Chris

A Sign the Apocalypse Is Near

Saturday, 26. August 2006, 07:43:36

Elton John is going to rap.

After 40 years of performing rock music, pop ballads and movie soundtracks, Elton John is looking to cross over to yet another musical genre -- hip hop.

"I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip hop beats -- a bit like 'No Diggity' by Blackstreet,'" John said in excerpts of an interview posted on Rolling Stone's Web site on Friday.

He is 59.

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edwardpiercy # 26. August 2006, 18:04

It's that late-50s crisis mode. I've seen it in a couple of my friends. It's kind of like the mid-40s mid-life crisis mode, with the exception that the late-50s crisis people want TO BE 20 years old again, whereas the mid-40s mid-lifers just want TO DATE 20 year olds.

Just a side-note to put the thing in perspective a bit. The first bona-fide rap "hit" was by a white group (very white), Blondie's "Rapture." How about that one?

Another broken-in-two night. Had to get up and sit up for a while to get my breathing regulated. Sorry that I'm so verbal/postal today.

Well, let's just hope that the "Queen of England" makes it a short experiment, for his sake and ours.