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| #22 |
9-15-2007 @ 12:59:16 AM |
| Posted By : Subourbon187 |
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It's all too easy to categorize rap as "bad music" these days thanks mostly in part of the extreme popularity of substandard rappers like Li'L John and L'il Scrappy and a bevvy of other crap strewn about the popular radio stations. Their record labels have the big bucks to pay promoters and get buttloads of airtime and up and coming rappers feel they have to sell out and start singing about all the bling bling cookie cutter bullshit that's invaded Top 40 for years in order to get ahead, they simply don't have the balls (or sometimes the talent) to break convention and when they do and are able to produce honest-to-God quality music they have to bust their balls, combat obscurity to build up an underground fanbase and hopefully break into mainstream. And in the mean-time all the popular shit poisons the airwaves and the people that don't automatically glom onto it because the media says it's cool will shun it and not open their ears to the good stuff because they generalize all rap as..
[Edited by Subourbon187 on 9-15-2007 @ 01:00:00 AM]
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| #24 |
9-15-2007 @ 01:17:54 AM |
| Posted By : Subourbon187 |
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#22, ...crap based on what some talentless hack with platinum teeth puts out on an LP or on the airwaves. But then again rap isn't for everybody and the situation described in the previous comment could apply to any up-and-coming artist performing in any genre. But rap is different from other genres because everyone knows about it's message; violence, shootings, murder, life on the street, meteoric rises to fame and the struggle to stay relevant are all outlined in this genre in a unique and genuine way, some better than others, but the point remains you can't argue the social signifigance of it. When the Sugarhill gang released "Rapper's Delight" in 1979 people were quick to dismiss it as a fad but in the 1980s when Run-DMC, Public Enemy, N.W.A. brought in their golden age hip-hop it was anything but and in the 90s with Ghostface Killah and Dr. Dre and their Gangsta rap, it was clear the genre wasn't going anywhere. Granted I'm not the biggest rap fan but I do respect the talent.
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| #25 |
9-15-2007 @ 01:20:52 AM |
| Posted By : Subourbon187 |
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#23, I think you missed my point...not that I really had one, I was just blathering on.
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