Do you think Hip Hop is better then rock?

Answer 1

yes i do. it is less head-banging than rock and is not as crazy as rock. my fav hip hop artists were and still are 2pac and notorious B.I.G. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are cool, and others such as Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Public Enemy, Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, Vanilla Ice, M.C. Hammer, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe, Ying Yang Twins, Jadakiss, Coolio, T.I., Xzibit, Eve, Ludacris, Naughty By Nature, The Game, Mos Def, Twista, Arrested Development, DMX, Petey Pablo, Lloyd Banks, Redman, Da Brat, Pretty Ricky, Mase, Cam'ron, Cassidy, Fergie, 504 Boyz, St. Lunatics, Baby Bash, Tony Yayo, Bobby Valentino, YoungBloodz, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Method Man, De La Soul, Juelz Santana, Nick Cannon, Fabolous, Scarface, Boys N Da Hood, Run-DMC, Lil' Romeo, Bow Wow, Dem Franchize Boyz, Heavy D, Outlawz, TQ, Lil' Wayne, Young MC, Lost Boyz, Nate Dogg, Khia, and Dr Dre are all artists in the Hip Hop genre who are really good artists, all of which are all in the top of my head

Answer 2

A lot of rock music is developed from hip-hop and vice versa--both genres are good but it's really a preference type question...no artist is better than the other--each artist is different...just like each type of music is different. Is hip-hop better---not the hip-hop that has been on the scene recently...it used to be SO MUCH BETTER...i don't care for rock music too much but---i guess my answer is hip hop is best...it's just the artist that has to be hott!

Answer 3

No No No No Ok you get my point Hip Hop music drives me insane :) People rocking out and screaming at me now thats music to my ears the louder the better

Answer 4

Neither is better than the other.

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. The roots of Hip Hop has been around since as far back as the early 70's preceeding the Oi! and hardcore movements. 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.

Answer 5

no hip hop usually is filled with catchy beats along with someone saying random things. Rock usually has more emotion in it and actually has people playing instruments.
I listen to both though.

Answer 6

cuz when the rock rolls i just grab my hip and hop over it!

Answer 7

No fucckin way. ANYTHING is better than rap/hip hop and the like.

well... except for George Bush....Id pick rap over Dubya any day.

Answer 8

some songs are better than others ... but when i think of hip-hop i think of annoying...

Answer 9

Depends on whether it has rap crap in it. And samples that don't annoy the heck out of you. Then maybe. But it's still not club music.

Answer 10

that is a really hard question since i love both rock and hiphop... and to me the only answer is one isn't better than the other, they are both awesome to imao...