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Originally posted by: Ronstang
There is no way for rap to be intelligent and educated and still be rap.
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Yeah? What makes rap different from any other music genre? I'd say good rap is better than the best heavy metal intellectually. It takes talent to write poetry to set to music, and especially to freestyle. And what passes for rock nowadays is mostly total crap. Whining in an emo accent to mediocre music is not good!
Unfortunately, in the mainstream, you can get away with a good beat and lyrics about sex, drugs, and pimping yo ride, how awesome America is, how your parents hate you, or whatever else depending on the genre.
 
look, let me make something
abundantly clear for people
who are so bereft of activities
they feel like they gotta comment on mine.
first of all being a vegetarian should
never be associated with being
a revolutionary or being open-minded.
that's a dietary choice.
if someone wants to proliferate the
type of ignorance we're supposed to
be fighting by thinking that,
you're just ****** yourself.
i don't go around promoting
beef and poetry shoving it in
people's faces.
i don't castigate people for not
eating steak sandwiches;
and i would never diss someone
for being a ****** broccoli-head,
or living off of radishes,
or eating grass or tofu.
i like a lot of vegan cuisine.
but the illogicality of expecting
everyone to adopt their particular
idea of what being healthy is
is just preposterous.
i've seen some of you herbivores;
and if you want to argue health,
y'all need to eat some kind of supplement
because some of y'all are so skinny
that it's disgusting; looking like the
only hip-hop motherfuckers on schindler's list.
being a malnutrition-ass got nothing to do
with being revolutionary or being on-point.
i'll be damned if i let somebody else push
their agenda on me. you know i don't eat pork,
not because i'm a muslim, i just don't
really like it, but i really will
****** a bird up. and fish is good
when that ****** is fresh. it's like my ******
_____ from ______. if you don't like
the smell of burning meat, well then get
the ****** off the planet. you know i don't
criticize people for eating moss,
then don't open your ****** mouth
about my food, man. i like beef
and broccoli ******. mind
your god-damn business. matter of fact...
you know what? i'm out. i feel like some
arroco pollo, a banana daiquiri, and
a ****** bistec aponado.



Nope, it doesn't rhyme. I think Immortal Technique was just ranting to music.
 
Originally posted by: ZeGermans
yeah, I was gonna post that, it has some of the best stuff in it.

you're nothing like diversity without equality
and your crew is full of more i love you[g]ots that greek mythology
using numberoly to count the people I sent to heaven
produces digits than 22 devided by 7
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A rapper that references Pi? What the heck?
 
Originally posted by: ZeGermans
Rapper named Immortal Technique. Here's a sample of some lyrics:

This is the point of no return I could never go back
Life without parol up state shackled and trapped
Living in the hole, lookin' at the world through a crack
But fvck that, I'd rather shoot it out and get clapped
I've gone too far, there ain't no coming back for me
Auschwitz gas chamber full of Zyklon-B
Just like the spanish exterminating Tynos
Raping the black and Indian women, creating Latinos



so if your message ain't ******, fuvk the records you sold
cuz if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck
it just means that a million people are stupid as fuvk
stuck in the underground in general and rose to the limit
without distribution managers, a deal, or a gimmick


Anyways, I find rap to be interesting from a "raw expression of anger" perspective, but was always put off by it's lack of sort of intellectual statement aside from the clever rhyme. That's why I like this guy; he adds it.
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and that was supposed to sway us? its still all about going to prison, raping women, shooting people, etc...
 
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