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[RedKing]

This may be the best site I rarely ever need:

http://www.rapgenius.com/

It's like a Wikipedia for rap/hip-hop lyrics....but it's actually very, very good. Line-by-line explanations and context in plain, well-written English. They even have blogs that explore various use of thematic elements in hip-hop (like "Top 10 Biblical Allusions in Hip-Hop").

I'm not sure if my WTF is that this site exists, or that a user-created content site like this is so *good*. They like to describe themselves as the intersection of Rap Lyrics, Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary, but Urban Dictionary is a prime example of how low the quality tends to be when you rely on user-created content.

[Neonivek]

Ehh as long as it made you go "say WHAAaaaAaaaa?" I'd say it counts.

[RedKing]

I'm reading through some of the blog entries, and my jaw is hanging open. There's one where they break down and compare the rhythm and rhyming patterns of Kanye West, Mos Def, Andre 3000 and Eminem. Example:

Because Andre has also switched up where that four note group falls in the bar. Listen again for yourself, by telling where each group starts in relation in terms of length of time to the underlying beat played by the lower bass kick sound. Sometimes the 3rd note of the group falls on the beat (the “dol-“ of “dollars”), and sometimes none of them are played at the same time as the bass kick (“beauty parlors”). This is a technique known as “metrical transference” because Andre has changed where the rhythmic phrase falls in the meter of the bar. This is extremely difficult to pull off, especially at the same time as rapping quintuplets, which I’ve only ever seen Eminem and Busta Rhymes use as integral rhythmic divisions of a flow.

 

Droppin phat beats LIKE A WELL-EDUCATED SIR.

[pisskop]

Euthanize disabled children

[Neonivek]

Euthanize disabled children

Hmmm, I honestly wonder if this will be legal in the distant future.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Euthanize disabled children

Hmmm, I honestly wonder if this will be legal in the distant future.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

No.

[MagmaMcFry]

Euthanize disabled children

Hmmm, I honestly wonder if this will be legal in the distant future.

The number of disabled children will be very low in the distant future, because of abortion and/or eugenics.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not really sure if I'd group gene therapy in with eugenics. It technically falls under it, but is thus far the only moral way of engaging in eugenics.

[Neonivek]

The number of disabled children will be very low in the distant future, because of abortion and/or eugenics.

Oddly enough that only seems to support the possibility of that existing as a thing.

Mind you I hardly whole heartedly believe society will go down that route.

Dear goodness I do not want to start a conversation of child killing... AHH! WTF Neonivek!

[Descan]

Too many predictions of the future think that society will go one way or another. All or nothing. Everyone does it or everyone doesn't.

Why wouldn't some people do gene therapy/abortion, and others not? If we have the capability to do something, some people will, some won't.

[Aklyon]

Meanwhile, there is a guy throwing pineapples into the lake reservoir outside.

Why pineapples.

[Neonivek]

Ohh by the by

Is "Bats are blind?" a common misconception or has it become so widely known that most people, if not everyone, knows about it by now?

[Descan]

I don't know about everyone knows it, but I think it's wide enough that at any point where someone mentions it, they're likely to be in the presence of someone who DOES know, and who will mention that bats are not blind.

[Karnewarrior]

Euthanize disabled children

Dammit I was just playing KS. Now I am angry.

I think he was probably only talking about mentally disabled folk but still. What an epic-level Douche.

Your douchebaggery has leveled up! You are now a Master Douche!

If he does get fired they should start a petition to have his next job be cleaning wheelchairs.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Meanwhile, there is a guy throwing pineapples into the lake reservoir outside.

Why pineapples.

Take photos?