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ST. PARIS, Ohio -- Steven Zorn had put the pen gun to his head and clicked before, apparently thinking it was jammed and would not work.

But on the third try, the tiny silver pistol went off as the 22-year-old budding rap artist was drinking to celebrate an impending record deal. He died at a hospital.

The Nov. 18 shooting at Zorn's home in this rural village of 2,000, about 50 miles northeast of Dayton, is believed to have been accidental, according to family, friends and law enforcement officials.

Here's a free tip: When putting a loaded gun to your head, if the first time it doesn't, work call it a gimme and get on with your life. Don't keep pulling the trigger to see what'll happen.

"Accidental"

I wonder if it'll increase the sales on his record.


Worked for Nirvana.

Oh they have an intelligance exam, it starts like this.

These questions are axed to you in order. You must answer 'em wif a number two pencil. Good luck mutha fu[b][/b]cker.

Why did you put "artists" in quotation marks?

Just curious.

Edit: Double post. It is taking friggin years for my posts to appear. *shrug*





Edited, Tue Dec 6 10:38:10 2005 by Katarine

sorry mate. I had my keyboard region set to "white folks land".

naw, it wasn't even wigga...it was that bad...i re-read it.

i'm SUCH a honky.

Why do you think I put it in quotation marks?

Critical thinking is a dying art.

EDIT +1 for neph for point out a spelling error.

Edited, Tue Dec 6 12:53:38 2005 by Rimesume

You mean he can't take a mulligan here?

My guess would be that you don't consider rappers artists. But that is just the way I would take it, I was wondering if you meant it that way.

Dying.

There are rappers out there that do make their own beats, and write their own lyrics. Then there are rappers that sort of work together in groups, like Dr. Dre might make a beat for Eminem to rap to. While I am not really "into" rap, I do believe it is important musically, and a majority of the rappers are artists.

It is important musically because it is another direction that music has gone, and it can point to where music will go eventually. For instance, you can draw lines from blues, to soul, to funk, to early rap, to what is going on now musically in southern rap and what remains of east and west coast rap. You can listen to James Brown and then Parliament, and then to Dr. Dre or Snoop Dogg and hear the progression very clearly. These lines split off and go into other directions, such as Motown sort of blending into R&B. Because of this, I don't see how you can say rappers are not important, or are not artists. If they make an impact on music as a whole, I would say that is fairly important.

Ludicrous and oversimplified. Do you not consider a digital artist an artist because his graphics are being drawn by complicated algorithims, and not by paints mixed by his own hand? Is filmmaking not an art because the direcotr isn't the only one creating, but rather it's a collaboration of actors, costume designers, lighting technicians, cinematographers, etc? Is a person that makes a collage, or a giant paper-mache statue not an artist because they are recyclying materials?

In case you were wondering, the answer to all of these is no. If you have no creativity to begin with, don't strain yourself trying to set hard limits on creativity, the very purpose of which is to stretch , break, and redefine them.