Someone explain this to me please...?

Question

4/3 out of 5 days at work we listen to 95.7 the Vibe which is a rap/hip hop station. I've never been a big fan of the genre which may very well be my answer, but after having listened to it for as long as I have and heard many of the top songs...I don't get why people like rap. Most of the songs I hear sound like they were written by a very horny highschool teen. It seems so superficial! (course I listen to Classic Rock so...yeah) There's rarely any other music outside of a $30 keyboard for the drums, bass and any other sounds other than the same repeated lines. Some songs are lyrically diverse. All else sounds like chanting. I wish I could say the same 3 sentences for 2 min. and 35 seconds and make millions. The whole "gangsta" lifestyle I don't get. Grillz? They look as goofy as my hippie hair. All the "ho's" and "biatches" are easier than tic-tac-to against my dog. And when they try to look "tough," they look more like they're pouting. Someone explain to me this phenomena PLEASE.

Answer 1

I like most styles of music from tupak to Covenant, Metallica to the Placido Domingo. Hippies are cool so are ganstas.

Well I can agree with you that in its majority rap/ hip hop is composed very easily just as trance and house styles of music. Most people are more supseptible to easy ryhtems and beats like hip hop, meaning that a much more elaborated style of music is to complex for the brain to process and the listener then loses attention span for the music and does not come to fully appreciate it.

In conclusion the rythmic structure of hip hop is appeals more to the general listener, that is we "bob" our heads to the beat; on the other hand if you are a person that is musically oriented (musician maybe) or you just have an easier understanding of more complex patterns, then you will understand and appreciate more the musical composition of classical rock for exmple, that has solos, bridges, hooks, etc...

By the way The Roots are a good rap/hip hop band to check out, good lyrics good music.

As to the dress and life styles involved in hip hop personal taste and comercialism sre responsible for that. After all Hip hop is the leading entertainment industry here in the US.

Answer 2

I'm with you. The record companies have taught people to listen to what is "popular" as opposed to what is "quality"

It's much faster to generate a song with a computer and create an image for a performer, than it is to take years to develop a talent on the "club circuit"

They took Jimi to London and sent him around with Eric and Buddy and Jimmy and taught him "the ropes" over ther before he made it big here. Jimi slept on the Floor at Buddy Guys place for quite a while, if memory serves me correctly, he learned by traveling with clapton and those guys.

Why take all the time to "develop" a true musician that way when you can punch some chords into a computer at a desk and tell people that this is what is "hot" right now.

THere are some very good Rap artists around who did it the old way (Run DMC, LL Cool J, Naughty By Nature, NWA) but those days are even gone for the rap crowd.

Answer 3

Everybody has they're own opinion. I listen to hip hop all day, and i love it. I also listen to (classic rock) when I am at work. It really sucks to me. Really!!! Apparently you are an ignorant fool. And for the gangsta lifestyle , you will never get it bcz you probably live in a good neighborhood. So, instead of wasting your time and energy into thinking about sumthin you dont like. Do something constructive with your time . Get a hobby!! No one really cares what u think, so get over it!!

Answer 4

Part is the driving bassline that speaks to a primal urge.

The lyrics represent the burden that the black man must labor under, treated with disrespect by the man, ghetto life and the possibility of an early death.

In order to ameliorate these feelings of inadequacy, women are marginilized are hoes and sluuts.

Personally, this gangsta rap is a load of malarky.

Ever hear DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince? That is rap music that can be enjoyable and funny.

Answer 5

Ugh...you know, I'd really like to go into a big long diatribe on this subject for you but I just don't have the energy so I'll bottom line it for you. The majority of teenagers and young adults today have horrendous taste in music so crap like what passes for Rap and Hip-Hop (which didn't always suck) are popular. Same goes for Rock music. Heard any of this emo garbage that's popular right now? AFI? I won't say what the F stands for but it ain't Fire....congrats on having some taste, man. Stick to your guns.

Answer 6

I've always thought of rap as reciting vulgar poetry in which 1) half the words are made up and most stick in our cultures lingo 2) those words don't even rhyme and 3) it's not really poetry really...at a rappidly fast pace mixed with that $30 keyboard you mentioned. I'm in total compliance with you...although sometimes I'm guilty of singing along to Kanye or others in my car. but I totally know what you mean about it.
two more points:
-why do white boys then feel the need to immitate such nonsense?
-and oh I forgot.

(oh and rock is the only way to go, by the by.)

Answer 7

There were a few Rap geniuses who made fantastic sound collages with sampling while skillfully spouting out inventive wordplay in a captivating rhythm. When they were embraced by critics and the public, every idiot and his groupie jumped on the band wagon. Soon there was such a glut of these wannabees that they actually formed subgenres that were geared to attract idiots with repitition of the same chants, riffs and b.s. It's kind of like when you were a kid and you kept saying "do-do" again and again because you were so easily amused.

Answer 8

They r just saying about how they grew up in the ghetto for exmp: " I'm from the ghetto homie i was raised on bread and bologna" As 4 the hrny high school kids ur right i thnk mtv now has a show about this 15 yr old girl that sings songs about guys and pretty soon she will end up like paris hilton

Answer 9

Its Hip Hop, if you dont understand it than you really dont need to. Its for the people that can relate to the songs or have been in those situations or lifestyles in their life. I know a few rappers and the same way Eric Clapton sings about personal things in his life, they sing about their in a different way. Sometimes people dont understand it and that is ok, it just a preference i guess. I enjoy the beat but i dont necessarily listen to all the words, and i love R&B i can relate to alot of the songs. If you think about it instead of listening to the words just bob your head to the beats and then see if you like it, if not then you werent meant to understand or like HipHop

Answer 10

I really don't have any idea how fame found its way to most mainstream rappers. Most of them have probably never picked up a musical instrument in their lives and we are suposed to call them musical artists. Even though I've been a musician for my whole life I know that even people who don't understand, read, or play music can listen to and appreciate "complex patterns" of all styles of music. Rap is, more or less, not music.

I smypathize. I honestly don't understand anyone who likes rap (especially girls/women - c'mon, it's us they're insulting!).