what we hearin' in the 'hood...
Piggybacking on yesterday's post, I present for your curiousity and enlightenment:
Our Neighbourhood Theme Songs
A song about being proud of your roots:I'm from the ghetto homey, I was raised off of bread and bologna
You can't come around here cuz you're phony
All my gangstas, gon put ya hands up (put 'em up)
And all my hot girls, back dat ass up
A song about the police and a black motorist:They see me rollin
They hatin
Patrolling they tryin to catch me ridin dirty
Tryin to catch me ridin dirty
My music so loud
I'm swangin
They hopin that they gon catch me ridin dirty
A song - well - it's self-explanatory:She poppin she rollin' she rollin'
She climbin' that pole and
I'm in love with a stripper
She trippin she playin she playin
I'm not goin nowhere girl I'm stayin
I'm in love with a stripper
A song about relationships:
and they say
he do alittle this,he do alittle that
he always in trouble, and i heard he aint nothin but a pimp
hes done alotta chicks hes always in the club and they say
he think hes slick, hes got alotta chips he sellin dem drugs,and i heard
hes been locked up
find somebody else
hes aint nuttin but a thug...so what
so there it is. Hard to believe?
Check it out for yourself, www.charlottesbeat.com and click onto the stream.
Here's the deal - I almost can't blame these kids for knowing ALL THE WORDS to these songs, and we're talking kids from the age of 2 1/2. Whether they understand what they are saying or not, the reality is that the beat is sweet and you can dance to it. The christian stations in the city just haven't got the same groove. The music is somehow too squeaky clean to relate to real life like they livin' it.
I get why William Booth took songs out of the pubs - not just cuz folks already knew the tune and would catch on quickly, but they were probably a lot more fun to sing and groove to...
4 comments:
Wow...it's amazing what little children can be exposed to. Good thing they have your positive example to balance things out.
I agree - Christian music needs to not only catch up but take the lead when it comes to quality and creativity. In all genres. There are precious few that do it and they can't feed the entire world or every style of music that people want to hear.
Hey - did you know that J.S. Bach took bar tunes, too, and made them into some of our most famous hymns? Not a new concept, but a good one....
Love to all of you!
Bakes
xoxo
The wierd thing to me is, I actually know those songs, too! Bangor's a wierd mix of musical tastes...country and rap...again I say, wierd!
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