<p>i agree that a lot of rap lyrics are crap. same with most rock and pop lyrics. who cares, really? if it sounds good, i don't discriminate.
rap can be quite good. i don't think it's fair to call rap garbage, just because SOME rap is garbage. that's like calling country garbage. yeah, the majority of country is unbearable to me (Honky tonk Badonkadonk anyone?), but I admit I've heard a couple pretty ok tunes.</p>
<p>I'm so confused.</p>
<p>You just found out about Drop it Like it's Hot?</p>
<p>And that's the song that made you like rap?</p>
<p>hip hop is ok if you dont listen to the lyrics. people claiming that rap is "genius" are just delusional. Kanye West is the closest thing to even having lyrics that are at all lucid, let alone genius. Hip hop is okay for like club scenes, but if you want good music i'd steer in another direction.</p>
<p>No I have heard the song b4 (when it came out). </p>
<p>But I didn't hear the whole thing. </p>
<p>I think it's okay. </p>
<p>Rap isn't all that. </p>
<p>Infact it's crap, but it's just some songs that make me seem like I have a taste for that genre. </p>
<p>Alternative! Class rock! Those are the bomb fo life!</p>
<p>Why are some of you guys hating on hip hop? Hip hop is more than music- its a culture. To call it garbage is demoralizing the whole struggle of blacks - and black music. Other than R&B and gospel - that's the bulk of most black artists. I think that calling it garbage is very incorrect. it just isn't your taste. say that. it just isn't your taste! To call it garbage because it doesn't appeal to you is wrong. You don't know hip hop if you are calling it garbage. From the underground freestyling to the battles to the studio to the culture! DONT DEMORALIZE THE STRUGGLE!!!! SHAME</p>
<p>Yeah whatever. So you're proud of the music that degrades women by calling them ho's, talks about being a "gangsta", references drugs, and being a pimp. sorry i'm not really into that. the beats are good, but they need some good lyrics to back it up.</p>
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Yes, wearing pants like they do in prison yards is quite cultural. I have to laugh at these 'gangsters' who think they know guns. Have you seen how they hold their pieces? Not properly, but by titling their hand haha. No wonder they can't hit the broad side of a barn for their life. All their 'bling' looks ridiculous. To encourage rap is to demoralize the black community. Samuel L Jackson refused to be in a movie with 50 Cent because L thought that 50 Cent was a bad influence on black kids. Smart black people like Larry Elder, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Bill Cosby agree. These are the men that black kids should look up to, not worthless scumbags like Ludacris and Tupac.</p>
<p>Greenday fan: how very ignorant of you. As if all rap music were about hos and money. I actually used to think that. I had the nerve to say it to a black classmate, who glared at me until I thought I was going to turn to ashes. Then I did my homework and found some really good rap music---you'd never hear it on the radio, though. try not to judge genres of music from what you'd hear on your local party station.</p>
<p>Actually jimibob, Greenday is right. The whole genre is degrading. </p>
<p>Thats my opinion. </p>
<p>But some songs are good and most aren't.</p>
<p>***? how is the whole genre degrading? have you ever heard "you never know" by immortal technique? read the lyrics. sure, some of the rhymes are pretty juvenile, but the story itself is touching--it celebrates a girl who was the opposite of a slut, someone special. and the twist in the story made 2 of my guy friends almost cry.
there's no point arguing with you idiots.</p>
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<p>haha. ignorance is bliss. kanye west? seriously. that's all you know? maybe you shouldn't talk about an entire genre if you don't know anyone but those on mtv.</p>
<p>"boy with luv"...hmm..I see you've changed your name...you're the one who started this thread...does it easily take a couple of people to persuade you to change your mind? </p>
<p>iloveagoodbrew---oh no, you DIDNT just diss Tupac ;)...jk, I don't really care, but I'm sure that's what a lot of Tupac junkies are thinking right now :)</p>
<p>They will now hunt me down and shoot me with their Glocks from their hips :(</p>
<p>If you noticed by the title of the thread I said "I think I'm starting to like rap"</p>
<p>I think! </p>
<p>I like some rap not all my friends. </p>
<p>It is very degrading to me. </p>
<p>I'm also banned for 10 days due to cursing.</p>
<p>I think for myself. :)</p>
<p>hmm..okay.</p>
<p>anyways, i'm still a big rap fan...always have been. although I think I mostly enjoy the beats.</p>
<p>Yeah, I like the beats too. :) </p>
<p>But see I use Reggae as a substitute for rap it's less degrading and if they mention drugs it's only pot most of the time. </p>
<p>And they don't degrade women.</p>
<p>reggae as a substitute for rap??? hmm...so you just replace the degrading black people with the less-degrading black people...and omg, now you're listening to black music.</p>
<p>reggae is different from rap. you can't make the switch like that. i like both, but they're not similar.</p>
<p>They are to me. </p>
<p>Black music??????</p>
<p>Reggae and rap do not have to have degrading blacks in there. </p>
<p>It could be poor white trash, or whatever in there.</p>
<p>actually i'm not ignorant. kthanks.
and how about this...not all rap is degrading and juvenille, just the VAST majority of it which is mostly what people listen to anyway.</p>
<p>There's a rapper called Ne-Yo.
Yeah...</p>