Do you peoples like rap music, or hate it, or have a very smart-ass opinion about it? you decide........

Can we have a poll that lets us say that we don't like it without making us sound like morons?

I don't care if other people like it. I personally do not like a good 99% of the stuff, I find it boring, soulless, and uninspiring with little impact on me. Then again I am a fan of classical and non lyrical music, instrumental; and I had to put up with my brothers rap music which would explain my complete polar opposite taste towards what he likes.

personaly can't stand it, but i can see why people liked the old stuff by 2pac and biggie smalls. shit like lil john just makes me cringe

I love rap and no matter how bad mainstream rap gets I'll always be able to listen to NaS, Bun B, Common, Eminem, T.I., and many others who have been making some really good albums. (especially Bun B, II Trill was probably album of the year in my opinion)

TOdays rap just can't live up to what people listened to in the 80's. That rap could be defended at an intellectual level, but today's rap is impossible to defend. Just ask Chris Rock (I am aware he's a comedian, not a rapper.)

SOME rap is good, but these are few and far between. I have three rap songs on my iTunes:
Ride wit Me (Catchy tune, so sue me)
Oh No You Didn't (just plain awesome)
White and Nerdy (My theme song, unfortuanately)

I don't think ONYD'nt is a rap song. White and nerdy is awesome, and is Hellsing a good show?

i hate rap. biily joel buyo hes the way to go

edit wolf tones and whoever made stuck in the middle with you

Rap these days is truly awful. At my school it has become little more than an identity for hoodie wearing D students to cling to.

RTR:
TOdays rap just can't live up to what people listened to in the 80's. That rap could be defended at an intellectual level, but today's rap is impossible to defend. Just ask Chris Rock (I am aware he's a comedian, not a rapper.)

wasn't that his bit? :P

tho it's totally true, you look at Ice-T, NWA, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 and then you take a look at the new rap artists and they can't hold a candle to the old ones

I'm a huge fan of Hip Hop, and rap currently being the majority Hip Hop being made, I am also a fan. Though I'm by no means a fan of everything (or most things) that are currently out, there are a few jewels in the mainstream and underground.

Mainstream good rappers include Jay-Z, Nas, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and a little big of Lil' Wayne. Apart from them, there is next to no good music circulating in mainstream MTV rap music.

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.

I fully understand (most of) the hatred target towards the new wave of pop rap that is being shoved down our throats by MTV and the radio, but don't bash the entire genre because few assholes are giving it a bad name. The same could be said about any genre.

you guys gotta check out some aussie hiphop

The Herd
Butterfingers
Muph and Plutonic
Hilltop Hoods

check em out

jim_doki:
you guys gotta check out some aussie hiphop

The Herd
Butterfingers
Muph and Plutonic
Hilltop Hoods

check em out

Do you know of Scribe from New Zealand? That's the closest thing to Australian Hip Hop I've heard, but he's pretty talented. The US doesn't get much import hip hop other than Dizzee Rascal and Slick Rick (if you could consider him that).

Scribe i thought was awesome. His crew the Deceptaconz were awesome as well. its a shame i haven't heard anythign from them in a few years now

I say rap is alright, just like all the other styles of music, it used to be good and now its not! Im a rock'n'roll and classical music fan so this is actually saying something.

Some of my favorites are:
Mama Said Knock Me Out - LL Cool J
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
Rappers Delight - Sugarhill Gang

R.A.P Retards Attempting Poetry

Rezuvious:
"R.A.P Retards Attempting Poetry"

Said the failed intellectual trying to be witty.

The only rap I have ever been able to listen through is my cousins...and he's french...and french rap sounded rather catchy..lol seriously

I absolutely hate the stuff. I really do. Most of it has a vulgar or stereotypical theme to it, and sometimes I can't even understand the words.

Last rap song I listened to said something about a toaster...

Invader Ezri:
I absolutely hate the stuff. I really do. Most of it has a vulgar or stereotypical theme to it, and sometimes I can't even understand the words.

Last rap song I listened to said something about a toaster...

Most of all music genres is awful. Its not fair to make generalizations about the music without shining a light on any of the positive examples of it as an art form.

