If you are going to hate on rap, at least don't hold up MC Hammer as some sort of bastion of artistic integrity. Have you heard a song by him that isn't "U Can't Touch This"? He is a one his wonder, a small step above god damn Vanilla Ice. I bet you were thinking of using "Rapper's Delight" as an example, before you realised that you had never listened to that song the whole way through. It's the rap equivalent of defending rock by referring to Frankie Goes to Hollywood.TestECull said:Also, rap. There used to be a time when rap was a respectable music genre. Now it's just morons rhyming to a shitty bassline about how they blasted sixteen hoes with their gat and put 42" spinners on a car worth half as much as the fucking rims. It isn't so much music as it is vomiting through a speaker, and it's a disgrace to singers like MC Hammer. I simply cannot take seriously someone who tries, with a straight face, to tell me that modern rap is in any way music.
Also...
There are so many great examples of golden age rappers that you could have used... Run DMC, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, De La Soul, The Beastie Boys, NWA, Ice Cube, Eric B and Rakim, Slick Rick...