"Yeah my mouth is full of gold and I'm a city boy/And my outfit was in Vogue, I'm a pretty boy," he raps on "Ghetto Symphony," a bonus track, and one of the album's highlights.
Dissonant chords make a strangely natural segue out of the rough rap texture before the symphony's B-minor theme offers its mournful strain.
He finds the symphony relaxing, but calls rap "racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic and sexist".
Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or "Achy, Breaky Heart" is bound to make people smile.
Then Mr. Bey brought it all back to Beethoven, rapping over the somber Allegretto from the Seventh Symphony before launching into the exuberant hip-hop track "Casa Bey".
The website recently hosted Trap Symphony, a video series that paired Atlanta rap group Migos with classically trained musicians for orchestral arrangements of their music.
The winning L.A. Symphony is one of the most interesting recent hip-hop crews, delivering melodic, innovative, markedly lighthearted rap in a surprisingly strong live show.
Unlike many recent documentaries about our careless stewardship of the planet, Deborah Koons Garcia's "Symphony of the Soil" doesn't feel like a rap on the knuckles.
Bill Warren, owner of Warren Stationery on North Figueroa and president of the Highland Park Symphony Assn., feels that the neighborhood has gotten a bum rap.
Among the rock, pop and rap groups that she represents is Megadeth, a 15-year-old heavy-metal act whose songs include "Symphony of Destruction," "Into the Lungs of Hell" and "Wake Up Dead".
