Do you hate rap? Come on in.

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
No I love rappers . put an ear ring in your head and cover your self with tatooes , Dip Sxhitl

Wow. This has to be the stupidest response so far.

Hey rock and roll listeners. Did you just hear this guy????????

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
Oh come on, everybody has to like Snoop at least a little bit.

As 50 Cent would say, "just a lil bit".

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Rap = teh suck!!!!!!1111111

More ignorant responses please.
Your brain = teh suck!!!!!11111111111

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
No I love rappers . put an ear ring in your head and cover your self with tatooes , Dip Sxhitl

Wow. This has to be the stupidest response so far.

Hey rock and roll listeners. Did you just hear this guy????????

agreed...

but i have to say

pot...kettle

kettle...pot

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: Waylay00

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I hate rap

Rap sucks. It isn't music. I especially hate white guys who listen to rap more than the blacks do.

So, you have to listen to what your race listens to? I didn't know that.

 

[funboy6942]

(One) day when I was chillin' in Kentucky Fried Chicken
Just mindin' my business, eatin' food and finger lickin'
This dude walked in lookin' strange and kind of funny
Went up to the front with a menu and his money
He didn't walk straight, kind of side to side
He asked this old lady, "Yo, yo, um...is this Kentucky Fried?"
The lady said "Yeah", smiled and he smiled back
He gave a quarter and his order, small fries, Big Mac!
You be illin'

 

[RU482]

I hate rapping presents

 

[BoberFett]

What about MC Chris? He's the coolest white rapper around. He's right up ATOTs alley.

 

[Brutuskend]

Yo, I refuse to read ANY lyrics with the word "Yo" in it.

 

[rh71]

Ludacris just won an award for "Number One Spot". First, I think this guy's lyrics are the worst I've heard anywhere... he writes rhymes that makes no sense, just to rhyme. And he wins an award for THIS song ? You've got to be fvcking kidding me. Who's voting for this sh!t ?

I'm never goin nowhere so don't try me
My music sticks in fans veins like an IV
Flows poison like Ivy, oh they grimy
Already offers on my 6th album from labels tryin to sign me
Respected highly, HIIII MR. O'REILLY
Hope all is well, kiss the plantiff and the wifey
Drove through the window, the industry super sized me
Now the girls see me and a river's what they cry me
I'm on the rise, so many people despise me
Got party ammunition for those tryin to surprise me (surprise!)
It's a celebration and everyone should invite me
Roll with the crew or meet the bottom of our Nikes (blaow!)
Explorer like Dora these swipers can't swipe me
My whole aura's so MEAN in my white tee
Nobody light-skinded reppin harder since Ice-T
You disagree, take the Tyson approach and bite me!

Utter crap. At least Eminem writes lyrics that work.

I think I've bitched about his other song about Waterfalls or something in a previous thread. Why this guy is popular is beyond me.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Yo, I refuse to read ANY lyrics with the word "Yo" in it.

Okay. Read this. No "Yo" in it

I learn to relax in my room and escape from New York
And return through the womb of the world as a thought
Thinking how hard it was to be born
Me being queen wit no physical form
Millions have settled wit one destination
To reach the best part, it's life creation
9 months later, a job well done
Make way, 'cause here I come
Since I made it this far, I can't stop now
There's a will and a way and I got to know how
To be all I can be and more
And see all there is to see before
Called and go back to the essence
It's alot to learn so I study my lessons
I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me
I'm glad I listen when my father was rapping to me
'Cause back in the days, they lived in caves
Exile from the original man, a straight way
Now that's what I call hard times
I rather be here to exercise the mind
Then I take a thought around the world twice
From knowledge to born back to knowledge precise
Across the desert, that's how to store a radiant
But they couldn't cave me in 'cause I'm the Asiant

 

[mchammer]

Now for some real rap

Too legit... Too legit to quit (three times)
Sweat running all over my chest (chest) i don't quit no!
I just press harder (Yea!) than i ever did before going for
The dreams that i have in store in my mind (mind) and i know
That i'm makin it i gotta get mine and nobody's takin it away
(No!) cause hammer don't play that you try to get mine
boy you better step back freeze (freeze) cause
You don't want none i hustle for my muscle and you look
Weak son (real weak) yea!... i'm goin for all that i can get
Kickin at the top cause i'm too legit to quit...sing!...

