Why Rap Has Become Boring - Page 5

Team-Rancho · 01-07-2008, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by T Bogus

Are them Cardinals actually any good? Damn I know nothing about Baseball. Even though I have a Braves jersey myself, with my name and my birthday as number on the back. Damn I think I might just become a rapper!

Satchmo8101 · 01-08-2008, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by camilojoe

For people who think that rap is at some kind of impasse, consider that in an era when nobody buys records anymore, and T.I. and Kayne are moving a lot of product. If anything, rap today is the dominant paradigm, so saying that it has become irrelevant or lost touch with the streets or whatever the fuck, is like writing off the most meaningful style, as in what means the most to the most # of people. Hearts follow money.

And for the purists who feel that rap needs to go back to its headspins on the cardboard roots, that shit is the past. 'Turntablists' are the past. Saying 'the wheels of steel' is the past. Rakim, Nas, they're tight, but they don't represent a sustainable model, they represent the past. But if you are into skimpy beats and heavy verbage, prodigy and AZ are still going strong. The Roots are a hip-hop group, I don't think of them as primarily a rap group.

And if you're too stuck up to accept the fact that jibbs and white-tee shit is a little more fun to party to than socially conscious sermonizing over carefully layered stax beats, then at least recognize that today rap is like a million times bigger, more diverse and interesting than in the so-called golden age of rap, when it was basically just two monoliths: brooklyn and compton. Today you got so much more variety, that it's cronicles of ridic to say that rap fell off lately. Shit, its just growing, getting more nuances and whatnot. Just wait new Weezy f Baby and 'detox' drop, then say how much rap has fell off.

After one year a Major Tom sighting....

Satchmo to Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear....

COBPWNS · 02-18-2008, 03:19 PM

In my opinion it could be because of the internet and other new forms of entertainment. But according to BET its because of the whole Tupac, Biggie beef. It apparently made (mainstream) Rap about who's the best, who's the coolest.

It could be that there is almost no meaning left in it. And even old Rap songs without meaning still had clever rhyme. I'm sure Rap would improve if Rappers learned about poetry.

Rap is poetry in motion. If you take out the poetry then it equals complete shit.

Example:

Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

jxd · 02-18-2008, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by camilojoe

For people who think that rap is at some kind of impasse, consider that in an era when nobody buys records anymore, and T.I. and Kayne are moving a lot of product. If anything, rap today is the dominant paradigm, so saying that it has become irrelevant or lost touch with the streets or whatever the fuck, is like writing off the most meaningful style, as in what means the most to the most # of people. Hearts follow money.

And for the purists who feel that rap needs to go back to its headspins on the cardboard roots, that shit is the past. 'Turntablists' are the past. Saying 'the wheels of steel' is the past. Rakim, Nas, they're tight, but they don't represent a sustainable model, they represent the past. But if you are into skimpy beats and heavy verbage, prodigy and AZ are still going strong. The Roots are a hip-hop group, I don't think of them as primarily a rap group.

And if you're too stuck up to accept the fact that jibbs and white-tee shit is a little more fun to party to than socially conscious sermonizing over carefully layered stax beats, then at least recognize that today rap is like a million times bigger, more diverse and interesting than in the so-called golden age of rap, when it was basically just two monoliths: brooklyn and compton. Today you got so much more variety, that it's cronicles of ridic to say that rap fell off lately. Shit, its just growing, getting more nuances and whatnot. Just wait new Weezy f Baby and 'detox' drop, then say how much rap has fell off.

I don't know how I missed this post but...

Yada · 02-23-2008, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by COBPWNS

Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now Watch Me Do
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)

Damn I don't want to like Soulja Boy. The dance is addictive though.

mriparian · 02-24-2008, 01:30 AM

Soulja Boy is one of the few songs that actually may someday throw me into a homocidal rampage.

COBPWNS · 02-27-2008, 09:46 PM

Its horribly overrated, but he'll be forgotten. Just like the rest of them.

Team-Rancho · 02-28-2008, 08:06 AM

I'm yet to hear that song, but I've seen ringtone commercials for it.

jxd · 02-28-2008, 02:58 PM

It's just like a lot of these "snap-yo fingas" or "I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T"... it's not rapping or hip-hop there is no substance to these "songs".

Snoop Dogg now that's music:

Im gonna take my time
She gon get hers before I
Im gonna take it slow... ow...oooo...ow

Sensual Seduction!

The video is even better! That jheri curl is to raw!

Just Blaze · 02-28-2008, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by jxd

Sensual Seduction!

I like the beat, pharrell's next album is gonna be incredible production wise.