Opinions and Thoughts of LightHouse Dann Verner - Just as he is!

I have written regarding modern day mainstream rap “music” before. I will never understand why any of us would purchase any of these untalented, over tattooed, illiterate criminals so called “ music” . Check this video out and tell me if this is properly labelled as “music” ….. Tekashi69 “gummo” (Video  courtesy  of YouTube) That’s human????   That’s music???? Shake my head. Look at this example … ‘I FINK U FREEKY’ by DIE ANTWOORD (Video  courtesy  of YouTube) My, my,my, this makes Snoop Dog look like an amateur –  NOT! When are artist gonna start writing songs again? I have had full grown adults ask me who people such as the great Leonard Cohen,  John Lennon, Cat Stevens and Mendelson McKenna Mainline are? Why do we idolize  ILLITERATE  idiots that look like Ronald McDonald on crack with Wal-Mart make up? Look! Look at this. And bear in mind Halloween isn’t until the end of the month. ( Picture courtesy ...

I am a connoisseur of real music. I am 58 years old and many are surprised at the genre of music I listen to. I do listen to all era's of music, but my everyday is who I speak of in this 'Walk With Dann'. By 'real', I mean music in which there is lyrics that actually convey a message or story.  Do not see much of that nowadays in this 'so-called' hip hop/rap genre.  A song is meant to convey a message or enlighten one's  inner soul. Musician's were and are "minstrels".  Minstrel defined by the dictionary as, " singer who performed songs whose lyrics told stories of different places or of existing or imaginary events.   Although minstrels told their own tales, often they would memorize and embellish the works of others ". Who are the top few I consider minstrels?  Here are a few that I have mad respect for what they are speaking to the youth of today. Ill Bill and his brother Necro Vinnie Paz Yelaw...