rap - kal :-) (formerly: Rap...)

================================================================================ * Forwarded by Sergey Popov (500:95/343) * Area : MU.GENERAL * From : Stas Vlasov, 2:5080/172.172 (08-May-03 21:23:18) * To : All * Subj: rap - kal :-) (formerly: Rap...) ================================================================================ ================================================================================ * Forwarded by Stas Vlasov (2:5080/172.172) * Area : CTPAHHOE.MECTO (CTPAHHOE.MECTO) * From : Oleg Dunaev, 2:5024/1.53 (Monday May 05 2003 19:41) * To : All * Subj: Rap... ================================================================================ Greetings, All Here's what I wrote almost a year ago about the rap festival for forum WWW.WEC.RU (now slightly corrected): One day our sound engineer Vadimych - he’s also a sound engineer Regional House of Arts Workers (ODRI) - asked me to replace him at the controls during one of the concerts. I agreed, although I found out that this concert will be a rap festival. "Well, rap is rap - that's it I’ll find out better what this genre is. After all, it’s also a form of art.” - I thought me. Apparently the director thought the same thing when providing the premises for the festival. AUDREY Yuri Tumarkin is an elderly man, but convinced that informals art needs help... Arriving after work at AUDR, I already met the festival organizers there.The oldest looked about 23-25 years old, the rest looked significantly younger - teenagers... I was told that I would need a remote control with an amplifier and three microphones. There was already a vinyl turntable and a DJ console on the table. and CD player. When I connected the amplification system, the "DJ" guy showed how he makes “scratch” - he turns the record back and forth with his hand and mixes this sound into the main soundtrack. From those suggested by me they refused microphone stands, saying that a real rapper holds the microphone is in your hands, and the stand only hinders your movements... Everything would be fine, but the condition of the brought equipment left much to be desired the best thing is that something was constantly being cut off in the DJ console, and the cords for I had to solder the CD player connections... The participants approached, and I began to watch how, 15 minutes before the start, they began to decide who was supporting whom. Moreover, the organizers clearly did not know even the titles and names of all the performers. One of the guys who came up made with surprised eyes he said: “And we have a phonogram on a cassette...”. However, the solution They proposed the problem themselves - a battery-powered pocket cassette player. The quality, as you can imagine, was appalling. Naturally, not about any There was no talk at sound checks and rehearsals - time was running out... The hall gradually filled with the public. The chairs were removed so that people could dance. The audience was dressed both stylishly and sloppily(however, in rap, sloppiness is precisely the style) - huge pants with many patch pockets, “shit-smashing” boots, T-shirts for release with “acid” patterns, rag jackets with the same hoods. Some of the girls came in "tops", showing parts of their bodies decorated tattoos and piercings. Some of them had their hair dyed in some wild colors, and hairstyles could be called “lyrical disorder”... And one more important detail - many already had a fairly glazed gaze and impaired coordination of movements. Almost everything was held in their hands some bottle or can of soft or low-alcohol drink (“screwdriver”, “hooch”, “gin and tonic”, etc. - just not beer - style however!). The festival has begun. The soundtracks were played, and the rappers came out to stage to read your rhyming speeches. I won't talk about music - in my opinion, hip-hop is monotonous and monotonous, although the rhythm is still something “catches”... I’ll say about the quality and level of the performers. It always seemed to me that a rapper should have, first of all, good diction and ability to work with a microphone. But none of the ten participants did not demonstrate these skills. Moreover, it seemed that some of the performers are seeing a microphone for the first time in their lives. In addition, a couple festival participants were unable to enter in the right place the first time phonogram, and had to start it from the beginning.It was very difficult for me as a sound engineer. First of all, I tired of turning the tone control knobs to correct the frequency characteristics phonograms. Some had strong bass protrusion, others had no bass at all, for others, the general level did not reach... Secondly, I was tormented with microphones - I had to periodically run up to the table on which folded the microphones after the performance and turned them off so as not to whistle. Once I had to urgently replace the cord, which someone had failed to occurred during the performance. How many times have rappers approached me? with the words “The microphone doesn’t work...”, to which I replied: “And you turned on?"... The disgusting diction of the performers did not allow one to understand the main thing - rap lyrics. Although in some places it was clear how low the level this "poetry". Primitive rhymes, plenty of slang and obscenity. Topics - girls who break off, "cops-goats" and "bulls-gopniks" who offend unfortunate rappers, adults forcing them to study and preventing them from getting high... Participants in the rap festival were enthusiastically received by the public, and the listeners reacted especially violently to expressions. Overall Holiday Disobedience loomed in all its glory. When all this was over and the audience left the hall, I looked around the room. Empty plastic bottles and cans lay everywhere. In the corner I founda couple of syringes, and in the smoking room the smell of tobacco was mixed with another characteristic aroma... I deliberately did not allow this whole household to be cleaned up before the director arrived AUDREY. Tumarkin, seeing such a picture, only scratched the back of his head... and henceforth began be more critical of the provision of club premises. What conclusions did I draw about our “rappers”? These are the dumbest and laziest of all all "musical" informals. At least the punks try to play the guitar and sing, clubbers can dance well. I'm not talking about spiritually advanced neo-hippies or an intellectually advanced computer crowd... But if you don’t have an ear for music, you’re too lazy to read smart books, computer used exclusively for games, and good music and poetry "load" - a young man is into rap. It's both simple and quite "informal"... Best wishes Oleg Dunaev [Tea room] [SM everywhere] E-mail: dunaev@rnet.vpti.vladimir.ru -+- Terminate 5.00/Pro aka Terminator-5 + Origin: Rock and roll is dead, but I'm not yet... (2:5024/1.53) ================================================================================ Hello All! Some may disagree, but the last paragraph pretty much sums it up impression of most rappers Good luck. Stas -!- Another "gold" 1.1.5-20020105 - Origin: gui is good, but console better (2:5080/172.172)================================================================================ My cockroaches send, All, hello to you. So what should I tell my cockroaches? Waiting for an answer, Sergey Popov. POPOVSV45.ru@rambler.ru Netmail: 500:95/343.343

