What makes rap negatively different than any other form of expressing oneself? Granted, there are a lot of rappers who glorify things that shouldn't be (drugs, abusing women, etc.) but doesn't that have more to do with the individual artist than the form itself?
2007-03-19 22:42:06 · 11 answers · asked by D.L. Miller 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
What makes rap negatively different is that record lable executives and radio stations executives deceide which songs and videos are distributed world wide. The owners of Clear Channel, Sony Music, Warner, EMI, UMG, Viacom, deceide what gets played on the radio and what videos are played.on TV.
When rap was young, artist like Too Short, NWA, 2Live Crew, E40 each sold over 2 million copies each with very little promotion. They sold records on the underground. That's about 30 million dollars in record sales for each rap group.
The Big boys wanted a piece of the action so over the next 10 years 1992-2002, They figured out a formula for selling rap music. That formula is explicit lyrics, materialism, pimping, gang violence, selling drugs, using drugs, hustling, explicit sex, big booty shaking, flashy jewelry, fashion. Every video with a male rapper in it is surrounded by several women who are shaking their booty. That's part of the formula for selling rap music.
So the Big boys control what you hear and see. If you are an artist and you do not make music to this formula you will not get signed and you won't get any air play.
You may say what about independent record lables like Roca-fella, So-So Def, Bad Boy Records, Cash Money Records, Shady-Aftermath, Flip-Mode, Russel-Simmon Music Group etc.? All of these lable are own by the one of Big Four. They have to make music by how they are told to. If booty music is in, they have to make it or they will be dropped.
People hate rap because the industry as a whole promotes trash. And the people who promote it don't know and don't care about the art form nor the hip hop culture. They just want to satify the stock holders who want a return on their investments.
Some of the artists are sell outs because they just go along with the program saying, I'm just "keeping it real."
Mos-Def has in his contract that he has full control of the music he makes. No one from his lable can tell him how to make his music. He is a true hip hopper. But when was the last time you heard his music on the radio?
2007-03-20 01:21:23 · answer #1 · answered by ccbabyo 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Darling, as with any form of art, that which is new and challenging is often feared. And, as with any form of art, it can be commercialized into something only vaguely remiscent of its original form. Happens all the time - in all generes and media.
What concerns me is that what passes for "Rap" is really some big mogule's idea of what is commercially viable. And these mogules aren't necessarily cigar-smoking fat old white exuctives - they're those "gangstahs" who shoot each other in nightclubs etc. They're not interested in the art form - which is as legitimate as any other art - but only interested in how much money they make off of the uneducated, unsuspecting public. Sadly many people swallow this C-Rap as the authentic stuff - when it's someone else's idea of what fans will buy.
By the way, the BEST Rap I"ve ever heard was in Bakersfield CA - by some street freestylists on a street corner. They were "cutting heads" (an old jazz term) seeing who could freestyle the best. It was great. One did a love song. The other made a social commentary about unemployment. I was impressed and became a fan of good rap.
2007-03-20 01:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does everyone have to like the same thing?
Also, The ostinato backbeat of rap can sometimes be hard for some to handle. Ostinatos were outlawed in ancient greece.
The negative view of women by some rap artists is not helping anything.
Rap is an acquired taste that many don't take the time to cultivate as well.
2007-03-20 17:52:24 · answer #3 · answered by teacher girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the main reason rap haters, hate on rap is because they dont understand it, they cant relate and instead of trying to understand it they choose to be ignorant and disrespectful and start judging and criticizing something they dont even know, but rap has changed so much from back in the day that it actually gives some of them a excuse to hate on rap and turns some of the people who have been with rap since the old days to hate the mainstream **** we got today.
2007-03-23 10:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 05:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's right. Many of the so-called 'rap haters' actually hate the rappers themselves. By the way I fall into this category. I used to despise Eminem because he was the only artist ever to get into a lawsuit with his 'Blacks and whites/They sometimes mix/But black girls only want your money/Cuz they're dumb chicks' (now, what was that song again?) However, my girlfriend changed my opinion on him. She's a rap lover, and myself, well, I don't like it, but that's just my opinion.
2007-03-19 22:51:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like some of Ludacris and the black eyed peas. I know theyre kinda poppy.. but most rap is just annoying to me. I respect people who like it...because different strokes for different folks.. but, most rap is degrading as a whole. I perfer things I can relate to...and I am wayyy too white to relate to most rap. lol
2007-03-19 23:44:22 · answer #7 · answered by Answer Girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because many people are narrow-minded creatures of habit. They have problems accepting the new. Another form of lazy. In fact most people are probably like this.
2007-03-24 15:17:08 · answer #8 · answered by Babyface 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because rap is music without a soul.
It's just hatred spoken to a beat.
2007-03-25 13:35:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you go wrong when you say 'all', there will always be people who'll think different from the masses
2007-03-20 00:02:24 · answer #10 · answered by biggiesmartypants 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