[Corolie]

I remember back when rap music was the shit to listen to with NWA , 2pac , and cypress hill ,but when my cousins tune into 106.1 kmel which these youngsters call "The peoples stations" rofl. They play the god awful trash like lil wayne ,and the rest of those suckers out there. Sad that once proud music has been trashed with these rap artist that can't sing live to save their lives rofl. Plus It poison's the mind to people listening to this crap too making them think the police is out to get them with all that stereotype BS!!!

[pathwriter]

No, the police really are out to get them. I dunno if you're either too white to realize or too dumb to notice, but if you made the mistake of being born dark-skinned, you're automatically considered suspicious by everyone, up to and including other dark-skinned people. Nothing is so surreal for me as living in an integrated neighborhood and having my black neighbors complain to me, someone who is clearly white, about the black hoodlums that live a couple blocks north.

As for rap, that's what happens when a profit margin is attached to art. I hate to suggest that commercial art is an oxymoron, but it seems more true than not. A lot of the rap you cite, though, was of questionable value, anyhow, and the people who originated the form in the 50s and 60s would take offense at the notion that bloody Tupac is the pinnacle of rapping.

[Villainous]

No, the police really are out to get them. I dunno if you're either too white to realize or too dumb to notice, but if you made the mistake of being born dark-skinned, you're automatically considered suspicious by everyone, up to and including other dark-skinned people. Nothing is so surreal for me as living in an integrated neighborhood and having my black neighbors complain to me, someone who is clearly white, about the black hoodlums that live a couple blocks north.

As for rap, that's what happens when a profit margin is attached to art. I hate to suggest that commercial art is an oxymoron, but it seems more true than not. A lot of the rap you cite, though, was of questionable value, anyhow, and the people who originated the form in the 50s and 60s would take offense at the notion that bloody Tupac is the pinnacle of rapping.

This post is Negro-approved.

[Exorcist666]

Rap music is just plan garbage

Fixed. And why hate on garages?

[Cruzandercerberus]

Unfortunately Tupac is dead and isn't coming back.

Rap as a popular medium is stuck in the 80's hair metal redundancy loop "Money cash hoes".

should last another year or three until a real innovator comes along.

[pathwriter]

I'd count will.i.am (and the Black-Eyed Peas, of course) as being integral to returning rap to legitimacy. The problem is that there are too many shitty artists. That's true of every genre, though. For every decent pop singer, and they do exist, there are a dozen Britney Spears and Jonas Brothers types.

Oh, Outkast is rather good, too.

[Corolie]

Unfortunately Tupac is dead and isn't coming back.

Rap as a popular medium is stuck in the hair metal loop "Money cash hoes".

should last another year or three until a real innovator comes along.

Rofl my friends told me that he was alive still ,and living on an island while making new songs at the same time. I laughed my ass off listening to that stupid ass shit hahahahaha!!!!

[Cruzandercerberus]

Tupac is like the Black Elvis,


Who was like the white B.B. King


Yeah, Music is cyclical like fashion and war.

[pathwriter]

Stupid kids would be so much more tolerable if they were fans of B. B. King (or even Elvis Presley) instead of Tupac Shakur, though.

[Cruzandercerberus]

Yeah agreed.

Tupac is just too nihilistic for young folks.

[Serataru]

Can I get sum Lupe pls

[Cruzandercerberus]

You can get whatever you want

[Serataru]

okkkkk

[pathwriter]

Are you holding this guy up as an example of quality rap, Serataru? His flow is dull, his rhymes are almost arbitrary, and the whole thing is entirely too staccato. It's all forced and unpleasant to listen to.

[Serataru]

Are you holding this guy up as an example of quality rap, Serataru? His flow is dull, his rhymes are almost arbitrary, and the whole thing is entirely too staccato. It's all forced and unpleasant to listen to.

I like Lupe. He doesn't rhyme about bitches and cars and hoes. Surely a white-bread boy like yourself isn't trying to school me in rap preference? Maybe I am misunderstanding your post.

[pathwriter]

I'll grant that his lyrics are better than the cookie-cutter gangsta shit being mass-produced by recording mills, but the quality of his rap is low. I gave you several reasons why. If you think that I'm not capable of judging rap, well, I dunno what to say except that you're a fool.

[Tensu]

Now I'm aware that not all there music follows this trend, but T.I., Kanye, Neyo, and a few others overall have a pretty good record of meaningful rap in my opinion. Sure all of them have a few trashy songs to keep the musically retarded happy, but they do also have rap songs with meaning behind them. Not all rap is trashy, a good portion of it become popular because blacks like the beat and, and whites like pretending they can get away with beating women and selling drugs. Don't bash all rap though, for as many trashy songs out there, there's just as many meaningful ones, they just aren't the ones people like dancing to, meaning they can't rub their cocks on some chicks ass, meaning it does them no good.


Edit: The Game could also be added to that list

[Cruzandercerberus]

A lot of white women like to be beat, that's why they're with black men.

My baby daddy is a model prisoner at state correctional.

[Tensu]

He sounds like an outstanding fellow. I'd vote for him~

[Serataru]

Rap is a pretty subjective genre though. One man's trash etc. I'd much rather listen to good lyrics and a pretty decent beat than shitty lyrics and a good beat.