Why does rap/hip-hop music get such a bad rap? 9
Apr29
Emanuel E asked:
As a fan of rap growing up, I wonder why. I can understand about the more contemporary stuff that’s been going on for the past five or so years, but in general, people give hip-hop a bad name. Apart from subject matter, which I am aware of, people get on the style because of the fact that songs use samples of other songs. By that, I mean the beats, but I have no problem with it. Also, people seem to say that it isn’t really music, but we let judges decide on that. If that were the case, then House music isn’t really considered music either, since it isn’t done in melody. Of course, I can understand if someone doesn’t like the genre, that’s fine. But there are other rappers who don’t rap about the cliched subject matter, but about stuff that’s meaningful. Sometimes, I even think that the gangsta rap from the late 1980s early to mid 1990s was better than most of the so-called gangsta rap of the present day. It’s like what I heard before, hip hop has been around for over 30 years and it still gets no respect.
Honestly, there are rappers out there who rap about stuff that has nothing to do with b***hes and hoes or shooting people and such. Try listening to guys like Common, The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, or even legends like Run-DMC, Public Enemy, KRS-One, etc.
As a fan of rap growing up, I wonder why. I can understand about the more contemporary stuff that’s been going on for the past five or so years, but in general, people give hip-hop a bad name. Apart from subject matter, which I am aware of, people get on the style because of the fact that songs use samples of other songs. By that, I mean the beats, but I have no problem with it. Also, people seem to say that it isn’t really music, but we let judges decide on that. If that were the case, then House music isn’t really considered music either, since it isn’t done in melody. Of course, I can understand if someone doesn’t like the genre, that’s fine. But there are other rappers who don’t rap about the cliched subject matter, but about stuff that’s meaningful. Sometimes, I even think that the gangsta rap from the late 1980s early to mid 1990s was better than most of the so-called gangsta rap of the present day. It’s like what I heard before, hip hop has been around for over 30 years and it still gets no respect.
Honestly, there are rappers out there who rap about stuff that has nothing to do with b***hes and hoes or shooting people and such. Try listening to guys like Common, The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, or even legends like Run-DMC, Public Enemy, KRS-One, etc.
RACISM.
Honest answer.
Some not all SOME white ppl dont like us. nd i agree wit u bout the early gangsta rap music
answer mine
i really dont understand. i mean my mom says it takes no skill, and im just like “excuse me, i would like to see YOU rap”
and im white ..
Racism has something to do with it, no matter how nice we think it would be to think it doesn’t. What does it have to do with it? Racism is alive and kicking in America, it just (for the most part) hides better now and rap is a “black thing.” (And I’ll say right now I’m white. As well as being intelligent and educated enough to understand the world around me)
Also, even though I’ve listened to hip hop for over decade now, I still question its musical merits. Let’s face it, it takes less skill to lay a beat on a computer than it does to play a violin and it takes less skill to write a 16 bar verse than it does it sing. I’m not saying rapping or beat making takes no skill but it’s just not comparable to what it took for Bach to play or Celine to sing.
A lot of people also credit rap and hip hop (among other forms of entertainment) as part of the downfall of youth manners, education, intelligence, etc… A large part of that is simply a scapegoat mentality – it’s easier for a parent to blame 50 Cent or Marilyn Manson or GTA when their kid goes wild than it is to take responsibility. However, this idea isn’t without any merit. How many kids who grew up in the suburbs with middle class parents do you see in the mall in their Air Forces and tall tees repping Gggg Unit and claiming to be a thug?
And, hip hop or not, a lot of kids today are pretty f—king dumb. I’m blaming the internet in general.
the media and government is run by close minded people and all the ignorant people that say bad things about rap listen to those people
lol “white people don’t like us” lol
fuck you
what does race have to do with anything^^^^
Honestly…Stop with all the racist bull ish…I seen this interview with Bill Cosby the other day, where he was talkin bout how he’s embarrassed to be black right now because of the bad reputation being built with the murders and crime within the black community, and how black people blame white people for their crimes. He then proceeded to say how that is all bull…Nobody’s to blame but the people committing the crimes, and creating the bad rep…what are most mainstream rappers rapping bout?….Guns, Drugs, Sex, Money…This is all most people see of rap..this is why it get’s a bad rap..it’s quite obvious.
its ok,no one likes white meat anyway…
I’m 29 so, I grew up with a love for this music too but, even as a fan you have to admit, we do jack ALOT of records. That Lloyd and Wayne joint that just came out. That record is heat but, they DID just up and snatch that beat from Eric B, and 80% of Wayne’s verse was Rakim. That’s how hip-hop gets down. At least we’re not as bad as reggae. Not to change the subject but, reggae and dancehall artists will straight up remake a song that just came out yesterday. You gotta laugh at that ish…
I just hope we don’t end up like jazz. Every time I try to listen to jazz (WBGO, Jersey stand up!), I have to listen to some new cat doing their version of a Duke Ellington or Art Blakey joint. Play your own music and come up with some thing new. That’s how styles survive. I hope that when I’m 50, hip-hop music hasn’t been relegated to the lower end of the radio dial.
…And if everyone could stop accusing people of racism. If you throw it out there now on something this small, not one will believe us when it actually happens. You’re making the word lose its value.