Rap is Crap

Then what message do you get? I do like Hey Ya, but only because it's a fun song.

 

I think this means that the black community, or the inner city community, however you wanna put it, is blaming the white community for everything and many are just waiting for someone to feel sorry for them and help them out, instead of helping themselves.

He ask if money is the root of all evil, or is it just people's minds from being you bad situations.


"Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth
Survival tactics means, bustin gats to prove you hard"
This in no way promotes violence...It is saying that black males, are an endangered species. But they go around shooting just to scare others away.

"Your firearms are too short to box with God"
No matter how many guns and bullets you have, you are still not the strongest, so what's the point?


"Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listenin agree
That everything you see ain't really how it be
A lot of jokers out runnin in place, chasin the style
Be a lot goin on beneath the empty smile"
A lot of people are just trying to be cool, but aren't going anywhere with it. Also, you can't just consider someone your friend because they are nice.


"Walkin the street, wonderin who they be lookin past
Lookin gassed with them imported designer shades on
Stars shine bright, but the light -- rarely stays on"
People are always trying to be in style...they might be flashy on the outside, but they are really brainwashed. Nothing is clicking on the inside.


"I find it's distressin, there's never no in-between
We either niggaz or Kings
We either bitches or Queens"
That's self explanatory.

"The deadly ritual seems immersed, in the perverse
Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
The length of black life is treated with short worth"
That's explaining what the inner city community has become

"Get yours first, them other niggaz secondary
That type of illin that be fillin up the cemetery"
ghetto mind set --get yours first
all it does is create death and destruction

"Not strong, only aggressive, cause the power ain't directed
That's why, we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
Not free, we only licensed
Not live, we just excitin
Cause the captors.. own the masters.. to what we writin
Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
Not good, but well behaved cause the ca-me-ra survey
most of the things that we think, do, or say
We chasin after death just to call ourselves brave
But everyday, next man meet with the grave"
He pretty much just explained the chorus there

 

rap music is full of metaphors and similes...so how you take it is up to you. But that is what I got out of that song. There's no heavy bassline, no girls' ooos and ahhhs, mixed in...it's just a simple snare and bass drumline laced with a melodic piano tune.

 

sort of jazzy

 

So maybe the lyrics you posted are alright. But still 90% of rap sucks. I don't think it all sucks.

 

I'd say 60%- 75% haha...but yea 90% is better than 100%.

 

It's not all crap, like I said Hey Ya, I hate my baby mama, and some old school stuff is alright.

 

Two new songs that aren't too bad, which are being played as mainstream are:

"Jesus Walks" (Kayne West).... some of the lyrics
"Why" (Jadakiss).... again, some of the lyrics

"Let's start rap over" (The Lox) goes into a little detail about how rap use to be




"We rappers are role models, we rap we don't think"... (Kayne West)

 

good rap, to me, is just supposed to be beat poetry, performed in a spoken word style with music under it... it just so happened that hip hop morphed into it's own style of this, and very very few others have taken it in another direction.... I saw someone post some talib kweli... I had actually ran a search for that song him and mos def did on Chapelles show; very politically charged on top of that....



I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin
Middle Passages, I can't go back again
Battlin years of denyin history, lies with mysteries
Wives with misty eyes watchin their niggas be beaten viciously
Battlin the worldliness and North America
Ran by the river, only stoppin to pray
Shaped up predators
Terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their president
Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent
Ain't no hesitation they rob, a nation dissolved
While we sit back waitin to evolve
Those who would trade in their freedom
For their protection deserve neither
Fuck a name, fuck tradition
Religion - you learn Jesus
Turned the other cheek
Inherited the Earth; just stay meek
Fuck the way you speak
Try to walk, we chop off your feet
Fastforward to 2003, niggas beef
The psychology of children are slaves to run deep

[Mos Def]

