Why do you hate rap music ?

[SixFootJockey]

i simply prefer other music i dont like all the slang talk with fast (computer made) beats i dont really like pop either (they are not pop bands! band = drums, guitar etc)

Thats my 20cent :p

Agreed :yes:

[batbeef]

I do not like it, because I do not see it as music.

How is it not music ? Are you going to use the they just talk over a computer beat excuse ?

How is techno music then..when its just a huge computer beat ?

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

this is turning into a political debate now, rappers talk about violance and how many people they shot over the weekend and Tony Blair blames that for the "hoodies" actions

techno classes as the same computer stuff too

[Purple Haze]

Unoriginal...maybe rap on the radio is unoriginal...so is every other type of music on the radio and yea that includes Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Fall Out Boy,... I don't hear alot of other type of genres trying to make a good message but I guess it's a double standard, rap always gets blamed for everything.

Wasn't asked about Britney or Fall Out Boy. If I were, I'd say the same thing about them.

I'd also say that what differentiates rap/pop is that a lot of rap these days is produced by the same 3, 4, however many producers, so it tends to blend together more. I'd hear _____ rapping, but I could tell right away that, say, the Neptunes did the song because it had similarities to the last five albums they did. Same goes for pop music when they hire the same songwriters over and over - it's all the path of least resistance/quickest cash-in.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

This thread is pure flamebait. The attitude of the OP is confrontational, and makes an assumption that we all hate rap. Also, any serious reason given is argued down.

[chopyaedoff]

I hate it because people only listen to it to make themselves look 'cool'.

A prime example of that is 'Wiggers' - they think they look good because they talk like retards and pretend they are from the 'ghetto'. But even funnier (or is that more pathetic) than 'Wiggers' are the kids which come over from Hong Kong and try to be 'Wiggers' as well; they are dubbed the term 'Chigger'.

But getting back to the topic here - there's some good rap artists with creative tallents out there (Dr. Dre is an example of that) but then there are many more which just do it for the money and fame asscociated with it.

[Vice]

I don't like the new Rap Music because it just sounds talentless if you remove the beat it's just a 1 sided conversation. And all Rap artists seem to sound exactly the same, bunch of words about girls or clubs or something like that with a repetitive computer made beat. The older Rap had allot more to say it was made for a reason not just to cash in, I feel today Rap is just made when a new beat comes out and someone just has to capitalise on that new sound..

[hotdog666al]

Same reason I hate Trance music.

It's annoying and doesn't appeal to my musical tastes. (The whole rap image is another thing I HATE).

I like stuff like Run DMC & RATM though.

Edited February 21, 2007 by hotdog963al

[Bawx]

i simply prefer other music i dont like all the slang talk with fast (computer made) beats i dont really like pop either (they are not pop bands! band = drums, guitar etc)

Thats my 20cent :p

Mature/Intelligent/Understandable debate.

I hate rap, i really can't see how people can stand listening to crap like that, its almost as bad as listening to Justin Timberlink

Ignorant/Unintelligent/Immature debate.

No offense.

[batbeef]

Mature/Intelligent/Understandable debate.

Ignorant/Unintelligent/Immature debate.

No offense.

I agree.

[AdverseDeviant]

because it is not cool to be from the ghetto, slap 'bitches' and brag about your 'bling'

also myself being a musician, i dont think rappers or pop 'artists' for that matter should be called artists or musicians. pop singers are closer cause at least they *should* know relative/perfect pitch.

[Buttus]

one thing that turns me off to rap, is that it seems like they're talking about how hard it is on the streets, gang fights, killing people, etc... when the actual rappers have 50 bodyguards each, have so much money they've never even seen a bad street, and the only killing they've been exposed to is in a movie...

[micro]

Are you trying to say everybody that listens to rap are not educated nerds.

I think I'm proof that that kind of logic is wrong.

ever listen to Dead Prez ???

I like rap and i like other music as well, R n B etc YellowCard whatever is catchy i like, im NOT however into that heavy metal stuff..

If you want to hear a hip hop song listen to

"bigger than hip hop"

by

Dead Prez in fact a few lines are almost quotes in this thread.

Edited February 21, 2007 by micro

[Bawx]

Do any of you people that don't like rap, like hearing extremely clever punch lines and intricate stories? Listen to Nas' "Rewind". I love Rock but I've never heard a rock song as clever and cool as that. ('cept Bob Dylan - The Hurricane)

Here's good hip-hop.

Nas

Talib Kweli

Mos Def

Lupe Fiasco (not just that one song -_-)

KRS One

Gang Starr

Clipse

plus 1,000 more but that's just a few.

[+Seetheworldsecond Subscriber¹]

Music Was Just a Bad Idea that others relate too that agree with something that is nothing.

[Max Veteran]

I was brought up with rock, so kinda got used to it.

I like 80's rap, because it sounds pretty good IMO. Modern day stuff is awful, everything I've heard interchanges between a select two or three beats and a few "clicks" or "claps" in between (you know the sound). Then a few gunshots (or half an album) if you are listening to, what I think, is 50cent.

I could debate about it all night, but its my opinion against yours and we're not going to change opinions - but those are just my base reasons.

[NienorGT]

I hate most of Rap because most of them are just violent and hater lyrics.

Also, must people that are listing RAP and stuff like that are "far" from the kind of people that I like...

There still good song that I like for the "global" sound but I need to not take care of lyrics, like Sean Paul - Get Busy, Emenein - Stan.

I like a lot of Reageaton that is kinda near of Rap sometime.

[micro]

Hmm, those are all valid reasons :) ^^^ you should like you from Guyana or somethin lol but says Canada..

[kincuri]

I'm a white, Australian, who comes from a upper-middle class background and still lives with my parents. I cant really relate to biatches and the ghetto...

I'm a Coldplay/Travis/Radiohead kind of person and don't really consider Rap as music, well not today's rap music anyways.

[Buttus]

actually, i was just going through some old CD's in my stacks, and came across a Digable Planets CD 'Reachin' and it's good... but it's mellow jazzy rap... i guess it's just gangsta rap that i don't really like...

[El Flaco]

I don't hate Rap music. I like it because I relate to it.

But there is something I hate:

All my life, until recently, I lived in poor neighbourhoods. Not a place so violent that you could hear gun shots from time to time. But I had class mates being killed and knew people that were in gangs, reals gangs, with guns and knives. (I was 12 the first time I saw someone being pointed a gun to his face).

Now, last year I moved to a small town (because my mom wanted to have a house). This place has a lot of white kids that listen to rap, some have taste. But a lot of them are wiggas.

I remember the other day I was in a mall when I saw a group walking like if they were all tough and all. I felt so insulted! I looked at him with such disgust and you could see in his eyes that he got a bit scared!

That's what I hate, wiggas! Another thing is: People who don't listen to real hip-hip!

[Liandros]

i respect older rap but not any of this new stuff. it just seems that most artists are one hit wonders. they make one "good" song and then you do not hear of them again. another reason that i find quite annoying is that all rap songs sound simular. not alike, but simular enough that you can do the same dance to every single one. it just feels that they have no originality like it did in the old days. i have no respect for this kind of music anymore.

[shockz]

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