That was the most god awful half time show ever
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Seven-time Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar. That's actually a pretty big deal to get him for the halftime show.
For the record: I don't like Kendrick Lamar's music either.
But a thread of old white guys (myself included) complaining about how much he sucks is pure gold.
But a thread of old white guys (myself included) complaining about how much he sucks is pure gold.
This. I don't like him either, but having him was a big time score and great marketing. I guess I am still non-crotchety enough to realize that.
Thats because us older folk know good music.
Chris go turn on the radio and scan the ban. I feel like its the late 70's or early 80's. In 2040 snoopy dog and that gawd awful west guy wont be heard anywhere. I like snoop dog.
I thought it was Allen Iverson.Who’s Kendrick Lamar?
**awaiting incredulous post from rifle **
But seriously...who’s Kendrick Lamar?
Yeah really. The entire halftime show I kept thinking how blessed I was to be watching him perform.
For a business guy you don't know much about marketing. Obviously we are not the demographic they were appealing to (hint: people younger than us).
That's because a lot of that sound/album final product is smoke and mirrors IMO...hard to replicate that live.
I'm not saying they're not talented, but in my limited experience with live rap it's hard to reproduce the sound/production value at your run of the mill standard live show (ie not SNL, etc).
Rifle may disagree, but I just find better live experiences with other genres...but by admission I'm not a huge rap fan but have seen a few live rap or hip hop concerts (Outkast, Nelly, D12, Black Eyed Peas off the top of my head).
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Part of my enjoyment of live shows is seeing what kind of slight variations on album originals the artists will do...things like extending out a bridge or playing one song into another or mixing songs or a nice solo, etc...
Some of that is hard to do when you're using a backing track or beat or whatever off a computer for a rap song...no improvisation really.
My favorite concert experiences often do include those tweaks or major different takes on songs or covers. Things like Ryan Adams playing his soft acoustic album version of I See Monsters as a huge arena rock jam, or My Morning Jacket and Neko case playing Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks Stop Dragging My Heart Around, or when I was younger going to shows at small venues getting to see Coheed and Cambria literally unload their own equipment off their crappy little van and plug in and just destroy the place....all of that is rock-ish and lends itself to those sorts of things more than rap.
The people that make the rap beats and even the rappers as I've gotten older I actually have more musical respect for...coming up with a catchy beat and hook is "real music" too, it's just not my cup of tea and especially live I think it disappoints.
Damn straight.
Here's the Boys with Money Mark (a legend in his own right) on keyboards.
But even just as three MC's with a DJ, no instruments, they were fire:
There's not many great live DJ's left. Watch the second clip I posted above of the Beastie Boys, live on Letterman. That's Mix Master Mike on the turntables. There's a lot of improvisation going on there; So Watch'cha Want is heavy on instruments on the album, but here he makes it an entirely different song. That's badass.
