The driving beat was often indistinguishable to me from what I think of as electronica.

I guess it’s unsurprising that a musical style can’t be kept in a box. The list of top Hip Hop Albums Wikipedia entry includes music I recognize and which fits my idea of what Hip Hop sounds like (more rapping).

Of course the most recent album listed was by Jay-Z and was released in 2001. That’s some time ago.

Wikipedia says this about Hip Hop: “in its broader sense hip hop culture is characterized by the four elements of rapping, DJing, hip hop dance and graffiti.”

and this about the music:

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

So reading all this sort of confirms my original idea of what Hip Hop is like.

Here’s a little taste of what we saw last night, but it doesn’t compare with the energy and beauty of their live performance.

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DeLay’s Victories Endure, Even if He Loses in Court — Campaign finance | The Texas Tribune

Remember Tom DeLay? Turns out his illegal behavior worked out well for him and the Republicans. Shameful.

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Pakistan – Drone Strike Kills 18 – NYTimes.com

Tried, convicted, sentenced and executed in one motion. 21st century American justice.

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