Poll: Rap Music
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I think I've said this before at some point, in some other thread... But it's a lot like other genres of music: There's good, and there's bad.
I'd listen to Duran Duran before I'd listen to Hannah Montana.
Following that same philosophy, I'd listen to J-Live or Arrested Development before I'd listen to Soulja Boy.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I'd listen to Duran Duran before I'd listen to Hannah Montana.
Following that same philosophy, I'd listen to J-Live or Arrested Development before I'd listen to Soulja Boy.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I never listened to a lot of rap, but that's because I heard a very small amount of it and absolutely hated it, so I just assume it's all crap. I know that it's stupid to form an opinion of something with so many different forms based on very few examples, but I refuse to change my opinion, because that would mean having to (shudder) listen to more of the stuff, which will never ever happen ever... ever. Also, don't bother recommending anything for me, because I think I made it clear that, no matter how great you claim it is, I'm not going to listen to it.
What I hate is when the rap community tries to tell eloquent, sophisticated, cosmopolitan African-Americans that "they ain't black" because they don't choose to buy into the concepts of dressing in jeans and jerseys, wearing chains, and not choosing to talk in "jive".poleboy post=18.71319.721888 said:
Sorry Eggo,
I hate when one subset of a race tries to exile people of the same race just because they have found ways to "Better (depends on how you look at it, I know)" themselves within the society that they are in.
It would be like saying that if "Because I do not self identify as a redneck or a hick, then I am enculturated in (insert race here) and not part of white culture"......
I hate when one subset of a race tries to exile people of the same race just because they have found ways to "Better (depends on how you look at it, I know)" themselves within the society that they are in.
It would be like saying that if "Because I do not self identify as a redneck or a hick, then I am enculturated in (insert race here) and not part of white culture"......
Underground and older Hip Hop is more populated with talented artists that the mainstream, however. Del The Funky Homosapien, Hieroglyphics, Souls of Mischief, Wu-Tang Clan, Binary Star, Aesop Rock, Murs, MF Doom, KRS-One, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Craig Mack, Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and Big L are just a few of the many very talented MCs in underground and golden age hip hop. And its about all I listen to within the genre now-a-days.
It's official: mainstream popularity really does kill off creativity.
It's official: mainstream popularity really does kill off creativity.
I dont like it. But my racist comment would have been towards white people who think they are from the streets cuz they listen to lil wayne. I do however like the beats if they cut out the lyrics about macin hoes and shooting people for wearing the wrong color and actually rhymed like rap is supposed to do, it might be decent.
See, that's what I felt like saying to you when you make unfounded generalisations. Now you know how that feels.Faded gamer post=18.71319.722564 said:
Don't like it? Good, it's not your cup of tea, but don't even try to tell anyone what it is, because you're not an authority on the subject.
Eggo post=18.71319.722593 said:
I don't propose to say Bill Cosby is necessarily "better than" Snoop Dogg (both have made money and provided for their families on opposite sides of the spectrum) but the people who get messed over are the people in the middle class (and lower income trying to break into that middle class), being labeled as "race traitors" or "uncle Toms" for simply finding a better life in mainstream American society, and achieving that which the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement was really fought for, INTEGRATION into white society by black culture on equal terms.
