Rap with credibility
 

I've heard on more than one occation that rap lacks the 4 components of songs to be considered music. While I think this an established way to push out something I think they have personal problems with, I do think there are certain rappers that are doing intelligent things with their career and making songs that actually give rap some credibility.

I sort of pisses me off that people with intelligence are pushed aside for people who refry the same story of violence time and again. Anyway, please let this thread be the place where people can learn about rappers who are intellectual, and not given recording contracts so that urban white kids can supress their inferiority complexes.

I would stand behind most of the work Common, Mos Def, and MF Doom create.

I'd discuss them at length but I'd just assume people post up their favorites and we can get some momentum.

rap sucks, thats all i have to say

well..... whatever they do it sounds fukkin great! especially when yer really high :)

shut the **** up.


i used to hate it too, like this fool, but ever since i heard Dre's The Chronic and Ice Cube's The Predator, i loved rap. and whoever says that rap lacks the "4 components of songs" is a retard. just listen to NWA's Straight Outta Compton.

The Godfather of Rap, Gil Scott Heron.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/scottherongil.shtml


^For those unaware of this massive talent, here's a taster.^

I think Dalek , El-p & Jurassic 5 deserve far more exposure than what they have now

Public Enemy's back at it again, New Whirl Order available at Best Buy and everywhere else the first of November and a couple DVDs and a CD next year. Common Sense is dope as always. Will Smith is always keeping it real. Kanye West is doing good for a so called "mainstream" rapper, he's not that overrated and better than a lot of his competition on radio right now. J5 and a lot of dope artists (Pigeon John, Kel Spencer....) should get more promotion etc because they have talent, but we all know that's not going to happen with the state of hip hop as it is right now. Oh yeah, i think Cozmo D (Newcleus) is working on something new right now, we'll see.

Well people who say rap lacks four main components aren't retarted, its just a very "clinical" viewpoint.

I think credibility means someone whos credible, not someone whos hear to talk about lewd sexual acts, money, jewlery, cars, alcohol, and parties. Since most of those are all in the catagory of money, it could be easily argued that must "huge" rappers aren't doing more than singing about money...in every song.

Why:

did you enter the rap forum?
post in this thread?
join these boards?
feel the need to express this opinion as if it will get us to change our positions?
wake up?
buy a computer?