Quote: Stylee TingTing @ March 7 2012, 10:33 PM GMTIMO: Okay.. I empathise wholeheartedly with the sentiment, but for me, as I said before, "The Message" says it all.. and as far as the Vietnam thang goes, Billy Joel hit home in a stronger way.
Hip-Hop vocals remind me of Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar playing: too many words/notes. It's the holes that you leave, not the spaces that you fill up.
If they stripped out most of the rap and just spoke the essentials, it would be more effective imo.
The rapping in that song is a bit too fast for me as well, but they had to go fast to go double-time over the slow beat. It was either that or rap at normal speed, which would've meant the song would've been twice as long, if they'd still wanted to include all of the lyrics.
Anyway, compare that song to the garbage today's kids have to put up with in the mainstream, like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a16NUb3WC-4
