rap haters Options

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If you totally hate rap give me 3 reasons why..

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Ok... everyone here is talking about mainstream rap.

Rap started off as something great. There was a message one time or another and it used to be more influential. Rappers spoke to the youth who were growing up in these ghettos hustling and what not and spoke about things they could relate to, things to give them hope, things to motivate/encourage them to do better things with their life. Their lyrics appealed to these young people going through hard times because they could identify with it. A lot of these rappers either grew up in it, witnessed it, or just knew a lot about it and just wanted to appeal to them or even just give others a glimpse of what its like in the "hood". Sometimes, it was just all about creating positive feel good music that "ghetto" youth could get down to to escape the negative environment they live in everyday. Then rap became more and more popular and a lot of rappers blew up and got rich, and now that's all that they can rap about because it sells. You have to understand that A LOT of these rappers came out of NOTHING or very little and now that they're making a lot of money, they're just trying to stick to the formula so that they continue to be rich, successful, and something instead of nothing... even if it means that now instead of being a positive influence, they've become negative and have "sold out" to hollywood and fame and are no longer being true to the streets.

Its sad. I grew up listening to rap and hip-hop music and it hasn't always been this materialistic, superficial, and immoral. But unfortunately, commercial rappers find this way to be the easiest way to make a buck and no longer try to appeal to the majority of their listeners, only to themselves and to those who live rich and famous lifestyles like them. Its the public's fault for buying this stuff...

Good thing there are still rappers who stay true to the roots of rap music and haven't sold out... Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, The Roots, etc. If you want to listen to good rap music, try listening to different artists.


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And everyone who says its not hard to "rap" are ignorant. You obviously know nothing about what goes into writing these verses, and just the whole style of delivering it. It's much more complicated than you think. Don't you think we'd all be rich right now if it really were that simple. There is an art to rapping, and MOST people don't know it well, including a lot of famous "rappers" themselves.

Alright....I totally understand what your talking about Roxanne(sp? sorry I'm not really awake this morning) But mainstream rap is basically all there is today. That's what everyone's reffering to. All 'mainstream' rappers talk about today is how women are 'hoes' and how they're 'pimps', 'Look I f*cked your girlfriend, I'm such a player' When did those words become part of everyday language? Are they in the dictionary?

I listened to rap and hip hop a few years back. Then rappers like 50 cent came along. So maybe he grew up in the ghetto, but EVERY song is about that. Some of the rappers didn't even grow up in the ghetto, but they still lie in their raps about 'how hard' life was. Yeah, how hard it was to have money and live in a somewhat NICE house. That's not the ghetto. The ghetto is usually a neighborhood that has a lot of crime. Full of gangs. Grafitti everywhere. When your scared of going outside cuz you might get jumped or something.

Hell, I LIVE in the ghetto. Last week there was a guy who stabbed someone and then drove down my street crashed into my neighbor's car and sped away. My school used to have HUGE gang problems in the area so we switched to uniforms. We can't have lockers cuz they think we have guns. My mom is afraid to let to ride my bike down to my aunt's house, which mind you is right down the street. Literally like 2-3 minutes on a bike. Now I want you to tell me where I live isn't a bad neighborhood. If someone rapped about something like that then you know what? that's fine.

That was a little off topic, but I'm just giving you an example.

U guys dont like rap because u guys dont know alot about rap..simple as that

You don't like my music and maybe you don't understand it. And that's okay. I don't understand why it's oh so important to rap about being a 'pimp' but okay...