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__________________For me hip-hop has been dead for a loooooooooooong time. Today's rap is pure shite and I can't listen to any of it anymore! Unless it's some classic old school Quote:
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I hate how Rap and Hip Hop are often interchanged. Hip Hop is alive and well! Mos Def just released a new CD a few months back
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It's garbage now. God the song I hate the most is "Walk it Out" when I hear that I want to break the radio.
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There's plenty of crappy hip hop out there--just like there's plenty of crappy rock and crappy pop. That doesn't mean there isn't good hip hop out there. I think a lot of the hip hop that gets attention from MTV and the like is junk, but it's a huge oversight to say that's all there is in the whole genre.
I've started taking more of an interest in hip hop and its connections to slam and performance poetry. I had a student last semester who for our poetry unit was writing what more or less seemed like hip hop lyrics. He was worried that I wasn't going to accept them, but they were good, moving past the usual cliches, and there was so much of himself in them, which was the point of the assignments. I'm no expert on it, but it doesn't take a genius to know that hip hop isn't dead. As is true with any other genre of music, the real problem is that a lot of people aren't looking hard enough for something better than the cliched stuff getting the most airplay.
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I think there's a lot of generic rap out there that sounds the same although i wouldn't tar them all with the same brush. Songs with production by the Neptunes, Kayne West and Timbaland can often be really catchy and at times could be classed as electro-pop. I really like some of that stuff. I know it's not exactly groundbreaking but it sounds good.
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Rap has gone the way of rock music, the stuff you'll hear on the radio is crap...
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If people are sick of crappy rap, then maybe actual good hip hop will sell more. wouldn't that be nice?
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Complaining about hip hop based on the radio is like complaining about rock using Nickleback as an example.
Justin, it's actually getting better and better and better. You won't know it from listening to Jay Z etc though.
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Is classic old school as good as modern new school?
I'm just wondering.
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