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kick-ass music style |
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{Insert Rascist Comment Here} |
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BLAM RAP MOOZIC!!! |
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eh. it's okay... |
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i don't like it. |
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it's a blight apon the face of the universe |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 741 Joined: 4 Nov 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1742 Joined: 5 Jun 2008    | I like some, sometimes. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 938 Joined: 9 Nov 2008    | It doesn't really appeal to me a whole lot. So, while I have enjoyed some rap, I don't really care for the genre. In the end, it's not as if it's consuming all other music forms - I can choose other music to listen to. So it doesn't really bother me, unless it's mysogynistic and/or homophobic, in which case I get a little ticked off. Of course, neither are acceptable in any music genre in my books, I'm not discriminating against rap. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 751 Joined: 10 Jul 2008     | what's the difference between hip-hop and rap? |
Muckraker  Posts: 231 Joined: 29 Sep 2008    | I like some of it, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip is pretty awesome imo. Like Nerdcore too, MC Frontalot, MC Chris and MC lars especially. Also like cross genre stuff, that incorporate rap as a medium, like Skindred and Mindless self indulgence. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 155 Joined: 18 Sep 2008     | Its Shit... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2335 Joined: 5 Nov 2008 | I usually only like music that features stringed instruments for some reason. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 154 Joined: 16 Oct 2008    | I love the way the OP keeps posting in here after it stop getting responses. He posted in November and January just so it would show up on the front page again, even when no one else was posting in here. He is just trying to get the badges for large views and responses. |
On the Record  Posts: 5374 Joined: 10 Aug 2008   |
I don't like rap and i personally hate most rappers. Or at least the ones you see acting like gangsters and sounding like idiots. I do prefer rock... and heavy metal. But meh, i hear old rap was actually good and i know some people who loved it. Whatever, it's just a style of music. Still, listening to some idiot rhyme (often badly) about how he's going to shoot people and rape someone is not my idea of music. And yes, I've just made a generalization of modern rap music. Out of the limited number of rap songs i heard so far, i only liked a few and they were usually political. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 751 Joined: 10 Jul 2008 |
Hmm...care to elaborate, to show an actual opinion, or just sit in a dark corner, nibbling on a cracker, and commenting on something a passerby is talking about? It's shit because... |
Beat Writer Posts: 155 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
Its Shit because its rap. It sounds terrible and has no point. I think i actually dont like it becuz of the ppl who like it. Its probly stereotypical but idc lol, most ppl who listen to rap wear clothes that r fuckin stupid, for instance, ppl walk around with there pants hangin off their ass and still wear a fuckin belt... they also just act stupid, most of em do drugs and shit, and rap music is usually affiliated with gangs and shit thats pointless. That a better explanation? |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 751 Joined: 10 Jul 2008 |
Yes, much better. You have crawled out into the sunlight, you little flower child, you! |
Beat Writer Posts: 178 Joined: 17 Oct 2008  | I've never seen a kid around where i live with their pants around their ankles but I find it funny that in prison it means they're someone's bitch and the ignorant kids have no idea. |
Beat Writer Posts: 155 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
Lol nah i spell good ;) |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 751 Joined: 10 Jul 2008 |
HA! That's funny. You're almost as good a Lewis BLack!! You could be a comedian! :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1152 Joined: 22 Dec 2008 | The only two rap groups/musicians I remotely like are Run DMC and Eminem. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 869 Joined: 7 Nov 2007   |
Wikipedia both and see for yourself. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 751 Joined: 10 Jul 2008 |
No. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 822 Joined: 15 Aug 2008  |
Silly Meatloaf, such wishful thinking will get you nothing but disappointment :-) |
Muckraker  Posts: 231 Joined: 10 Oct 2008  | Most mainstream rap sucks. There is a lot of good stuff underground though. There's also a lot of good rap from the Middle East if you can stand listening to stuff in another language. |
On the Record  Posts: 5166 Joined: 21 Aug 2008   | Who the hell necroed this thread? we already have one thread where people can come and spew their venomous hate about rap. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 672 Joined: 8 Nov 2007    |
I'll put it in my perspective, but this (the above statement) is really what it boils down to for me. I look for something impressive or interesting in my music, something I feel I would've never thought of or can't do myself and there's rarely any of that in rap. Perhaps its because we've been bombarded to death with it over the last decade (though I'm glad I don't live in the states in that respect), I don't know. Like I said though, it's why I'm not a fan. It's not that I hate the genre, I just don't really care about it but there's definately a few artists in it that have struck my fancy (IIRC I voted "ehhh, it's okay"). I also don't care for metal but own a few records that are firmly entrenched in the genre. I do hate gangsta rap though (couple of nice beats be damned), the fact that the official title is mispelled alone should say enough for most people. aside: edit: |
BANNED  Posts: 4378 Joined: 21 Aug 2008     | Unfortunately, if you were actually interested in overwrought and complex music, you would be soaking up Sorabji or Lindberg or something equally mind blowing. Progressive rock is great if you like to think you enjoy overwrought and complex music, but don't want to/can't do the intellectual work necessary to actually appreciate actually complex music. I don't know; if I was personally going to go down that sort of route, I would at least try not to half ass it :] By the way, have you ever heard James LaBrie rap? Your cute little rule holds true both ways.
By "All over the place," do you mean a singular and narrow musicological tradition? Yeah, that's really branching out ;) User was banned for: Microsoft and the World Domination of Gaming&Communication. (Permanent) |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 672 Joined: 8 Nov 2007 | Well, yes, the only thing I can really say to that is that I try to reach further than the hitlists but know I am barely scratching the surface. You've made a study out of music, put in way more hours of theory and analysis and listened to way more stuff than I have. I do some searching about and read up on a couple things here and there but I'm not going to be academic about it. We (and I think in general, those that have studied musicology and those that haven't) approach music way differently. The guideline of stuff that interests me is applied to music that comes across my path (in one way or another, radio, paper, internet). You see, I've noticed the following in my bahaviour: say, I'm confronted with fifteen pieces of music; the one that grabs my attention is usually the one that comes across as the most impressive or intricate (skill or structure wise). From a musicological standpoint it is narrow yeah. (The list was merely to illustrate that despite liking prog I listen to stuff outside the genre as well, but I think you got that.) I just listened to a few pieces by Sorabji and I can definately say I do appreciate it. And I assume you mean Christian Lindberg the trombonist? There's also a J-pop band named that. On the James LaBrie rap, I looked it up, wtf was that? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 730 Joined: 29 Feb 2008  |
You have only ever listened to about 2 rap songs haven't you. |
Beat Writer Posts: 155 Joined: 18 Sep 2008 |
Nah, truth be told i went through a phase when i was in like 6th grade where i actually liked rap and listened to it all the time, i know all the words to every song on eminems encore album... Really was a waste of my childhood... |
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The thug hip hop is the best. Apart from as you say, the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air.