Chorus
Too legit... Too legit to quit (hey...hey...) Too legit...too
legit... Too legit to quit...(hey...) Too legit... Too legit to quit
(too legit...) too legit... too legit to quit...

when i feel high post don't you play me close a dig 'em smack
a get you back and i'll hit with a dose of oaktown power
and charge you by the hour i'm shakin like a quake and funks
get devoured i choose to abuse, misuse and confuse
competitors who think they're makin up all the rules, fools
in the game lame and insane it's a shame i gotta do this but
i remain the same unchanged gettin better never known
as a sweater kickin it at the top cause i got myself together
so roll with a guy who's physical and fit knows the time
and too legit to quit...sang!

Repeat chorus x2

step to the rhythm of a sho-nuff winner (winner) i been
here before (yo!) i ain't no beginner (word) but i been new
tried and true survival of the fittest yo!..it brought me through
my crew (talk) we're ready to strike trained for the mission
so believe the hype and sweat it (sweat it) cause you're gonna
regret it the day that you dissed us you'll wish you never met us
you remind me of a real short story one hit record and you
star to bore me get ready cause this is it your crew is
through and we too legit to quit...sang!...

chorus

Too legit... Too legit to quit...Too legit... Too legit to quit
Too legit... Too legit to quit...Too legit... Too legit to quit
get buck...get buck...get buck...get buck...get buck...(many times)

my people we don't know defeat we crush the strong and
percolate the weak daily (everyday) we make our moves to
improve our groove because we love to rule where we
lay yo!..(Yo!) work and play we started at the bottom and
now we're leading the way and yea!..(yea!) i'm havin a fit kickin it
at the top because i'm too legit to quit...sang!...

chorus

hey...hey...hey...hey... too legit to quit.. too legit to quit..
we're rolling on...we're rolling on...we're rolling on...we're rolling on...
he's on top...he's on top...he's on top...he's on top...
goin to burn it up...goin to burn it up...goin to burn it up...
goin to burn it up...
too legit to quit...too legit to quit
we're rollin on..hey..hey..hey...too legit.

chorus to fade

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Run DMC is the only rap I will ever listen to.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
:music:
I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.
Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind

[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.

Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.
:music:

:thumbsup:

qft

 

[tcsenter]

I am absolutely positive there are two...three...maybe even four literate rap artists with triple digit IQs.

Lyrics are only half the composition and I cannot stomach listening to purely synthesizer-generated and sampled arrangment by people who couldn't show you chord of C on a guitar, any keys of C on a piano, and couldn't play drums to save their own life. The difference is akin to script kiddies who couldn't write their own code to save their lives and real hackers.

I dig the musical element most. Many of my favorite songs I learned the lyrics to only AFTER gravitating to the music. Others I still don't know what the lyrics are, but the music says it all. Music ain't music without MUSICIANS.

 

[n yusef]

I like rap, but you can't compare the lyrics to Bob Dylan. As some others have said, most rap sucks ass, but so does most of any other genre. If you try and find the best songs in any genre, you don't look on MTV (or VH1, BET, etc.). Most good rap hasn't been made in the 21st century, but neither has most of any other genre. If you want to talk about some BS like 50 Cent, compare it to the equally sucky The Killers, don't compare it to legends of rock/folk music. If you want the best lyrics of a rap song, look at some 2Pac, which still can't really compare to Dylan, but they talk about different issues. A lot of people can't appreciate rap, because most of the things that are talked about, those people can't relate to. Fortunately for me (in my opinion), I have been able to live dead broke in Gainsville, Punta Gorda, Miami, and Tallahassee, Florida, and Middle Class in Boston and then Cambridge, MA to experience different things. When most generic MTV rappers talk about being poor, gangbanging, hustling, drug dealing, I can understand what they mean, as I've done these things myself (not that I'm proud at all of doing them), but to a lot of people I know, these are just stupid minority stereotypes, and they can't relate to these experiences at all. A modern rapper that I like a lot is Kanye West (besides the fact that he's too religius for me), because he can talk about things that middle to upper class white kids can relate to (at least more compared to most rappers), he doesn't dress like he's straight out of the hood (why the hell would a millionaire wear a white T-shirt and a pair of jeans that obviously don't fit, when you can buy something that looks much better), and he goes a little deaper than, "I'm a hustla," or "Befo' the ice was in my grill, befo' I got my major deal, these hoes wouldn't give a damn if I was here."

Most MTV rappers haven't said anything new since before Biggie and 2Pac died. A few notable exceptions are Rakim (with his upcoming album), Outkast (except the last album, that wasn't very good), Mos Def, Talib Kweli (especially their Blackstar collaboration), The Roots (if you wan't something more "musical," then it's them, they actually play music instead of just rap to a premade beat), I could go on for a little bit.

