Poll: Rap Music

[Jenny Creed]

There are a number of rap songs I like. Usually ones with harmonic melodies. Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6voHeEa3ig http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUrJdf4PbEk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blfPCOeLQ0

That said, it's still a blight upon society, and I'd gladly give up those songs I like if it meant an end to the glorification of unskilled and uninspired musicians, the promotion of unhealthy lifestyles, the devolution of language and the absence of music shown on MTV that rap music has brought us.

 

[Zeke109]

'western' rap?!

 

[Zeke109]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm'kay.

I just post something so that ignorant fanboys can rant aboot while i get badges.
eeeeyyyesssss.......Fight, mah puppets...fight....

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

I hate it.
In fact I hate all Rap, R&B and Hip-Hop.
I hate the whole 'Gangsta' culture and BEFORE you tell me that Rap isn't all about guns, bitches and bling, I KNOW but I have confirmed my opinion and I will never like any Rap.
I blame Soulja Boi for his """""""""MUSIC"""""""""""* and any other modern rapper. Plus I'm more into 'song' songs than 'talky' songs.

My favourite ranter on Youtube is BigAl2k6 and he made a 2 part video on this:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vEWXo70ETFY

He pretty much sums up everything.

*I put all those " marks because if THAT is music then my ARSE IS GOD.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

How about we all agree that both genres are heavily flawed and accept Folk or Jazz music as the greatest genre that has ever existed?

I agree with folk but i still haven't been able to wrap my ears around Jazz.

 

[Hawgh]

there's some rap and hiphop I like, amongst others these guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8DwZb0jsz8

woopwoop.

 

[MurmurTwins]

American Hip-Hop from the late 80's to mid-90's is about as good as it gets. Some have been mentioned before, but East Coast groups like A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, De La Soul treated their craft seriously, promoting inner-city solidarity and the breaking down of cultural barriers. Their West Coast peers seemed more interested in material gain and creating barriers than anything else.

The music died a long time ago. Underground artists try hard, but really, what you hear today is just not truly representative of what Hip-Hop is all about.

 

[MurmurTwins]

ATCQ and De La Soul isn't truly representative of what Hip-Hop is all about either.

If not them, who would be?

 

[Fraught]

Ares Tyr, you seriously fail. Are you trying to make a point? Nobody, atleast as much as I have read, hasn't said anything about rappers' dumb pants, which are baggy/saggy, Soulja Boy's glasses, their "boomboxes" etc. Attacking metal because of what some bands wear is pure retarded. And it's all taste. You are the guardian of all things rap, while the other man is the guardian of metal. It's all about taste.

 

[Dance The Revolution]

I hate it when people say they hate rap because of Soulja Boy or Gangsta rap. It is narrow-minded. Nothing you can say afterwards will make you any less narrow-minded. If you just don't like rap, fine, I don't care, but when you say you hate rap for the mainstream shit, you are really retarded. When have mainstream ever picked anything good to exploit? And Soulja Boy: He was just a fad. Nobody listens to him anymore. He isn't a representation of Rap at all. Nobody is.

 

[Dance The Revolution]

Ares Tyr, you seriously fail. Are you trying to make a point? Nobody, atleast as much as I have read, hasn't said anything about rappers' dumb pants, which are baggy/saggy, Soulja Boy's glasses, their "boomboxes" etc. Attacking metal because of what some bands wear is pure retarded. And it's all taste. You are the guardian of all things rap, while the other man is the guardian of metal. It's all about taste.

I hate double posting, but.....

You do realize he was making a point on how stupid his opponent's agrument was. He put negative (meaningless) stuff up.

And what do you mean "dumb pants"? Those are cool and so are boomboxes.

 

[DJShire]

Most of the modern American mainstream rap sub-genres are garbage (crunk and snap in particular). As previously stated, the older stuff was good, but somewhere along the lines, it became about whats marketable and what makes the most money. While such a thing is understandable, much like pop music, it suddenly becomes quantity over quality, and the result is the horrid acts like Soulja Boi. Oddly enough, it seems that some modern American mainstream rap is taking a step backwards: many songs contain more electronic elements than before (so much so that the other day my neighbor, a 20 something black male, had his car stereo very high and his subwoofers turned all the way up, and I heard a song that had a sampling from a house song called "Destination Calabria", and that song is several years old), as if they're trying to go back to that "old school" sound of the 80s.

The non-USA scene is slightly better from what I have heard, though my experience with said scene is very limited.

The odd, more underground rap sub-genres such as Nerdcore are interesting, though I have little interest in such things, because while I am capable of relating on the topics presented in the music, I really don't want to hear people rap about it.

 

[JakubK666]

Well, I tolerate/like Eminem but I do hate all of the "black" hiphop I've heard so far...so I suppose that makes me a racist.

 

[insectoid]

You can't spell 'crap' without 'rap'.

 

[guyy]

I will resist the urge to rant indefinitely on the boundless horror within the style of music known as "Rap." Someone already did that anyway.

I'll just say that I hate it completely, and nothing will ever, EVER, make me change my mind.

 

[ReepNeep]

So you can't sing, can't play an instrument, have a fourth grade vocabulary and still want to be a musician? Have you ever considered Rap?

 

[The Iron Ninja]

I agree with most of what this man had to say (at least about Metalica), The problem is Ares Tyr that for every decent rap/hipity-hopity artist you can name, we (the fellows who don't like said types of music) can name ten bad ones.
I won't argue that Rock music has zero terrible bands, far from it. I just think the ratio of good bands to bad bands is much better for Rock music. Besides, half of the Rock's bad bands are in little sub genres of their own.

But yeah, today's Metal (on the whole) is pretty shit.

Except for that last line, I COMPLETELY disagree with. I find most modern metal to be crap, and few are the bands which have even ONE good song, much less enough to buy a WHOLE CD of their music. So I think it would be best to agree that we like our own particular Genre of music and dislike the other's choice. I won't label modern Metal as shit if you don't label Rap as Shit.

Modern Metal was one of those sub-genres I was talking about.
And Rap is shit.

 

[zen5887]

So you can't sing, can't play an instrument, have a fourth grade vocabulary and still want to be a musician? Have you ever considered Rap?

I think you mean punk - Yay generalisation

There are a lot of rappers who can sing, have a backing band and have some pretty smart lyrics

I will once again plug Buck 65.. I urge you to look him up

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I might listen to rap one day when the double standard is uplifted. THE ONE WHITE GUY that is a successful rapper can not use the word that you know I am talking about. Yet the other can use it every other word. Eh, I guess white people get to say bad credit while black people get their one word advantage.(If you know what its from, That guy is hilarious.)

 

[chronobreak]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IObykt39Xsc

boink.