Rap

[Sskessa]

I like rap. It's not my favorite style, but it's definitly cool. I'm lucky though, because my local indy jazz station plays good rap on the weekends. As for pop rap, well, I can't stand anything they play on mtv, it's not just the rap nowadays that's all about mindless sex, I mean listen to Britany Spears, etc.
Also, thanks to Drake and Kattywampus for all the intersting background. I had no idea about any of that stuff, and will definitly appreciate rap more!
That and I will check out this "M-flo" group

[P_Z]

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There's plenty of rap music with melody.  Too bad you haven't heard any.

Yeah, the biggest hits have a melody: a melody that loops over through the entire song. "Rap is music that doesnt concentrate on a melody, but on the lyrics, rhymes and beats" would be the most appropriate definition.

I think if you veiw the superfacial (sp?) Aspects of rap (guns, drugs, subjugation of women, killing) It can be dishartening to a furry. But I belive there is some rap that concentrates more on the spiritual side of things.

Now I have come to like the real G THUG stuff (I used to hate it), But I really got started on MF Doom, Kool Keith, Cannibal Ox, Wu-Tang, Bestie Boys...ect. This is stuff where the Beats are intricate and colorful and the lyrics are not just about the dark side of human existance. Its the art form of a culture (Not that top 40 "Nelly" Pablum), and I will never tottaly discredit a cultural form of music.

Just do a search on the Artists I mentioned. If you have an open mind, I think you might like it.

The media portrays Furries Incorrectly, and I belive it does the same with most rap.

There are diamonds in the rough

[KiyoshiAkita]

Ok, I heard a song today that my sister put on....It wasn't even like I was listening to music....it actually gave me a headache.....the name of the song was Go DJ by Lil' Wayne....it sucked....but then again, I really don't like any of Lil' Wayne's stuff......anybody else heard it?

well it really matters, rap is really a broad spectrum that alot of smaller genres fit into. I dont like nelly or 50cent or rappers like them, they flat out suck  '>  but on the other hand there are good artists that are more like poetry but still fit under rap such as sage francis, eyedea, josh martinez, and atmosphere among others, well thats my opinion  '>

[AussieRoo]

Well, open minded doesn't mean you have to like something, but I see what you mean.  Personally, I lack interest in anything that hosts less than an amateur talent.  Most rap in my view, has little talent in it, and even less creativity.  Sometimes you can tell when a group makes music for money, and lots of rap bands do that.  Besides, rappers tend to be racist, or at least biased against, "The white boy".  I say all humans suck equally.

-I'm not racist, I'm speciest-    damn skinnies....  

I don't care if others like it, but it's not something I look for in a friend.  It's not the fact that someone likes rap that bothers me, it's the entire atmosphere it puts me in when I hang out with them.  They can listen to it on their own time, but I find it offensive, annoying, and innappropriate for any situation other than self listening.

alot of the rap i listin to the guys are white  '>  (no, not eminem, he sucks) but people like eyedea are really good, not racist at all, his songs are like poetry, i like poetry. Hes extreemly talented and has good lyrics, so you cant say all rap is talentless... some may be, but that can be said for all music at points. So saying all rap is bad is a bit harsh.

[Happenstance]

There can be a remarkable amount of talant in rap, but I will NEVER consider it a style of music. Poetry, yes. Music, NO. I personally don't listen to any rap, and find most of it repugnant for the subject matter, language and such.

[Kattywampus]

Ooooh you guys just wait..  
I can find stuff that will prove all the negative statements wrong!
Just wait til my show is back on.. I'll do a special.

[Sskessa]

Oh goody! Be sure to tell us when you do ^^

[Keela]

I like the older stuff like Meastro Fresh Wes, Vanilla Ice, Public Enemies etc.. And even some of the early 90's stuff like Coolio, Warren G and Snoop Doggy Dog  

However rap for the most part has gone down the toilet. The undreground stuff is good but most of what you hear on top40 stations is trash.

[WildbillTX]

I liked rap back then before the NWA and other Gangsta's took over in the early 90's and shot all the fun out of it while selling millions to white teenagers rapping about gangs, guns and violence. When the major record companies found this out rap became a formula to be copied over and over.

I loved it when everyone was going crazy with sampling like on the Beastie Boys "Pauls Boutique" which has over 100 songs sampled - you cant do that now without paying the original recording owners big money to loop a 15 second snippet. Now producers pay for a couple of samples and loop them to death for 4-5 minutes for a big hit. Most of the experimentation with sampling has gone underground to free internet remixes and "mash-ups".

I lived in a college dorm in the 80's on the same floor with the basketball team and those guys were playing rap all the time. (Sugarhill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash. RUN-DMC, Whodini - old school). Rap used to be funny, creative and inventive - now most rappers are as predictable and dumb as Hair Bands were in the late 80's. I'm hoping something fresh and different will come along and shake up black music (we need more Outkasts and less D12's) and send most of the lame rappers back to thier day job at the car wash.