If you could make a difference....

[Crono]

lol +rep for Bond.

[Acebot44]

Oh, I can do this too

rap music

n : genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged [syn: rap, hip-hop]

Rap

A form of popular music developed especially in African-American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment.

Rhythm And Poetry.

Rhythm

The pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse.

Flow

To exhibit a smooth or graceful continuity

Verse

The art or work of a poet

Song

A lyric poem or ballad.


Oh and this one is for some of you that have a never changing opinion



ignorance

n : the lack of knowledge or education

The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.


Seriously, you guy's are killing your whole arguement here by saying rap aint music. It is. Period.

You admit that you don't know anything about rap when you say the majority of is Gang ****. Mainstream in every genre doesnt represent the real music being created on the underground, at all. It's the same arguement over and over and is the equivilant of me saying that Avril represents the true punk rock genre. You people talking about rap, is like a 13 year old who saw the video for Black Hole Sun talking about Classic Rock. You just don't know what you're talking about.

and like Gamemaster said, it's the kids and adults' fault that some people act like that. I don't know if the people in Iowa and Canada are real thugs that are direspectful to the Hip-Hop Culture, but here in LA it's not like that. If you're fake, you get hassled for it and it's quite obvious. Oh, and if someone does where the Fubu baggy pants, the retro Bullets jersey with a matching Hat and the SPrewell shoes, fell free to knock him out if he's being an ass, but not just because of what he wears and listens too. The Hip-Hop culture has changed, but it's not bad. It's just being abused. I hope that Outkast use their next album to bring it back now that they have lots of the Pop fans on their johns.

Listen to "I Used To Love H.E.R." by common. The Girl is a representation of Hip-Hop and if you want a harder more explicit version of this song listen to "Ballad Of Worms" by Cage.

[Rubber Kitty]

Prefuse 73 - Plastic (feat. Diverse)

I suggest everyone have a good listen and play attention to the lyrics

[GT News]

Originally Posted by Rubber Kitty

Prefuse 73 - Plastic (feat. Diverse)

I suggest everyone have a good listen and play attention to the lyrics

Who are you talking about?
Can you please rephrase that with fewer ideas, or different thoughts?

[Crono]

Meh.

Rap sucks.

Yeah, I said it.

Sorry it is just in me to hate rap. Hate hate hate hate. HATE.

I dont care if there's underground "good stuff", mainstream rap is bull****.

WORD BLING BLING YO.

[Typhoid]

But rap is mostly "gang sh*t" Its all about being hardcore, and stuff like that.

It seems to me, that as soon as a rap song has something important to say, its called "hip-hop".

But i do like some "rap" Like Kanye West, Outkast, and i like anything from the late 80's and early 90's, back when the majority of rap was about political issues, not killing people and stealin cars and stuff.

[Acebot44]

Hip-Hop is not music man. It's a culture. There will always be good and bad music in each genre, but sadly, the bad is always focused on in Rap. Booty sells. Bass Sells. Chorus' Sells. The Gangsta Image Sells. Generally. That's why the indepenedent labels are better IMO. At least half of the people on the list I put up denied contracts with Major Labels like Interscope,(The Evil) Sony, Def Jam, Aftermath, Shady Records, Deathrow, and Murda Inc. because they wanted them to change their style. Hell, Last Emperor got dropped from Dre's label because he didnt go with teh Aftermath image! Oh, and I think the underground is doing very well now, it's just that the surface music isn't very subsistent. And Typh, there are plenty of Political Rappers out now and you seem open minded enough so check out the people on my list. You'll be a better person for it

Oh and Crono, you'll get nowhere if you're like that. Put your hands over your ears and go Lalalalalala.

[Typhoid]

hip-hop ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hphp) or hip hop
n.

1. A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents.
2. Rap music.



It seems we are both correct. This was from "dictionary.com"

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Acebot44

Oh and Crono, you'll get nowhere if you're like that. Put your hands over your ears and go Lalalalalala.

I'll get nowhere in life because I hate rap? That's news to me.