I could talk about (modern) rock as "A bunch of weirdos who dye everything black and wear makeup, and whine, I mean sing about problems that don't matter at all in the grand scheme of things," but I wouldn't be doing it justice, looking only at TRL and generalizing a whole genre on that. I have yet to come across an entire genre of something (unless it's totally obscene) that doesn't have one good part of it (I have even found a few country songs I like).



I'm not saying that rap is great, or the best genre of music, but I am saying that it isn't the worst thing evar. A CD that I like a lot, Black Star IS better than some rock. If you listen to it, please try and tell me that "Mr. Brightside" (The Killers) is better than "RE: DEFinition," or "Astronomy/8th Light," or anything on it without being obviously racist, and that song just won a VMA (like that means much).

EDITs: Clarification

 

[tcsenter]

If you want the best lyrics of a rap song, look at some 2Pac, which still can't really compare to Dylan, but they talk about different issues. A lot of people can't appreciate rap, because most of the things that are talked about, those people can't relate to.

One must separate ability to relate and desire to relate. There are many experiences I have zero desire of revisiting, let alone elevating to some status symbol or glamorizing. Ok, so I've been so broke that I couldn't afford to have an infected tooth pulled, so I just used hot packs and lots of OTC pain meds for three days until it stopped hurting. Yippie. Poor me. I'm special and oppressed. The world owes me something.

 

[Xephian]

Rap is one of the worst types of music ever.

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

If you want the best lyrics of a rap song, look at some 2Pac, which still can't really compare to Dylan, but they talk about different issues. A lot of people can't appreciate rap, because most of the things that are talked about, those people can't relate to.

One must separate ability to relate and desire to relate. There are many experiences I have zero desire of revisiting, let alone elevating to some status symbol or glamorizing. Ok, so I've been so broke that I couldn't afford to have an infected tooth pulled, so I just used hot packs and lots of OTC pain meds for three days until it stopped hurting. Yippie. Poor me. I'm special and oppressed. The world owes me something.

Point taken. But, it's a natural human instinct to try and relate other things to themselves. If you listen to some music where you haven't shared any of the experiences as what the Artist is singing about, you won't connect with that song.

If I hear a song about getting high, I know the feeling that the Artist is trying to discribe. If I have never dmoked weed before, then I may know what I've heard about it, but I won't be able to feel where the Artist is coming from. That is one case.

Another thing that happens a lot is that rappers and rockers sing about a lot of the same things (drugs, girls, money), but a lot of people don't want to relate to someone who doesn't look like them, talk like them, dress like them, live like them. If 50 Cent talks about getting with some girl, or The Killers talk about getting with some girl, people will look at that differently, because 50 Cent is a tough black guy, while the people in The Killers are skinny white boys.

 

[ViperVin2]

Originally posted by: n yusef
I like rap, but you can't compare the lyrics to Bob Dylan. As some others have said, most rap sucks ass, but so does most of any other genre. If you try and find the best songs in any genre, you don't look on MTV (or VH1, BET, etc.). Most good rap hasn't been made in the 21st century, but neither has most of any other genre. If you want to talk about some BS like 50 Cent, compare it to the equally sucky The Killers, don't compare it to legends of rock/folk music. If you want the best lyrics of a rap song, look at some 2Pac, which still can't really compare to Dylan, but they talk about different issues. A lot of people can't appreciate rap, because most of the things that are talked about, those people can't relate to. Fortunately for me (in my opinion), I have been able to live dead broke in Gainsville, Punta Gorda, Miami, and Tallahassee, Florida, and Middle Class in Boston and then Cambridge, MA to experience different things. When most generic MTV rappers talk about being poor, gangbanging, hustling, drug dealing, I can understand what they mean, as I've done these things myself (not that I'm proud at all of doing them), but to a lot of people I know, these are just stupid minority stereotypes, and they can't relate to these experiences at all. A modern rapper that I like a lot is Kanye West (besides the fact that he's too religius for me), because he can talk about things that middle to upper class white kids can relate to (at least more compared to most rappers), he doesn't dress like he's straight out of the hood (why the hell would a millionaire wear a white T-shirt and a pair of jeans that obviously don't fit, when you can buy something that looks much better), and he goes a little deaper than, "I'm a hustla," or "Befo' the ice was in my grill, befo' I got my major deal, these hoes wouldn't give a damn if I was here."

Most MTV rappers haven't said anything new since before Biggie and 2Pac died. A few notable exceptions are Rakim (with his upcoming album), Outkast (except the last album, that wasn't very good), Mos Def, Talib Kweli (especially their Blackstar collaboration), The Roots (if you wan't something more "musical," then it's them, they actually play music instead of just rap to a premade beat), I could go on for a little bit.

