Rap?

[Crunk415balla]

For every 20 rap songs that come out now, I probably only like 2 or 3. Even I think most of the songs are getting stupid.("I'm in love with a stipper"? C'mon! ) I love the Ying Yang Twins, and no I'm not going with the crowd, I've followed them since 2000 when no one west of Atlanta had heard of them. However, I am dissapointed in their new songs, I see "Miss New Booty" has been mentioned. Since becoming radio hits, they have lost what made their music unique, the random loud noises and their style and all that kind of stuff. Now they're lyrics and voices are just fading into the Generic "Party Rap" image. I belive the term for what they're doing is "Selling out".

Anyway, as for what I do still like, Bay Area party rap. "Hyphie rap", has been around for years, but its just becoming known now. This rap is not violent, its just party music that gets you lose and gets you to go dumb. It actually makes you happy/hyper, and has no negitive images.(except mabey drinking, but hell, we all know what goes on at partys)

One great song, which you can check out if your interested, is the first "Hyphie" Song to make it Nationwide, "Tell Me when to Go"-by E-40, it pretty much explains what this whole Hyphie thing in the bay is about, and its a pretty clean cut song. I personally start bouncing whenever I hear the song, at school or wherever.

[DAL767-400ER]

I used to go through a rap/hip-hop phase a few years ago, but that has gone by. Nonetheless, there are still a few rappers that I like, like Eminem (mostly his goofy songs), Xzibit (guess that's partly due to "Pimp my ride"), some Ludacris (mostly goofy as well), and a few single songs here and there per artist (D12's "My Band", "Purple Hills"; Lil' Jon's "Get Low").
Other than that, most modern day rap annoys the f*ck out of me, particularly that super hardcore gangsta' rapper hustler 50' Cent (what a ridiculous name is that anyway?).
Now, early 90's old school rap, like Eazy-E, or some of the stuff from NWA or Dr Dre seperately, that is still pretty good, as it was more, how to say, truer to the real issues back then, and not always the same "I'll shot every guy and bang every b!tch" songs these days.

[screaming_emu]

I used to hate rap but now I like quite a bit of it. Not a big fan of a lot of the topics they sing about, but I like the way a lot of it sounds.

[JordanD]

I listen to it but it's not that "Bitch ho" stuff usually.

[KBOSv2]

Do you like rap music?

I like old-school 90's raps than lately raps. The new raps from the radio is boring. So, I pefer 90's raps.

I agree

Rap is for those who don't know real music.

Being a hip-hop fan I take some offense to that. However its obvious that you either A. Don't know what you're talking about or B. Are trying to push buttons. BTW, according to the dictionary rap is just as much music as any other genre.

The only rap song I like is Ememem "without me" everything else rap is pretty much stupid. Same goes for hip-hop.

That song isn't even that good. Have you ever listend to Talib Kweli? Wu Tang Clan? Boot Camp Click? Das Effects? KRS One? Rakim? NAS? Jay-Z? EdoG? Some old Ice Cube? Some old Dr.Dre? Ghostface? GZA? Outkast? Goodie Mobb? Mc Lyte? Pete Rock and Cl smooth? Method Man? Redman? The Beat Nuts? Big Pun? Lost Boyz? Tupac? Ghetto Boys?

My point is, you really should NOT judge hip-hop until you've listen to old school and under ground hip-hop, because thats what hip-hop really is, thats what makes up the majority of hip-hop, and thats the hip-hop that you wont hear on the radio or MTV.

I like music that has some theory and structure behind it

Ok then listen to some old school and under ground hip-hop

Here is an example of some fantastic MUSIC

[inspectah deck]
Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated, for those who ain't make it

Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves
Victims of wordly ways, memories stays engraved
All my live brothers, is locked down with high numbers
The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger
In this new world the order slaughter men, women, and children
Ten feet gates surround the building keep us sealed in
The projects, lifeless like a vietnam vet
Constant war, sever threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle, can't let my cypher crumble
Vivid thoughts, devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring, i did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase, performing a sting
It's hard to keep control, i bless those who seek a scroll
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
Not a role model, i walk a hard role to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
Their life and times, deadly like the virus design
But too, minute to dilute, the science is mine

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

[masta killa]
A voice cries from the wilderness of the north
A representation of the families that lost one
All victims of incarceration
Or other divisions of the family structure
Youths are injected with serums that leads
To skin irritations, babies being born with
Disfigurations, experimentations
On their faces there bear world relations
Of mothers that carry the pain
Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail
Fifth brothers been slain from hails of gun fire
It lightly begins to rain screams of terror
Are hidden by the passing trains
This can't be little shane, his uncle cried
As he drops to his nephew's side, holding his cane
Just give me a name, of who has inflicted this
Bitter sickness, and left us to witness

[u-god]
Yeah, yo
Curses from war, innocent blood spills for days
Soothe in godly ways, hands, solemn in praise
Tree of life, more precious than wu is golden game
The wise self flourish inherit, halls of fame
Crime visions in my blood got me, locked in prison
While we die hard living people whine about religion, vision
Blow, spin, and sin and killing what's revealing
It's a never ending battle with no ending or beginning, listen
Zero process, progress, become the hunted
America's most wanted, good life flaunted, want it
Some love the speed, some satisfy a need
Some want to be down, young gun seed, jungle breed
The stronger speed, someone die, someone bleed
One flew astray, and then caught my little seed
Can it be, the ice have us trife life, made me grab the knife
The righteous man would be within these stripes pipes
Take in my energy, breath and know the rest
Cause the good die young and the hard die best