Привет Sergey! 10 May 03 15:44, Sergey Popov -> All: SP> ========================================================================= SP> ====* Фopваpднул Sergey Popov (500:95/343) SP> * Area : MU.GENERAL SP> * From : Stas Vlasov, 2:5080/172.172 (08-May-03 21:23:18) SP> * To : All SP> * Subj : реп - кал :-) (было: Рэп...) SP> ========================================================================= SP> ========================================================================= SP> ========* Forwarded by Stas Vlasov (2:5080/172.172) SP> * Area : CTPAHHOE.MECTO (CTPAHHOE.MECTO) SP> * From : Oleg Dunaev, 2:5024/1.53 (Monday May 05 2003 19:41) SP> * To : All SP> * Subj : Рэп... SP> ========================================================================= SP> ==== Приветствую Вас, All SP> ========================================================================= я знал что ты не удержишься и отфорвардишь сие ;))) ы Bay WBR. rNd [Team: X-Tension] [FREE]

Hello, Sergey! 10 May 03, 15:44, Sergey Popov wrote to All on the topic "rep - kal :-) (was: Rap...)": [skipped] SP> Best wishes Oleg Dunaev SP> [Tea room] [SM everywhere] E-mail: dunaev@rnet.vpti.vladimir.ru SP> -+- Terminate 5.00/Pro aka Terminator-5 SP> + Origin: Rock and roll is dead, but I'm not yet... (2:5024/1.53) SP> ================================================================================================================ SP> Some may disagree, but the last paragraph is quite accurate SP> sums up the impression of most rappers And the penultimate one should probably be extrapolated not only to ours... Happy connections. Roman.

How's yours, rNd? 13 May 03 17:41, rNd -> Sergey Popov: SP>> ==== Greetings, All SP>> =========================================================================================================== r> I knew that you couldn’t resist and would forward this ;))) r> ы Well, rap is generally a shitty and disgusting phenomenon, because he pisses me off! And all Russian rappers - for me it’s just a game of blacks... WBR, Lynx // J!ZzZ! [team ZX] [Dark Jungle] [GoA] [J!ZzZ project] [PLUt0N!um] [GmD] [club LuK] [black-sand.da.ru]

*Hello LynX!* Catch my ideas about the subject "rep - kal :-) (formerly: Rap...)", about which your foot wrap to comrade cracked on May 14, 2003. Rnd. SP>>> ==== Greetings, All SP>>> ================================================================================== SP>>> ========= r>> I knew that you couldn’t resist and would forward this ;))) r>> ы L> So - rap - in general, it’s a shitty and disgusting phenomenon, because he's annoying L> I crumple! And all Russian rappers - for me it’s just a game of blacks... And “Yye” who is for you right now? /That's all, LynX, you can scroll further.../

How's yours, Alexander? 14 May 03 20:54, Alexander Bondarenko -> LynX: L>> So - rap - in general, it’s a shitty and disgusting phenomenon, because he's annoying L>> I crumple! And all Russian rappers - for me it’s just a game of blacks... AB> And “Yye” who is for you right now? Friends and drinking buddies! And yet - they need to live on something! WBR, Lynx // J!ZzZ! [team ZX] [Dark Jungle] [GoA] [J!ZzZ project] [PLUt0N!um] [GmD] [club LuK] [black-sand.da.ru]