definitely! i was just reading about the "Whole Language Movement" and how it was a misreading of Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories about innate grammar. how reading and writing require training and formalization while speaking and listening is universally wired into the human race. compare that to Saul Williams on the significance of hiphop:
from saulwilliams.com (click on writings)
The future of language
in the beginning was the word. word. and the word was with God. and the word was God. word up. and God said, let there be...and (then) there was. word is bond. and the word was made flesh. word life.
a latin transcription of the word person is being of sound. as human beings we communicate with each other and the greater universe through sound vibration. it is, thus, the essence of our collective being. all sounds reverbrate with meaning. every sound vibration has an effect and every sound connected with every word we speak, in every syllable is connected to it's eternal meaning, it's eternal reverbration. the original inhabitants of egypt (KMT) actually documented the esoteric meaning of each sound vibration. they believed that all consonant sounds communed with energies of a temporal reality, whereas vowel sounds connected us with energies of the eternal reality. in their written text they only wrote consonants for the eternal reality was too sacred to be transcribed. the ancient egyptian language like all other languages of antiquity was, needless to say, rooted in passion. yet, over time, many cultures have become disconnected from the passionate roots of their language and thus, perhap, disconnected from the root of our existence...
wrong images... its the public's perception of these things. in fact dare i say its the most intelligent music on the planet??? :)
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Beau J. Young
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