saturday, i went to a retro 90's club, where they played almost all 90's music, all night long (except for a most unwelcome intrusion by nelly and 50-cent). i don't know whether to be happy that a place exists where i can wiggle to all of my favorite music, blissfully free of flowing polyester shirts, cross-colours and pants "big enough to hide chickens in" (so my dad used to say), or sad that i'm now so old that the music of my youth is now considered retro. paperboy is not retro, it's good! they should have called it a good music club.

besides eminem, and outkast, i don't like any rap on the radio anymore. i find that it is devoid of the thoughtfulness that was evident in earlier rap. it has become egotistical without purpose...at least artists like tupac had a definite philosophy, and addressed social issues.

it seems i can't turn on the radio without hearing about someone's bling-bling and how nelly wants not one pair of shoes, but two. well, i don't give a fuck about nelly's shoes, and i think that one pair of the same damn shoes is enough for anybody. if you're going to condone excess, at least also encourage variety. would he be happier with twenty pairs of the same shoes than two? and what nexus could there possibly exist between a pair of shoes and air-force one? actually, run-dmc rapped about their adidas, and i have no problem with that, because the lyrics did not pick on people who did not have adidas--the adidas were an instrument that described rap culture, not a mechanism of separating the haves from the have-nots.

i'll stop ranting. i really don't like radio rap.

this just in:
Baby61212: i'm gettig really mad righ tnow because i'm writing about rap on my blog
Baby61212: rap sucks these days...
idlepimpin: WHAT ARE Y"OU TALKING ABOUT?
Baby61212: you LIKE contemporary rap?
idlepimpin: LIKE?!
idlepimpin: I GOT TWO WIRDS:
idlepimpin: FITTY CENT!!!
idlepimpin: YA HEARD?!
Baby61212: AAAAGH! i hate that guy!
Baby61212: i he slurs!
idlepimpin: HE:S SO WONDERFUL!
Baby61212: and he has no vocabulary.
idlepimpin: god's gift to women and audio enthusiasts!
Baby61212: omg
idlepimpin: what?! no vocab?!
Baby61212: or maybe he slurs so much i can't understand it
idlepimpin: "bub" "fuck" "sex" "drugs" "popov"
idlepimpin: "popov" <--- DUDE! he SPEAKS RUSSIAN!
Baby61212: and i don't like the word "wanksta"
Baby61212: what is a wanksta anyway?
idlepimpin: wanksta--- such an intuitive sense of lyricism and locution
idlepimpin: one can only be awed in wonder
Baby61212: i think he made it up becasue nothing else rhymes with gangsta
idlepimpin: hahaha
idlepimpin: dont be a hater
idlepimpin: you love him
idlepimpin: let's be fans together