Round about 90% of rap sounds like total ass flaps to me. Just a lot of people speaking about how hard it was to be poor even though now they have thousands, probably millions of dollars now, all the bitches and hoes they've been pimping with and (insert another rap stereotype here). There are however some rap songs that I like that are a bit different such as a lot of Eminem's stuff, some Snoop Dog songs and Jay Z songs are OK too.

But yea predominantly crap.

Edit:That's just modern rap, when I think about it old school rap like Run DMC and NWA was kick ass actually. Old rap = cool, new rap = crap.

i hate rap even chaccaron is more entertaining than rap.

Ares Tyr:

Invader Ezri:
I absolutely hate the stuff. I really do. Most of it has a vulgar or stereotypical theme to it, and sometimes I can't even understand the words.

Last rap song I listened to said something about a toaster...

Most of all music genres is awful. Its not fair to make generalizations about the music without shining a light on any of the positive examples of it as an art form.

I apologize for my ignorance. Let me try again. I guess someone somewhere must be able to express themselves intelligently through rap, although I can honestly say I've yet to hear them. I like music, I am a musician myself. Just not that particular genre, along with many others.

im just sad you couldnt pick both "i dont like it" and "(insert rascist comment here)", nah, but seriously, i absolutely cant stand rap nor hip-hop (i dont even know the difference), so yeah, i guess i havent given it an honest chance, so far there are 2 rappers/groups i like, those are Tupac Shakur and Beastie Boys

Zeke109:
I don't think ONYD'nt is a rap song. White and nerdy is awesome, and is Hellsing a good show?

Hellsing Ultimate, the OVAs, are amazing, as is the manga.

Zeke109:
Do you peoples like rap music, or hate it, or have a very smart-ass opinion about it? you decide........

I absolutely abhor it.

Rap has an advantage over other genres of music. Because they are not singing, rappers have a lot more room to fill in lyrics. Theoretically, rap should be poetry with interesting beats and sound effects behind it. As a genre, this is fine with me. However, rap has been saturated with talentless hacks that waste all of the oppurtunity for beauty of bitches, hos, guns, and money.

Invader Ezri:

Ares Tyr:

Invader Ezri:
I absolutely hate the stuff. I really do. Most of it has a vulgar or stereotypical theme to it, and sometimes I can't even understand the words.

Last rap song I listened to said something about a toaster...

Most of all music genres is awful. Its not fair to make generalizations about the music without shining a light on any of the positive examples of it as an art form.

I apologize for my ignorance. Let me try again. I guess someone somewhere must be able to express themselves intelligently through rap, although I can honestly say I've yet to hear them. I like music, I am a musician myself. Just not that particular genre, along with many others.

Look up "At The Helm" by Del The Funky Homosapien and anything by the rapper Common. Those are good examples in my book. But if you're not a fan then there's not much to be done about it and I can understand.

About one of those choices in the poll, if rap is a way to tell a story why don't these "artists" just write books then? But then again books about whores, money, shootings, and trying to make it in the world wouldn't be that good. By the way I grew up listening to rap so it's not like I've never given it a chance.

Invader Ezri:

Ares Tyr:

Invader Ezri:
I absolutely hate the stuff. I really do. Most of it has a vulgar or stereotypical theme to it, and sometimes I can't even understand the words.

Last rap song I listened to said something about a toaster...

Most of all music genres is awful. Its not fair to make generalizations about the music without shining a light on any of the positive examples of it as an art form.

I apologize for my ignorance. Let me try again. I guess someone somewhere must be able to express themselves intelligently through rap, although I can honestly say I've yet to hear them. I like music, I am a musician myself. Just not that particular genre, along with many others.

Then you need to listen to some NaS, Bun B, or some Tech N9ne

Audemas:
About one of those choices in the poll, if rap is a way to tell a story why don't these "artists" just write books then? But then again books about whores, money, shootings, and trying to make it in the world wouldn't be that good. By the way I grew up listening to rap so it's not like I've never given it a chance.

To me it's not about violence or shootings, it's whether or not they can express how they feel and life experiences clearly. NaS is able to tell stories through his songs. Not to mention whether the delivery of the lyrics and how the fit with the beats something that very few rappers can do.

Liked it back in the 90's before soljaboi and his ilk broke it.