Do you like Rap 'music'?

[turmune]

Depends, I like rap music that has a good message.

[timsdd]

Originally Posted by buffalo

But did you write a RAP about it, Tim???

no but, if I ever wrote anything it would be more weird al rather than the wrapping

[tanujdude91]

I am an all time RAP music lover..
especially ones by eminem

[edongzkisiete]

I love Rap before but now R&B are taking over.

[northpointaiki]

Originally Posted by tanujdude91

I am an all time RAP music lover..
especially ones by eminem

Sorry, repeat of an earlier post on the boy, but

Originally Posted by Northpointaiki

Yeah, I especially like his lyrics about torturing his wife to death and raping/murdering his mother. What artistry! What passion!

"When I was just a little baby boy
My mamma used to tell me these crazy things
She used to tell me my daddy was an evil man
She used to tell me he hated me
But then I got a little bit older and I realized she was the
crazy one
And there was nothing I could do or say to change her
Cause that´s just the way she was
...
Slut, you think I won´t choke no whore
Till her vocal cords don´t work in her throat no more
(Ahh)
These motherfuckers are thinking I´m playin´
Thinking I´m sayin´ this shit ´cause I´m thinkin´ it
Just to be sayin´ it
(Ahh)
Put your hands down bitch I ain´t gon´ shoot you
I´mma pull you to this bullet and put it through you
(Ahh)
Shut up, slut you´re causing too much chaos
Just bend over and take it like a slut, ok ma
Oh, now he´s raping his own mother, abusing her
Worse snortin´ coke, and we gave him the Rolling Stone cover?
You´re goddamn right bitch, and now it´s too late
I´m triple-platnum and tragedies happened in two states
I invented violence you vile, venomous, vomital bitches

(etc., etc.).

The Eminem has said these lyrics are a way of "getting rid of his anger."

The Eminem is Master of the Masturbatory, Baron of Bullshit. As with a good many "artists" who suck people into confusing the Grand Vomit of One's Demons for Art of the Highest Order, The Eminem is, I hope, soon passing into the dustbin of "what the hell were we thinking?"

um - just another opinion. Like I said, I'm into 14th century pilgrimage chants, welsh piping, or ancient Baltic choral pieces, so my commentary on modern rap is a bit dated.

[stupendous911]

All rap aint bad. And it sure does need some amount of talent. so yea i do like rap music.

[DP Konvict]

I love Rap and RnB music!

So much I even make my own raps, it does take a certain extent of skills as you need to have the voice, I am not talking about quick MC Raps, but I make music like 50 Cent, his pace and to his beats!

If it did not require talent, everyone would be big like 50 Cent on rap, but only a few lucky people are!

[gweb]

Of course I like Rap music.. thats why I make lots of sites for it!

[clinton]

it takes talent, not everyone can rap and make it sound good. For the people who don't like rap, its just their taste of music.

[j22]

When I'm in the mood. Which is not a lot thought..

[krtnyandrews]

I am currently having a love affair with the late, great J Dilla. 'Nothin Like This' is a beautiful song.

[rogue]

yes i like rap music EMINEM is my favorite rapper

[sonigar]

not all rap but some songs

[hey]

Never been a big fan of rap music and I don't listen to it normally. But sometimes I like putting on some rap when I go jogging dmx for example has some good pump up music.

[Hattra]

I like all kinds of music. If the song has a good rhythm or beat along with some decent lyrics then I'm all ears.

[skins4webs]

http://www.illestlyrics.com/Complexi...Hip_Hop_Music/

I was inspired by this post to write a little rant. It was actually intended for this thread, but I thought my "hip hop" site would be interested.

[northpointaiki]

Originally Posted by skins4webs

http://www.illestlyrics.com/Complexi...Hip_Hop_Music/

I was inspired by this post to write a little rant. It was actually intended for this thread, but I thought my "hip hop" site would be interested.

Originally Posted by From the site

If you're willing to say hip hop doesn't take any talent or intelligence, then you're also saying poetry doesn't. I don't think, any of us want to say Robert Frost was a dummy.

Skins, I am sorry to say it so bluntly, and of course it's just my opinion, so please feel free to tell me to piss off. But I do not equate vomiting on the page as the same thing as poetry, and I find most of what I see just that, vomiting out one's inner demons in lyrics, confusing rage with art, or even emotive power. That it is being equated to poetry is only a sign we have gone to hell in mass culture, not that we have found some new artistic lifesource.

[Num Lock]

Listen to Papoose (last verse) : http://www.zshare.net/audio/5024303f4e4c4e/

it's computer related, so you will like it

[skins4webs]

Originally Posted by northpointaiki

Skins, I am sorry to say it so bluntly, and of course it's just my opinion, so please feel free to tell me to piss off. But I do not equate vomiting on the page as the same thing as poetry, and I find most of what I see just that, vomiting out one's inner demons in lyrics, confusing rage with art, or even emotive power. That it is being equated to poetry is only a sign we have gone to hell in mass culture, not that we have found some new artistic lifesource.

I understand what you're trying to say and definitely agree about the declining culture (not for your reason, of course)

There has been tons of horrible poetry as well. People complaining and looking for sympathy without a real point.

I think, you would be naive to assume that there isn't a massive amount of good writing in hip hop though.

And not to put you on the spot, but if you would care to share your own taste in music. If you consider any of it an "art of the mind".

[northpointaiki]

Originally Posted by skins4webs

I understand what you're trying to say and definitely agree about the declining culture (not for your reason, of course)

There has been tons of horrible poetry as well. People complaining and looking for sympathy without a real point.

I think, you would be naive to assume that there isn't a massive amount of good writing in hip hop though.

And not to put you on the spot, but if you would care to share your own taste in music. If you consider any of it an "art of the mind".

It isn't an art of the mind I am talking about. I define art as a generous act - meaning, it is intended to pass on something transcendent to others, and as such, actually, I would call it rather an art of the species; that which taps the primordial in us and helps us to own more of what we are. If it isn't generous in this way, it is masturbation, in my book. I have seen plenty of this in many fields - in avant garde theater back east and in Chicago, in much of deconstructionist literature and film, in rants labelled as poetry in music.

It isn't possible to give you all my taste in music, as it is extremely eclectic. And I am extremely accepting of many kinds of art, my taste or not, so long as I feel there was a reason this was a public thing, a shared thing. A few examples, in no order whatsoever as to preference would include pilgrimage chants and "sublimated" folk music from the 13th-14th century and "ancient" music; late Mozart and Beethoven, as well as so many others from the baroque, classic, romantic, and beyond; love Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Strauss (and, yes, Orff, when I'm outside, having busted my ass in a field or a cedar swamp, I've had a few, and there is a storm in the offing); Arcadian, "old-timey;" Celtic pipes of all kinds; pipes and winds from many parts of the world; national choral pieces, as in the Baltics; women's choral pieces; African music, traditional and modern (such as "liberation" music of South Africa). Music of Central and South America. Shakuhachi. God, so much more.

What I don't appreciate is masturbatory crap posing as "art" simply because it shocks by its bile.