Rap lyrics have lost their flair, instead work to degrade women and promote new slang
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Music used to be fun. Rap songs used to capture a realistic lifestyle.
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____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Music used to be fun. Rap songs used to capture a realistic lifestyle.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>What does one say about The Shore?
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Welcome ladies and gentlemen to music flight 104, heading from East Lansing to the other side of the world.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Who in the whole wide world would ever, ever listen to Joseph Anthony? to Joseph Anthony's album "Maximum Dosage?"
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Most rock albums have a tendency to be impossible to dance to.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Introspective lyrics, dark notes and chords strewn together to yield mysterious guitar rhythms and a voice as smoky as a bar at last call- make Sam Phillips' eighth full-length album worthy of great musical respect.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>If I were stranded on a deserted island and given only one CD to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be Jimi Hendrix "Blues."
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Rock and Roll Bass Guitar is very obviously an East Lansing-based band.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Fart jokes, vulgar sex talk and stupidity make up the contents of Adam Sandler's fifth and latest comedy album, "Shhh Don't Tell".
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Athletic Mic League is made up of six MCs from Ann Arbor who met in high school, started making music in dorm rooms and basements, and headed out to New Jersey, where they received a great deal of notice.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As an 8-year-old in 1990, I was still dumb enough to swallow my chewing gum, but I was certainly smart enough to know which music was hip and which music was so 1989.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>What can be said about the Beastie Boys that hasn't already been said in the past six years?
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>It's hard to believe Xolotl's "The Lines to Our Minds" is the band's first album. It's even harder to believe the Milwaukee trio hasn't been signed to a record label or taken the nation by storm - yet.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Punk rock meets and befriends pop in an unusually attractive way on The Butchies' latest release, "Make Yr Life."
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Polly Jean Harvey has been one of the most consistently talented female singer/songwriters in rock history.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>I realized it was about time for me to do another review of a rap CD, and since I finally got one in the mail (most of the CDs I receive are rock or pop music), I decided, "Why not?"
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three reasons to hate Aerosmith (as if we needed more): "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing," "Jaded" and "Just Push Play."
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Local rock trio Millenary's latest album, "Feel the Heat" is on fire from the opening drum beats to the very last guitar chord.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>"Hidden in the Lowlands," the new release from Lansing-based roots quartet Steppin' In It, is the perfect example of why the band has begun to gain national recognition.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>I was pretty shocked to see a new album from classic-country goddess Loretta Lynn come addressed to me in the mail. I was even more surprised when I turned the case over and saw The White Stripes' Jack White and Blanche's Dave Feeny standing behind Lynn.