Please do not take this wrong:
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RAP or hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing. The word rap, derived from a 1960s slang word for conversation, generally consists of chanted, often improvised, street poetry accompanied by a montage of well-known recordings, usually disco or funk. Detractors have criticized most rap music as a boastful promotion of violence and misogyny; others have admired it as an inventive manipulation of cultural idioms and credit many rappers with an acute social and political awareness. Early rap groups included Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Beastie Boys. Rap has influenced many forms of popular culture, particularly film, and has been increasingly incorporated into pop music. Some influential rap performers include Public Enemy, NWA, Run-DMC, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, and Queen Latifah.
- Official definition.
By looking into the mainstream rap, I have found that it is nothing more then a pathetic "pretend-to-be-gangster" rantings of a person who doesn't have anything better in life to do then to take hard drugs and write irrelevant non-rythmic sentences with no coherence with each other.
So called "music" with rap seems to me to be created by a five year old kid with a knowledge of Qbase (hell, I've hear better from 5 yo).
I can not call rap music, because it is simply not. (for me at least).
The meanings of most of the rap albums are falling into one stream, category if you like, which indicates clearly by 50cent/missy elliot and others. A lot of people tell me - "Listen to 2pac, you'll get it bro" - all I get from that is - " thank god he got shot ". Shame that 9 bullets didn't do the job for 50 cent.
This is just my point of view, I am not preaching, nor am I overstepping the boundaries of "freedom of speech" laws (in any country for that matter). I find that rap is degrading and repulsive.
If you find a rap song that has a 1/100000000 of a talent that was required in songs like Hotel California or Another Brick in the wall, I might just reconsider my view... To tell you the truth - I highly doubt that.
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