Poll: Metal and Rap Fans

[Berserker119]

I like a lot of both. Still on the metal side, but I do enjoy a good rap.

 

[katsumoto03]

I enjoy metal far more than I do rap solely because I've yet to go and seek out good rap artists. I enjoy Eminem's stuff, though his lyrics kind of annoy me. All his shit about mommy issues, he needs a new angle I think.

As for metal: I'm not usually into extremely heavy shit. I believe the heaviest band I frequently listen to is Protest the Hero. My favourite metal band is Avenged Sevenfold. Particularly their City of Evil album.

 

[Guffe]

Metal for me, but many of my friends listen to rap and so when we are together we "take turns" in choosing songs which means 2 rap songs 1 metal/rock and so on so basically I've learned to listen to it but metal is still my thing.

 

[staika]

I prefer metal, I really never understood the appeal of rap, there are about one or two rap songs I like but not enough to make me like the genre. for metal I'm really into melodic death metal which mixes growling and clean vocals which mix strangely well. for my favorite artists i like scar symmetry, solution .45, soilwork, in flames, and universum.

 

[adderseal]

Also it's a misconception that rap is all about shooting coloured folk, stealing their money and forcing yourself on their harems.

Surprising then that no one seems to listen to rap that isn't like this. I have never heard "decent" rap on the street, on the radio, or in my friends' houses. And believe me, I hear a lot of cars in my area blaring rap through their stereos with their windows down, almost as if to say "Yeah I like rap, so fuck you, and not only fuck you, but I'm gonna make yo whole neighborhood listen bout bitchiz n hoes and cappin some pigs!" I apologize, but the last "clean" rap I heard was from the 90's, not counting the "nerd core" that my roommate likes. And it's not good PR for any medium when someone has to personally look HARD to find something in it that's clean. You can't say "Rap isn't like this" when mainstream rap IS like this.


EDIT: BUT that's just my opinion or whatnot, in the grand scheme of things I'm just one guy on a forum that grew up with an asshole drug-dealing brother whose underage live-in girlfriend blared the stuff all day when she babysat me.

Mainstream rap at the moment is definitely like that, I can't deny it. Clean rap is basically called old-skool rap, but like any genre it's changed. Like rock 'n roll- at first it was Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry being completely rebellious, but now any hard rock group can call themselves rock 'n roll.

 

[GiantRaven]

Rap to me has no meaniing its sex/drugs/Hoes,killing cops or white people or both.

The idea that rap songs are all about sex/drugs/etc is about as is about as well-researched as suggesting that all metal songs are about death/the devil/killing/sex/partying (wait, am I getting to close to rap stereotypes there? Guess what, they can also apply to other genres!)

Spoiler: And, since I am truly lazy, I will only provide a single example of a rap song with lyrical content outside of what you described.

 

[Nouw]

I can like both but I tend to like Metal more. Symphonic Power Metal that is!

 

[Small Waves]

I'm going to say it flat out: I find metal fucking boring.

Hip-hop, on the other hand, has a lot of musical flexibility and lots of room for experimentation in vocal delivery and soundscaping. When I first heard albums like Entroducing....., Metaphorical Music, Alopecia, Stankonia, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, The Marshall Mathers LP, and Deltron 3030, I was fucking floored, ESPECIALLY with the first two. After hearing Endtroducing..... for the first time, I listened to it at least once a day for a week, which is A LOT considering I like to listen to albums in rotation, and Metaphorical Music is in my top three albums. Hip-hop isn't all about bitches and whores or cashmoney. Hell, lyrics aren't even mandatory. You can just have beats that develop and stand their ground. I got some stellar instrumental hip-hop from a guy [http://soundcloud.com/kings-county-lighthouse/tracks] in Brooklyn last week.

Speaking of which, I should fire out a word of thanks to him. It's incredible.

 

[GreatVladmir]

Dont mind rap, cant really stand rock n metal, more into dance music, Bassline, Grime, Drum n Bass, Dubstep, stuff like that.

 

[TheSolemnHypnotic]

I'm eclectic and have grown up with both. I'm really into Nicki Minaj and Drake and I've gone to see Coheed and Cambria and Flyleaf (who is metal). Mostly depends on mood.
Cocky=rap
Confident=metal
Laid back=rap
Cranked up=metal

But,really, most of the music on my Ipod is rock.

 

[luclin92]

i prefer metal almost always but sometime i find some rap that i like.
favorite metal bands: Adept, Soilwork and a lot more
dont have a favorite rap artist or band i just listen to individual songs and is fine with that.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

Cant stand rap metal all the way. Sentenced is one of my favorite bands

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[Aaron.R]

METAL! \m/_

I like me some Rap and Hip Hop or whatever from time to time, Immortal Technique, Flobots, Jurassic 5 ("hip hop for people who don't like hip hop").

But metal is the music that really drives me. Can't really pick out a favourite band anymore, but the first group I really got into was In Flames all those years ago.

 

[The_Puppy_Prince]

Out of the 2?
Rap/hiphop
Used to be a true blue metal head but i just got sick of the depressive lyrics
-I thought they were- and just the pure noise of it
Im not one for mainstream hiphop/rap and i have found happiness in the underground of that genre
So i lean more towards good rhymes
Edit:As stated above,the main genre im into is Trance,Electro,House and its sub-genre's,and dubstep

 

[BlumiereBleck]

NEITHER! Thou I do like Norma Jean

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I like metal alot more. That's mainly due to the fact that I like metal and have no opinion on rap. Never really listened to rap so I don't know if I like it or not.

As for my favorite band... I'd have to say Rammstein. Dethklok is also up there.

 

[AvsJoe]

Metal, Children of Bodom, ---

I don't have a favourite rapper or hip hop artist because I have yet to hear an artist or group in those genres produce music that I will like more often than dislike. However, with that being said, I have heard some damn good rap and hip hop songs out there so you will never hear me dis either of the genres.

 

[DSEZ]

I love both genres emmensly

Rap:Mac miller,Eminem,Biggie,Nas,Lil wayne

Metal:Black Dahlia Murder,Whitechapel,Cannibal corpse,Children of bodom

Combined together if you can pull it off why not?