Music Rap/Hip-Hop Music

I was wondering how many people in this forum listens to Rap/Hip-Hop. What do think about it? You like it? Do you hate it? Have you never heard a single rap/hip-hop song before?

 

I don't like it. I used to listen to it a good few years ago, but I stoped liking it altogether once I got into metal. I voted I hate it, although I think that's a bit harsh.

 

I like it. But sometimes they just play a song to much and turn it to crap, or some songs sound to much alike, or some just really suck.

 

'course they are

i like some hip hop,. don't like the new "gangsta rap" stuff, it's all very samey.. nothing incredibly original there, but some of the older stuff is good

and I like some ICP, and of course the beastie boys are just brilliant

 

I like hip-hop. Not all though.

agreeing with Odanga_Rose there.
Some people just need to stop when they try to stop.

 

Eh, I don't really like rap/hip-hop. Beastie Boys is really the only thing I find tolerable. As one of my friends said... "I have another name for rap; it's called 'theft"... and as another said... "Pretty soon, Puff Daddy is going to start having to rip off his own songs". I don't know, just thought they were funny. ^^

 

THEN THERE IS ME.... im i hip-hop and rap junky

Actually i listen to everything, except country and pop(which i think is the worst music in the world) but rap is my favorite

Old skool, east-coast, west-coast, dirtysouth, midwest, ... everything

 

First of all, there's a different between rap and hip-hop. Not all hip-hop music has rap in it. A lot of hip-hop music, such as breakbeats and turntablism, are really cool. Rap itself is getting too stereotyped these days. People are thinking that ALL rap has to have swearing and gangstah talk about killing, etc., but that's far from the truth. Besides, gangstah rap has been played out for years anyway. A lot of hybrid R&B-rap songs are pretty good, like ones where there's catchy singing alternating with rap verses.

Then there's the booty-dance kind of music that gets played on hip-hop stations all the time. Most of them aren't that good, and a lot of rappers are overrated (like 50 Cent), but we STILL need those kinds of songs for dancing at clubs! Think about it--basic night clubs (not techno or reggae kind) need a good amount of new raunchy rap/dance songs now and then to add to the mix of past hits.

 

My dad once called the genre "hip-hop bip-bop flip-flop crap". That's a direct quote.
Anyway, I like a bit of hip-hop bip-bop flip-flop crap now and again. Mostly Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg (only his old stuff, though), 2Pac and Eminem. Whenever someone's in my room and such a song comes on, they always seem so shocked by it, which seems odd to me, because I have just about every other genre out there ...
Most rap-type stuff these days is pure garbage, though. It's just people rapping about how much money they have, and how they use this money to buy big fancy chains and to get a lot of ho's. And then people buy this song about their money, chains and ho's, which gives the rappers more money, which they in turn use to get more money, chains and ho's. Then they make a song about their new money, new chains and new ho's, and the cycle continues.
The greatest name for a rap station:
In Canada - CRAP
In America - KRAP

 

I agree with what Novus said....can't stand Rap...

 

I personally dont like it all that well...i mean, there are some songs that i do like but most of them, i despise. anyway that is my opinion...heh

 

Although Beastie Boys rap, I don't consider them to be into hip-hop itself. They're better described as "white rap."

You know, most people who put something down, don't even know much about it.

 

"White Rap"? Explain. I assume you mean because they aren't black. Is that really an issue?

 

No, not just cuz they're not black. You see, hip-hop is a culture, a way of life, not just music. In hip-hop, there's a certain way of posing/walking, speaking with a certain kind of accent (ebonics), a way of dressing, outlook at life, the way you handle certain situations... the car you drive, the places you hang out, etc. So yeah, a person's race doesn't really matter, but if there's enough of your ethnicity mixed in with the hip-hop, then you have a different kind of thing going on. In the Beastie Boys' case, since they mix rap with their "white" accents and styles, and also have lots of songs without any rap (like some of their zany/fun-sounding songs), some people consider their stuff to be "white rap" when they do rap. I'd say they're much more "white rap" than someone whose more serious into hip-hop, like Bubba Sparks or Eminem. Some guys at my school who were into punk, acid, and rock considered Limp Bizkit to be "just white rap" too.

 

I'm sorry, but that's a load of utter and total balls. Music isn't who you are, it's what you play or what you listen to. You can have all the stupid-*** hip-hop attitude you want, but you know what we call people like that around here? Posers. Either that, or TRYING TOO ****ING HARD!
And explain to me how LIMPBIZKIT (to use the current official spelling) could be considered even CLOSE to rap, other than maybe N 2 Gether Now or Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle).

 

Bringing up the concept of posers, yeah there are lots of posers out there. But don't you think that music is connected to culture? Otherwise, you're saying that music is just something we listen to or play, not something we can attach ourselves to the way punkers, ravers, hip-hoppers, rockers, and teenie-boppers do. Yeah, there are posers, but some people really ARE into musical cultures.

I didn't say LimpBizkit is rap (and I wouldn't call them a rap group), cuz overall I think it's clear that they're a rock & rap hybrid style. But I did say that people think of them as "just white rap." "Just" white rap, meaning they're not much, (not true hip-hop), but only so much--"just" something. Don't blame me for the concept of "white rap"--I simply explained it to the best of my knowledge to show that it's not exclusively a racial thing. We could say that definite white rap comes from posers (white guys just acting). You could probably find out what it really means by searching around or getting deeper into the music scene. Overall I think that simply taking something seriously makes you NOT a poser. I mean, how else are we supposed to seriously like something without being called a poser? I don't suppose you have to grow up around a certain culture in order to not be a poser of it.

Mordeth, exiztone, and Zack mentioned liking The Beastie Boys as a rap group. I wonder what they have to say about "white rap."