which ones are better
2006-09-27 01:45:50 · 8 answers · asked by Mr. Owl 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I'd say both.
Those people who support the narrow view that one music form is better than the other by saying things like "retards attempting poetry" and "rap will die" lack a fundamental understanding of music as a whole and the role it plays in society.
As one critic put it "hip hop is a revolution of sound - not music" and as a sound platform it stands hand in hand with the post-punk decontructionist experimental period of 1978 - 1984.
Any music or art form does not exist in a vacuum. Hip Hop came about as a fusion of ideas taken from various strands of music and art, much in the same way rock and roll came about and much in the same way every other music or art form has come about.
Music and art almost always build on a template produced by a previous generation, either as backlash against it or as a continuation of it. Hip Hop has been around since as far back as the early 70's and based on your question music forms like the Oi! and hardcore movements should also not exist. So too music movements like the minimalist and experimental artists of the late 60's to 70's.
We all fight about music. We argue, discuss, rant and definitely rage. We love our music. Discussions from different points of view have led to (sometimes anyway), new genres springing up and coming to the fore. But, when healthy music discussion turns to personal attack there is a problem.
Quarreling means trying to show that the other person is in the wrong. Moreover, there would be no sense in trying to do that unless you and that person had some sort of agreement as to what Right and Wrong music forms are. This means appealing to some kind of standard of behavior, which you expect the other person to know about.
Blind faith and following of an idea, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, always leads the practitioner of the aforementioned into believing it is a universal truth. In some cases, it is just that, a universal truth but, in other cases, it is not a truth but an opinion and, opinions will differ from person to person. Taste and opinion are things, which change all the time as we as human beings have constant changes in taste across the board – throughout our lives.
Now hating a different genre of music is common practice amongst us all. I understand this, after all, there are quite a few genres floating around which I am not fond of at all. I don’t think this is behaviour we should be practicing unless the said person has done something personal and morally reprehensible to you – like sleeping with your girlfriend or killing your dog. But if we practice this behaviour merely because someone does something artistically different from you and your tastes it doesn’t make sense and goes against the foundation of freedom the artistic music movement was initially based upon. Now some of you might argue that you do so for the love of this movement – a concept I very well understand but some of you do so merely to succor your ego. If you are doing so for the former reason, it is understandable and even acceptable to a point but, unfortunately, not many of us can separate our egos from the equation. That is how someone who plays music we do not like all of a sudden becomes hated – as if the music he plays is somehow a description of his character and that the said person is somehow devoid of integrity.
You might not like the music someone plays – fair point, we all have different tastes. However, because someone plays music you don’t like does that make him a bad person? After all, the music spectrum is made up of numerous genres (with more being invented along the way) - not just one. A considerable danger to the wellbeing of the arts and music movement is when people take up their own personal opinions regarding genres and set it up as a thing/genre everybody ought to follow at all costs and that everything that differs from what they like is therefore wrong purely because it does not conform to what they like.
This is not mathematics – there is no right or wrong, only varying opinions. Anything of an artistic nature has never been subjected to the rules and rigors of exact science purely because, in most cases, it’s a very personal thing and springs from the artist’s own experiences and influences and interpretation thereof – things which will always differ from person to person. No one’s influences will always be identical to another’s. If there were exacting unbending rules and regulations laid down in the fabric of the universe governing “right” and “wrong” forms of music that stated these are the only forms of music allowed to exist then you would have an excuse for saying someone is playing the wrong music but, this is not so.
Agree to disagree but always keep the respect at the forefront.
2006-09-27 03:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by Ni Ten Ichi Ryu 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well I look at it like this.
Music is music is music no matter WHAT coast your on. This whole east/west thing is lame and all it does is cost Hip Hop as a whole losses (ie Biggie, Tupac)
Hip hop is deeper then that and anyone who doesn't agree with that isn't a TRUE hip hop fan.
*** Oh and for all those people out there that say Hip Hop is dying out I say "tell the rappers that are buying there Rolls Royce that, I think they would disagree"
*** Anndddddddd for those that think rap/hip hop is stupid I would challenge you to spit a verse off the top of your head and make it sound hot
2006-09-27 01:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by preciseonegirl28 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
West Coast, I like Shade Sheist
2006-09-27 02:18:19 · answer #3 · answered by Latin Techie 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
I would say East coast since I'm from the east side
2006-09-27 01:54:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Rap isn't even relevent anymore. It's dying out.
2006-09-27 01:48:50 · answer #5 · answered by Joey 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋
west. rap haters stop hatin and start congradulatin. da dude asked a simple question that calls for a simple answer...if he wanted to kno wat u thought about rap he woulnt have put:"you don't like it you stay away" stop being so freakin ignorant
2006-09-27 02:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
neither one is better.
because rap stands for
retards attempting poetry.
2006-09-27 01:49:08 · answer #7 · answered by rottentothecore 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋
i think they are both full of $hit
2006-09-27 01:48:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