<p>I am so tired of hearing rap music. It can't be avoided. It's on all the countdowns, the popular radio stations, everything. </p>
<p>The lyrics are all lame, the videos degrade women, the rappers all look, sound, and act the same, and it's not even singing! it's just talking really fast. </p>
<p>ok, it was cool 3 years ago when "in da club" came out and everyone jumped on the rap bandwagon, but come on..... we as a culture need to get over rap music. </p>
<p>CAndy ShOP- the most pathetic song ever.<br>
all that yayo crap, gunit crap.... IT NEEDS TO BE GONE! </p>
<p>why can't we go back to 80s music? or latin music? anything but this rap nonsense!</p>
<p>I'm not exactly tired of rap music..but I'm tired of rap music that talks about hoes, fu**ing, and how pimp they are, and etc. It was really refreshing to hear The Game's song "Dreams", because it didn't talk about about all the nonsense that we hear in rap today. Also, latin music is coming into style..if you classife reggaeton as latin music. I know some people who don't classify it as latin music. I wonder what are others take on this?</p>
<p>You guys are misguided. All you are exposed to is the pop-rap, the "gangsta," "thug," club/chart garbage. Listen to REAL rap, and perhaps you'll actually be impressed, as I found myself. Years ago I was in your stiuation; I loathed any and all rap because of the fact that the popular stuff was such garbage. Then I discovered Del tha Funkee Homosapien and the rest is history. Now I listen to rap artists/groups like Common, MF Doom/Madvillain, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Jay-Z, Deltron3030, De La Soul, The Roots, and more. I learned that it's ridiculous to restrict yourself to one type of music (coughpunkscoughgothscoughrapfanscough) or to deem all of one type of music "bad."</p>
<p>I'm not misguided. All I said was that I was tired of the rap music that is garbage, not rap music in general. The Roots and Talib Kweli are some of my favorites.</p>
<p>Christian Rap is good and the old *80's rap some of it is good like the suga hill gang or if you move into the 90's and listen to biggy and tupac they are all great but as far as lyrics like "smack a hoe" and "let you lick my lolly pop" that's not something that seems to positive to me.</p>
<p>i actually never really like tupac. i think to many people say he's GREAT because they can't think of anyone else and it makes them seem in touch with good urban music. (not necessarily you the<em>gurL</em>next_door)</p>
<p>and i'm puerto rican, so i know all about that reggueton. most of what you hear in the us is pretty much crap (ie pitbull and daddy yankee). in puerto rico, however, you do have your usual "i have sex with a bunch of girl and i have money" reggueton songs, but there are also great reggueton songs with thought provoking lyrics. check out vico c, tego calderon, lito y polaco, rey pirin, and even daddy yankee. these artists do have some songs made just for marketing, but they also have great lyrics on many other songs, esp vico c. but chances are you won't understand them unless you're puerto rican, cuban, or dominican :).</p>
<p>also, the whole marc anthony and ricki martin thing a couple years back just ****ed me off. they are actually great artists with some incredible songs...in spanish. but in english they just sold out. same goes for shakira. her second album "donde estan los ladrones" was brilliant. but "laundry service" was just made for pop's sake. unless you speak spanish and understand it and listen to it constantly, you can't really comment on how good or bad latin music is. </p>
<p>i highly recommend checking out juanes, vico c, mana, yerba buena if you want to hear some good latin music. there are just so many artist and genres within latin music, its impossible to name or describe them all.</p>
<p>btw, you guys should here and watch the video to the new shakira song ft alejandro sanz "la tortura." it's hot, in more ways than one. i'm sure the guys will enjoy it even if they don't like the song.</p>
<p>I never saw the hype with biggie and tupac. They both have some good songs, but I wouldn't classify them as the gods of hip-hop. The only good song to me on "Laundry Service" was "Eyes like yours" (I'm not sure if that is the title, but it was released in Spanish a few years ago before Laundry Service.) I don't know that much about latin music, but I've always liked the older latin music (The Mambo Kings, Julio Inglesias Sr, and a whole lot of Cuban performers in the 1950s era.) I liked the version with alejandro sanz in "la tortura" than the other remix of it. The girls will also enjoy it, because Alejandro Sanz is really handsome.</p>
