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Originally Posted by The Virgin
Not all of rap is bad. Most of it, I do agree but simply because most of the rap music involves some black dude from the ghetto talking about things such as violence, rape, sex, guns, how they are the scariest guy in their town ,or being able to gain so much money thru illegal means, drugs, cocaine, i mean the list goes on and on to justify your opinion. but take not, these are male rappers.
if you listen to more female rappers such as Lil' Kim, Da Brat, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj, you'll appreciate 'something' in rap that you never did when you heard it from a guy. and that is pure, real, untouched by negative issues MUSIC.
The first rap song I heard was Slim Shady by Eminem which has a music video of a fat lady eating a burger with some phlegm on it. seriously, how sick can rapping get?
But when i discovered Lil' Kims "No Matter What People Say", i made the conclusion that rap, though probably just 5% or close to none in these modern times, can bring a positive message accross the world.
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That's unbelievably ignorant.
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most of the rap music involves some black dude from the ghetto talking about things such as violence, rape, sex, guns, how they are the scariest guy in their town ,or being able to gain so much money thru illegal means, drugs, cocaine, i mean the list goes on and on to justify your opinion. but take not, these are male rappers."
First of all the majority are talking about the life that surrounds them, it's only negative when they glorify that kind of activity and lifestyle. Someone like Nas has socially conscious lyrics (for the most part) and he talks about a lot of those things, but he talks about how corrosive they are to his community.
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if you listen to more female rappers such as Lil' Kim, Da Brat, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj, you'll appreciate 'something' in rap that you never did when you heard it from a guy. and that is pure, real, untouched by negative issues MUSIC."
If you'd actually researched the music before making your matter of fact comment then you'd know that there are lots, and I mean lots, of positive male rappers, aswell as negative female rappers. Hip-hop's a massively diverse genre, and gangster rap was only popular in the mainstream for what, about 8/9 years from '89 towards around '98 (generalising). Just because you don't like the sound of a male rapper because it doesn't suit your blatant femininity doesn't mean that it's bad.
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But when i discovered Lil' Kims "No Matter What People Say", i made the conclusion that rap, though probably just 5% or close to none in these modern times, can bring a positive message accross the world."
I'd say that hip-hop is actually the most positive music throughout history, socially, politically, etc. It also happens to be one of the worst (besides something like brutal death metal), but the fact that it's that diverse is amazing.
If these are your opinions then there's no point of you posting in the rap/hip-hop section, you clearly have no knowledge or understanding of the genre.