Does anyone here listen to HIP-HOP aka RAP?

Do you listen to hip-hop?

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Dan the Man84

BAD BOY FOR LIFE
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I'm just curious if I'm the only hip-hop listener here on this forum.

If you do indeed listen to it, who are some of your favorite artists, present or past?

If you do not listen to hip-hop, why not? I personally think it is the greatest music ever created....and no, not all hip hop is just negative stuff, it's just the kind of hip-hop that sells the most.

Anyway, discuss please.
 
I listen to
Nas
Bone
Bizzy(now that he's no longer with Bone)
A-Z
Cassidy
Nappy Roots
Chamillionaire(not the chopped and screwed shit)
Drag On
Jin
Lil Easy E
Easy E
Raekwon
Biggie
Pac
Pun
Big L
Loon
Gangsta Boo
Hussein Fatal
DMX
Eric B. & Rakim(Who's making a new album this year)
and anyone who's similar to those people. I also listen to Jay Z or Eminem sometimes, but I don't like most of their stuff. I consider myself, for the most part a rap purist, though I'm not. I just call myself that because I don't like the same music most people like.
 
Wow,that's a great list. I listen to Hip-Hop on a daily basis, so it's hard to name ALL the artists I listen to, but here are just some of my favorites (in no particular order).

2pac, 50 cent, jay-z, eminem, big pun, lil boosie, wu-tang, bone thugs, nas, ice cube, d-12, immortal technique, g-unit (most of the members, mostly lloyd banks and young buck), big l, biggie smalls, and lil kim.

I watch the "white rapper show" on vh1, so i suppose I can say them too, lol. Not that they're that good though.
 
oh how could i forget NWA, my favorite rap group right now. I listen to them all the time before I go to work and school.
 
No, not really I mostly listen to everything between rock and metal, although there some exeptions. I like some rapcore or numetal songs.
 
I sometimes listen to rap radio stations. Once in a while. I want to keep some Tupac songs in my playlist.
 
Rap and hip-hop are not the same thing. Rap is entirely spoken. Hip-hop is a fusion of rapping and singing on the same song. Hip-hop in short is more melodic.

Rap also tends to be more message-oriented, even if the message is only, "stick it to the man," "get as much sex as possible," or "let's exploit everyone who isn't of the same gender (or race or other demographic) as us." Hip-hop is often crafted a little more for entertainment value.

Then there's dubbing, that Caribbean style also popular in Latin America, where they rap but strive for a semblance of melody. The syllables are timed more accurately to the beats and they are intoned to a very short range of notes rather than as speech. Matisyahu veers toward that style.
 
I hate it. I lived in an all black area of the city for a few years and unlike a 'wigger' you see first hand the life this sub culture celebrates. The grinding poverty all around and the rap thumping from $50k SUV's filled with filthy mouthed kids shooting eachother, robbing their own people, rappin about beating their women, killing gays and celebrating drug addiction and incarceration.
Suburban white boys glamorize this life and pose as 'gangstas' thinking it's cool. I wish I could have driven a few 'wiggers' down to my 'hood and dumped them out inside the sub culture they so admire, where they could finally see if it really is all that great.

I LOVE 70's funk though.
(Parliament, Bootsy's Rubber Band, etc.)
 
Genji said:
I hate it. I lived in an all black area of the city for a few years and unlike a 'wigger' you see first hand the life this sub culture celebrates. The grinding poverty all around and the rap thumping from $50k SUV's filled with filthy mouthed kids shooting eachother, robbing their own people, rappin about beating their women, killing gays and celebrating drug addiction and incarceration.
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You know all those things are associated with crack, right? The people who aren't crackheads(and a slect few who are) are actually really nice people. Nice to me anyway.
 
Immortal Technique
KRS-One
Mcenroe
Pip Skid
Non Phixion
Sixtoo
Aesop Rock
The Beastie Boys
Mix Master Mike
Josh Martinez
Run-D.M.C.
Geto Boys
Grand Puba
DJ Spooky
Pete Rock & CL Smooth
The 524
Cut Chemist
 
Oniw17 said:
You know all those things are associated with crack, right? The people who aren't crackheads(and a slect few who are) are actually really nice people. Nice to me anyway.
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Sure. I really have nothing against drugs anyway. It's the celebration of violence and poverty and filthy hate lyrics that turns me off. Seeing some white kid in his mom's Lexus blasting 5oCent in upscale suburbia makes me want to show the little prick just what is being celebrated in ghetto-fabulous music.
 
CYNE
Look it up


Nujabes
Louis Logic
Typical Cats
P.U.T.S
Ugly Duckling
Onyx
Biggie
Grandmaster Flash
Wu-Tang
Zion I
Lady Sov
Jurassic 5
GCM
Binary Star
Black Star
Demigodz
P.M
Prefuse 73
Matisyahu


That is all HIP HOP. Rap sucks.


Basically I hate near everything on MTV and the like. the underground shits the best.
 
Flash, Herc, Biggie, Dre,
Snoop, Sarah Jones...
got lots more sick riddim
...I got the meme in these tired bones


anything on Ninja UK label
 
I hate hip-hop. Just can't stand it. The closest thing I listen to is rap-metal like Linkin Park, and even then, I prefer other types of metal over that.
 
I don't listen to rap, I only listen to music...

But anyway, what was the first rap song ever?
 
very occasionally, usually if ive got nothing else to listen to, and when it is its hip-hop not rap, as fraggle said they are not the same, at least hip-hop is music
 
Dan the Man84 said:
Wow,that's a great list. I listen to Hip-Hop on a daily basis, so it's hard to name ALL the artists I listen to, but here are just some of my favorites (in no particular order).

2pac, 50 cent, jay-z, eminem, big pun, lil boosie, wu-tang, bone thugs, nas, ice cube, d-12, immortal technique, g-unit (most of the members, mostly lloyd banks and young buck), big l, biggie smalls, and lil kim.

I watch the "white rapper show" on vh1, so i suppose I can say them too, lol. Not that they're that good though.
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Hummm

thank you dantheman

how about a bit of KRSONE, Bizmarkie, UMC's, ultrmagnetic MC's, Lord Finesse
To name but a few, Wu-tang are the bomb also, dont think much else of your list with the exception of Nas (his older stuff) in particular.

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Take it ez

Zak
 
Syzygys said:
I don't listen to rap, I only listen to music...

But anyway, what was the first rap song ever?
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rappers delight by Sugar hill gang, or i did hear something which was out even before that but i cant remember exactly what it was called.
 
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