TwentyFo has got you guys all riled up again. 

On a serious note, the last rap group I thought had something worth listening too was Public Enemy.  I lump current rappers with boy bands and the Nickleback-esque bands all in the same category:  SOS.  Same Old 'Stuff'

u just seriously insulted boy bands(next to impossible to do), and nickleback.  :rofl :noid
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 09:25:36 AM
what total sweetheart bag some of the rappers are (which some are)

gotta agree there
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 10:13:13 AM
lmao @CAV and zuii. you guys would have been there in the mid-70s sayin punk isnt music. and in the 50s sayin rock'n'roll isnt music. and in the 30s sayin jazz isnt music. and the C19th sayin ragtime isnt music. and in the C16th sayin baroque isnt music...

nope, you are wrong. All the examples you list have harmony and melody. take out harmony and melody and you have rap. Rap aint music, its art, but not music. 

 links that will help you. read them.

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/music/elements/elemofmusic/main.htm

http://historyofmusic.tripod.com/id6.html

http://classicalmusic.lifetips.com/cat/57534/elements-of-music/

http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M345/Elements_of_Music5.html

http://www.essortment.com/all/elementsmusic_rllc.htm

http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnerstheory/a/musicelements.htm

cya.

zuii
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: texasmom on December 10, 2008, 10:14:20 AM
Rush Limbaugh said it much more succinctly:

"If I can do it, it's not art"
He's such a pompous ass. LOL
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on December 10, 2008, 11:10:25 AM
I do enjoy quite some rap songs.  :uhoh The beat mostly, or the combination of the beat/instruments with voice. Sadly it seems they can't sing about anything else than sex/money/drug/gangster. Other music styles usually have a wide range of subjects from war, politics, being a man, life.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: TwentyFo on December 10, 2008, 11:30:28 AM
Take out melody and harmony and you get rap. its art of some kind, it just aint music.
rap does not = music

Who do you think had the most nominations this year for the Grammy Awards. Drum roll please...........Lil Wayne (A Rapper) led the way with 8 nominations. Grammy awards are voted on by industry experts. They obviously think rap is music. Just because you don't like it or what you perceive as its message doesn't make it a less valid form of art or music.

All you people that think that it's as easy as tying a shoe are completely wrong. Grab your game mics and record your freestyle; then post it on here for all to hear. I can almost guarantee that you will sound ridiculous.

As far as Kanye West goes he is an arrogant a-hole. However, I still like and respect his music. I've purchased most of his albums (Graduation, Late Registration, and 808's and Heartbreak). He is lyrically superior than most artists i.e. Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, and TI. He is a clever poet who always has the sickest beats that really make jamming out to it unheard of.

Rap has different variants as well. You will tell the difference between them by the links posted.

Jay-Z:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXahoikYQpc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXahoikYQpc)

Lil Wayne:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2mh9-7wnI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2mh9-7wnI)

Kanye:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdI8SfMHuxs&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdI8SfMHuxs&feature=related)

The Roots:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: indy007 on December 10, 2008, 11:31:01 AM
Sadly it seems they can't sing about anything else than sex/money/drug/gangster. Other music styles usually have a wide range of subjects from war, politics, being a man, life.

Ironically, the ones that can & did, are pretty much all dead.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: TwentyFo on December 10, 2008, 11:39:32 AM
Ironically, the ones that can & did, are pretty much all dead.

Wrong. You just don't hear them on the radio. Now who's fault is that?
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 10, 2008, 12:12:35 PM
lmao @CAV and zuii. you guys would have been there in the mid-70s sayin punk isnt music. and in the 50s sayin rock'n'roll isnt music. and in the 30s sayin jazz isnt music. and the C19th sayin ragtime isnt music. and in the C16th sayin baroque isnt music...

it's a good point, but as other have stated i was saying musical content

I would like to see jay z or lil wayne tell me about the pentatonic scale or the hexatonic scale....oh wait they can't because they have no knowledge of music or the structure of music

can they tell me about chord progessions....no because they don't know any of that either, the worst thing they do know is take a perfectly good rock and roll song and put their crappy words in it and call it their own.

