Anyone like any rap?

[Camby Savelle]

Just curious, if so who?

[pagan]

I dabble..
Just last night I went out dancing with my wife and we had a great time. I don't think I would buy an album of whatever radio hits they played but it was fun.
Also I do enjoy some quality "hip hop" I strongly recomend listening to:
Sage Francis !!!! his personal journal albums is great.
also like:
tribe called quest
pharcyde
digable planets
some wu tang
de la soul
spearhead
etc.
I also like alot of reggae, ragga, and dancehall.
If somone is good at what they do, all music is good here..

[killerkat]

i had a N.W.A cd for a long time,and an Ice Tcd with Copkiller

Fuck the police,im comin' straight'from da underground,"......"hahahaha

[Nightingale]

I'm not into most rap at all, although the rap form Eminem is starting to produce lately appeals somewhat.

[Morning Glory]

wyclef jean can lay it down pretty good, although he's not really rap. In my younger days I'd bump tupac, cuz it pissed off the G's, and Charles Bronson cuz it pissed off everyone else. Yay, I didn't get shot. amazing.

[Tequila Zaire]

Yup, quite fond of it.

A Tribe Called Quest
Jurassic 5
Public Enemy
N.W.A
Ice Cube
Jay-Z
Lloyd Banks

And many many more. Wouldn't call it my most favourite genre but I place it above many others...

[DharmaLion]

Good grooves and intelligent writing get me everytime.

[hewhoisagod]

Jurassic 5
The Roots
Pharcyde
Cypress Hill
Wu Tang (RIP ole dirty)
NWA
Public Enemy
Run DMC
Beastie Boys
Nas

[Camby Savelle]

well if anyone is intrested in giving some rap a chance check out this cat...

Gangsta Dre - Inner City Poet
Gangsta Dre - Sitting on the Edge of a Curb

[Nudemuse]

I really like most of DMX's cd The Great Depression. I like, IceT (both solo and with Body Count) Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop (I just love him mostly because he makes me giggle) Wu Tang Clan, Eminem, Mystikal (mostly for giggles his voice makes me laugh) Ludacris, Nas,. For fun I like some of the pop/hip hop that's out now. If I want serious I lean more towards 2pac, Biggie, Bone Thugs and harmony, Outkast, Eve, few others I can't think of.

[ravenofdeath]

The only rap I have ever like is Sugar Hill Gang, the song I like is Rappers Delight. it's awsome.

[KilLAtomiK]

i like alot of the "gangsta rap" from the early 90s like
N.W.A
Dr Dre
Snoop Doggy Dog
Eazy-E
Bone Thugs & Harmony
Tupac
Kid Frost
Lil Rob
Mr Shadow

others i like are:
Outkast
Dilated Peoples
Nas
Ludacris

[morbid_lady]

not too much into rap, i like it for dancing, but thats about it.

i like alot of eminem's stuff, especially mosh and toy soldier

[ForrestBlack]

I really love EPMD. Too Short is funny. I have pretty much everything Ice T ever put out, including some moderately rare material. Oh yeah, and Nas is awesome.

[Projectthomas]

Ludacris, anyone who can make a music video based on the Hulk Hands can be bad.
Lil Jon, (skeet skeet)
, and kinda ashamed to say this The Insane Clown Posse, yeah I'm a huge Juggalo

Later

[Ichigo]

I used to listen to it a lot when I was little, then it started to suck as the 90s were ending. Rappers no longer talked about life in the hood and the struggles they faced, but life in their mansions and all the bling they have. The only rap I listen to now is stuff from the 80s and 90s, I love that MTV2 show where they play all the old rap. I like pretty much anything they play on that, it's all nostalgia.

[SindelChaos]

I find Eminem pretty fucking funny. I don't see how he gets away with some of the stuff he says, but it's still funny. I haven't heard his new album. This opinion is based off the first two albums.

Busta Rhymes is cool. His videos are loud vibrant and very eye catching. It's like scares you into liking his videos. I think he's pretty interesting. I heard he does a lot of improv.

Errm, Missy Elliot has some pretty cool stuff.

Lil' Kim is cool for the kinky whorish side of me.

That newer group. They did the cover for "I'm Sorry Miss Jackson." (insert name here) They have some interesting stuff as well. They also have some irritating stuff as well.

Beastie Boys haah, I am such a dork.

DMX has some pretty cool stuff too.

ODB has some really nice stuff. Too bad he died.

Note: I don't own any albums. I have a few downloads.

