What do you think of hip hop?

[rbis4rbb]

Do you like it or not? Do you think it's foul and crass, or "hip" and poetry-like.

 

[WildFire]

Rap is crap.

 

[WarlordMatt]

I voted third option. I prefer metal.

 

[Fifty]

I like some of it. I like lots of different kinds of music though. I don't like very much of the "party/dance club" rap.

 

[rbis4rbb]

darn i should have made it public

 

[Yom]

I like it, but I don't like a lot of the new stuff. Tupac is the best for me.

 

[joacqin]

I was a big fan almost a decade ago and find everything of what is popular today to be utter crap. There are some contemporary artist I kinda like though but they dont have much commercial success.

 

[Yom]

I was a big fan almost a decade ago and find everything of what is popular today to be utter crap. There are some contemporary artist I kinda like though but they dont have much commercial success.

Same here (except I like the music from a decade ago, I was too little to listen to music 10 years ago). Talib Kweli and Mos Def are two good contemporary rappers, IMO.

 

[HamaticBabylon]

Rap is crap.

So Rap is crap? I agree today’s guns, money and women type is, but no way is "old SKOOL" rap crap.

In general rap is okay.

 

[amadeus]

It was okay until they stopped scratching the records.

 

[Longasc]

I prefer NIGHTWISH... go figure what style of music this is...

Honestly, I think Hip-Hop is given too much credit today compared to other music.

 

[Akka]

It could be worse, but only with supernatural help.
Rap sucks so much that it would require a brand new word to hold all the crappy concept necessary.

As Longasc says : Nightwish is better

 

[amadeus]

I'm still trying to figure out the difference between rap and "hip-hop." It seems like they just wanted a more white-friendly name.

 

[HamaticBabylon]

I prefer the soft and lovely R&B, at least you don't her some girl saying to a dude "You can do it just put your back into it" and he says " I can do it, just put your A$$ into it"

 

[Mescalhead]

Eh. It bores me more than any other kind of music except "Adult Contemporary". I find that melody is an integral part of my enjoyment of music in any form except ambient noise, and even that usually has some kind of flow to it.

EDIT: Oh, and I definintely prefer Giant Radioactive Monkeys. Absolutely.

 

[HamaticBabylon]

Or maybe you like "I got my finger on the trigger, got to hit a figure, from that licker store"

 

[Fifty]

I'm still trying to figure out the difference between rap and "hip-hop." It seems like they just wanted a more white-friendly name.

I know that one could use either the term rap or hiphop to describe any of the types of songs that we are talking about, but I personally think that there actually is a difference between rap and hiphop.

Hip-hop is more what you would find at a dance club, and is more likely to be enjoyed by women. It usually contains some reference to shaking ones ass if they are a female. A good example of a song that I would call pure hiphop would be hey ya by Outkast.


Rap is more "hardcore" I suppose you could say. Generally more enjoyed by guys, although it usually doesn't sell as many records as hip-hop does. Guys are more likely to enjoy rap over hip-hop. Rap contains more verses of pure rap then hip-hop would, and usually contains less in the way of a chorus. An example of a rap song might be something by Tupac, or Slob on my Knob by Three Six Mafia.

Those are the definitions I use, at least. Of course some songs are in the middle of these two types.

 

[Taliesin]

More like hip stop.

 

[stratego]

I'm still trying to figure out the difference between rap and "hip-hop." It seems like they just wanted a more white-friendly name.

Yep, cuz you crackas wouldn't understand what hip hop is.

 

[rbis4rbb]

I know that one could use either the term rap or hiphop to describe any of the types of songs that we are talking about, but I personally think that there actually is a difference between rap and hiphop.

Hip-hop is more what you would find at a dance club, and is more likely to be enjoyed by women. It usually contains some reference to shaking ones ass if they are a female. A good example of a song that I would call pure hiphop would be hey ya by Outkast.


Rap is more "hardcore" I suppose you could say. Generally more enjoyed by guys, although it usually doesn't sell as many records as hip-hop does. Guys are more likely to enjoy rap over hip-hop. Rap contains more verses of pure rap then hip-hop would, and usually contains less in the way of a chorus. An example of a rap song might be something by Tupac, or Slob on my Knob by Three Six Mafia.

Those are the definitions I use, at least. Of course some songs are in the middle of these two types.

Actually, you got it confused. Rap is club music really. Then hip-hop would be a Talib Kewli or Mos Def, where it's more about the lyrics. 3 6 Mafia is crunk, really. Subgenre of rap, really.