the instant reaction of hating music

[KoSTHB]

while this apply to all music I'm talking about rap, people who hear music they don't normal listen to react with hate over something they didn't even listen to for more than a sec. Many people act this way at country and rock so whats with all the hate? u don't have to love the music but why with the instant dislike of a something like rap

 

[Pegghead]

Well I wouldn't call it instant hate, alot of people here either enjoy rap or have valid arguments against it.

Personally I'm a bit indifferent about it, I haven't listened to much of it but I don't enjoy the culture that surrounds it (i.e guys who are basically just very tanned going on about the "Ghetto gospel" and acting like they're king shit and treating you like some kind of "cracker", no really, that's how it is at my school).

 

[Hateren47]

I have nothing against rap as a genre, but a lot of rappers are a bunch of fakers with no respect for it's roots in the hip-hop movement. And since mainstream rap is, mostly if not all about relative boring and condescending topics like bitches, bling, gangwars and cars it's easy to see why any sane person will dismiss it as crap. There is a lot of good rap and hip-hop out there but it's too hard to find.

 

[Thedayrecker]

I don't hate rap. I just ignore it. If it's on and there is no way for me to change it, I'm not gonna claw my ears off. Besides some of it's good.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

A lot of people on this site haven't really looked into Rap or Hip Hop much further than "artists" like Lil' Wayne, Soulja Boy etc, so they have this misconception that it doesn't go beyond that, and as such, they hate the genre as a whole. I'm not saying everyone is like this, but there are quite a lot of people like this on The Escapist, and it's just ignorant to throw down retarded statements like "Hip Hop is dead", especially when the person saying it probably heard it elsewhere and has no evidence to support the claim, or much purpose to even say it other than to make himself look like he has a "valid" opinion on the matter.

In fact, for the benefit of everyone here who believes that rap is shit without even bothering to look beyond the surface I will re-post a short list that I post in threads like this:

Spoiler: Aesop Rock

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Spoiler: Astronautalis

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Spoiler: Atmosphere

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Spoiler: B Dolan

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Spoiler: Bike for Three

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Spoiler: Brother Ali

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Spoiler: Cecil Otter

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Spoiler: Cubbiebear

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Spoiler: Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

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Spoiler: Dessa

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Spoiler: Doomtree

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Spoiler: El-P

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Spoiler: Eyedea and Abilities

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Spoiler: Immortal Technique

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Spoiler: Non Prophets

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Spoiler: POS

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Spoiler: Sage Francis

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Spoiler: Sims

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Spoiler: Sole and The Skyrider Band

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Spoiler: Teddy Faley

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[Sightless Wisdom]

God damn, clean up your freaking grammar!

Now that I've gotten that off my back, it has a bad reputation and most people are unwilling to accept that it could be different than they think. It's the same for a genre like metal; people hear it and immediately think it's evil blasphemy played by idiots. Regardless of the truth people will always have strong opinions on things.

 

[TraderJimmy]

Aesop Rock is amazing.

I react badly to certain sounds, so that's my 'instant' turn-off. If there's a wash of tinkly sounds at the start, or a sequence of chords that sounds Fleetwood Mac-ish in any way, I tend to be put off. Also 'spoken word' can be offputting for me (as in the Leonard Cohen style of spoken word, not as in rap).

If something's interesting, I'll listen to it, if it's boring I won't - it has to be REALLY boring before I hate it (as a point of reference, I don't even hate Hanson).

Completely valid to say you hate something based on the first 10-20 seconds though. Music is so much about moods that it's hard to rescue it.

 

[tomtom94]

The point is, most people (including myself) look at the mainstream rappy-hip-hoppy stuff we see all around us as being representative of most artists.

Rap can be used well, just look at Rage Against The Machine. It's just...it usually isn't.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

When I listen to music, I usually like the first thirty seconds of a song, but then hate how they ruin it when the actual singing starts.

 

[DeaconSawyer]

I just don't like hearing other people's noise generally. I don't even care if you are listening to something I generally like. I mean I don't really want to hear a song I like blaring out of someone's headphones or speakerphone doodah, so I sure as hell don't want to hear something that doesn't fit my personal tastes in said manner. I like personal space, audio, visual and physical.

 

[unoleian]

Slug (from Atmosphere) is the man!


Cracks me up! Great rapper, too. A flow artist, for real.

 

[Hobo Joe]

I'm just not one for rap I'm afraid, never really liked any of the artists I've heard. Not close-minded however, enjoy several different genres of music.

 

[Segadroid]

I never really bothered myself with thinking about rap and all. I do find it slightly repetitive mostly talking about guns and girls though, no offence.

I have a personal dislikement of Hardcore though. IMO way too loud and nothing else but the same beat for 3 minutes. Music should have varying, not unchanging, rythms and sound.

 

[Communist partisan]

I hate rap beacose it sounds like somebody is getting a stroke.... and I hate death and black metal beacose it's brutal beating of instruments while you randomly yell like a idiot and the worst part is... peapole like it.

 

[Harlemura]

I'm a pretty prejudice person (I think that's how you phrase it...), so once I've had a taster of a certain type of music, it tends to stick.
Most of what I've heard of rap, for example, is someone talking very fast about something they did to their "ho" or "*****" and how much money they have and all that. Every time I hear another track like that, it adds to my established view, making me less likely to give that style a chance.

Spoiler: Although I can be swayed...

Same goes for metal. Often seems like someone trying to make as much noise as possible while they attempt to consume a microphone. Might be something that suits my taste come along someday, but I can't be bothered to dig through the microphone munchers to find it.

 

[wrecker77]

Literally every time I say I'm a My chemical romance fan, people rage at me. People here HATE my music. I made a thread about billy talent and people raged at that, their is no appealing to people on the internet with different music tastes.

 

[aeziir]

Living in Puerto Rico theres a genre of music called Reggeaton. Its basically REALLY BAD rap music with a dance that simulates sex. I have no problem with the dancing, its the music that I cant tolerate. It doesn't help that most people who listen to it think everyone loves it so they blast it as high as they can.

(stop reading here if you're uninterested)
My neighbors used to blast it every fucking day so I got a big stereo and aimed the speakers outside so every time they put on reggeaton, I blast my music which tends to trump theirs. If I'm feeling specifically pissy that day, I blast music I know they hate... like disco or classical.

 

[Eggsnham]

It's got to do with a lot of things, association with bad memories; the music they listened to as a child; what their family and friends listen to and think of the genre etc.

As a kid I listened to rock, metal, etc. My stepbrothers both hated Rap and found any way possible to justify this hatred (I think Rap was one of the reasons why one of my stepbrothers is pretty heavily racist now actually). Thus, I lived for several years hating Rap and Hip-Hop with baseless arguments as to why.

I stopped this after I realized how stupid it was to hate an entire genre of music based only on the opinions of my friends and family and because of the fact that a lot of the mainstream Hip-Hop and Rap songs are shitty (I remember when one song "Party Like a Rockstar" came out and that was the only song that anybody would listen to; coincidentally it was a completely shitty song).

At first I decided that I didn't have an opinion on it, and that I didn't really like to listen to it, but as I did listen to it more and more; I actually started to like it.

Moral of the story? Grow up and stop hating something for the sake of hating it.