[36_Chambers]

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.

[potatolegs]

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.

[Ber]

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.

[adopter]

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.

[ladymoanalot]

I love Cypress Hill but find everything else unbearable.

[rick182]

sounds the same to me

[Flat Matt]

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.

[Lushness]

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_Chambers]

Originally Posted by Flat Matt

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 Matt]

Originally Posted by 36_Chambers

here we go!

Are you suggesting its a fad?

No, I'm suggesting that it's shit.

[BrooklynBoy]

Originally Posted by Flat Matt

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.

[adopter]

Originally Posted by Flat Matt

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.

[kimotag]

Originally Posted by Flat Matt

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

[36_Chambers]

Originally Posted by Flat Matt

No, I'm suggesting that it's shit.

all subjective surely you agree.

[dekaf]

I like some of it, but it's the attitude of the rapper that gets up my nose.

[j4the1]

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_Chambers]

Originally Posted by dekaf

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_Chambers]

Originally Posted by j4the1

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

[Liamforking]

Misogynistic horrible sounding garbage.

[Lushness]

Originally Posted by 36_Chambers

i guess your the only fan of real hip hop on this site then

Indeed, what a way to generalise!

[treme]

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.

[Ber]

Originally Posted by Liamforking

Misogynistic horrible sounding garbage.

Its sad that people only know that side of the genre

[Takae]

Originally Posted by BrooklynBoy

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. The British history of a similar genre is interesting in its own right, but I digress.)

[Ber]

Originally Posted by treme

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

[Ginger Nut]

ft - the phrase that killed music.