What did you expect? Here's a little tip for ya: If you "spark" up a conversation with someone about something they don't like, they won't want to talk to you. It's different if you don't know the person's tastes, but this is Morrissey! Did you also mention the 99 cent Big Mac on Mondays?

I've heard that comment from Morrissey regarding rap music. I think most people that like rap started listening to bad rap (Eminem, Puffy, Wil Smith) and eventually found the good stuff. I kinda wonder Moz would think of the good stuff if he ever listened to it.. (Fugees, Roots, Common)

HA! very funny! i didnt take Moz to be the "Murder Dog" type.

Good stuff to listen to when doing a drive by, or during a Christmas dinner:

Big Daddy Kane
Slick Rick - (the Ruler)
Public NME
NWA
Eric B. & Rakim
Grand Puba
EPMD
Black Sheep
Dre - Chronic only
Big - here and there some good stuff
Cypress Hill = only two songs, kill a man and something else, too saturated now but in the early 90s it was very cool.
NAS
Redman - some stuff
The Glen Miller Orchestra

Does anyone remeber the rappers name from the 80s, he had a a video with him in a bklyn park, there was a line like this "not from france but I eat french toast, I'm international, I'm into cashing all ways, I got dollars in my pocket cause man it pays to be smart, I turn my art into an empire, flow ...etc"
Would like to know who he was.

Then there was another guy, had only like 2 songs, very good, young guy, big flat top, slick suits, I recall a Q or ? mark for some reason. Can't remenber any songs or anything, but I remenber he was good. Any help?
     

don't you think it's a bit pathetic that he continues to hold this grudge against rap for no apparent reason?

it's almost hypocritical that he namedrops beck here and there, when beck is clearly a bi-product of hip-hop culture and seems to enjoy hijacking the terminology whenever he gets the chance. or does morrissey just enjoy him because he's not black? it's an embarassing motive, but it seems to be the only logical one.

even tiring age-old has-beens like paul weller have expressed at least a nod of respect towards rap, or its pioneers. i don't expect morrissey to start crip walking and tipping some gin for his dead homiez, but his ignorance towards the genre annoys me.

Why does Morrissey have to give his "props" to Hip-hop, rap or whatever term you want to put their. Rap doesn't seem to be his cup of tea. That's his opinion.

For christ sake, I hate country music and if some cowboy came up to me, expressing his love of Dolly Parton or even ALABAMA, I'll do the same thing. Cause that doesn't interest ME. What is one suppose to do, "Oh yes yes, I haven't heard that particular song but i did enjoy "Don't brake my Heart" by bill ray cyrus."

Morrissey obviously doesn't like Rap. He's not a god, I'm not going to listen to rap anymore, or not begin to in my case.

Besides the artists mentioned before: Common, Black Eyed Peas, Pharcyde, Mos Def.....rap or hip hop really is awful.

The person who said about him being 40, and so it not being surprising...well, rap's been around since the smiths, and he's seemingly loathed it since he wasn't receeding. so it's not like it had been and gone before he had the chance. i just find it embarassing that he's so excessive in his dislike.

so he stopped talking to the sparks, who otherwise i'm sure he would have been interested in conversing with, on the basis of them liking rap? that sounds like an unhealthy dislike to me and one that borders on prejudice. how would you feel if people stopped a conversation with you if you said you liked morrissey? you'd think they were a prick. well...he's doing just that but regarding an entire genre.

morrissey, go home, get blunted up, buy yourself a 40oz and put 'the chronic' on. it could change your life forever. or at least make your next album a bit more interesting.

Rap music is pathetic and moronic... I don't blame Morrissey one moment for his reaction.... And I refuse to be reasonable about it....hahaha

This quote dates back about 10 years I think (I first read about it in the early 90's) so it's not a recent quote from SPM.

He seems to be a lot more interested/tolerant in/of different genres these days (Moby/Beck etc) so stop banging on about this as if it's only just happened. Alright?

