Originally posted by Arctic
I dont like rap simply because its not my kind of music, I dont bash people who like it.
I like that.
A lot of rap today SUCKS. Actually, I shouldnt say that. A lot of pop today SUCKS. Underground music is still not bad, and there're some real mcs out there, such as Lupe (please don't front, he's a good lyracist) and the man Nas.
Rap is misrepresented by the bowwows and Puffys in many ways. One, people who believe that there's no skill have a point.
Actually rapping isnt that hard. the real rapping thing is two things: Good writing and a nice standup show.
Guys like Nas, Lupe and even Kanye west have sick writing, which they do themselves. Nas is next level because what he says is deep and all those guys have music other than the easy buck (thats drugs, woman, cars, money, bling).
Most bigtime rappers buy g.writers to put togethor a sloppy club banger, then buy a couple hot beats, ride radio and club play, then disappear. That's the rap most people hate so much. I hate it too. With a passion.
Listen to old rap, for one thing, and listen to stuff not found in a club or on the radio. Old Talib Kweli, for example. Dude has a pretty pop sound sometimes, so he's a good way to enter the genre.
And btw, rapper's musicians do get props. Producers, for instance. And ts not that hard to look in the album sleeve for the singers or the musicians, then to google them.
Please dont hate on rap just because the radio SUCKS.
Yeah the radio isnt that good. I mean they have some stuff I like on it like Nickelback, because their mainstream and they play some of their ballads. (I like nickelback, so shoot me.) But the rap and hip-hop that come on are really bad.
crazy
I think there was a rapper named Tone Loke (thats what it sounds like I dont know how to spell it) that I kind of liked, even though I'm not a rap/hip-hop person. He was pretty good.
dunno Loke (maybe I do, just not the name... gonna go look that up)
But yea, sometimes a gem leaks onto the radio, but generaly, its all Chingy bs. You pretty much have to dig for real artists.
All the negativity kills me. I don't really listen to rock much, but I know that there is more diversity evident (underground, rap is really diverse). The garbage the bigup in the media is all the same, and it all is negative. Never talks about nothing. Look back at oldschool stuff especially, and you'll get it.