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why is rap popular?
why has rap become so popular in the last 25 or so years? its utter braindead garbage.every song sounds the same.absolute trash.mind numbing drivel,monotonus with the whole genre repeating itself year after year.yet there are millions of idiots who like this tripe at the expense of loads of other good music.complete mystery.
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I will never understand the bashing against rap.It's not a genre that you can just hate.It's a seperate style to perform songs.You can either sing a song or rap a song!I have never heard of anyone saying "I'm so tired of singing.It's rubbish".If you want to slam a genre, then talk about hip hop, which is indeed a genre and not the overall style...
Anyway, to the actual topic, all I can say is "each to their own" and "different strokes for different folks".However, I somehow KNOW that when people talk about rapping being trash they are only taking mainstream rappers into account, like Jay-Z, Ludacris, Eminem, Kanye and even people like Pitbull and Flo Rida that are not even rappers to begin with.Well, newsflash: this is not what rap is all about and these 6-7 artists that you know of cannot define a whole genre, let alone the entire technique and style. |
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why has rap become so popular in the last 25 or so years? its utter braindead garbage.every song sounds the same.absolute trash.mind numbing drivel,monotonus with the whole genre repeating itself year after year.yet there are millions of idiots who like this tripe at the expense of loads of other good music.complete mystery.
for example, i love US Hiphop and some mainstream UK artists. but i cant really listen to UK Grime (mainly london rappers) because i just dont like it. besides - its not 'braindead garbage' and its not only 'idiots' who listen to it. and every song certainly does NOT sound the same. you are uneducated in modern music, and you sound extremely bitter!
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Rap hasn't deserved to be populer for the last decade, before then i'd understand, the 90's had Biggie, A tribe called quest, tupac, n.w.a, De la, the list of quality rappers could go on for ages. Now days the self proclaimed best rapper is Lil Wayne which makes the quote 'hip hop is dead' valid! Most of the 'artists' in the charts classed as rappers these days just seem to talk and use autotune to sound like little girls ... I think the word needs redefining!
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Rap hasn't deserved to be populer for the last decade, before then i'd understand, the 90's had Biggie, A tribe called quest, tupac, n.w.a, De la, the list of quality rappers could go on for ages. Now days the self proclaimed best rapper is Lil Wayne which makes the quote 'hip hop is dead' valid! Most of the 'artists' in the charts classed as rappers these days just seem to talk and use autotune to sound like little girls ... I think the word needs redefining!
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why has rap become so popular in the last 25 or so years? its utter braindead garbage.every song sounds the same.absolute trash.mind numbing drivel,monotonus with the whole genre repeating itself year after year.yet there are millions of idiots who like this tripe at the expense of loads of other good music.complete mystery.
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idk. Maybe because people like it, but that's just a theory.... :?
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No offense, but I just love these threads where the OP asks a questions, expresses an opinion and then disappears!!If you don't feel like discussing then why do you put the question mark at the end???Just say "I hate rap"
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It's not that I hate rap (Well, I do!) It's just that I find the music so boring!
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It is a good question from the OP. What I don't like about it is that a song is being sung perfectly well and then, suddenly someone else (or even the original singer) completely changes it for the worse because it is usually incomprehensible!
OK that is probably a bit simplistic but I do like to hear the words! |
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i dont believe that every track for any genre/style of music is all crap.... i dont think you can realistically 'write off' any one style/genre.
i dont like rap, i broadly agree with the op's discription of it... however i put it down to it not talking to me, it doesnt resonate with my tastes in music, i appreciate that it does for others.... viva la differance! |
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Intrested to know what you would consider good music..who are your favorite artists?
Everyone IS different OP and there is your answer.Personally, when I first heard Rappers Delight back in 1979 I HATED it, but grew to like it and then LOVED The Message. Like any other genre I like some and dislike others now. |
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It is a good question from the OP. What I don't like about it is that a song is being sung perfectly well and then, suddenly someone else (or even the original singer) completely changes it for the worse because it is usually incomprehensible!
OK that is probably a bit simplistic but I do like to hear the words!
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It is associated with the youth market.
