Whatever you may think about Rap, nobody can dispute its power.

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blackascoal

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First, I don't particularly care for rap music. In fact, I hesitate to call it music at all. The lyrics are usually dumb and it ended the great lyrics, great music era of R&B.

That being said, it's the most copied and listened to music on the planet today and there is virtually nowhere you can go where it isn't being played and copied. Ironically, the biggest buyers of rap music are white .. about 90%of sales are to white buyers.

It has made multi-millionaires of many African-Americans who created something out of nothing .. many of whom started out by selling CD's out of the trunks of their cars. They learned the lessons of the R&B period and kept their music to themselves and did not give away their rights to lawyers and distribution companies. Some now have major stakes in professional sports teams which once seemed about as distant a reality as having a black president.

Jay Z and Beyonce made more money last year than any couple in Hollywood, raking in more than 180 million. Will Smith, who also has his roots in rap, along with his wife Jada, made more than 90 million dollars which put them second on the list of Hollywood's richest couple .. far outpacing the power duo of Angela Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Just a thought on how far things have come.
 
McDonalds is huge too.

Just kidding. I agree with you. It's crap, but it makes a big impression on this world.

I still like Run DMC, Rob Base, and Public Enemy. 80's rap forever!
 
It certainly has created new wealth.

I kept waiting for it to evolve but it just devolved into worse crap than it started as.


Maybe now it may do some evolving because of the new found idea that being politically aware is cool.
 
Watermark said:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/
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from your race baiting link:
What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it.


Nahhh, as it turns out, I actually was alive and I actually purchased and listened to those albums. I also still like Nine Inch Nails and REM, which are other bands from the same era. Just because you grew up in the age of shit music doesn't mean I did.

In short, watertard, fuck you. You must hate being a white person?
 
Like most pop music, hip-hop is mostly comprised of crap. That is because it has become the equivalent of hair-metal in the '80s.

That said, there is a ton of brilliant independent hip-hop out there, just as there is with other genres.
 
tinfoil said:
from your race baiting link:
What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it.


Nahhh, as it turns out, I actually was alive and I actually purchased and listened to those albums. I also still like Nine Inch Nails and REM, which are other bands from the same era. Just because you grew up in the age of shit music doesn't mean I did.

In short, watertard, fuck you. You must hate being a white person?
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It's a joke.
 
Desh said:
It certainly has created new wealth.

I kept waiting for it to evolve but it just devolved into worse crap than it started as.


Maybe now it may do some evolving because of the new found idea that being politically aware is cool.
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It was maximally aware from the beginning. Being "politically aware" as you are means being means accepting the programming of the internationalist fascists.

Thug life is a normal reaction to an oppressive society. Learning to justify all the shit the elitists do is just being brainwashed.
 
Watermark said:
And 80's music is beyond awful. The 80's was the garbage dump of american culture.
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It's not as bad as disco. And it's not half as bad as today's music. Every rap song these days sounds like they're using a casio keyboard for the music. And the voicebox crap sounds worse each time a new band uses it. At least bands in the eighties were unique in sound. You could at least tell the difference between Poison and Warrant.
 
tinfoil said:
It's not as bad as disco. And it's not half as bad as today's music. Every rap song these days sounds like they're using a casio keyboard for the music. And the voicebox crap sounds worse each time a new band uses it. At least bands in the eighties were unique in sound. You could at least tell the difference between Poison and Warrant.
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I know todays music is bad. Everything is horrendously overproduced, has way too many crappy digital effects on it, and don't even get me started on the people who abuse autotune to death. I don't really listen to much modern music, but there are a few good songs out there (mostly in the lower-fi area).

But when I think of 80's, I think of spandex, awful synthesizer solos, and way too much gated snare reverb. It ain't pretty.
 
Most of 80s music did suck.

Me and my friends turned off our radios and just played albums so that we did not have to listen to the crap that the industry was spewing. Punk rock was one highlight of 80s.
 
blackascoal said:
First, I don't particularly care for rap music. In fact, I hesitate to call it music at all. The lyrics are usually dumb and it ended the great lyrics, great music era of R&B.

That being said, it's the most copied and listened to music on the planet today and there is virtually nowhere you can go where it isn't being played and copied. Ironically, the biggest buyers of rap music are white .. about 90%of sales are to white buyers.

It has made multi-millionaires of many African-Americans who created something out of nothing .. many of whom started out by selling CD's out of the trunks of their cars. They learned the lessons of the R&B period and kept their music to themselves and did not give away their rights to lawyers and distribution companies. Some now have major stakes in professional sports teams which once seemed about as distant a reality as having a black president.

Jay Z and Beyonce made more money last year than any couple in Hollywood, raking in more than 180 million. Will Smith, who also has his roots in rap, along with his wife Jada, made more than 90 million dollars which put them second on the list of Hollywood's richest couple .. far outpacing the power duo of Angela Jolie and Brad Pitt.

Just a thought on how far things have come.
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Your observations about rap are right on the mark.....and its "power" is directly proportional to the stupidity of those that listen to it....
 
Watermark said:
I know todays music is bad. Everything is horrendously overproduced, has way too many crappy digital effects on it, and don't even get me started on the people who abuse autotune to death. I don't really listen to much modern music, but there are a few good songs out there (mostly in the lower-fi area).

But when I think of 80's, I think of spandex, awful synthesizer solos, and way too much gated snare reverb. It ain't pretty.
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Gotta agree. Thank god alternative music showed up.
 
Rap is big because it's true. It's born out of the republican Nazi oppression of the brothers. That said I'll take raggea.
 
bravo said:
Your observations about rap are right on the mark.....and its "power" is directly proportional to the stupidity of those that listen to it....
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I disagree with that. While there are those who can't seem to distinguish between what is shown in rap videos and real life there are plenty of smart educated people that like rap music.
 
cawacko said:
I disagree with that. While there are those who can't seem to distinguish between what is shown in rap videos and real life there are plenty of smart educated people that like rap music.
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What do you think they like best...

the sexual perversions described?

the fact that it constantly humiliates and demeans women ?

or maybe its preaching and teaching its listeners to kill policeman...?

how about its monotonous droning of various noises...?

It can't be described as 'music' by even the most liberal of understanding of music...
 
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