Poetry with a beat. Topics range from Street Life (the most prominent theme on the airwaves) to women/love, life in general and even to the strange and obscure such as Video Games (the obscure kind, not
Halo and in case you're wondering, they were black rappers) and getting beat up at
school ("Runnin").
Universally hated by
people that never bothered to look into it's history or any songs beyond MTV.
Kinda pathetic really. I mean, 90% of the
music on MTV or the radio is pathetic, why single out rap? Hey, the rock on there is just as bad. Do I judge the entire rock genre based on the bottom of the barrel? No, cause I'm not a stupid 13 year old. Most of the rock there is kids whining and cutting themselves, but I know the genre has some good to offer cause I BOTHERED TO CHECK OUT THE
MUSIC BEFORE CRITICIZING IT. I listen to Pearl Jam as I write this.
Hey, every musical genre has it's garbage. I could name plenty of emo scene kids I see (on the
internet, of course, we don't get many of those types of
people around here) that are ruining your musical genre. Really, it's a grim future for ALL musical genres nowadays.
95% of the definitions here were written by
people who think that rap started in the 90's and began with
Dr. Dre.
They have also never
heard of The Pharcyde or Del Tha Funkee Homosapien