|   Bo Diddley Disses Rap Music | stupidestboy
Mar 3, 2003 11:30 AM | | DUNNELLON, Fla. (AP) ? Bo Diddley is no fan of rap music.
The 74-year-old bluesman says rap "is not a thing that's going to last as long as I have."
"First of all, you can't understand what it is and it has no meaning," Diddley told an audience Thursday at Dunnellon High School. Dunnellon is about 35 miles from Diddley's home in Archer, near Gainesville in north Florida.
"The lyrics are very disgusting because you are a person, and a person deserves respect," he said. "I have daughters, my mother was a woman, and I don't like what I'm hearing."
Diddley traded jokes, gave advice, jammed and recruited some new fans from a teenage audience not familiar with him or his hits such as "Bo Diddley," "I'm a Man" and "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover."
He suggested students discover their talents and use them to earn a living and stressed the importance of hard work.
"You've got to hustle, man," he said. "There's a legal way to hustle."
Diddley also performed his own style of "clean" rap: "Some folks say old Bo Diddley can't rap. I'm Bo Diddley and I ain't taking no nap." |
| re: Bo Diddley Disses Rap Music | paper warrior
Mar 3, 2003 2:22 PM | | I don't listen to rap though isn't it derivative of " I'm a Man"?
Maybe it has to do with being an oppressed downtrodden minority but aren't African-Americans necessarily more sexist than being more honest?
Kingpim gives the orders
Kingpin spends the dough
Kingpin say when he come and go
I'm yo' Kingpin |
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