Rapper (sort-of) kilted

[Ozman1944]

"Rap" was invented so that untalented people with no fashion sense and who can't sing would get a chance to be popular.

[Perldog007]

Rap wasn't really invented. It evolved. In 1976 it had come to be passe' in certain circles, but was not yet known by the mainstream.

The sharecroppers I worked with in my high school years were getting bored with rap by 1977. The white folks I knew hadn't even heard of the form until the eighties.

Not really my cup of mud, but I would not go so far as to say no talent and no fashion sense. Outkast - an example of musical depth to rival any artist of any stripe. You can't listen to Speakerboxx/Love Below without picking up on a vast array of influences, unless you yourself have no musical savvy.

Not able to sing? Heavy D. Talent? his band stetsasonic(sp?) was a rare thing in rap, no digital, all live. Fashion sense? those guys took the baggy look from L.A. gangsters and have made it one of the longest lived youth styles ever. Twenty some years now.

A sad truth, more American young men (indeed of all nations) headed out today in baggy pants than in kilts.

I don't like it, but it has been popular for a long time, the look and the sound.

While rap is not and never will be my favorite, I hesitate to cast dispersions on the genre and it's supporters out of hand.


In any case, I say bully to him for wearing the kilt. Perhaps he just didn't want to look like a generic rapper?