Does anyone listen to rap here?

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I would slap anybody in the face if they say Soulja Boy, Huricane Chris, or any other crap is better than this song. I agree that 98 percent of rap nowadays sucks.Some of the only good rap artists I can think of would be Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Coolio, and a few others.

Everytime I hear somebody yell "YOUUUUUUU", I yeall "NOOOOOOOO"

That song is the story of my life.

And mine, too. I wish I am really 81 inches and maybe taller.

I realy am not into a lot of music, and rap is one of my least favirout, though heavy metal and stuff are even lower to me. There are some good tunes, but realy what is the use of hearing some of the swear fests, and them bragging about their money and h##s. Though I already have had a huge conversation about this on another site, and I have no right to insult another favirout genre.

nothing will make me wig out faster(and not in a good way) than rap turned up!

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Man, why can't there be more rap like this nowadays?

The 90's feel was so great. I even remember the feud between Biggie Smalls and Tupac.

Great clip, Kilroy.

The only rap that I listen to is rap with a capital C.

yes but only 2-3 like cheek and leijona...i love leijona [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4zdZadBXk&feature=related[/youtube] allrigth onks jengi messis? se on huput päähän ja menoksi nyt ...

I used to like rap when it was funny.

Digital Underground, Biz Markie, The Fat Boys, Slick Rick, DMC, LL Cool J, Dre, Snoop... good stuff.

The new songs are all boring and derivative. How many songs about pimping do we really need?

All the Weird Al references and nobody mentions Amish Paradise? For shame.

if your all basing your impressions of rap on the corporate stuff that gets played on the radio then yes, it probably is pretty dire.

However theres a vibrant underground hip-hop movement, always has been and while the major labels were bust dumbing it down in the US the real stuff has been steadily diversifying & spreading across the world.

Thanks... I am now more appreciative of the newest and coolest rap outside the Big Four record companies...

I grew up listening to rap all my life. I still listen to rap, but most of today's raps I only listen to because of the beats. Today's lyrics sucks, and I'm getting sick of all these fake gangstas and hustlas out here. Me, being originally from Chicago, IL and growing up in Cabrini Green, one of the hardest housing projects in the world, it's downright embarrassing to have people who haven't lived the street life, or in most cases, never even lived in the hood, acting like they're hardcore. I mean, I listen to hardcore stuff too, but I only listen to the ones who've actually lived that life. I also find the tough-guy acts, the misogynistic, homophobic and other hateful attitudes in today's raps appalling. And please don't get me started on beefs, we'll be here all damn night........

As far as lyricism goes, I turn to Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West, two of my favorite artists right now. I also listen to Common, Blue Scholars and other underground stuff. Lyrically, I relate to Lupe better than all of the rappers I've listened to though. I dunno, I just have a love/hate relationship with rap music. I wish it would get back to the golden age of the late 80's and early 90's, back when it was all about having fun and meaning it. Today's party raps have beats that sound like it would fit more with being featured in a horror movie than with partying.

It's funny that I used to be an aspiring rapper/producer too. But I'm similar to Lupe and Kanye in my lyrics. Not by style, but ideas. I'm very likeminded to them, and today's corporate world are scared of different ideas, and artists who don't act tough. One day, one of my mom's friends, who is connected in the music business, told me that there's nothing wrong with being "commercial", and with all due respect to him, I wanted to curse him out when he said that. You can tell the average rapper who just wants fame and fortune that, but I never wanted to be a rapper for those reasons. My integrity is too great to cave in to performing commercial crap. What used to drive me is the fact that I'd probably be the voice of autism and through my music, to raise more conscience into what we go through daily, but because of how bad the business is getting, I'm not sure that even motivates me to rap anymore. I'd rather just be a producer nowadays, and not those big-name kinds that appear in all their clients' music videos either.

Sorry for the long post, but I HAD to get all that off my chest. I'll admit I got a little heated posting my feelings about today's music.

But the truth is, no matter what is it packaged as, societal norms are always questioned in music and there will always be sex or violence in music, be it hip hop or whatsoever. Oh yeah, add materialism in...

Maybe we just need more awareness of alternative music?