Aerodynamic said:
Same thing with most genres as well, every genre has their equal parts of shit, just the thing with rap is that its loaded with mostly shit, I can understand if you don't want to listen to the genre based on the majority, but I just don't see myself doing that.
I listen to rap.
UK rap.
Partially because a lot of it is still sort of stuck in the 90s and it's refreshing to have a song about space ships instead of guns and whores.
But do I like rap as a whole?
No. People turning music into a money making business instead of a form of expression are what's ruined rap. It's an immensely popular genre of music with thousands of people who can contribute to it--because you don't need to be good at singing, or even at mixing music. You just need to be able to speak, something we all can do.
People who come up with fake, stereotypical and unreal lives to go along with music that's 80% computer and 20% human. It's not personal like it once was, there's no relation in it. It's all some fantasy that these rappers have or say they have and then rap about. Fantasies nobody can actually obtain, with the gullible actually trying to reach said fantasies. That, and as the listening audience changes, the music changes with it. You can't get away with putting Will Smith in a music video that's about summer time barbecues anymore. People want to believe they're above that, that they're "dark" and "sinister", and that they have to rebel against authority and whatnot. The audience itself has forgotten what rap was originally about. That is why I don't like Rap anymore.
