Rap is crap !

ditto

Rap is a suffering and an upbringing for them black folk! And sometimes white folk!

Support the musicless industry!

still crap and white boys need to quit actin like they're from the hood...specialy when they're from a small town and there isnt one

I agree....give me SCREAMO

Rap is a form of expression and just because it may not apeal does not mean it is crap.

In matter of fact, many words are very profound and one should stay open minded to the most profound way of expression.

Did you like the music of your parents ? Most likely not as a teenager.

What about later on and, how to rappers like your music of the 60ths and 70ths ?

Be - and stay open minded and you will discover all sorts of Marvells not only in RAP but in different cultural approaches.


Music is a mans (womans) soul and just because not all souls are shining does not mean that they are not brilliant and have feelings to be expressed...


Bernard

Well said.He is mad cause he thought he had to crap and only farted

Yes, I suffer every time I hear it.

Hey I suffer when I hear some of those oldies and stuff you all call classics..
It's all a matter of what you like.
Doesn't mean it's crap if you don't like it.

Music has a melody. Rap is not music.
If you want to present the idea that it is
rudimentary poetry for the uneducated, I can accept that.
But, it CLEARLY is not music.

that would be fine if i didnt have to listen to it..but it seems they insist i do...can hear them 10 blocks away..or next to me in a store with their cells crank bouncin around

Well quit bitching.They dont play rap on the radio.Hip hop maybe but rap never.Get it together papaw

Rap music is talking or putting words together (you know un educated people)Single parent children growing up and talking about their experencies .Unlike people with a silver nipple and titty.benz in the drive way soon as they graduate.Name a rapper your sick of hearing.Some do have grammys.papaw

yeah cause we all know rappin bout ******* n hoes is part of growin up

Glad you grew up with money in a bank account

for the arrogant and ignorant..let me "school" ya ..ghetto enough for ya? hahahah



DEFINITION:The culture of hip-hop has been the source of dozens of words and expressions in American English, of which rap is one of the most familiar. The word is probably a development ultimately of rap meaning "to hit." It shows up in the early 1900s in the extended meaning "to express orally," as used by so notable a figure as Winston Churchill in 1933. Over the next few decades it came to mean "to discuss or debate informally," a meaning that was well established in the African-American community by the late 1960s. A decade later the word was applied to an evolving style of music characterized by, among other things, beat-driven rhymes of an often improvisatory nature. The slang that is integral to the lyrics of rap continues to be a source of borrowings into colloquial American English; recent examples include chill, meaning "to calm down," and dis, meaning "to show disrespect to." These are but the latest examples in a long series of such borrowings from Black English stretching back a century or more, many of them directly from popular music lyrics or from musicians' lingo.


---sounds like music to me.

It may look that way to people who don't know better, but since there is no melody, it isn't.
Instead, it is rudimentary, often featuring a simplistic rhythm using eubonic utterances and a monotonous common beat.

At BEST it could be considered a common urban form of simplistic poetry.
But, that is being extremely generous.
Obviously, one would be better served by investigating the works of real poets with linguistic talent.

know better? and when did you become educated enough to tell when someone " don't know better"?

Before you were born.

Back in the day a blew the speakers out in my van, cranking up the Eric Clapton, Doobie Brothers, etc.

The sound systems are a bit better these days, kids be crankin' what they like, just like I did.