Who's sick of rap music?

[coqui]

<p>someone’s ignorant…</p>

[British_Chick]

<p>Oooohhhh!I take it your a rap fan coqui</p>

[coqui]

<p>well, i’m a fan of good rap, like common and others that have been named. however, saying that “It’s all the same.” is inaccurate and plain ignorant.</p>

[RickF]

<p>that is pretty much true. i hope you don’t listen to rap, hear the black music and just think it’s “gangsta music”. do you actually listen to rap or just skim through it?</p>

[coqui]

<p>who me? ////</p>

[ivybound1010]

<p>alrite theres been talk about eminem so i wanted to put in my 2 cents
a lot of u seem to respect eminem a lot and i find that very disturbing
i used to be a huge eminem fan back in 6th grade when marshall mathers lp came out and that stuff from before i admit is very honest and good rap but the recent stuff i dont like too much except for mockingbird
eminem is definitely a good rapper when hes honest and stuff just very disturbing but he does have lyrical talent unlike his little protege 50 who keeps singing all the time lol
but i dont understand why u guys have so much respect for him
oh he made it big, he came from nothing - oh big deal…plenty of people have done this, plenty of rappers, and plenty of important ppl - eminem just made a huge movie about his life (which is pretty inaccurate actually lol) and his whole thing is about coming from nothing but i just dont see how ppl respect him…go respect ur doctor or something not some whiteboy making it big as a rapper
haha thats my 2 cents
and btw mase i like just cuz hes different and very chill idk but its cool</p>

[apmcavoy]

<p>I don’t hate it, I’m just sick of it. To me, it does sound all the same. Probably because I listen to rock.</p>

[British_Chick]

<p>Im with you on that one coqui!!But I do also think 8 mile was a something Eminem should put in his book of regrets.</p>

[hurdlesrock]

<p>rap is da bess stuf yo…wut yall talkin abou…eminem is tyte…aiite peace…im outt…lol</p>

[British_Chick]

<p>Lol!!! ;-d</p>

[vu_preuss_06]

<p>Wow hurdlesrock… no one ever uses “yo” in their writing, maybe when they’re speaking. I think a lot of times it depends on what type of music you were raised on. I particularly like rap, the kind with rhymes that have meaning. You have to respect the lives some of these people have gone through, such as tupac, nas, biggy, and even some of bone thugz stuff. I repsect it way more than some of the stuff punk bands put on radio. For the record, I’m a classical musician (piano and trumpet) raised for all 16 years of my life in the ghetto (I know, weird blend).</p>

[coqui]

<p>well i love good rap to, and a little meaningless hip hop is fun to dance to, but RESPECT is a strong word. i don’t respect any rappers, since i dont really know them. they could’ve gone throught hell and back but i wouldn’t respect them for it. i mean i’d think he/she went through a respectable amount of pain and all, but i still wouldn’t respect them as a person, simply because i don’t know them.</p>

[RC0813]

<p>I’m going to have to go ahead and repost what I said on earlier in this thread, as I feel like those who “hate all rap” have just skimmed over everything we here have said.</p>

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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.”

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50 is a lazy excuse for rap. I’m sorry, but he’s untalented, riding this “i got shot a lot so im credible” thing way too far, his voice is just irritating, he recycles all his beats, I mean come on. Check out Madvillain - Madvillainy for one example of something new, fresh and REAL. Last year, MF Doom and Madlib got together and produced an incredible, fun, unique album. The beats are an amalgam of 50’s jazz and modern hip-hip, it’s really incredible. And MF Doom’s short, raw rhymes are just plain funny and carefree.</p>

<p>Or look at any and every album by A Tribe Called Quest; their light-hearted political and modern social messages are backed by beats that are purely classic. They are what started so much of what’s around today, and they rarely if ever curse and never ever degrade women (“Now my aura’s positive and I don’t promote no junk”); they’re actually INTELLIGENT in what they have to say–you’ll actually want to hear what they have to say!

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