Joe Eros - Objectivist Influenced Hip-Hop [Atlasphere]

[O-Land News Junkie]

<p><img align="right" alt="joe-eros.jpg" id="image630" style="border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 5px" src="http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/joe-eros.jpg" />If you’re into Ayn Rand’s writings and also like rap music … but have always longed for more inspiring lyrics … check out the Rand-influenced hip-hop artist (Atlasphere profile <a href="http://www.theatlasphere.com/directory/profile.php?id=6863">here).</p>

<p>I met Joe on Sunday at an informal Atlasphere get-together in Santa Monica. Great guy, and shares my strong admiration for the newly-assembled <a href="http://www.myspace.com/wetheliving">We the Living</a> band.</p>

<p>Also at our get-together was of <a href="http://www.thefenwicks.com/">The Fenwicks — surely the best Objectivist “Afro-Celtic Yiddish Ska” band you’ve ever heard.  (Despite intense competition!)

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http://www.theatlasphere.com/metablog/629.php

[Kat]

Hey Kori... whatcha think?

[Chris Grieb]

Kat,

I'm interested. Some years ago I would have been horrified.

[BAMF]

Hey Kori... whatcha think?

Dwamn, I missed this before! Maybe I should read the news feeds.

I'm diggin' it! SO great to hear something like this in hip-hop! I'm really diggin' the lyrics a lot, but there's something about his voice that bugs me a little bit. Can't put my finger on it. It might take a bit to grow more on me.

EDIT: Chris, why horrified?

Edited May 11, 2007 by Kori

[Greybird]

"Objectivist Influenced Hip-Hop"?

The performer, perhaps. Not the material being performed ... if it's meant to be music.

Music has melody. I can appreciate, say, a good Buddy Rich solo drum riff as much as anybody, but as much as it can show astounding virtuosity, it ain't music, folks. Neither is hip-hop.

I'm the last to be a restrictive "prescriptivist," but come on, now. Some limits do exist, don't they?