Is it fair to say that Rap music is poetry for the ignorant?

Question

RAE T---I was asking if it was ignorant.
It was you making the judgment that "some of it is horrible".
You were caught being a hypocrite.

THE NOTHING-- Only one guy out of so many making all that noise?

ROB B--- Did you say "save the negative value judgements", after refering to some of it as "garbage"?
Shame on you.

MICHELE H2--- Does a person have to become an expert to decide that they think that Rap is amaturish.
Do you follow those strict rules when you chose your kind of music?

Answer 1

YES!!! thank you for speaking the truth. you deserve the 10 pts for asking the question.

I could write a book about how Rap music is good for nothing but spreading hate and promoting gender / racial devides

Answer 2

No it is not!!! Every one has their own creative outlet and for some people is writing country music and others is rap....society has turned rap into the negative symbol it is today but that does not mean that all rap is negative...and yes its poetry and no the people are not ignorant. To make sure a rash generalization about a category of music is stereotypical and i thought that we (as a whole) were smarter than that.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. How would that possibilby be considered fair? While it may not appeal to everyone, it is a free country and people can choose to listen to what they want. Some of it is horrible in my opinion, but some is great and speaks a good message. It's all personal preference and who are you to judge the people who like it as ignorant?

Edited to add: How am I being hypocritical if I am saying that you can't generalize about the people who listen to it, but that I have my own personal opinions that I have a right to have? Maybe you need a dictionary to understand the words you are using.

Answer 4

Rap (derived from the word "crap") is theme music for the black community, and MTV. Of course, Lil' Jon is the leader. The process of creating a rap song is as follows:

1.) First, you must create a TOTALLY PIMP-SOUNDING and preferably illogical pseudonym because regular old names are too boring for today’s X-TREME generation.

2.) You must write songs about highly innovative and original topics such as sex, drugs, and violence to establish yourself as a TOTALLY UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL because those topics have never been written about before or even discussed for that matter. Remember, nobody likes a poseur!

3.) When you write a song, go for style and not substance! Make sure you rhyme as many times as you can. Don’t worry about sacrificing the coherence of your message to all your forced rhyming; there’s no substitute for KOOL!!! In fact, the more incoherent your song is, the better.

4.) Make sure to repeatedly lace your lyrics with random vocal interjections such as “uh-huh”, “yeah”, and “das right” to remind everyone that you’re TOTALLY OFF THE HOOK. Of course, these meaningless vocal spasms of **** do not serve to the fill the void when you can’t think of more substantial things to rap about.

5.) Give your completed lyrics to a 4th grader. If he understands what’s being said, you’ve done well.

6.) Don't even bother about singing because that takes talent and effort. Just talk in somewhat of a rhythm—occasionally. Just speak normal the rest of the time (well, as normal as a black person can speak). Make CERTAIN that you butcher the English language as much as you can. Never speak correctly. That's not being TOTALLY PIMP, YO!!!

7.) Turn on the radio to a rock station. Listen for a catchy guitar riff and record it. Synthesize it, and alter it slightly. Loop it about 100 times and you have your VERY OWN, NON-PLAIGARIZED rap song. Next, drop random samples of police sirens and loading guns to show everyone that YOU’RE A BAD-*** REBEL. Then give yourself a cookie.

8.) Eat a lot of beans and fart in a recorder. Effect it, and you have bass.

9.) Sit on your lazy, narcissistic *** and let other people who are more talented than you mix the CD.

10.) Put a picture of a hot woman on your CD cover to compensate for your lack of hot women in the real world. Also, do it to boost the sales of your CD because you know your **** sucks.

11.) It is impossible for a rap "song" to be by just one rapper. It's a little known fact that every rap song features at least 100 other rappers, most of which are unknown. In fact the majority of every rap CD isn't the actual rapper.

Answer 5

No, not really.

There is definitely more to rap than the Nellys, Diddys, and Young Jocs show. Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Common, Nas...while not as popular, are also rappers, and, in my opinion, don't fall into that "poetry for the ignorant" catergory.

Answer 6

Hardly fair. I don't listen to rap, but I recognize that some of it can be insightful and powerful, some of it id misogynistic, some of it is garbage and some is just plain fun. It's an art form. Like it or leave it and save the negative value judgments. After all, no one is making you listen to it.

Answer 7

Mainstream rap is ridiculous. But there is alot of good underground hip hop/rap music available to those that can appreciate rap as an artform. Rap that criticizes mainstream rap, you might like that...

Answer 8

That's like asking "Is it fair to say that Heavy Metal poetry for the mentally disturbed and suicidal?"

Look at these rap lyrics:

Runaway Love
By: Ludacris feat Mary J. Blige
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Runaway-Love-lyrics-Ludacris/60B3C81EA9408EF8482571F8000AD2FD

I Can
By: Nas
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nas/ican.html

The Winner
By: Coolio
http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Coolio/The_Winner_Lyrics/128816.htm

And these are some of the ones ppl tend to miss.

Answer 9

i listen to rap...i mean "the poetry for the ignorant". what a load of CRAP! don't be trying to bring it down because you dont like it. trust me, I can say many more things about that rock, or country stuff...

Answer 10

You must only know of the stuff played on video channels and the radio... so you don't really know what you are talking about