[nyar]

Shit yeah nigga- Im old schoo' muthafucka- Run-DMC, Grandmasterflash, all that shit-
seriously though-
I do love a lot of the old shit, and as for the newer stuff- theres always some I like and some I can't stand- Haven't actually BOUGHT a rap album in a while though(the first eminem disk)-
Will always love the BEASTIES!!!
been diggin a lot of raggae-rap stuff too lately. anyone else?

[hewhoisagod]

I have on rap album........... Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, doesn't mean I don't like the genre. I'm just very particular.

[Morning Glory]

haha. the beastie boys? you mean that gutter punk band?

[TheDeathKnight]

I have similar tastes to many of the people who posted already.
I used to like a lot of old school gangster rap.
Ice Cube, NWA, Eazy-E, Ice-T, etc...
But in recent years, I have not liked that much rap and hip hop.
A lot of it just does not have the energy, etc...
Most of it sounds like some stupid beat,
and 10 guys saying. "Yeah yeah! Wooo! Yeah!",
and waving their gold chains, and bottles of crystale.

But I do like some Lil John, ICP, etc.
But I mostly just like one song by an artist.
I rarely find a rap artist who I would want to listen to a whole CD of their style...

I like pretty much all kinds of music.

I have been listening to a bunch of "speedcore" techno recently,
which is all super-fast techno, that reminds me of black metal/thrash metal.

[Camby Savelle]

wow cool. this thread has received a much better response then I would have expekted.

I like

Gangsta Dre
Luni Coleone
Mitchy Slick
San Quinn
Psychodrama

alot of underground rap.

[Natz181]

I've always liked the old Cypress Hill sutff, i think their new cd sux.

[adorn_shadow]

umm.... K-Os
And outkast. thats about it.
Oh and the new Nelly/Tim Mcgraw song
I love tim mcgraw!

[Amelia G]

umm.... K-Os
And outkast. thats about it.
Oh and the new Nelly/Tim Mcgraw song
I love tim mcgraw!

Nelly did a song with Tim McGraw? The Dirty South is a scary place. Actually I think Nelly is really hot.

Oh yeah, topic at hand... Ice T, 50 Cent, Eminem, EPMD -- yes, it is Forrest's fault that I got into rap

[Morning Glory]

that's funny, a black guy singing about how cool the south is. it's like have you ever been to the south? cuz last time I remember it the south fought to enslave black people, and then lynched and shot them and now they drag them behind thier trucks until they are decapitated.

[ForrestBlack]

that's funny, a black guy singing about how cool the south is. it's like have you ever been to the south? cuz last time I remember it the south fought to enslave black people, and then lynched and shot them and now they drag them behind thier trucks until they are decapitated.

Actually, the South is very conflicted. It's hard to be a funny hair colored tattooed modified freak down there too, but in some respects the communities for that sort of person are also very strong. I miss some aspects of that unity, even if they were the result of resisting an opressive outer society. So yeah, being just about anything different in the South can suck, but I understand why someone could sing about the cool parts too.

[Tequila Zaire]

that's funny, a black guy singing about how cool the south is. it's like have you ever been to the south? cuz last time I remember it the south fought to enslave black people, and then lynched and shot them and now they drag them behind thier trucks until they are decapitated.

You're missing the fact that The South is home to and birthed many key parts of Black Culture...so as a result having a bit of pride about it all is a way to take back much of what was taken away. It's a place divided and at times feels like two very diffrent places. The South Nelly and other Dirty South artists sing about and bring to light is very much their south...not the Good Ole Boy's south. It's no different than Latino and Black rappers playing up the West Coast like their counter parts on the East Coast...they don't define these areas by white standards anymore. It's their homeground and they proclaim it as such rightfully and proudly. When you're part of a minority you simply can't afford to wait to be handed something...you have to take it...or in this case...take it back.

This is what so many of their critics don't get or can't understand. These areas are paid with their blood not a rent check. Be it in cop related shootings, gang violence, street crime, riots, or past events like lynchings...the neighborhoods and really cities have become their's even with the History of being fucked over by white men. Really that's what a lot of people kinda gloss over...

My hometown for instance had a law way back in the pre-civil rights days of all "Negro's off the streets by sundown" and any and all minorities were really not welcomed. It was whiter than white here. In High School when I was working in the library one of the things I had to keep in order was the school's collection of year books. For decades it was page after page of white faces till the late 60's. Now they are a minority with minorities really being the majority. That's true for many areas of this country. Know the history of the regions these rappers come from SPECIFICALLY...and you'll get why they will hold stuff like the Dirty South up rather high cause the area's they come from really are their's now. Times change and generations take foot in places that once kicked them down.

