So what are your views on rap ?

So who here likes rap.

And for the people that dislike it, why do you dislike it.

Just curious.

*in before "retards attempting poetry"

I can't say I follow too closely (then again I don't follow any genre real closely these days), but like any genre there's good and there's bad.

I like pretty much any genre as long as it's good, its very rare for there to be a good rap song.

One of my favorite genres of music that has a very bad rep due to mainstream R&B wanna be crap that floods the radio.

its very rare for there to be a good rap song.toast_burner

How so? There are over 20 sub-genres of rap out there. 99.9% of what is on mainstream TV is basically one, or at most two sub-genres. The rest are out there. Search, brother.

Pre late 90's = Good.

Post 2000 = unspeakably god awful.

depends, and I don't want to hear any "back in the day rap was good" rubbish

Pre late 90's = Good.

Post 2000 = unspeakably god awful.

Alter_Echo

Nah, that's what i tought myself a wile ago. MTV is ***, but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcjtVtEmLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYX441WERk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBCajh2g5E (Nas sings about he's dead mother, stuff made me shed a tear)

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]its very rare for there to be a good rap song.Lucianu

How so? There are over 20 sub-genres of rap out there. 99.9% of what is on mainstream TV is basically one, or at most two sub-genres. The rest are out there. Search, brother.

[QUOTE="Alter_Echo"]

Pre late 90's = Good.

Post 2000 = unspeakably god awful.

Lucianu

Nah, that's what i tought myself a wile ago. MTV is ***, but

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcjtVtEmLA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYX441WERk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siBCajh2g5E (Nas sings about he's dead mother, stuff made me shed a tear)

[QUOTE="Lucianu"]

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]its very rare for there to be a good rap song.toast_burner

How so? There are over 20 sub-genres of rap out there. 99.9% of what is on mainstream TV is basically one, or at most two sub-genres. The rest are out there. Search, brother.

What can we do if on TV most of the times there's only like 1 or 2 sub-genres that get's aired?

That's why you would want to search for it. I mean.. if i were to want something, i'm gonna spread my hand and grab it. It's gonna fall in your hands. :P

[QUOTE="Lucianu"]

[QUOTE="toast_burner"]its very rare for there to be a good rap song.toast_burner

How so? There are over 20 sub-genres of rap out there. 99.9% of what is on mainstream TV is basically one, or at most two sub-genres. The rest are out there. Search, brother.

Actually very little music released gets signifigant airplay, so stastically speaking the stuff you hear on radion/TV/etc is the rare stuff.

Depends on who's doing it.

No really. The last rap album i was totally floored by was illmatic which was released in 1994 before half of the people posting here were even alive. 99% of everything since then is AT BEST a solid hook with a good beat and ultimately forgettable in every way.Alter_Echo

My first rap album ever bought was a european disk from one of my country's rap groups. Around '95.. i suck at recalling stuff from my past.

Anyway, i honestly can't add on that, since it would be a waste a time, since it's your experience and you're never gonna agree, but what i can do is say that 99% is stretching it toooooooo much, it's not even funny.

You're honestly going to tell me, with a damn straight face, that 99% of every rap album since the mid 90's 'till now was ultimately forgettable?

Maybe from around 2005-2010.. That i would agree with.

All I know I am a 2Pac fan. Used to listen to him when I was a kid back in the 90's. Those were the days. 8)

I'm not really a fan of rap. I can't really relate to what most rappers are singing about and I like there to be a greater emphasis on musicality than rap offers.

Most pretty bad, some very very good.

its one of my favorite genres.

I just never liked it.

Rap being released today is horrible. All the good rap comes from the 90s. Tu Pac, Biggy,Wu Tang, Cypress Hill, 90s Snoop etc etc

the only single hip-hop I listen to is OFWGKTA.

Hipster rap FTW

There's good hip-hop and bad hip-hop. Did I blow your mind?

Not a fan, but some of the older rap is pretty good. I actually like Busta Rhymes. Have a couple of his albums.

the only single hip-hop I listen to is OFWGKTA.

Hipster rap FTW

iloverikku11

Sure, whatever. Not a real big fan of the rappers themselves, but I do like myself some Kid Cudi every once in a while.

One of my fav genre's. And I'm talking about RAP, NOT lil wayne/drake. chrisrooR

Thank you^

i used to love lil wayne drake and all of young money but really there are garbage. im not the kind of underground guy who rejects anything mainstream. eminem and kanye west, two amazing rappers

I love me some Jay-Z :D

I dont like todays Rap. I listen too the Old-School only. I really cant stand Rap from the south.

I love rap especially if i can hear all the words clear and rap along with it.

Not a style of music that I'm very familiar with. I'm aware that some very impressive examples exist but like any musical genre most of what you see on TV or hear on the radio is commercial garbage.

Rap it is just not for me, I don't other people listening to it though.