So tell me what you dislike about Rap / Hip Hop

36_Chambers36_Chambers Posts: 944
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Now im a big fan of hiphop, been listening to it for 20 years and it seems the one genre of music that people who dont actually listen to it feel the need to discard it as rubbish.

So first off tell me if your a fan Yes or No

either way please tell us why you dislike it so much.

Do you like rap / hip hop music? 160 votes

yes i love it
32% 52 votes
no its rubbish
67% 108 votes
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  • potatolegspotatolegs Posts: 5,099
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    A fan of some but some of the lyrics that they use when they want another line to rhyme aren't actually words and just weird sounds and that stinks of lazy song-writing, cough Nicki Minaj.
  • BerBer Posts: 24,562
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    Like a lot of the early rap and hiphop where the artists spoke about genuine social issues.

    Don't like the pimp my ho bitches type of stuff.
  • adopteradopter Posts: 11,937
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    This is like one of those cards with This Is True on one side and This Statement On The Other Side Of This Card Is False on the other.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 22,736
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    I love Cypress Hill but find everything else unbearable.
  • rick182rick182 Posts: 11,092
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    sounds the same to me
  • Flat MattFlat Matt Posts: 7,023
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    It is complete and utter shite that will be quickly forgotten when it is no longer cool.

    You certainly won't find any of the classic radio stations playing it 20 years from now.
  • LushnessLushness Posts: 38,131
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    It used to be good but now :( it's a mess

    eta there is some good stuff around but you have to dig deep. I love what The Alchemist does - he is a very talented producer.
  • 36_Chambers36_Chambers Posts: 944
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    It is complete and utter shite that will be quickly forgotten when it is no longer cool.

    You certainly won't find any of the classic radio stations playing it 20 years from now.

    here we go!

    Are you suggesting its a fad?
  • Flat MattFlat Matt Posts: 7,023
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    here we go!

    Are you suggesting its a fad?

    No, I'm suggesting that it's shit.
  • BrooklynBoyBrooklynBoy Posts: 10,595
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    It is complete and utter shite that will be quickly forgotten when it is no longer cool.

    You certainly won't find any of the classic radio stations playing it 20 years from now.

    Except it has been around for over 30 years.

    Basically you just don't like it and that's fair enough. It isn't going away anytime soon though.
  • adopteradopter Posts: 11,937
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    It is complete and utter shite that will be quickly forgotten when it is no longer cool.

    You certainly won't find any of the classic radio stations playing it 20 years from now.

    Is that how you measure the longevity of music?

    I don't listen to much radio but I don't think I've ever heard Dark Side Of The Moon given an outing on the radio. Let alone It Takes A Nation Of Millions.
  • kimotagkimotag Posts: 11,064
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    It is complete and utter shite that will be quickly forgotten when it is no longer cool.

    You certainly won't find any of the classic radio stations playing it 20 years from now.

    That's what they said back in the 80's:D
  • 36_Chambers36_Chambers Posts: 944
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    Flat Matt wrote: »
    No, I'm suggesting that it's shit.

    all subjective surely you agree.
  • dekafdekaf Posts: 8,398
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    I like some of it, but it's the attitude of the rapper that gets up my nose.
  • j4the1j4the1 Posts: 664
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    I'm a fan of conscious rap/hip hop.

    Artist like Dead Prez, Talib Kwali, Afura, Common, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Black thought.

    But you lot in here wouldn't know anything about real hip hop.
  • 36_Chambers36_Chambers Posts: 944
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    dekaf wrote: »
    I like some of it, but it's the attitude of the rapper that gets up my nose.

    can you elborate on that please?
  • 36_Chambers36_Chambers Posts: 944
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    j4the1 wrote: »
    I'm a fan of conscious rap/hip hop.

    Artist like Dead Prez, Talib Kwali, Afura, Common, Mos Def, Immortal Technique, Black thought.

    But you lot in here wouldn't know anything about real hip hop.

    i guess your the only fan of real hip hop on this site then :rolleyes:
  • LiamforkingLiamforking Posts: 1,641
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    Misogynistic horrible sounding garbage.
  • LushnessLushness Posts: 38,131
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    i guess your the only fan of real hip hop on this site then :rolleyes:

    Indeed, what a way to generalise! :D
  • tremetreme Posts: 5,445
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    I loved it back in the day. Public Enemy, KRS-1, JVC Force, NWA, Afrika Bambaata, Cypress Hill, LL Cool J etc. The eighties and early nineties stuff.
  • BerBer Posts: 24,562
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    Misogynistic horrible sounding garbage.

    Its sad that people only know that side of the genre
  • TakaeTakae Posts: 13,555
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    Except it has been around for over 30 years.

    Some have argued it's older than that. Granted, it wasn't recognised as a genre until the mid-1970s, but they could trace the origins to the 1920s through the histories of scat singing and similar techniques.

    (I don't know much about this genre, but I met a couple of music historians, with an interest in the U.S. history of this genre, who talked about it a lot. :D The British history of a similar genre is interesting in its own right, but I digress.)
  • BerBer Posts: 24,562
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    treme wrote: »
    I loved it back in the day. Public Enemy, KRS-1, JVC Force, NWA, Afrika Bambaata, Cypress Hill, LL Cool J etc. The eighties and early nineties stuff.

    We play public enemy to keep the kid quiet - he heard harder than you think so many times after he was born that it must have invaded his subconsious :D
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 14,920
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    ft - the phrase that killed music.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 264
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    I'm not a massive fan of it, but I do quite like some of the stuff, particularly some of Eminem's more angry songs.

    The thing that really bugs me, and it's the same with rock/metal (which I love and is my kind of music) is the complete over-reaction people have if you get a genre wrong.

    I'll say something innocent like "Oh I quite like Dizze Rascall, he's a good rapper" and some butt-hurt fan will go "STFU N00nZ He's a F@ckin GRIME Arteest!!" or something stupid like that. I'm listening to him aren't I, just be pleased about that.
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