Γεια σε όλους.
Πρώτα από όλα, ελλάχιστα δείγματα πραγματικού ραπ υπάρχουν σήμερα. Ο Έμινεμ είναι εντελώς άθλιος τη στιγμή που πριν από κάποια χρόνια κυκλοφορούσε το πραγματικό ραπ, θείγοντας την πολιτική κατάσταση (κυρίως) και κοινωνική στην Αμερική, και παιζόταν (συχνά) από μαύρους.
Φυσικά και υπάρχουν χιλιάδες μέταλ συγκροτήματα που δουλεύουν για τα λευτά και σας διαβεβαιώ πως λίγα είναι αυτά που "τα έχουν γραμμένα"! Αντικειμενικότατα, οι μόνοι μουσικοί που δεν νοιάζονται για το χρήμα είναι αυτοί που παίζουν ελληνικό πανκ, που πουλάνε τα cd τους 5 ευρώ, δεν έχουν εταιρίες, και γράφουν στα cd toys "απαγορεύεται να πωλείται σε δισκάδικα" και "Αντιγράψτε ελεύθερα". Υπάρχουν βέβαια πολλοί λόγοι να μην ακούει κανείς πανκ, αυτό όμως είναι εκτός τόπικ.
Το θέμα είναι ότι υπάρχουν ορισμένα μέταλ συγκροτήματα όπως οι Nevermore που παίζουν πράγματα που ελλάχιστοι άνθρωποι στον κόσμο μπορούν. Θέλω να πω ότι από τεχνικής άποψης στο μέταλ συναντάς τους πιο αξιόλογους μουσικούς. Και στην κλασική μουσική, και στο ροκ, και στο τζαζ, και στο φολκ, και στα λαικά, αλλά ΟΧΙ στο ραπ.
Από στιχουργικής άποψη θα πάρω δύο τραγούδια. Το ένα από Eminem και το άλλο από Nevermore.
EMINEM:
Come on, let's cut the bullshit enough
Let's get it started, let's start addressing this issue and open it up
Let's take this shit back to bassmint
And we can disscuss statements thats made on this tape
And its whole origin of the music that we all know and love
The music that we all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna destroy
Let's rewind it to 89 when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit
Crossin 8 Mile in the border in the hate territory
I'd like to share a story, this is my story and cant no body tell it for me
You will well inform me, I am well aware that I don't belong here
You've made that perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
From Bel-Air shopping center just for stopping in there
From the black side all the way to the white side
Okay there's a bright side a day that I might slide
You may call it a past I call it haulin my ass
Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
Oh them railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them good old notorious oh well known tracks
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home
I roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
Sometimes I stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to get picked up to get me a lift to 8 mile and van dike
And steal a god damn bike from somebody's backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half way mark
To meet Kim had to walk back to her mama's them dramas after dark
To sneak me in the house when I'm kicked out my mom's
Thats about the time I first met Proof when poof he'd carry on the set
Set eyes born in and out some flyers, he was doin some talent shows
At center line, I had told him to stop by and check this out sometime
He looked at me like I'm out my mind shook his head like white boys dont know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
We was on the same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound syllables sound combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that day at school
It was cool till your man MC Sham came through
And said that Boom was the brain cuz the clan makes troops
It was rumors but man god damned they flew
Musta been true because man we done banned they shoes
I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And we just threw them in the trash like they yesterday's news
Guess who came through next, X clam debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and green
With a key sissies now with this bein a new trend
We don't fit in *****as is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African symbols and medallions
Represents black power and we ain't know what it meant
Me and my man Howard and ??? would go to the mall with 'em
All over our necks like we're showin 'em off not knowin at all
We was bein laughed at you ain't even half black
You ain't supposed to have that homie let me grab that
And that Flavor Flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin back at Manix's basement
Sayin how we hate this, our races wit dope the x clan take this
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first time
She was tryna two time me and there was this black girl
At our school who thought I was cool cuz I rapped so she was kinda eyein me
And oh the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it plus
The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest god damn girl in our whole school if I could pull it
Not only would I become more popular but I would be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it backfired I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or spoke to the oh foolish pride girl
But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that apologize
I was wrong cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a [whore?]
NEVERMORE:
And on the open road we came to a sign
For it was foretold that the weak would inherit
And nothing would change
Here we are at the crossroads, standing face to back
Still afraid to see our eyes
I feel helpless and alone, trapped on the thid stone
Sitting here sideways on a cold stone floord
My guitar gently bleeding and wanting more
When I heard a sound come rapping,
Tapping on my door
Hello, I'm happy to meet you
In your confidence is it safe?
Sit down I'm happy to greet you
To feed your greedy dog at the edge of the stage?
But before, before you slam the door
Tell me when, tell me why, tell me what this ****ing life is for
We fly through this godless endeavor
We try to explain the black forever
I feel helpless and alone, trapped on the third stone
I feel permanently stoned, this godless endeavor the only cage I've known
Our organic equation has shown it's flaw
Can we agree to disagree on the concept of god?
As I lifted up my brother he said to me
"Abandon naive realism, surrender thought in cold precision"
I feel empty and deranged, denied one last epiphany and ushered from the stage
Thou shalt not question, the role of science is not to eliminate god
As alternative gods multiply science stands accused of theocide
Consume, conform
The children sitting in the trees, they turn to laugh at me
They tell me that I'm insane, but in my mind I know I'm to blame
Alone within my lunacy, dementia fills the void within me
No testament, prayer or diseased lament can heal my wounds
They are so discontent
All the faithful fall onto their knees
And praise the priests of industrial disease
We contemplate oblivion as we resonate our dissonance
In godless random interpretation
The universe still expands, mankind still can't understand
How to define you, so hide your face and watch us exterminate ourselves over you
Welcome to the end my friend, the sky has opened
Φυσικά και το δεύτερο κείμενο έχει πολύ πιο βαθύτατα νοήματα αλλά και ακόμα να μην σας συγκινούν, πρέπει να παραδεχτείτε πως οι Nevermore παρουσιάζουν τις σκέψεις τους με πολύ πιο όμορφο τρόπο από τον Eminem.
Geia sas.