Who do you think had the most nominations this year for the Grammy Awards. Drum roll please...........Lil Wayne (A Rapper) led the way with 8 nominations. Grammy awards are voted on by industry experts. They obviously think rap is music. Just because you don't like it or what you perceive as its message doesn't make it a less valid form of art or music.

All you people that think that it's as easy as tying a shoe are completely wrong. Grab your game mics and record your freestyle; then post it on here for all to hear. I can almost guarantee that you will sound ridiculous.

as for the grammys, they don't mean much to me, the only thing anyone hears about is the best pop and rap albums, which is a shame, but it's like i said, people these days are just kind of dumb and prefer catchy music with no substance over good music that will stand the test of time. (no offense twentyfo if you like rap)

We do live in a free country so everyone should listen to what they like, its just my opinion that rap stinks and is the lowest form of muisc, if it can be called music.

It's like i said before, it will not last and think about this (again) what are you going to sing and teach your kids when they're young?
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 12:17:47 PM
Who do you think had the most nominations this year for the Grammy Awards. Drum roll please...........Lil Wayne (A Rapper) led the way with 8 nominations. Grammy awards are voted on by industry experts. They obviously think rap is music. Just because you don't like it or what you perceive as its message doesn't make it a less valid form of art or music.

All you people that think that it's as easy as tying a shoe are completely wrong. Grab your game mics and record your freestyle; then post it on here for all to hear. I can almost guarantee that you will sound ridiculous.

As far as Kanye West goes he is an arrogant a-hole. However, I still like and respect his music. I've purchased most of his albums (Graduation, Late Registration, and 808's and Heartbreak). He is lyrically superior than most artists i.e. Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, and TI. He is a clever poet who always has the sickest beats that really make jamming out to it unheard of.

Rap has different variants as well. You will tell the difference between them by the links posted.

Jay-Z:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXahoikYQpc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXahoikYQpc)

Lil Wayne:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2mh9-7wnI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2mh9-7wnI)

Kanye:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdI8SfMHuxs&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdI8SfMHuxs&feature=related)

The Roots:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4)

If we are going to let the Grammys start setting definitions then we might as well throw dictionary's
OUT all together. Rap is not music and grammys have NOTHING to do with it. I do think rap is art. Rap is not music.

Harmony and melody are ABSENT in RAP, Its not my Opinion, its fact. Unless we just start burning dictionary's because we dont like the definitions, then we can say fish are people.

Just as absurd.
zuii
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: TwentyFo on December 10, 2008, 12:40:45 PM

Harmony and melody are ABSENT in RAP, Its not my Opinion, its fact. Unless we just start burning dictionary's because we dont like the definitions, then we can say fish are people.

Just as absurd.
zuii


The Roots:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_6p6fbdxF4)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 12:47:47 PM
When the roots "sing" that is music. the rap part is not music. It may be set in the context of a song yet "rap" is not music. Mabey spoken poetry or yelled poetry, rap is not music. No matter how many post you make, rap
does NOT fit the definition of music. I like the band, they are musicans, the rapper guy is not. Its not my opinion, its fact.


zuii

Note: what roots are doing was done better in the late 90s, Screaming Headless Torsos,,,mixing rap with music.
new york, not jive hollywood grammy kid stuff.  :cool:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtKvVm-dJY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJzGQ42h24&feature=related

the roots are light-weights,, dont care what the grammys say.
The grammys give crap awards all the time. big deal.

zuii
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: dentin on December 10, 2008, 01:00:12 PM
Lil Wayne and the rest of those hood-rats ain't got sense to pour piss out of a boot.................werd.  :aok

