Finnaly!!! Someone stands up to that Hip-Hop crap. Will you help?

Question

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/433792p-365474c.html

Answer 1

HipHop is the worst. Hi lets glamorize naked hobags, and golden grillz. While I rip-off melodies from other long-written songs that no one remembers. I loves the ladies too, but its old and lame.

Get some creativity, these ppl are losers.

Answer 2

Hip hop is more of a culture than just a type of music. The idea has been converted into a marketting term just like everything else that starts out cool. Top 40 is and will always be a barren wasteland. If you think hip hop is about violence and misogyny stop listening to the radio and watching MTV. Unplug and stop being such a tool. There is a whole world out there. Labelling all rap music as being like early 90s gangsta rap is like judging all of rock music based on what Ashlee Simpson or Kid Rock are doing.

Answer 3

Just who is Stanley Crouch and does he really exist? Are you sure that this guy isn't just some rapper that wrote this article to sell more albums? If Stanley Crouch does exist there are several things wrong with his article. The most glaring is that rap as it was created in the early days was a direct reflection of its own surroundings. Like great writers who protested conditions in slums and factories in the 1800s so too did the early rap artists speak about the conditions of being black in the 1980s. So this leads to the second item that I feel is wrong with Stanley Crouch's article, I don't think this guy really bothered to listen to rap or hip-hop to explore its many other aspects of expressing the young black mind. To limit rap and hip-hop by saying that it objectifies women is crazy. 50 cent and other larger rap acts are more a reflection on OUR entire culture rather than making it an exclusively black issue. I've had contact with quite a few white kids who took on the gangster attitude when confronted with trouble. I think if Stanley Crouch went to a rap concert he'd see a mix of cultures and probably some of the beautiful black women he talks about in his article.

Completely unrelated to my point here is the movie Crash, I just about died laughing when I heard Ludicrous discuss hip-hop as an unintelligent genre. Like Ludicrous in the movie Crash I think Stanley Crouch might be acting too. Acting like a jerk.

I've been a DJ too and all kinds of people want to hear hip-hop, even the redneck dudes with no clue who any hip-hop artist might be. And I've seen all kinds of people dance and have a great time to the music not the words of the music. So if its words we're fighting over talk to Stanley Crouch.

Answer 4

Hi Mr. Nick N. Believe it or not, hip-hop when it first hit the streets back in the early 80's it was educational and entertaining. Ever since Biggie & 2Pac got that EastCoast, West Coast started HipHop has been divided. How do you destroy a cultures music that was ment to educate and inform?; Divide and Concoure. Since Mainstream got a hold of HipHop its been a "Cash Cow" for a lot of people(not all black). I've loved HipHop for years, but I must admit it has'nt been the same since the late 90's. What "other people" need to know is that HipHop is a culture and not just music. Our music is a reflection of our culture, but it does'nt represent ALL of us; just what Mainstream wants to sell to us. Sex & Violence sells all the time, weather it's from music, movies or video games. HipHop is much more than just sex & violence...but a lot of people don't understand that!

Answer 5

Well said Mr. Noble, I just want to add that people always hate what they don't understand, hip-hop is NEVER going away so don't talk bad about it. I don't like country music but I'm not going to dis it, they have award shows,radio stations,the way they talk and dress because it's a part of their culture,and I have a choice and I choose not to listen to it, just like if you don't like hip-hop just don't listen to it. Rap music started in the mid '70's after the disco era in NY and they said it won't last, then RUN DMC in the '80's mixed their style with rock and look what happen, in the '90's MC hammer and Vanilla Ice, then Gangster rap, (NWA), political ( Public Enemy), fun rap (Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince)aka Will Smith. in '00's Eminem, 50 cent, Jay-Z (part owner of a NBA team, Usher (part owner of a NBA team), Nelly (part owner of a NBA team), and now the Dirty South. My point is rap is never going away it will just adapt to it's surrounding's and evolve into something else.

Answer 6

True it is about time that someone spoke publically and I am glad that has begun. However the really important step is yet to really begin.....In which the people have to decide not to buy or participate in this type of slander againist women. We bare their children and yet treat us as though we are lower than the common rat. I personally just quite listening to it, stoppeed buying it, and refuse to let my children listen to it. Stop the poison before it gets to the point of reuining yet another generation.

Answer 7

*claps* well stated. Everytime i hear a rap song its about drugs, sex (lust in particular) and riding with the boys. there are even lyrics about people need to be shot, and with an image of a "bad boy" riding around in a low rider pickup (that defeats the purpose of a pickup if you cant even go over a speed bump) flashing guns and their bling. How do honest, hard working people respect that?

Answer 8

no hip hop is the best OK i don't get why people are all ways hatting on rap when there band that are worse and encourage you to be emo an **** like that so stop trying to go against hip hop because no one is going against rock

Answer 9

Hip-Hop, Rap, etc., it's all the same.

It never was a form of music; and NEVER should.
It promotes negativity too, glorifying the "thug" lifestyle and crimes associated with it (stealing, murder,etc.) never should have been.


....Now if we could get rid of these lip-syncing phonies and the so called "bands" who don't even play their own instruments.

Answer 10

The only thing I hate about it is when they rip off melodies from great songs and make them sound like crap.