Why Do People Bad Mouth Rap When They Clearly Know Nothing About It?

Question

I mean seriously people are so ignorant. They assume that all the rubbish on the radio today is what rap has always been like, and it HASN"T!!! It just shows you that they wouldn't even have heard of all the classics (Tupac, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, Krs One, Run DMC, Biggie, Big L, Wu Tang Clan, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest etc) So what people are doing is exactly the same as someone else saying all rock sucks because Good Charlotte etc suck. What would rockheads say if someone said that? exactly that would be extremely ignorant. I do listen to rock myself but if i didn't i certainly wouldn't make the mistake of thinking that the garbage on the radio is what your listening to.

Answer 1

I think people just like to think that their opinion is best. They like to think what they have/do is superior to everyone else's choice. Whether it be music, TV, clothes, books or whatever. I think it makes them feel better about the choices they've made....to put others down. I guess that is how they justify decisions they made. I don't think any one type of music is better than the other, I know I prefer certain types, but that is b/c it suites me, and my taste. I respect your right to have an opinion, it doesn't have to be justified. Sometimes I think that is what is wrong with people today, they don't get it. An opinion is yours and yours alone to have, it isn't right, it isn't wrong, IT'S YOU! and nobody should ask you to explain it, just let it be! As long as your music means something to you, to hell with what anyone else says!
Ask those people who are they to be the judge of what sounds good to you? You may think their music gives people headaches and isn't "soothing". I don't understand how people honestly think they know what is best for someone else to like!!!

Answer 2

I grew up when rap started becoming huge- the 80's. The rap artist I got into was Public Enemy. I am rocker at heart. Good Charolette sucks. There is alot of crappy rock bands but the genre rock is humongous. Beatles, Creed, Metallica, Journey, CCR. The reason I never liked rap is because there are no musicians. It is rhythmic, some artists have great lyrics but it is not musical AND you would be hard pressed to find many 30 year olds and older listening to rap. It is music for the young. That's not an insult, that's the truth. Rock was for the young once but it has transcended time.

Answer 3

Because people have nothing to do with there lives. Who care if they don't like rap its here to stay. And i feel that they hate it because its talking about them or a life they once lived and is trying to act as if they never saw a hoe or whipped a trick. I can't get over the fact that they act like rap is the only music that has foil language and shoot up bang bang. I no a lot of sound By blue grass, classic, R&B, rock, and even country that talk about the same thing just because they sugar coat it or use those big words its still there. Theres a hundred way to say hoe *** ***** and Give me my money before i shoot your ***. Anyway rap is not all about that there are great rap sound that make you cry and that you would play at you wedding. If they listen rap is only music with word about there life and struggles. Or something that they have seen. Just like the rest of the music. I think they need a life i'm a fan of all music so if it make me feel good or it has good lyrics i will play it all day. And has for Beth [Jujjiebooboo1] maybe we don't what to now about her getting shoot. She should have had that money for her pimp. And she would'nt have to be run from them bullets. HAHAHAHA.....

Answer 4

I think people fear what they do not know. The way people disrespect rap or hip hop music now is very similar to how they disrespected Rock and Roll, then Hard Rock, and Outlaw Country, and Punk, and Heavy Metal... It takes a long time for a new type of music to be completely accepted.

One other thing to remember is that music is a very personal preference. Some people will never like Rock, or Opera, or Rap, or Country.

You have to listen to what you like.

Answer 5

u're absolutely right!
now, i listen to lots of korean rap ajajaja so...not 2 up there with the american stuff sorry but i have to agree.
people are ignorant and a lot of people probably say stuff like "rap isn't music" etc but are too narrow minded to actually listen to some rap, are probably those who aren't even true to themselves...what i mean is...hard to explain...say things to make others happy or...mmm...act like "themselves".
i always hear people saying that rap is so easy...the people are just speaking...and then it's all "well, can you rap?"...and even if it were easy, it doesn't make it unpleasurable or a bad listen at all -- such as rock...i could say that most rock is crap since the people "always play three chords"...but it's pleasurable to listen to...many people are not musically trained and many people would love to be musically trained and being able to say that some type of music is bad and insult(like the judges on american idol)gives them pleasure because they feel "cool" like they are musically trained or talented(which any good musician would be able to tell they aren't!!!) so...that is basically what i think...sorry it's so long, but this is something i get annoyed with myself.
xao
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Answer 6

Tupac did no longer have the main complicated lyrics, yet a solid ingredient to his songs have been very emotional. whether you're no longer from the ghetto, you could connect with his songs to a undeniable quantity. Tupac's aura substitute into unrivaled on the time, and no person has matched it because. Tupac did in his 5 year rap occupation what others ought to in no way do. Tupac released useful albums, wrote deep poetry, acted in video clips, and remained properly-known interior the mainstream. call on rapper in the present day that can do all of that. it particularly is why Tupac is one among the superb to do it.

Answer 7

i get what you mean when ever someone says something bout rap like 10 people come in and say rap sucks and start bashing it, they aint only talking bout the rap we got today they generalize it and say that rap in general sucks when they know nothing about it. todays rap is downhill but like you said the originals like pac big and nas are good stuff. plus most of the time the people who bash rap dont understand the words, i mean if you never had drugs rip your family apart you cant relate to the words when they rapping bout drugs ripping your family apart.

Answer 8

i know what you mean all the way its just rap is slowly dying from all the wannabe that come up and rap about sh*t they've never done we need a rap artist to bring rap back to is original form back like 10 years ago, what people are doing is just stereotyping it cuz they heard a rap song they didn;t like and assume every friken rap song sucks honsetly its the same with every type of genre of music its jjust that rap gets it the most.

Answer 9

Didn't you post a similar diatribe yesterday? You know, there's probably a good reason why a lot of people haven't heard of Tupac and Big E -- THEY BOTH GOT SHOT AND KILLED. And over what? Some stupid East Coast/West Coast turf war? Yeah, there's a couple of prime role models for young Americans of all colors and all backgrounds...The big problem with rap, even with the earlier rap artists going all the way back to Run/D.M.C., is that rap glorifies urban culture -- sure, not all rappers are gangsta rappers, but even so rap clearly points to disrespect for the law, disrespect for authority figures, heck, disrespect for just about everything except putting yourself out as Mr. Big Man with your bling and your tricked out ghetto cruiser with a stereo that forces everyone within a 1/2 mile radius to listen to that thump garbage (again, disrespect for others who don't want to listen to that crap). Talk about a perfect model for "the ugly American" -- uneducated, unrefined, noisy, inconsiderate, arrogant, rude, and with no taste whatsoever in clothing or cars...

Answer 10

I'd have to say that when one is exposed to it primarily coming from a nearby car, and it can be translated as "Thoogga, Thoogga, Kill Whitey, Thoogga Thoogga Kill Whitey"-I used to just roll up my windows- my new car came with a sound system that should be on strategic arms limitation talks- so now, when some ignoroid pulls up and I'm subjected to it, I crank up the "Pipes and Drums of the Argyll Highland Regiment"-it will shut down a boom car reeeeaaal fast....