Advertising, media and marketing types don't want to admit they are knocking on and have office jobs, so they chase after/emphasise what they believe the youth audience is listening to. |
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Because some of it in the past was (and remains), ground breaking and inventive. The decline we have seen in quality in the last 10 years (in the mainstream) is partly as other's have outlined in this thread and because in all likely hood, the music industry (as with other genres) would'nt give acts like NWA, Run DMC etc a look in now-which is a shame because very talented and non generic, talented people who have there own style and ways are being held back and not given the chance in most cases.
What we have now is mostly generic. You Tube acts like Sugar Hill Gang, NWA, De La Soul, LL Cool J, Naughty By Nature, Mone Love, Missy Elliot, Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, and see if they all sound the same then. |
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I listen to very little mainstream Hip Hop. Most of the stuff played on radio and MTV is utter garbage.
However I do listen to plenty underground US hip Hop and UK Hip Hop (Not the idiots in the charts)!!! If you look in the right places there is still plenty of quality rap music being produced and some damn good Emcee's but record labels are not interested in these guys. They would rather sign people like Drake and Niki Minaj. Its a tragedy that the UK Hip Hop scene has been ignored for years and now major labels are taking notice of these wack MC's like Ndubz, Titchy Stryder, Chipmunk, Giggs etc. In America its different as there is actually an uderground scene where rappers can make a living and its even possible to get signed by a major label and still produce Hip Hop music and not pop music. In the UK its just not like that. The only way to really sell records and get airtime is by making pop music. |
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complete mystery.
The same goes with other media/art forms. Mystery solved. |
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But you're only talking about featured rappers that do an 8-bar verse in a song.That's not real hip hop.Even rap fans don't take those features seriously most of the times, especially in a pop song.Please tell me you're not judging a whole genre based on Ludacris' verses on cheap pop songs and Pitbull!!!
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No! But I cannot be bothered to look into it as I find it ridiculous. I am one of the older generation who cannot understand it all. (In a trembly voice) It was like that in my day!
![]() ![]() ![]() Ok, I understand, but it's such a shame that people are writing it off just because of mainstream rap.The guys that TV hosts call rappers are not a fair representation of the genre.Just try to watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCOURZ-yx4E&ob=av2e Maybe some lyrics are going to make you cringe, but it's heartfelt and imo pretty artistic as well... |
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why has rap become so popular in the last 25 or so years? its utter braindead garbage.every song sounds the same.absolute trash.mind numbing drivel,monotonus with the whole genre repeating itself year after year.yet there are millions of idiots who like this tripe at the expense of loads of other good music.complete mystery.
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I love Rap/Hip-Hop, well early 80's to late 90's. Rap/Hip-Hop from say 2003 has not interested me not one jot. You have got to look deeper than just the sounds but listen to the lyrics and understand the story. Back in the day it was about hardship and poverty about having nothing and living in the gutter now it's about middle-class plebs driving their mother's 4x4's, showing off their gold teeth and sitting in da club til 5am with their homies. Basically it's all bollocks now.
We don't have Rap and Hip Hop now, what we do have is Crap and Sh*t-Hop, nothing but a load of wannabe mommy's boys driving black suburban's, spice boys who think that because they act ghetto means they are OG. Rap is dead. Thank god I have such an extensive back catalogue to choose from. |
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If Rap is popular now it is not at the expense of other forms of music. If people are buying more Rap than Rock, Folk or Soul that is how the music scene has always been, people have the choice to like what they like. New trends come and go to be replaced by something different. Rap like most forms of music comes in many different forms from Conscious rap, gangsta, old school, Southern rap all distinct and different. Some Rap is good some not just like every other genre. Acts such as Common, Nas, Kanye,Mssy Elliot, Drake, Nicky Minaj and Jay-Z are all really good and sound nothing alike and have different styles.
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I don't like rap, hip-hop or grime, i'm more rock, but you've got to learn to respect other music genres, whether you like them or not, someone somewhere will like it and it is popular, also, someone who likes rap, hip-hop and/or grime may not like rock, but everyone is different and you just have to accept that they like it and don't like the type of music you like.
![]() P.S. you wouldn't see a rock artist (Jon Bon Jovi for example) saying this about other music genre's. I also would like to know what music you DO like!
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Intrested to know what you would consider good music..who are your favorite artists?
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the stranglers,yes,tangerine dream,the who,pink floyd,motorhead,saxon,mike oldfield,vangelis, to name just a few.all are miles better than any rap,hip hop,r n b,etc artist will ever be.
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