The Bronx, NYLil' Miss, a hip-hopper, has noted of late in her music that she is losing control of "the beat." Asserted many times in a song, aptly named Can't Stop the Beat, Miss raps, "I can't stop the beat/You can't stop the beat/Who can stop the beat?/Ain't nobody gonna stop/this/beat." "The Beat" in question is left unspecified in the song, leading many to speculate that, given the beat-oriented nature of hip hop music, Miss may be poetically asserting her lack of control as a female in a male-dominated music business. Still others suppose it may simply allude to the power of music and how it renders its fans powerless to resist dancing. It should be noted the fallout of "beat control loss" has no known immediate dangers to those who have lost the ability to stop "the beat" nor those in their direct vicinity, however it has been shown to overheat certain models of the BOSS DR880 Rhythm Machine.
At a recent concert, Miss famously improvised the command, "Everybody move down to the floor/Lemme see you dance some more/I said everybody move down to the floor/feel the rhythm rhythm rock with ya more." It can only be assumed she was speaking to the crowd and not society in general which would have created an interpretive situation the concert venue seemed ill-equipped to handle.


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