 :rofl   :aok :aok
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 01:08:05 PM
so zuii by your definition we have to remove the instrumentation and solo the vocal tracks to look for harmony and melody? lets try that with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. hmmm cant hear any melody or harmony there - I guess that doesnt count as music then  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 01:10:03 PM
so zuii by your definition we have to remove the instrumentation and solo the vocal tracks to look for harmony and melody? lets try that with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. hmmm cant hear any melody or harmony there - I guess that doesnt count as music then  :rolleyes:


solo vocal track is MELODY

and it not MY definition, its the accepted definition for the last 800/900 years or so.

zuii
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 01:11:10 PM
lets try that with ol Beethoven again - nope still no melody or harmony. still not music then.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 01:12:19 PM
lets try that with ol Beethoven again - nope still no melody or harmony. still not music then.

if you solo the vocal track you have MELODY! And silence is not music. its the absence of sound.

So if i take the ENGINE out of my car, its still a car. not one that can move or do car things, still a car (well its the SHELL OF a car). My back porch is a p51, its just missing the wings and an engine. I have this dog that runs really fast, he is a horse. Hahaaaa  :)

Death to all dictionary's, we dint need stinkin dictionary's.

im out on this, its absurd.
rap is not music.

<S> zuii
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 01:27:22 PM
if you solo the vocal track on the Moonlight Sonata you get ... silence. its a piece for piano. and it fails your test for music.

rap is music, it just happens to be a form you dont like. but thats ok, we all got different tastes and theres enuf music for everyone :)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 10, 2008, 01:29:56 PM
I would like to see jay z or lil wayne tell me about the pentatonic scale or the hexatonic scale....oh wait they can't because they have no knowledge of music or the structure of music

can they tell me about chord progessions....no because they don't know any of that either, the worst thing they do know is take a perfectly good rock and roll song and put their crappy words in it and call it their own.

It's like i said before, it will not last and think about this (again) what are you going to sing and teach your kids when they're young?

yeah i quoted myself, but still....enough said with that, i would like to hear them explain some basic music theory to me, they don't implement it in their songs, so i'm assuming they don't know any
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: zuii on December 10, 2008, 01:30:39 PM
if you solo the vocal track on the Moonlight Sonata you get ... silence. its a piece for piano. and it fails your test for music.

rap is music, it just happens to be a form you dont like. but thats ok, we all got different tastes and theres enuf music for everyone :)

Yes the moonlight sonata has MELODY and HARMONY, if you take out the NON-EXISTANT vocal track you have a PIANO playing MELODY and HARMONY.

rap is not music.


i lied,,NOW I'm out :)

zuii

my dog is a cow because i want him to be one.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RTHolmes on December 10, 2008, 01:51:50 PM
since we're getting the dictionary out
Quote from: Websters
Music
1 a: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity b: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony


@CAV formal musical training doesn't have much to do with musical creativity - from Django Reinhardt, early Skiffle bands, Robert Johnson through Bob Marley etc etc it hasnt been a requirement. David Beckham can swerve a ball round a wall into the net til the cows come home, i'm fairly sure he doesn't understand the maths behind it :D
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on December 10, 2008, 01:58:56 PM
Some rap songs are already classics. Dono about Lil Monkey busting out with one yet.

Here's an old school classic played from all over the world, neat little feel good video. No $100 bills ice fountain. :)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 10, 2008, 02:47:09 PM
@CAV formal musical training doesn't have much to do with musical creativity - from Django Reinhardt, early Skiffle bands, Robert Johnson through Bob Marley etc etc it hasnt been a requirement. David Beckham can swerve a ball round a wall into the net til the cows come home, i'm fairly sure he doesn't understand the maths behind it :D

yes but to do what they did you have to have some knowledge of music theory, nobody can just pick up a guitar with no prior knowledge and make it sound good, you have to understand scales and patterns, then you can create some new form of music.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Motherland on December 10, 2008, 02:48:33 PM
yes but to do what they did you have to have some knowledge of music theory, nobody can just pick up a guitar with no prior knowledge and make it sound good, you have to understand scales and patterns, then you can create some new form of music.
Not really, there are plenty of famous artists who have no clue about musical theory, or didn't when they began playing/getting famous or whatever.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: CAVPFCDD on December 10, 2008, 02:55:46 PM
Not really, there are plenty of famous artists who have no clue about musical theory, or didn't when they began playing/getting famous or whatever.

