RE: Artist of the Decade?

[David Cantwell]

At 03:08 PM 4/22/99 -0500, JP wrote in defense of Dre:

>With NWA he took rap music from party music to street poetry
>with a documentarian stance.  Unlike Public Enemy he got his message across
>without being pedantic.  This legitimized "gangsta" rap to the critical
>establishment AND opened the door for hip-hop's dominance of teen culture.

Don't be silly. He primarily did this with Straight Outta Compton--an 80s
album. 

>With Ice Cube he revolutionized sampling and rap production- creating an
>aural cinema of the urban wasteland.

Don't be silly. Ice Cube's earliest and most influential records were
produced by the Bomb Squad, not Dre. 

>Nuff said.  I'm right, you're wrong.  Na, na, na, nahhh.

But I nominated him FIRST. Na, na, na, nahhh yourownself <g>. --david cantwell