I’ve taken about as much as a human being physically can. Every party I am at they play that god awful good for nothing rap. Every time I am hanging out at somebody’s place they click on win amp and here comes even more of that shitty unrhyming, anti-melodical garbage. I hate rap, I hate songs my Missy Elliot, Little Kim, 50 cent and just about every other rap singer and am damn proud of it. It’s not music!! People do not let peer pressure replace good taste, stop playing that crap.
Who is with me?
PS Busta Rhymes and Cypress Hill are ok, I kind of like them but that’s because their rap isn’t something you’d dance to, its actually about something.
People who say they hate rap haven’t heard any GOOD rap. And to be fair, 90% of rap played on the radio isn’t any good. But listening to Outkast, Jurassic 5, Deltron 3030, Kool Keith, or even older, funny stuff from Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg might change your mind.
Ok ok I’ll admit Snoop (“Smoke Weed Every Day”) Dog and Dr Dre are also cool. Some of Eminem’s stuff is just hilarious. But I still HATE the pop rap by sell out pop rap stars that do videos with Christina Aguilera and generally suck.
PS (can you tell I like post scriptums?) Rap originally spawned from Ethiopian war chants, so maybe it picked up some musicality along the way but inherently by design it’s not much of a musical thing
You’re not making any sense. I’ve summed up your posts in one paragraph:
I hate rap. It’s not music. But Busta and Cypress are bomb and make some tight ass shit, but everything else, sucks. Still it ain’t music, but Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem are tight too. But I hate the pop rap stars who sell out to giggly pop star bitches.
I think you’re arrogant (Sue me.)
I think you’re main problem with rap is the image. What you hate is Ja Rule. This is the guy that’s causing all the problems. j/k. Actually I’m not.
Rap is music. It contains instruments, a beat, and is melodic. Go to any club anywhere in America and tell me that you cannot dance to Rap and or Rap/Pop music. Better yet, go to those clubs and tell those dancing that they cannot dance to it.
You hate Justin Timberfake, Britney Spears and Christina Gagulara. This is what you hate: Pop music. Obviously you like rap because you mentioned all the big players in it and stated you like their stuff. So what’s the problem with rap again?
Hey I love rock music, but just like rap only 10% of it is good. I don’t go around saying I hate rock music because 90% of it sucks, which it does.
As a guitarist i find it insulting that any dumbass loudmouth with a microphone can become famous and respected as a musician. They have no talent, they can’t sing, they can’t play an instrument, and they can’t write a song. Hell half of them need a publicist just to create an image for them. Rap is a fad, as disco was, and it will go away in a few years when Mtv decides that they’ve milked it enough.
Rubbish. Why does this tripe keep getting recycled here? A fad? Twenty years is a fad? Dream on.
I don’t “love” rap. I like certain artists, same as I love certain guitarists, certain dance acts and so on. Anyone who can display such an easy intolerance towards any other musical genre is hardly scratching the surface. There are a hell of a lot of absolutely shit guitarists out there, and horrendously unoriginal guitar bands. I’ll take good rap (hey, there’s plenty of bad rap) over bad guitar bands any day.
Sure, anybody can be a loudmouth on a microphone, rapper OR singer. But to me, rapping is a talent. Not everyone can do it. And those that try sound like retarded white people from the 80’s that would try to make rap songs about mathematics. Sure there are bad rappers, but a lot of good ones too. You need to be good to rap fast, make it rhyme, and make a story make sense. You also must have a knack for beats too, without it, it wouldn’t work.
But yes, it’s mostly angry crap. I know every generation says this about the music of the next, but with rap the cycle has been broken somewhat. It’s not going to cause the end of the world like Bill Haley, Elvis, or the Beatles. It’s not going to summon up Satan like AC/DC were supposed to (in fact it might even sound better played backwards. No, it’s just shit. Plain ol’ shit. And as the OP said, it’s freakin’ everywhere (and it has been for twenty years now - it’s time to move on). Every other car at a stoplight in Sydney is playing it. Junior real estate agents from Chatswood who think they are disadvantage black American gangsta youth. Uh huh.
Hip-hop is a very broad category. You have angry crap, you have good stuff, like Deltron 3030, and you have weird stuff, like Kid Koala. I recommend the two artists mentioned, and not the angry crap.