I could talk about (modern) rock as "A bunch of weirdos who dye everything black and wear makeup, and whine, I mean sing about problems that don't matter at all in the grand scheme of things," but I wouldn't be doing it justice, looking only at TRL and generalizing a whole genre on that. I have yet to come across an entire genre of something (unless it's totally obscene) that doesn't have one good part of it (I have even found a few country songs I like).



I'm not saying that rap is great, or the best genre of music, but I am saying that it isn't the worst thing evar. A CD that I like a lot, Black Star IS better than some rock. If you listen to it, please try and tell me that "Mr. Brightside" (The Killers) is better than "RE: DEFinition," or "Astronomy/8th Light," or anything on it without being obviously racist, and that song just won a VMA (like that means much).

EDITs: Clarification

I agree. :thumbsup:

 

[imported_Phil]

Better lyrics than in the OP? Certainly.

Mary had a little lamb,
She tied it to a pylon,
Ten thousand volts went up its arse,
And turned it into nylon.

There.

 

[tcsenter]

Point taken. But, it's a natural human instinct to try and relate other things to themselves. If you listen to some music where you haven't shared any of the experiences as what the Artist is singing about, you won't connect with that song.

I choose to connect with songs that have a redeeming, moving, or positive message, not because I can't connect with songs that have a negative, counterproductive, selfish, or antisocial message, but because I can connect with all of those things....and do not desire to. I did, once, but I grew up.

Everyone has those traits inside them and its their obligation to find a way to deal with them. Everyone can tap into selfishness (and narcissism), hate, and antisocial feelings, and rationalize how the world has given them a low down dirty deal in life, and have no shortage of excuses for doing so...if they choose to. Its called a personality disorder.

If I hear a song about getting high, I know the feeling that the Artist is trying to discribe. If I have never dmoked weed before, then I may know what I've heard about it, but I won't be able to feel where the Artist is coming from. That is one case.

And an excellent one. I used to get high, and smile at lyrics that talked about getting a buzz on, but I don't get high anymore. That adulthood thing again.

 

[gwarbot]

Everyone's changing, I stay the same
I'm... a solo cello outside a chor-us
I've got a secret,
It's time for me to tell that you've been keeping me warm

Just sweet beginnings and bitter en-dings
In coffee city, we borrowed hea-ven
Don't give it back, I've never felt so wanted
Are you taking me home?

You tell me you have to go...

[Chorus:]
In the heat of summer sunshine
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine
I kiss you, and nobody needs to know

Now that you've left me, there's no retur-ning
I keep comparing, you're always win-ning
I try to be strong but you'll never be more wanted
Will you make me at home?

Don't tell me you have to go...

[Chorus:]
In the heat of summer sunshine
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine
I kiss you, and nobody needs to know

Ya da... ya da... ya da

To sweet beginnings and bitter en-dings
In coffee city, we borrowed hea-ven
Don't give it back
Winter is coming and I need to stay warm

The heat.....

[Chorus:]
In the heat of summer sunshine
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine
I kiss you, and nobody knows

[Chorus:]
In the heat of summer sunshine
I miss you like nobody else
In the heat of summer sunshine
I kiss you, and nobody needs to know

 

[gwarbot]

Originally posted by: Phil
Better lyrics than in the OP? Certainly.

Mary had a little lamb,
She tied it to a pylon,
Ten thousand volts went up its arse,
And turned it into nylon.

There.

Oh yea!

I got my pistol point cocked, ringling shots, until i see that muther $$$$er drop!
you just lucky i don't have a gun.
now go sit on a hamburger bun.

 

[LoungeAct404]

Originally posted by: ItmPls

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Yo, I refuse to read ANY lyrics with the word "Yo" in it.

Okay. Read this. No "Yo" in it

I learn to relax in my room and escape from New York
And return through the womb of the world as a thought
Thinking how hard it was to be born
Me being queen wit no physical form
Millions have settled wit one destination
To reach the best part, it's life creation
9 months later, a job well done
Make way, 'cause here I come
Since I made it this far, I can't stop now
There's a will and a way and I got to know how
To be all I can be and more
And see all there is to see before
Called and go back to the essence
It's alot to learn so I study my lessons
I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me
I'm glad I listen when my father was rapping to me
'Cause back in the days, they lived in caves
Exile from the original man, a straight way
Now that's what I call hard times
I rather be here to exercise the mind
Then I take a thought around the world twice
From knowledge to born back to knowledge precise
Across the desert, that's how to store a radiant
But they couldn't cave me in 'cause I'm the Asiant

Garbage. Nobody's gonna read that crap phx