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Originally Posted by prisoner437x3y0
completely disagree. Lyrics are actually the most important part for me, the message, the density of lyrics within hip hop is part of the appeal for me. I can see not liking lyrics on a literal level, but even something like aesop rock--where it's so interpretive that i get to take away my own message and perception of life from it is appealing and beneficial.
I agree good lyrics are rare, but not so rare that I forego tuning myself to them.
I can't stand death grips just blatantly muttering random syllables; have something to say.
I like my human emotions to be well constructed. That's always been something I respected about the genre. The fact that there is often no chorus, but just a constant stream of consciousness thoughts is more appealing to me than relying on a chorus.
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I like Aesop Rock's lyrics and they do add to the music for me, but for every Aesop Rock out there I feel like there are a dozen SpaceGhostPurrps—artists who make music that I like but whose lyrics are so distractingly bad that I wish they were in another language.
Well constructed human emotions don't need to come from the words in music. In fact, words are often a distraction from the pure sonic expression that is music. I kind of feel like if a piece of music can't stand on it's own without words telling the listener what to feel, it's a bit of a failure musically.