well duh nobody knows that much when they start, but its something that has to be learned to play so that it sounds like music and not a series of noises
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: DMBEAR on December 10, 2008, 03:56:53 PM
If Grammy winners and album sales are anyones main influence to buy something, perhaps they missed the following Grammy award winners for album of the year, and will now go out and buy them.... :lol  :rolleyes:

1983 Thriller - Special Edition by Jackson, Michael 
1988 Faith by Michael, George
1993 The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album by Houston, Whitney
1996 Falling into You by Dion, Celine
   
Or perhaps you want to know who got the Grammy for best new artist...

1990 Milli Vanilli  :aok
Now go have fun with what they told you was good music!
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Cougar68 on December 10, 2008, 09:30:44 PM
I actually enjoyed the heck out of the Thriller album.  Some really good stuff on there IMO...

As for rap, unfortunately it is music.  Music is not only melody, it's rhythm.  Rap lyrics are done to a rhythm instead of a melody and is therefore more of a percussive type of thing.  That being said, I hate it.  I can appreciate Run DMC's early stuff as well as some of Will Smith's work, but this gangsta crap is nothing but shock radio. 
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Larry on December 11, 2008, 12:19:37 AM
It doesn't matter how much money they have now. In about five years when they spent it all on cristal, bling, rims, cars, and houses and have nothing left to pay taxes they'll be broke again back to slinging rocks in the "hood" getting shot up because they don't know what to do when they get money.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: RightF00T on December 11, 2008, 12:38:02 AM
TwentyFo thank you for the entertainment...this thread has the smell of ignorance all over it.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Curval on December 11, 2008, 06:36:27 AM
See Rule #6
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: DiabloTX on December 11, 2008, 06:45:26 AM
As a form of musical expression rap has it's place on the musical menu.

However, rap isn't even the fast food of music, it's more like the junk food of music; Prepackaged and easy to consume.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: thrila on December 11, 2008, 07:08:50 AM
How can you not call this music

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N5crsfe-NUw (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N5crsfe-NUw)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: BigPlay on December 12, 2008, 03:15:13 PM
It's nice to see that some people aren't being affected by the poopeous global economy!

But of course, those that aren't affected are the ones with the millions.

To celebrate Lil' Wayne's 26th birthday, rapper Birdman threw him a huge party on Monday in Miami hotspot Mansion nightclub.

Birdman, who Lil'Wayne calls his "adopted father", really went all out for the event. The two even have matching cross tattoos on their foreheads.

There was large Cash Money Records ice sculpture in the room. And the sculpture was holding bottles of Cristal, which usually retail for $1,000. There were 30 bottles there alone.

Other ice sculptures had $100 bills frozen inside.

But that isn't the best part of the night.

Pretty boy Lil' Wayne got an even better gift from Birdman.

A Lui Vuitton briefcase filled with a MILLION dollars in CASH as a gift!

Seriously!

We hope they both have some really good accountant, cuz you know the IRS is gonna want to see if that money is on the books. And, even if it's a gift, Wayne has to report that money!

Wonder if anyone stayed around for the ice sculptures to melt?

(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9845/lilwayne02wenn51958152oqx1.jpg) (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwayne02wenn51958152oqx1.jpg)

(http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/8195/lilwaynebirthday03wenn2rd6.jpg) (http://img117.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwaynebirthday03wenn2rd6.jpg)

(http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8228/lilwaynebirthday15wenn2qw7.jpg) (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lilwaynebirthday15wenn2qw7.jpg)

These cats are ballin. I think Wayne sold the most records of 2008. His album was out of this world. What would your dream party be?



Dude..... first you posted about the Jonas Bros and now this ridiculas idiot. My forarm is twitching to give these fools a forarm shiver and then you would follow right after for posting this mindless stuff. That jack donut will be pennyless in 2 years so being jealous of him doesn't even come into the equation.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Rollins on December 12, 2008, 03:18:43 PM
I'll give it to ya Fo, you really can hook 'em sometimes.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: texasmom on December 12, 2008, 03:30:51 PM
I'll give it to ya Fo, you really can hook 'em sometimes.