<p>I never really liked rap music to begin with. It's just not my thing! (hence the username "cowgirlatheart") I don't like top 40 stuff too much either. I listen to music that my dad listened to, as well as my own stuff. I LOVE my city's annual folk music festival (I bought a wooden flute there this year) and music like the Goo Goo Dolls, Ani DiFranco, the Indigo Girls, Billy Joel, Everything but the Girl, and yes the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkle, etc. I play fiddle music (celtic, bluegrass, country, irish, etc.) myself, so the fact that these rap guys don't really incorporate actual musical talent (as in instruments or voice even) and that the ones that you hear can only sing about drugs and girls really bug me. No rap can be as amazing as some of the more challenging celtic reels. In 8th grade we had to write rhyming ballads, most of which pretty much equated to what you hear on the radio today. Maybe some of the old stuff is better, but I really just gave up on the rap genre in general. Besides, cowboys and down to earth guys playing accoustic and singing are sooooo much better (and more attractive) than ANYBODY who needs a track suit and a diamond necklace to feel and prove that they are "gangsta". Natural musical talent is amazing, and watching cute guys play accoustic is totally mesmerising (especially "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton omg!).</p>
<p>wow you like real old school latin music. nothing wrong with that. i agree with you about the whole tupac/biggie hype. i heard the remix of "la tortura" and i didn't like it either. "eyes like yours" was the english version of "ojos asi" which actually was on the cd "donde estan los ladrones" (or "where are the thieves"), which was realeased in '98. i love that song too, esp the middle eastern beat. did you know shakira is half lebonese? anywho, i love alejandro sanz's sultry jazz/rock latin music. i also love robi draco rosa's spanglish album "mad love". i just love my people's music...littles biased i guess.</p>
<p>i love "tears in heaven" too. but i wouldn't say that eric clapton is a cute guy. haha.</p>
<p>I love 2pac's delivery, which I find is really rhythmic and forceful. His rhymes fall right on the beat and give you the maximum effect of what he's saying. I hate 50 Cent's mumbling style and lame rhymes. </p>
<p>There are many annoying trends in music right now, and thug rap is just one of them. Others include:</p>
<p>1) Pretty boy "punk" bands whining about how some one-night-stander broke their paper hearts.</p>
<p>2) Disney-sponsored starlets who are even less vocally gifted than Britney Spears.</p>
<p>3) Kelly Clarkson and her indistinguishable songs du jour.</p>
<p>To cowgirlatheart: I love your screen name. I'm not much of a country fan or an Eric Clapton fan. For some reason, I don't like the voices of male country singers. I like some female country singers, but not a lot. My favorite country songs at the moment..even though they are kind of old are "In my Daughter's Eyes" by Martina McBride, this other song ..I really don't know the title or the person who sang it the song , but goes like this..(" her daddy said he wasn't worth a lick...when it came to brains he got the short end of the stick..she is in love with a boy...she's a love with a boy, and even if she has to run away..she's gonna marry that boy someday"), and also "Rosemary's Grandaughter"?? not sure if that is the title..but it says it a lot in the chorus.</p>
<p>To coqui: I like your screen name,too.. Believe it or not, I actually have a cousin who's name is Coqui (it's W. African). My favorite song from the Mambo Kings is "Beautiful Maria". I did not know Shakira was half lebonese. Even though, I am not hispanic, I love the old school latin music. I liked the Spanish version of "Eyes like yours" (Ojas asi). The middle eastern beat is really great. In fact the Spanish "Ojas Asi" got me into bellydancing, and till this day, I use that song to do my warm-ups. Alejandro Sanz's voice is amazing to me. It sounded so expressive in "la tortura", it made me want to listen to his other songs. I haven't heard of robi draco rosa's spanglish album "mad love", I might just give it a listen.</p>
<p>To nbachris: I hate the trends,too. But, I liked the song "Addicted" by Kelly Clarkson, it was different than all her other songs..but she never released it. Her record label probably thought that the public might not like and might think it's too raw.</p>
<p>Punk bands don't cry about girls breaking their hearts. That's known as emo. Think of emo as the gangster rap of punk. It's not what punk started out as, and it ****es off people that are into old school punk.</p>
<p>first off all.. rap is the greatest music ever. Candy shop is a great song.. especially for making out.. all of these rappers are great because they've done it and been there. Its REAL music.</p>
<p>Don't even try and tell me all these rappers have been there. Most of them haven't. That type of rap music is simply a facade. It's like pro wrestling, not real at all.</p>