What is your feelings on Rap music in todays society?

Question

You can Hate it Or Love It, i dont care. Just tell me what your feelings and how long youve been a rap fan, hows it changed....etc

Answer 1

rap music today is garbage, I'm only nineteen but i love music but i constantly find myself listening to the same people on my ipod(common, lost boys, kanye west, beanie siegel, styles p). What people are talking about today is far from rap, everyone is saying the same thing with a different beat(d4l, young jeezy, young dro, young joc) to me the **** is not making any sense and I feel as if it is time to turn the rap game around.

Answer 2

I have the same feelings about today's rap music as I do about testicular cancer.
(Not so into it!)
I won't even discuss how crappy the actual music is, as that's sorta a matter of taste.
But the content of the music is upsetting. Most of it seems to glorify violence, mysogony, and extreme shallowness. It seems like today's rap stars mainly boast about how tough they are, or about how rich they are, and about what products they buy, all while disrespecting women. Fun! (I know this isn't ALL rap music, it just seems like the popular kind).
What's sad is just how much popular music affects people's mindsets. Especially young people tend to emulate the music they hear. In the 60's, non-hippies would grow their hair long and say "groovy;" now non-gangstas from the suburbs pretend to be hard. It's a pretty sad state of affairs. Especially when you look at some of the best popular music of the last half of the 20th Century -- it was created by African Americans, and had such heart, it contained such beautiful messages about strength and equality (like Marvin Gaye for instance) and then you look at this crap today about BLING BLING and it just makes you wanna weep!

Answer 3

On a personal level, I hate it. Mainstream hip-hop is based on LAME HOOKS, CHEAP BEATS, THUMPING BASS, and the random shouting of a dance floor action (snap yo' fingers, get low, etc.)

It has stop becoming something that these "artists" love to do and become a simple way for thugs (real or not real who knows) to make money other than selling drugs or weapons. God forbid them get an education and work a real job. No, they will rap about how they sold some (n word) a glock and how they rob a jewerly store to get a grill, all spoken over a cheap beat followed by a hook like, "throw yo' hans' ups (n word)" . Then make millions. Then rap about how poor you were before and how much money and women you have now. Who cares if your in your white t the whole time?

Mainstream rap is one of the lowest forms of music exsiting. Now, don't get me wrong some underground artists and a couple of mainstream HAVE PASSION into theyre music and you can tell. Maybe it does have a stupid hook and beat but they are writting abuot something that matters, not just bling and women. Like Fort Minor's Mike Shinoda. "Where'd you go" and "remeber the name" good songs. Listen to that album thats good hip-hop. Kanye West, yes and no. To be a good hip hop artist sadly you need to put out that lame song to be recognized (aka gold digger) but listen to other songs like "Jesus Walks" and "Heard em Say" Passion people.

Music is passion. It should be a flowing artform with beatiful messages placed over instrumentals complementing the vocals and lyrics. Music is poetry to instruments. Can you imagine reading a poem that says, "Rob the jewlery store to get me a grill, GIRLFIGHT, YEAH WHAT OKK??" No. So listen for passion, and don't let genres hold you back from listening to great art.

Answer 4

i agree with fubiegirl
Rap songs today don't really promote anything but sex, sometimes drugs and violence.
Plus, so many rap music videos have some kind of dancing go-go girl in nothing but a bikini and that is really annoying.
Also, most rap songs sound the same, both lyrically and the beats.
I used to like rap, however, due to modern changes, I am quite annoyed by it.

Answer 5

i've been listening to rap since the days of "Raising Hell" by Run DMC, "License To ILL" by the Beastie Boys, "YO! Bum Rush The Show" by Public Enemy, etc.

i can honestly say that i can't stand the "new school" rap...it's all about money, drugs, or making women into objects now. Back in the late 80's and the early to mid 90's rap had meaning! just look at some of the older artists like: Boogie Down Productions, Public Enemy, Paris (not Hilton), Arrested Development, even early 2Pac (my favorite all-time rapper, by the way) songs had blood, sweat, and tears in 'em... they had heart! now it's all this Crunk crap and just making songs for the clubs... that's fine, but have some songs on your cd with some meaning instead of just yelling "WHAT?!" and "YEAH!" every other word.

guess i'm just old school.

Answer 6

I would rather be dragged up the side of Mt. Everest by my ears, dropped off the top into a vat of boiling maggots and then have my skin painfully and slowly peeled off than listen to rap.

Sex. Drugs. Crime. Swearing.

That's all it is. Telling the youth that if they want to be "cool" that's the type of things they need to involve themselves in. Is this really what we want for our future? Technically I am still considered "youth" and a HATE rap. With a burning passion.

Answer 7

Old school rap is ok but today's rap is usually not. I hate the rap that is ignorant. Rap is one of the types of music that needs to be censored because it is so popular.

Answer 8

I think that modern rap is mostly bad and it causes people who dont like rap to judge rappers and people who do like rap. I guess people think that people who like rap are ignorant, which makes them ignorant for not being open to all kinds of music. I like rap, but I like other music too, and when I say I like rap people automatically put their judgement on me and its annoying. Rap music just pisses some people off for some reason, thinking it causes violence and stuff when it doesnt. Violence is caused by people who dont beat their kids a$$es when theyre supposed to.

Answer 9

i feel that mainstream rap is getting less and less creative and the rap industry always are looking for the same things. mainstream rap is getting more and more reppettitive and more boring. although lesser known rap artists such as blue scholars, common market, jurrasic 5, boom bap project ect ect. are much better than mainstream popular rap today

Answer 10

BEWARE OF RANT! i HATE rap with all my heart, it is the worst music ever! i'd like to say that violence is becuase of rap, but i know better. music doesnt cuase peeple to do anything, its the person thats at fault, still i hate rap! i mean, it has no meaning, all it is is about sex and booty! rock is way better. rock...rocks!! also it actually has meaning. i could go on for hours but i'll stop here!

Answer 11

I'm a big fan of socially conscious hiphop...although it still seems the best is underground or oldschool. I hate pop rap, what you see on MTV, it's all most people see so they don't understand about real hiphop.