It's like the old joke for SoCal about what the official language is...times change the geographical realities. What was once white is now black, brown, or whatever.

[Morning Glory]

yeah singing about thongs is really a great accomplishment. I just wish that I could overcome racism to pave the way to being as sexist as possible. what a hero for the african american community.

[Tequila Zaire]

yeah singing about thongs is really a great accomplishment. I just wish that I could overcome racism to pave the way to being as sexist as possible. what a hero for the african american community.

You just don't get it then man. His style is much closer to the early days of Rap when it was party music. That's what he's good it...he makes the dance floor fun again. Party music has genrerally been about women and sex for the key reason that dance really is like foreplay. He's not trying to be like Public Enemy and Tupac. He does dance floor and and pop grooves for the nightlife set...fun music with good beats that hot women dig just as much as men do. He's not a hero to the african community in the way MLK may have been but he's a hero in the sense that he took a genre of music that has been DEFINED by black musicians and rose above much with it. I respect any man that can do that. You may not dig his sounds but that's silly as hell to dismiss a man cause his lyrics are about mans two great loves.

Look at where you're posting...have you missed the dominant sexual nature of it? If anything can overcome racism it's sex...it's the main thing men of all races can understand and bond about. If you can't see that well then...maybe you're taking artists like Nelly a bit too seriously or putting them in the wrong context?

[Morning Glory]

yeah, I get what you're saying, but it really seems a draw back to the whole point ya know, where like in the 70's and early 80's they still remembered the 60's, and the african american music industry tried to send a positive message and sure a lot of them wrote flakey pop songs to get mass appeal, but It seems to me at least half of them where saying hey, if your a black youth there's other options for you besides joining the military or going to jail, that black kids could be smart and be proud of it. and then in the late 80's and 90's it just went all down hill to singing songs about all the things that the white community has always stereotyped minorities for. so that's all I'm saying, you can have a rap artist that has catchy beats and good rhythm and doesn't have to sing about violence, drugs, and objectifying women, just like every rock song doesn't have to be about that either, and In my oppinion, the best aren't.

[Tequila Zaire]

yeah, I get what you're saying, but it really seems a draw back to the whole point ya know, where like in the 70's and early 80's they still remembered the 60's, and the african american music industry tried to send a positive message and sure a lot of them wrote flakey pop songs to get mass appeal, but It seems to me at least half of them where saying hey, if your a black youth there's other options for you besides joining the military or going to jail, that black kids could be smart and be proud of it. and then in the late 80's and 90's it just went all down hill to singing songs about all the things that the white community has always stereotyped minorities for. so that's all I'm saying, you can have a rap artist that has catchy beats and good rhythm and doesn't have to sing about violence, drugs, and objectifying women, just like every rock song doesn't have to be about that either, and In my oppinion, the best aren't.

What hurt rap was the whole focus on style and consumer insanity over message and creativity. Not all are guilty but for a few years it was all studio gangsta's trying to out bling one another. I tuned out of all that personally and thankfully groups like Jurassic 5 and the Black Eyed Peas kept hip hop alive...along with many many DJ's. The focus on violence, drugs, and what not can be understood given the background of many rappers who make it big out the ghetto. However when ALL try to do the same kinda look and style...it gets really old really fast and ruined many potentially great artists. Sadly it sells really well and as a result the pressure to do more of that has never really fallen. It's become it's own genre within a genre.

A lot of the artists coming up try to be harder and grittier than the ones before them...but at least for me...they come off comical and unreal...a charicature. There is a danger in that too since an entire genre can be hurt as a result. This was clear when the image of rap went from fun party music to dark ultra violent gangsta focused music. That's a massive change for any genre to go through in the eyes of pop culture. It's changed somewhat in recent years but the spectre of it does hang around as does its reality when great artists get gunned down or sent to jail for rather long stays.

The genre itself has discussed this and disected it in hopes of finding a balance between urban reality and musical diversity and slowly it's coming to light. While it's nowhere near as diverse in style as it was in the early 90's it's getting there. It's at least fun again and creative as any other genre. It can lose it all though if it picks one style to pay the bills with like it did with gangsta rap. Anytime one style dominates a genre...the end result is rarely good. In this case it has a double edged sword...it opened the doors to MANY artists but created an image that drowed just as many. It's bittersweet to say the least.