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Subject: Gangsta Rap
I know many people here dislike rap, but am gonna start this thread anyways.
It first blew up inthe early 90s. Back in the NWA era. Then there was the studio gangsta's and all. And now it died down when Biggie and 2pac left. Now it all seems to be more commercial now.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I remember when it all got started. Actually "rap" started in the 80s. I was growing up in the early 90s, but personally i never liked rap. It just wasn't the music for everyone, you know. But now a days it has gone down in popularity, kids don't listen to it like they did twelve years ago.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I hate rap. Back in the 90's growing up, i had nothing against it. It was an acceptable different choice in my eyes. But nowadays, rap is pop. All this new sh*t that is comin out like nelly and eminem and little bowwow and all these nobodies from ny and st louis, is no different, and no better, than nsync or the backstreet boys. So many people are suckers for pop culture nowadays it is sad. People don't choose what they want to hear, it is chosen for them. Whatever the radio station or music channel puts on the countdown, it is your duty to like this song. Think for yourselves and run away from this garbagetruck full of songs.
R.I.P
Rap music
1996
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
Rap has changed throughout the 80's and early 90's starting with The SugarHill Gang in 1980,early 1980's were RUN DMC,Snoop Dog,Ice T,NWA,Fat Boys,etc...Now,almost every Rap song has cursing in it. -howard-
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
i used to like some rap .. Like Bone Thugs in Harmony, Outkast the older stuff...Scarface.. Wu Tang.. Foxy Brown.. But i really never listen to it any more.. you kinda grow out of it...
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I like the late 80's/early 90's West Coast sound (NWA, Ice-T, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, 2Pac, even Sir Mix-A-Lot) I'm not much into today's rap. Most of it is garbage IMO...Jerky beats and non-harmonic music...
QueenAviator wrote:
Quoting:But now a days it has gone down in popularity, kids don't listen to it like they did twelve years ago. End Quote
The majority of requests I get are for rap music...
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
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Most of it is garbage IMO...Jerky beats and non-harmonic music...
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You sound like me! I hate today's rap music! It's sh*t compared to what was around in the 90's.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
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I remember when it all got started. Actually "rap" started in the 80s.
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No, rap started in the mid-1970's in The Bronx in NYC, and hit the suburbs around 1979. Gangsta Rap evolved from that in the late-1980's.
;)
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I never liked rap growing up. Around 98 though I used to listen to Puff Daddy and Mase in my senior year of high school. Before that I liked grunge but by 98 grunge had died and the new trend was rap so I liked it. Around late 98 I picked up a Rakim record the "18th Letter" that really blew my mind. From than on I never liked crappy commercial rap. After I listened to the 18th Letter I started listening to PM Dawn, arrested Development, Tone-Loc, Jazzy Jeff Fresh Prince, LL Cool J, Rob Base and other old school type rap. Now I listen to mostly 80's pop/R&B, 80's New Wave, old school rap, and 90's grunge. Ja-Rule, Nelly, and Eminiem are just not for me. Eminem has a good flow and mic skills but wastes it on crappy songs. Nelly and Ja-Rule are pop. I don't understand how Ja-Rule and Nelly sell 3 million records. If people a teenager wants to know what real hip-hop is I will hand him a a Rakim or Tupac record.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
Can't stand any of the stuff and never have liked it,but each to their own.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
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Ja-Rule, Nelly, and Eminiem are just not for me. Eminem has a good flow and mic skills but wastes it on crappy songs. Nelly and Ja-Rule are pop. I don't understand how Ja-Rule and Nelly sell 3 million records.End Quote
I lost mad respect for Nelly when he did as remix with 'n suck. yea he went pop there, but then again, a lot of his stuff sounds the same. as for ja, yea he's pop but he's still good. i think he didn't go pop 'til he did a few with j. lo.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I grew up on rap music, and I thought I would never see the day where I am not fund of it anymore. I love ol skool rap, but this stuff today is crap. I am now into buying lots of greatest hits because with greatest hits, you know what you are getting, but with music today, people are buying an entire CD on two good tracks while the rest is crap. I not only listen to rap however. I have a wide range of love for music. Rock, pop, jazz, R&B, swing, some country, heavy metal. I don't think it is fair to attack just rap music though. Because pop is not that great either. You have so many new groups out that not only can't sing, but they also have no longevity. It makes me wonder who did they f**k to get a contract.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I never had much respect for Nelly to begin with. Nelly makes me sick, but at least he can get club girls to take off their clothes
I enjoy Eminem a whole lot. Outkast too. Common, Tribe, PE, De La, old Nas, a little DMX, some Lauryn Hill, some Wu-Tang, I enjoy all of that. Oh, and the Roots. LOVE the Roots.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I never liked that much of rap that came out after 1996. But then again, I have not liked a whole lot of music since 1996.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I like late-80's/early-90's hardcore rap also along with all the pop-rappers like MC Hammer and Salt 'N Pepa of that time. The Geto Boys were my favorite hardcore rap group. I also like all that mid-90's G Funk until it died out in late 96 or early 97 when rap turned to crap. Since then I've bought only a few rap albums. The only rappers of today that I listen to is Eminem, Tha Eastsidaz, ICP and Outkast. The rest really sucks ass.
R.I.P. Tupac and Biggie.
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
I don't really like rap much. I'm more into hard alternative rock, but I'll listen to *some* rap. But I HATE, HATE Nelly. But now i tell u what, if I ever saw Ja-Rule I'd probably tackle him. :o tee-hee! He's about the sexiest guy out there. Especially when he's singing "Put it on me" ;)
-Queen Ruth Lorraine AmenRa Burnt Noodles Shway Crayola Staples
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
Rap sucks now. All it is now is cr@P. It all died when 2pac and biggie died. All these rappers do now is rap about "chicks" and sex. gees you would think that they could rap about something else besides that......
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
There's plenty who rap about other things.
Common
The Roots
De La Soul
Outkast
Eminem (okay so he raps about killing people with a chainsaw instead... it's a change, at least)
Nappy Roots
Lauryn and Wyclef
Black Eyed Peas
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
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There's plenty who rap about other things.
Eminem (okay so he raps about killing people with a chainsaw instead... it's a change, at least)
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wow I never heard him rap about that before...what song would that be?? I have to hear it
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
Uh... something off of the Marshall Mathers LP, probably "Kill You."
Subject: Re: Gangsta Rap
What about Left Eye from TLC. She rapped about others things instead of sex and jewelry. Did yall ever hear her solo album called Supernova.