Beef is not what Jay said to Nas
Beef is when workin niggas can't find jobs
So they try and find niggas to rob
Try and find bigger guns so they can finish the job
Beef is when the crack kids can't find moms
Cuz they end up crime box or locked behind bars
Beef ain't the Summer Jam for Hot 97
Beef is the cocaine and AIDS epidemic
Beef don't come with a radio edit
Beef is when the judge is callin you "defendant"
Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence
Handed down to you in a few short minutes
Beef is when your girl comes through for a visit
Talkin bout "I'm pregnant by some other nigga"
Beef is high blood pressure and bad credit
Need a loan for your home and you're too broke to get it
And all your little kids is doin is gettin bigger
You tryin not to raise 'em around these wild niggas
Beef is when a gold digger got ya seat and
A manicured hand out like "pay me nigga"
Or I'm telling your wife
Or startin up some foul rumor that'll ruin your life
Beef is when a gangster ain't doin it right
Another gangster then decided what to do with his life
Beef is not what these famous niggas do on the mic
Beef is what George Bush would do in a fight
Yeah, beef is not what Ja said to 50
Beef is more than Irv not bein here with me
When a soldier ends his life with his own gun
Beef is tryin to figure out what to tell his son
Beef is oil prices and geopolitics
Beef is Iraq, the West Bank, and Gaza Strip
Some beef is big and some beef is small
But what y'all call beef is not beef at all
Beef is real life happenin everyday
And it's realer than them songs that you get at Kay Slay

 

there are a lot of good rap songs and lyrics. great riffs too. take this one for example... Look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted-One moment
Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

Yo, His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's chokin, how everybody's jokin now
The clock's run out, time's up, over bloah
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
No, he won't have it , he knows his whole back city ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stacked that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rap s**t
Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo,

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

His soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order
A normal life is borin, but superstardom's close to post mortom
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's know as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water
These ho's don't want him no mo, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it’s old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go-o
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo, you better

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this m*********n roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playin in the beginnin, the mood all changed
I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher
Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these g****m food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Makai Pheiffer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
Tryin to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter-totter caught up between bein a father and a pre-madonna
Baby mama drama's screamin on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only m*********n option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that I got

[Chorus:]
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime you better,

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

 

you hate rap because uve only heard these new mainstreem rappers like nelly or something like that. u see rappers now a days have nothing to rap about, so they rap about stupid things like bitches and money. i rember the days when you had to have skills in this land of milk and honey. so do not judge rap from these new crap rappers. allways rapin how they for dinner eat expensive red snappers. so listen to what i say because this type of shit it happens every day.

 

why does it all have to be sooo meaningfull ?
can it not be good just because i like the sound?

 

A 14 year old kid is tryin to give a lecture on old school rap? since when does that happen? He's right though some rap back then was tight. I usually only listen to it when me and the boys are rollin or somethin and some of them can freestyle so its all gravy baby

 

You know where its at!

 

These guys will fuck you up.

 

Interesting a fourteen year old psycologist. I'm sure of all the people here, you're the one to rate my mental well being.

 

If you are gonna listen to rap, you can't even think about turning on the radio or buying your cd's at a major record store. I respect your opinion, as I think people shouldn't attatch their egos to what they like or think is good, but if you want to give rap an honest listen, you gotta find the artists with substance. Check out anything on Definitive Jux records (Mr. Lif and Aesop Rock are the best on the label) or just check out Living Legends, People Under the Stairs, MURS, or Blackalicious. That's the good shit with substance. Ignore every rapper on TV and the radio at all costs. They are the ones you already don't like anyway, and since they are all rich, who the fuck cares what they do all day? That's my biggest complaint about rap in general.

Why do these guys think we give 2 shits what they spend their time doing?

 

Listen to this man as he spreads the word. BEAUTIFUL!

He has just explained the way it is to a T. End of story.

"Never will you find a better allegory to sum up how all the come-ups are money makers with plastic faces; placaters with hollow points and grim paces, are just in it for the money and the ho's and the ice, while the rest of us sit to wonder 'what the fuck is the price?' The cost, finally frozen over memories I lost. Need the play on words and otherwise you getting tossed. Passion over money otherwise you big Willie stylin will find ya in the WTC dialin..."

Beat poetry in motion. With a street to remember, but not that you gotta be from the streets to realize. Life is always biggie-sized, so you just have to do what you do I guess.

 

surprising, isnt it?

 

they ahv no talent at all.......i h8 them wen they like dis metal and rock bands and that! but they actually hav some talent!

I LOVE MY ROCK N ROLL!