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

[rza]
Y'all bitches love dances, and pulling down your pants
While your man's on tour, your spending up his advances
Your friends ain't shit, all they do is drink, smoke, and suck dick
The whole projects is trapped in stench
You either high school drop-outs, one to three cop-outs
Fifteen years old, shorty ass and top out
Ninety-nine cent beer drinking pussy stinking
Fucking so much your ass and titties start shrinking
New world order slave trade, minimum wage, medicaid
Can a devil fool a muslim nowadays
Inside my lab, i'm going mad
Took two drags off the blunts, and started breaking down the flag
The blue is for the crips, the red is for the bloods
The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignites, through the night, by the dawn
Early light, why is sons fighting for the stripe

[method man]
As we dwell through this concrete hell, calling it home
Mama say, take your time young man and build your own
Don't wind up like your old dad
Still searching for them glory days he never had
So many bad want to scheme for american dream, no more kings
The cash rule everything now, we going down
These babies looking up to us, it's up to us
The million man march mc's, get on the bus
But envy, greed, lust, and hate, separate
Though the devil mind state blood kin cannot relate
No longer, brothers, we unstable
Like kane when he slew abel, killing each other

You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
Fuck your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Cause your seeds grow up the same way

[uy707]

Rap is for those who don't know real music.

101 % with you and ready to multiply should you add techno (pum-pum-pum- for one hour, pong-pong-pong another monochordic sound set for another hour and so on)
Alain

[Star Alliance]

Ok then listen to some old school and under ground hip-hop

Here is an example of some fantastic MUSIC

[inspectah deck]
Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated, for those who ain't make it

Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves
Victims of wordly ways, memories stays engraved
All my live brothers, is locked down with high numbers
The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger
In this new world the order slaughter men, women, and children
Ten feet gates surround the building keep us sealed in
The projects, lifeless like a vietnam vet
Constant war, sever threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle, can't let my cypher crumble
Vivid thoughts, devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring, i did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase, performing a sting
It's hard to keep control, i bless those who seek a scroll
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
Not a role model, i walk a hard role to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
Their life and times, deadly like the virus design
But too, minute to dilute, the science is mine.....etc

You can have the most meaningful lyrics in the world, but I was reffering to the actual MUSIC component. Call me crazy, but I don't think that "Boom Boom, wika wiki" repeated 50 times over has an unbelieveable amount of theory or stucture in it.

[pkonowrocki]

101 % with you and ready to multiply should you add techno (pum-pum-pum- for one hour, pong-pong-pong another monochordic sound set for another hour and so on)
Alain

Alain, Techno is the music for young people (16-25) when they want to entertain and go to clubs to have fun, or drive around the area in a car, with this music on. Later you find better music such as classical etc.

[avro_arrow_25206]

Alain, Techno is the music for young people (16-25) when they want to entertain and go to clubs to have fun, or drive around the area in a car, with this music on. Later you find better music such as classical etc.

No, only for people like you who like the idea of permanent ear damange

[Crunk415balla]

Alain, Techno is the music for young people (16-25) when they want to entertain and go to clubs to have fun, or drive around the area in a car, with this music on. Later you find better music such as classical etc.

Around here the only thing the clubs play is rap, and thats usually what people bump in their cars too. But I guess thats mainly because rap is huge down here in the bay. Techno is cool too though, thats really the only other form of music that you can bounce around too and freak with girls as it plays. I like songs from every form of music, mostly rock, but you can't really do that type of dancing to those songs, in my opinion anyway.

[pkonowrocki]

Around here the only thing the clubs play is rap, and thats usually what people bump in their cars too. But I guess thats mainly because rap is huge down here in the bay. Techno is cool too though, thats really the only other form of music that you can bounce around too and freak with girls as it plays. I like songs from every form of music, mostly rock, but you can't really do that type of dancing to those songs, in my opinion anyway.

LOL. Here it depends. In the club I go to - Corona they only play Techno, Club, Trance etc. Also while driving I listen only to techno or news

[Greg J.]

You can't spell crap without rap....

I agree!

[PIAA310]

damnn KBOS had a whole presentation on why rap is like any other music and you guys STILL aren't convinced?? damn

Anyways, i don't mind rap, actually its good 'cause i turn that music up just to piss of my nieghbors when i'm driving by..

[Crunk415balla]

Anyways, i don't mind rap, actually its good 'cause i turn that music up just to piss of my nieghbors when i'm driving by..

I do that too!

[DAL767-400ER]

Anyways, i don't mind rap, actually its good 'cause i turn that music up just to piss of my nieghbors when i'm driving by..

Good method, though personally I prefer harder stuff for that , e.g. turning up the bass fully for "Old School Hollywood" by SOAD. The bass vibrations are enough to p!ss off the neighbors, and the loud music only adds to that.