A wonderfully creative form of music, that sadly, is on its way to ending up like hair metal of the 80's. There are a lot of similarities. Record labels find they can cash in on this new sound so they creat a formula of mainstream watered down shit. Every song and artist is not much different from the last. You're a p-i-m-p, I get it, ok, your gangsta, yes I know you gotta hustle baby, I've seen your mercades Escalades, lay off the cristal, enough with the girls' asses already, shut up about your goddamn grills!!! Crunk!? What fresh new hell is this? You know how the old "if it aint broke dont fix it" thing goes. I'm suprised rock fans can't see the paralells. Nu-metal, Good Charlotte, Limp Bizkit, Avril Lavigne (didnt she appear on Nickelodeon? That's not hardcore...) crap rules the airwaves but definetly not the hearts of true rock fans, who prefer bands outside the mainstream who stay completly true to the music. I'm guessing. It's the same way with rap. Many who stuck by it in its infancy are appalled at the state its in now.Also, there are very talented and intelligent rap artists who are just sorta underground. If rap continues to be for the most part unoriginal, sooner or later, it WILL go the way of heavy metal, and be replaced in popularity by some other type of music, whatever that may be. It will be in the state rock is today: not quite dead but very weakened, its "artists" just getting lamer and lamer. K-Fed, anyone?
by h8theh8rs September 1, 2006
Rap music is another evolution of American music. Like all true American music, it originates with African Americans, follows little to none of the "classic" rules of European music, and pays no homage to the majority culture. Rap music IS was rock n' roll WAS, the music of rebellion. It has been adopted as one of the musics of choice by poor city dwellers in almost every urban center of the Western World. Ironically, rock n' roll was a previous expression of African American music, later accepted and adopted (or co-opted) by the mainstream culture. The same may yet occur with rap, at which point poor African Americans will develop some other music form.
Jamaican born DJ Kool Herc moved to New York in the late 1960's and brought with him the Jamaican tradition of "toasting", which involved reciting improvised rhymes over instrumental sections of reggae records. He used twin turntables and cut back and forth between two seperate records to create a new sound. He would chant things like "Throw your hands in the air/And wave'em like ya just don't care!". This type of crowd pleaser was known as "rapping" to the crowd. At that time rap was not yet known as 'rap' but called 'MCing'. He later turned his attention to DJing and let two friends Coke La Rock and (the orginial) Clark Kent handle the mic. This was rap music's first MC team. They became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids.
Jamaican born DJ Kool Herc moved to New York in the late 1960's and brought with him the Jamaican tradition of "toasting", which involved reciting improvised rhymes over instrumental sections of reggae records. He used twin turntables and cut back and forth between two seperate records to create a new sound. He would chant things like "Throw your hands in the air/And wave'em like ya just don't care!". This type of crowd pleaser was known as "rapping" to the crowd. At that time rap was not yet known as 'rap' but called 'MCing'. He later turned his attention to DJing and let two friends Coke La Rock and (the orginial) Clark Kent handle the mic. This was rap music's first MC team. They became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids.
Those who say it's not music, or that it's "ghetto music", have no connection with the history of THEIR own rock music - making them cultural bastards.
by Lived_It August 9, 2005
RAP=Retards Attempting Poetry
I know, I used to listen to this shit
50 cent does suck, but so do all the other rap bands.
Really, I don't wanna hear a retard going "this is the way i live" for five minutes straight.
rap is nonsense, the name is nonsense, people who listem to this shit suffer from mental retardation.
Rap has a beat, yes, but the beat of rap gets stuck in your head and then you wanna kill yourself!!!!
HEY RAPSTERS, GO AND BUY A ROCK C.D.,BETTER YET SINCE YOU THINK ALL ROCK IS ABOUT DEATH, GET A COUNTRY C.D. THEN, RAP IS LIKE CIGARRETES, YOU GET HOOKED, THEN IT KILLS YOU.
rapsters who hate metal, listen up, at least metal does'nt repeat the same saying over,and over and over and over and over again!!!!!!! i could go on forever.
-- this is one of those definitions that I'll keep posting until it shows up on this site!
I know, I used to listen to this shit
50 cent does suck, but so do all the other rap bands.
Really, I don't wanna hear a retard going "this is the way i live" for five minutes straight.
rap is nonsense, the name is nonsense, people who listem to this shit suffer from mental retardation.
Rap has a beat, yes, but the beat of rap gets stuck in your head and then you wanna kill yourself!!!!
HEY RAPSTERS, GO AND BUY A ROCK C.D.,BETTER YET SINCE YOU THINK ALL ROCK IS ABOUT DEATH, GET A COUNTRY C.D. THEN, RAP IS LIKE CIGARRETES, YOU GET HOOKED, THEN IT KILLS YOU.
rapsters who hate metal, listen up, at least metal does'nt repeat the same saying over,and over and over and over and over again!!!!!!! i could go on forever.
-- this is one of those definitions that I'll keep posting until it shows up on this site!
ROCK VS RAP COMPETITION
rapster: "thiiiisss is the way i live, you boys stop bitchin..."
VS
rocker: fuck this, the worst rock still beats the best rap oh well, "I don't even have to sing to beat this retard"
some guy: "HEY RAPSTER CET OFF THE FUCKING STAGE"
by ANTIRAP April 10, 2007
rap is a type of music liked by teens today. It consists of beats and lyrics that rhyme
however, many people dont consider it real music. The people who listen to rap do not make fun of others who listen to rock, metal, country, etc...
so why is it people make fun of rap when you dont have to like it
if you dont like it dont listen to it. its not a big deal
however, many people dont consider it real music. The people who listen to rap do not make fun of others who listen to rock, metal, country, etc...
so why is it people make fun of rap when you dont have to like it
if you dont like it dont listen to it. its not a big deal
by 2marr April 20, 2006
1: "I really want to become a musician, but i don't know how to play any instruments."
2: "Become a singer"
1: "I don't know how to sing"
2: "Alright, become a rapper"
1: "Good idea
2: "Become a singer"
1: "I don't know how to sing"
2: "Alright, become a rapper"
1: "Good idea
by One? February 5, 2010
by JM February 26, 2005
1.A weak attempt at music...or poetry...or something...Anyway, it consists of some guy bitchin and moaning about life while another guy makes a 1st grade level beat in the background
2.Absolute proof of the degeneration of our culture.
2.Absolute proof of the degeneration of our culture.
by Fatass February 14, 2003