kelly4
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I'm still kicking myself for not seeing Johnny live.Johnny Cash was a better rapper than Eminem is.
I'm still kicking myself for not seeing Johnny live.Johnny Cash was a better rapper than Eminem is.
Human genetics vary from person to person.Fact - Human genetics vary from race to race.
That is all.
I don't believe you actually think that's true. You're a smart guy, Johnny Cash is talented, and I love a lot of his songs, but he is not a better rapper than Eminem.
I bet 8 mile was like living in Beverly Hills.Johnny Cash would have kicked M&M's ass in a fist fight.
I'm still kicking myself for not seeing Johnny live.
Yet the Klan was nearly 100% Democrat, Abe Lincoln was a Republican, the Democrat party opposed the Civil Rights Act and Democrats have fooled millions pretending they "care".
First off, Johnny Cash invented rap. Revisit his music and listen to the master recite poems.
Secondly, Eminem is terrible. His voice is annoying and his lyrics are all about stupid crap.
Beverly Hills?I bet 8 mile was like living in Beverly Hills.
lol
I think that these tests are good indicators, and by themselves they are incomplete and faulty.What my problem is with your analysis, is that you think there are definitive 'brackets' that races can be generalized into, based on really shitty experiment and a ton of uncontrolled variables.
No person who actually cares about providing a scientifically valid statement, would base their beliefs off a faulty or incomplete data set.
EDIT: wait, do you think greed is genetic?
So, you hear something about income, and form a correlation to intelligence based on.... nothing. lolI think that these tests are good indicators, and by themselves they are incomplete and faulty.
But there are a lot of them.
Take intelligence and aptitude tests.
No one can be difinitive. But if you look at them in the aggregate, you see patterns and trends. In all of these tests, the mean for African Americans is a little over one standard deviation below the white mean. It works for pretty much every test there is. It is the sociological constant, like light speed is to physics.
To me, however, living life is the biggest and best iq test there is.
I heard something on the Bill Maher show last night. That African American households have 1/6 the wealth that white households have, per capita.
That ratio sounded familiar to me. Turns out with IQ tests, and all other tests, only 1 in 6 African Americans score at or above the white mean score.
It is the sociological constant, like light speed is to physics.
To me, however, living life is the biggest and best iq test there is.
Beverly Hills?
The family cotton farm was not in BH. He was 5 when he had to start picking. Poor Marshall...
I vehemently disagree. Spoken word poetry predates Johnny Cash, and Johnny Cash, IMO, wasn't that good at it anyway.I like Johnny Cash because of his lyrics, not because of his rhythm. Rap is as much about the flow, as it is the lyrics, IMO.
Personal preference. I like his voice fine, and his lyrics amusing. His flow is rhythmically innovative.
So you don't think that if you put 100 people on an island , distributed some currency evenly, and gave them 10 years, that at the end of that time the smartest ones would have the most money?So, you hear something about income, and form a correlation to intelligence based on.... nothing. lol
Do you see the problem here? You jump to conclusions.
Eminem makes music specifically to appeal to idiots.
I think that if you took 10 people from birth, trained them equally in a variety of things, and put them on an island alone, different people would accel at different things.So you don't think that if you put 100 people on an island , distributed some currency evenly, and gave them 10 years, that at the end of that time the smartest ones would have the most money?
Think what you want. I disagree. Just because his music appeals to a large number of poeple doesn't mean it's for idiots.
I did 18 years of Royal conservatory piano lessons, attended University on a music scholarship, and was in 3 Honor Jazz bands/ensembles, and I find merit in some of his music.
Notice how you have to make your opinion out to be an appeal to authority. One only needs ears to know music, not all of the training you have sought.
The fact that his dissonance appeals to many is not evidence that it is made for idiots. The fact that it appeals to many is evidence that there are many idiots.