Author Topic: Whether You Like Rap or Not  (Read 2941 times)

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Re: Whether You Like Rap or Not
« Reply #25 on: January 12, 2007, 10:43:40 PM »
You guys got it all wrong.  Hip hop is a way of life, a culture.  Rap music is a part of that culture.  DJing, MCing, graffiti, and breakdancing are other elements of the hip hop culture.

Rap music is rap music.
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Re: Whether You Like Rap or Not
« Reply #26 on: January 13, 2007, 09:02:11 AM »
its called, downloading, and bootleggin'.

Most Hip-Hop CD's sell big the first week. Then drop off sharply. You see most music, not just rap music is crap these days, it indicative of American culture and where America is headed...to the crapper.

Why would you buy a CD with only 2 playable tracks of ot 16-18 tracks, and the CD is like $12-$18. That is alot of cash for 2 songs. I 'd rather download those two songs. If more artists had quality albums a la  Leon Ware, Maxwell, Marvin Gaye, more people would fork over money for the CD's.

All about money, and most CD's today regardless of genre are the musical equivalent to fastfood. That's why I started listening to Cuban and Brazilain music

I'll let you in on a secret, most music has always been crap. The stuff from the past that you listen to is the top 10%. The rest has been forgotten.

I agree with you about downloading, but bootlegging has always existed. An 80% drop indicates a deeper problem, basically that rap has become tiresome, with no one doing anything new.

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Re: Whether You Like Rap or Not
« Reply #27 on: January 13, 2007, 04:26:43 PM »
I'll let you in on a secret, most music has always been crap. The stuff from the past that you listen to is the top 10%. The rest has been forgotten.

I agree with you about downloading, but bootlegging has always existed. An 80% drop indicates a deeper problem, basically that rap has become tiresome, with no one doing anything new.

I agree. Why does 99% of today's music suck ass? Because image means more then musical substance. The music industry has been taken over by the marketers and all they care about is putting shit into a nice box and having you believe its the best thing since sliced bread.

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Re: Whether You Like Rap or Not
« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2007, 04:52:51 PM »
Gayer than starting a thread about how much of a pimp another man is.  ::)
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Re: Whether You Like Rap or Not
« Reply #29 on: January 13, 2007, 07:09:05 PM »
I agree with you about downloading, but bootlegging has always existed. An 80% drop indicates a deeper problem, basically that rap has become tiresome, with no one doing anything new.

all about image. As long as one can sell a tough or urban image, which is why Justin Timberfake is doing well and won best R& B album at the People Choice awards (No Anthony Hamilton, WTF) . When there are only three top MC's in the game (Jay Z, Nas, Kanye) and Jay had to come back, it shows that there is significant lack of talent. Everybody has started this sing-songy shit, like they are singing a rap song instead of just spitting some rhymes, Young Gees' somes to mind.  Some of these guys should realize that they are better at producing than MCing