Rap music, yeah!
Nah not really.
Just like to ask if anyone knows when the substitute for music commonly known as (C)rap music will ever die?
Also why is it still here when it's now anything but fresh and who actually buys it?
And if you are someone who likes it then what is it you find rewarding about listening to it?
Just like to ask if anyone knows when the substitute for music commonly known as (C)rap music will ever die?
Also why is it still here when it's now anything but fresh and who actually buys it?
And if you are someone who likes it then what is it you find rewarding about listening to it?
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It depends. I like some rapping, but not when it has constant overkill swearing. Take these lyrics from a Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne song:
Overkill.
(And mods, don't ban me for posting this, I'm using it as an example of swearing in raps.)
It's not just a case of overkill, it just foul with zero redeeming qualities, designed to make you feel what? Shocked?Titillated?Nauseas? It's like someone whacking your head against a brick wall repeatedly. Eventually you're going to get numb and lose the will to live.
It's so sad to live in a country that had such a wonderful and emotional musical legacy that can move your soul to be reduced to listening to the crudest, inarticulate rubbish some twonk could ever invent.
Imagine listening to that crap after listening to Mary Hopkin or the Stone Roses or Enya or the Jesus and Mary Chain or anything you like.
How would you honestly rate it then?
Most if it for me sounds much the same.
There's nothing new about it, it's been around for years.
Here's a modern version of a 65 year-old old tune with a "rap" vocal.
This I do like. It's a vocal version of a saxaphone solo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxriapsDes
See what you mean about the 'rap' vocal except that the girl is actually signing. With a perfectly lovely voice too.
That piece is not exactly my cup of tea but i enjoyed it anyhow and it goes to prove the point the music should be a human pleasure to be savoured and not rammed in your face like someone's ass with a gun pointing out of it
Of course she is singing, it's more like "Scat" singing, but with a written lyric.
It's written around the chords of "I'm in the Mood For Love," but not the refrain.
it's because many rap artists can't sing you get what you get.
I'm remember Public Enemy and Tupac and some other rap that had a message but those days are long gone. I remember when they had intelligent, sharp meaningful and funny as **** lyrics, one of which I was going to fondly narrate before I remembered that even quoting the n word is off limits to the likes of me. Of course the rappers are welcomed to use it to death.
The music industry will never promote any positive, uplifting or truly rebellious music anymore.
And it's got to be largely down to the consumer who sucks up all the hoes, butts and guns etc garbage
Doh, rap artists that can't sing, I am shocked!!! Lol
Maybe they should try different occupations, like appearing in the Daily Mail slebs strip cartoon every day. oh what a minute....
Like that girl's voice but it will get better as she matures.
She's Spanish, twenty and plays trumpet, alto and soprano sax to a professional standard.
She has a wide vocal range.
This her at eighteen, vocals and trumpet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSCaGOvbPL4
On alto sax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYINPAqZn0
There are certainly many people in the black community who are opposed to the reclaiming and common use of the word in music.
Which is hardly the fault of the artists who do make good Hip Hip.
Plenty of Hip Hip could be considered to be in your face, confrontational and controversial, like other styles of music too. I wouldn't say that would be what makes it bad.
There's no reason why an MC needs to be able to sing. Most singers can't rap. You don't have to play the piano to be a guitarist.
'Places flame retardant vest on'
how strange... i was thinking the very same thing!
its been around over 30 years, and i dont get the appeal, outside its american/black roots.
personally, i hate it, i dont get it, it says nothing to me whatsoever.
I like a lot of rap, always have. But i suspect i'd be out of place on this thread in that respect ..
It's the idiots who rap over backing tracks and clapping beats I can't stand.
Rap was fairly tolerable in the 70s and 80s, until Public Enemy rebranded it into a 'political' tool - ie, loads of swearing and aggression. I acknowledge that plenty will proclaim their particular 'brilliance', but it's not for me I'm afraid.
Here's Mae West rapping in the 70s in her 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6HBqcoEyTg
Wow. Just wow.
Why do I need to find it rewarding to listen to music? Also why do I need to justify that decision to you? You don't like rap music, don't listen to it.
Nope, I agree with you as I'm sure quite a few people will as well.
However I fear I may be in the minority when I state that Will Smith is still one of my favourite rap artists.
Grandstanding like that makes me think you've probably listened to two rap records in your entire life
It's the lifeblood of the music snob - to criticise and complain about the genres they don't like and claim the genres they do like are "real" or "proper" music.
To be more accurate, I was a serial nerdy chart enthusiast in two periods, firstly from 1986 to 1992, and then 1996 to about 2005/6. And I did perceive a distinct, unpalatable change in the rap/hip-hop genre in those two periods, and from the dipping in and out since then I know has not only endured but been exacerbated. I know there's the argument that the mainstream doesn't reflect the 'true' scene, but I didn't claim to be basing my post on anything else.
This is true, but the end result could be as discordant to some, as is rap, if they can't.
(Many can).