Poll: Rap Music

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Freakmonkey9

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The issue of whether rap is making anything worse or not in the community is a little odd to me. I mean sure they glorify it but as an African American myself I've seen plenty of people of my race destroy themselves usually without rap.(most of those people are from my own family).
 
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I think rap is a fun way to tell a story, making a rhyme is fun, and so is creating good beat. But when you have a thousand songs about how some guy has lots of money, took lots of crack, or how he fu#$% a ho, it just gets annoying.

Ares Tyr post=18.71319.719793 said:
Rezuvious post=18.71319.719782 said:
"R.A.P Retards Attempting Poetry"
Said the failed intellectual trying to be witty.
I thought it was clever. ;)
 

The Iron Ninja

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As opposed to "BLAM RAP MOOZIC"

But dammit I always spell that wrong

So here it goes again:

Where's the "it's a blight upon the face of the universe" option?
 
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Faded gamer post=18.71319.722502 said:
RAP SUCKS BALLS,its just retards doing the retard hand thing and just cursing all the damn time.
Oh, so you're that other music genres don't do that? I'm not trying to defend rap or anything, but I find your ignorance...stupid.
 

Dys

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I chose "I don't like it", but in stark contradiction of that, I quite like all rap which I acknowledge as music, however the form of rap that falls under this catagory has been dead for a long time, or at least drowned out by meaningless dribble that is the "MTV rap".
For example I like listening to RUN DMC, public enemy etc as it not only does it sound good, the lyrics *GASP* actually make sense and on some level actually MEAN something, whether it be telling a story or making a political point.
The thing I don't like about modern "rap" other than the "musician" being completely tonedeaf, is that its pretty much some rich black bussinessman complaining about racism/talking about his hoes/ trying to make himself look tough, and in almost all cases there is no actual music, rather computer generated beepings and such, or some other simplistic, unlayered sound.
 

TheBadass

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Dys post=18.71319.723455 said:
For example I like listening to RUN DMC, public enemy etc as it not only does it sound good, the lyrics *GASP* actually make sense and on some level actually MEAN something, whether it be telling a story or making a political point.
Right, because rap artists don't do THAT anymore.

Wait...


A Tribe Called Quest
Aesop Rock
Andre 3000
Asheru
Atmosphere
AZ
Benifit
Big Boi
Big Daddy Kane
Big L
Big Pun
Binary Star
Black Moon
Black Thought
Blackstar
Blu
Blue Scholars
Blueprint
Bob Marley
Boot Camp Clik
Boots Riley
Brother Ali
Bumpy Knuckles
Busta Rhymes
Canibus
Cannibal Ox
Cassidy
Cappadonna
Chamillionaire
Common
Cormega
Cunninlynguists
Cyne
Cypress Hill
Dangerdoom
Danny!
Das Efx
De La Soul
Dead Prez
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Digital Underground
Dilated Peoples
El-P
eMC
Exile
Extended F@mm
Eyedea
Fat Lip
Felt
Gangstar
Geto Boyz
Ghostface Killah
Goodie Mob
Grand Puba
Greyskul
Grouch
Gza
Handsome Boy Modeling School
Heavy D
Hieroglyphics
Hi-Tek
Hustle Simmons
Invincible
Immortal Technique
Ice Cube
J-Live
Jadakiss
Jay-Z
Jazz Liberatorz
Jean Grae
Jedi Mind Tricks
Jurrassic 5
Killah Priest
Kool G Rap
LL Cool J
Last Emperor
Little Brother
Living Legends
Lootpack
Lords of the Underground
Louis Logic
Masta Ace
Matisyahu
MC Lyte
MC Shan
MC Solaar
MF Doom
Method Man
Mic Geronimo
MOP
Mos Def
Murs
Mystik Journeymen
Non Phixion
Noreaga
Pacific Division
Panacea
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Pharoah Monch
Pharoahe Monch
Pitch Black
Planet Asia
Poor Righteous Teachers
PT
Quasimoto
Raashan Ahmad
Raekwon
Rakim
Ras Kass
Rasco
Reks
Redman
Rhymefest
Sage Francis
Sakrates
Samon Kawamura
Scarface
Shad
Slick Rick
Slum Village
Souls of Mischief
Stan Spit
Supreme NTM
Talib Kweli
The Alkoholiks
The Coup
The Fugees
The Perceptionists
The Pharcyde
TheSaurus
The UMC'S
Tragedy Khadafi
Typical Cats
Vakill
Visionaries
X-Clan
Y Society
Yak Ballz
Zion I
Zion

I tried to remove the most obvious choices there, by the way.
 

TheBadass

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Eggo post=18.71319.723499 said:
Great list TheBadass, but where's Dungeon Family??!!
Never heard of them. I feel almost naked right now.

Edit: I love Youtube, this stuff's awesome.
 

shadow skill

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Some of the more popular rappers right now grew up in the gang/drug element during the eighties. It really is no surprise then that the music they create reflects that kind of world. Just as it is no surprise that Rock and Roll music is often very sexual in nature after all rock and roll is a very old slang term for sex...... Most songs in every genre don't really mean anything particularly deep in and of themselves but that hardly means that they lack beauty.
 

JakubK666

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Depends. I loathe rap in which a Rich Black Dude sing about his "shitty" life/hoes/gangs but on the other hand, I'm fine with rap that has some deep/serious lyrics(with possible exception say some Eminem songs) and decent music.

Frankly, Eminem's "Real Slim Shady"(Let alone the serious stuff like Mockingbird or When I'm gone.) is probably better than anything those MTV Gangstaz ever recorded.