Steed.

then Morrissey is for the suicide prone. I liken people catergorizing rap and hip hop as pathetic and moronic to people labeling all Morrissey/ Smiths music as depressing and morbid. One should not judge an entire genre of music by what they have seen on MTV or heard on the radio. I am astounded by some of the close-minded remarks made by the people on this website. I have also had my musical taste insulted in some email I have recieved on from people on this site. I have been commended for liking Belle and Sebastian, but told liking Tribe Called Quest was a crappy preference. No one should ever have to defend the type of music they like, it's call PERSONAL PREFRENCE, it's all about freedom of choice. I choose to enjoy all types of music, and I think you have not lived until you have seen Biz Markie spinning between sets of De La Soul, Pharoah Monkch, and Talib Kwali. I have never seen a more diverse group of people enjoying themselves together despite their differences. I believe that hip hop is where music is going, it unites people of all ages and races. Open your minds a little and quit following the crowd. At least be open up to the fact that different people like different things.

This whole discussion is based upon a comment made by someone in Sparks. The comment seems to have been made in a light-hearted fashion and perhaps should not be taken so literally. Morrissey has every right not to like hip-hop and he can dismiss whatever the hell he likes (just as we all can). Perhaps Morrissey lost interest in the conversation because this person wasn't interesting or he felt they had nothing in common. I highly doubt he simply turned his back and walked away, at any rate.

The trouble with a lot of rabid Smiths/Morrissey fanatics (as opposed to fans and admirers) is that they have this sycophantic tendency to like whatever deemed kosher by the guy himself. Check it out: Blaggers ITA (rubbish, ska-punk band led by former nazi skinhead...hmmm, how nice), Echobelly (typical English, post-Smiths guitar band, utterly derivative and lifeless), The Ramones (the most overrated rock band ever, and ugly as sin to boot), Angelic Upstarts (know this lot? Fuck me are they crap or what?). The list goes on. However, Sparks and the Dolls are ace. All hail the Moz!!

this is an old quote from Sparks about 5 or 6 years old actually so who's to say what Morrissey's tastes are these days? Does it matter we all like what we like and don't like what we don't like. And don't really have to justify it to anyone but ourselves. Personally i think Rap is vile and useless. Made by talentless hacks too lazy to learn an instrument. And good gravy how about a song about something besides how much money you make or how many "hoes" you bang!

I'm not a fan of rap/hip-hop, either...but I do like Beck and Massive Attack. However, I couldn't carry on a conversation about them because I know nothing about either group except that I like their music. So, really, if someone wanted to talk to me about Beck or Massive Attack and what influenced them and so on, I'd be completely lost for words...so the topic would have to change, or there'd be no reason to speak...

Morrissey claims to hate rap, yet triphop is a form of rap and Morrissey likes Tricky, the triphop king of the now!?!
I think Morrissey is tripping on some hard-core drugs!

the world would be a better place if it wasn't for blinkered goons who just dismiss all rap as crap because they want to be like morrissey. are you the same people that wore a hearing-aid, spectacles, and sported an ill-suiting quiff in the 80s in a desperate attempt to replicate him? it's no surprise people think Smiths fans are tossers; some people epitomise the embarassing obsessive fan to an eerie extent. maybe if you formed your own opinions on music? that didn't necessarily sit nicely alongside morrissey's? you rushed out and purchased a goldie/tricky cd only to be disappointed, but maybe if you leave it on repeat long enough you might be able to force yourself to like it. tricky is horribly over-rated and an embarassingly naive lyricist. if you're pointing the finger at rap lyrics being pathetic, you should have poked tricky in the eye first. and goldie is about as talented as richard blackwood (who?), pretty much proved by the fact that the novelty of liking him wore off in 1998. equally with tricky...although that may have been nearer 1996.

maybe morrissey chooses new artists to namedrop by reading 'Q' magazine and seeing which upcoming 'cool' act gets 4-stars from a pseudo-intelligent reviewer going through a mid-life crisis. and then forgets to namedrop them till at least 2 years past their sell-by-date.

in 2003 morrissey will be telling us of his love for Catatonia, Bluetones and Cast; you've got to love Power's riff-laden funkery!

This town ain't big enough for the both of them

  . . . I'll get my coat. . .

How can can you say Morrissey is a racist ? How many times does he have to deny these accusations?In a recent interview he called these accusations absolute crap. And furthermore he has said his favorite pop song was by Martha and Vanellas and he also said he liked the Marvellettes both of these were black Motown groups .So it is ridiculous to call someone a racist for not liking rap.

Now...that is vile.

someone has spent far to much time alone in their room wanking away furiously, and has just had their mum walk in on them.

it's ok dear. you'll grow up one day.