Rap used to be a political platform that musicians used to air their profound views and it had more cultural and social meaning too.But these days rap is all about your bling ,whores,profanity or simly just Noise!!
What do you think?
2007-06-24 04:11:12 · 8 answers · asked by chryshal 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rap and Hip-Hop
Thank You....waitin 4 some1 2 feel the way I feel
Today it's all bout ice, cash, hoes, and whips
whatever happened to violence, emotion, the hood and all other aspects of tru gangsta rap.
A perfect example of a political standpoint was when Eminem lyrics pissed off people in congress (Ms. Cheney) and caused major controversey. Eminem came back wit track after track talkin bout the government...Mosh is the latest and it's one of the best tracks ever when it comes to talkin bout the government...Hip Hop Is Dead now because of people like the shop boyz, yung joc and all those people.
2007-06-24 14:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, Hip-Hop as an elevated genre of American Black Music is dead... it is essentially just crappy, repetitive nonsense these days.
It is sad, but it seems like with the exception of certain old-school black artists (KRS-ONE, Common, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, etc) that are still maintaining hip-hop's integrity, that the best hip-hop artists today are rural/suburban white boys (Slug, Eyedea, ADM, Sage Francis, Dose-One, etc).
It makes me really sad for black-culture... but it seems that Hip-Hop is just like The Blues and Jazz... abandoned and/or ruined by the same culture that gave birth to it, and adopted and kept alive by white people... Why does this happen? Hopefully, black America will come up with something else worthwhile in music soon, before Krunk kills all of their braincells.
2007-06-24 05:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by Heather L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I miss acts like Run DMC, KRS-1, and Public Enemy. They were rapping about the way things really were (and are), and how they felt about it. Now, the songs that are supposedly about real life are just a bunch of embellished or totally made up stories written to make the "artist" look tough.
2007-06-24 04:22:41 · answer #3 · answered by lj1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion (and without trying to offend anyone), rap has been useless. I never could understand very much of what was being said (I'm referring to the words, not the meaning). Every time I've heard rap and could actually make out what is being said, it's always been a lot of profanity, and about the 'hood', gangs, whores, and who has the most fly ride. Pointless and useless, as far as I'm concerned.
2007-06-24 04:16:09 · answer #4 · answered by Paul L 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bland and recycled. No one (at least in mainstream) is original anymore. That is mainly the reason I have turned my back on the genre. I'm tired of hearing about nothing but women, cars, money and all that other BS. It's old, it's tired, and sad. Use your voice to say something of substance....at least once in a while. Thats what I say.
2007-06-24 04:35:38 · answer #5 · answered by Agey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rap from the 90s is better.
2007-06-24 04:18:02 · answer #6 · answered by Jimmy Ng 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
rap in general is a complete joke....first and foremost they dont play their own music....second it sounds like they just woke up and they're too tired to pronounce their words correctly....its all the same stuff.....im waiting for this crap to die off because i think that "they" (the so called artists who rip off everyone)are actually getting tired of it also....but one fact still remains...you cant kill metal
2007-06-24 04:51:34 · answer #7 · answered by metal 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
choruses with the same line four of five times is really starting to drive me crazy
2007-06-24 04:14:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