Rapper El-P Samples Tom Sawyer

Catcher10 wrote: Click here to stream the song Rush Over Bklyn.   http://soundcloud.com/productomart/rush-over-bklyn

Do you feel that rappers in general mis-represent the music of our generation? For example...the generation of the 60's and 70's? I have noticed in the past how they place importance on Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, and Peter Frampton. Four artists who rotate through the media as a representation of what my generation was all about. Which is falsehood and not honesty.....in otherwords apart from the few interesting releases of these people it is just pure crap and a thousand chapters are left out. Rappers come across as if they are under the assumption that the media represents the music we all grew up with and I find that annoying and moronic. Whether rappers are making fun of our music or complimenting it......it remains to be an insult because they don't have a clue about other generations of music historically and how can they when the media promotes all the fringe garbage and dismisses the most important respectful innovative people? Rappers have already fooled with "Classic Rock" samples and now they are using a prog sample of Rush? and of course it would have to be Rush correct? As if to say that everyone in 1976 who had long hair listened to Rush right? How flippin" insulting is that? If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....then it must be a duck. How blind and stupied can you be? They should just leave our music alone.

Edited by TODDLER - November 09 2011 at 08:21

stonebeard wrote: I don't think rap artists should get to sample awesome music like prog. You can't spell "crap" without "rap"!

I find it a little depressing that the sampled prog band seems to find it's like a `badge of honour' that a rapper sampled them, like it instantly gives them this special credibility, and it's a monumental achievement! :(

I could care less that Crimson was sampled by a delusional moron like West, it's more an `interesting curious random fact' on a bio page than a career achievement!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - November 09 2011 at 00:20

Catcher10 wrote: Rappers do......didya read some of the comments, rap fans liked it. And this one at least has a benefit if you buy it.....

I meant anybody here. I mean, that's nice, I just don't understand why we need a thread every time someone remotely famous samples a song that is listed here. Tom Sawyer has such heavy radio airplay it isn't even famous as a prog song.

Maybe I'm just still vaguely annoyed about the Kanye West endless debacle.

Does anybody ever honestly care about these rap samples?