TwentyFo is absolutely tops at tossing a line. Every single time he posts, I seriously consider whether or not he is posting in earnest or in jest.  Most times I am not able to reach a conclusion.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Motherland on December 12, 2008, 03:45:40 PM
I'll give it to ya Fo, you really can hook 'em every time
Fix'd. :D
I honestly don't know how 24 does it, all of his posts seem way to obvious to me to be even close to usable. This board is so easily trolled it's comical.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: BigPlay on December 12, 2008, 04:14:40 PM
Fix'd. :D
I honestly don't know how 24 does it, all of his posts seem way to obvious to me to be even close to usable. This board is so easily trolled it's comical.

WHERES SCUZZY!!!!!! :cry
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: grizz441 on December 12, 2008, 05:18:12 PM
I knew the argument for rap being music was going downhill when 24 brought up the Grammy's as proof  :lol

Attention everybody, we are currently in the worst musical era of all time.  Truth.
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: crazyivan on December 12, 2008, 06:37:15 PM
I knew the argument for rap being music was going downhill when 24 brought up the Grammy's as proof  :lol

Attention everybody, we are currently in the worst musical era of all time.  Truth.
  Rolling Stone is a joke also!
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: grizz441 on December 12, 2008, 08:28:55 PM
  Rolling Stone is a joke also!

I'm more disappointed with the rock scene actually than I am with anything else.  The biggest names in rock (linkin park, nickleback, buck cherry, hinder, papa roach to name a few) are some of the biggest talentless bellybutton wipes to ever make millions.  Turning on a rock station these days makes my stomach turn.  But if in good company, it's sometimes fun to listen to and make fun of how terrible it is and how it all sounds the same (at least for as long as you can stomach it).  Please bring back 90s rock, where every band was doing it right. 
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Birddogg on December 13, 2008, 10:43:42 AM
Lil Wayne & Birdman lovin'

(http://www.dyfuse.com/files/images/lil%20wayne.birdman.jpg)
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: oakranger on December 13, 2008, 11:30:30 AM

nope not in the least bit, i play guitar, i'm in a blues band where we play mostly blues and some rock and roll

I have 0 respect for rap music and the arrogent lifesyle rappers lead, case and point Kanye West saying he is the "voice of this generation", if he is the one speaking for me, kill me now.

Their music takes little talent and anyone can make beats on their computer and ryhming lyrics to match, other forms of music have lyrics, a beat, rythm guitar, lead guitar, bassline, keyboards, etc etc

so no i am far from jealous, it's just a shame that people grow up these days with little knowledge of real quality music, instead they buy into this catchy garbage.

what are people going to sing to their kids at night, definatly not a kanye or lil wayne song or whoever, this music isn't timeless, its a fad

I Agree with everthing you say.  the one thing i mostly hate is the dam kids having that music up so loud in their car that i can hear it 1/2 from inside of my house.  Some of these people are not role modles at all.  they degrade women, disrespect others and wast their money on, oh how do they say it, "bling".   
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: crazyivan on December 13, 2008, 11:28:21 PM
It doesn't matter how much money they have now. In about five years when they spent it all on cristal, bling, rims, cars, and houses and have nothing left to pay taxes they'll be broke again back to slinging rocks in the "hood" getting shot up because they don't know what to do when they get money.
Can't touch this! break it down ooooo ..
Title: Re: Lil Wayne Isn't in a Recession
Post by: Curlew on December 14, 2008, 05:56:06 AM
It doesn't matter how much money they have now. In about five years when they spent it all on cristal, bling, rims, cars, and houses and have nothing left to pay taxes they'll be broke again back to slinging rocks in the "hood" getting shot up because they don't know what to do when they get money.

negative, rappers dont have that long of a life span, somebody will have shot him by then