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Originally posted by badmoon
All right I apologize to the alcoholics. I shouldn't have tied them to the crack head rappers.
Thank you. I'm off to get a drink. 😵

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Originally posted by badmoon
All right I apologize to the alcoholics. I shouldn't have tied them to the crack head rappers.
Come on, I want to see your attempt at rapping, just to prove that any one can do it.

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
Eminem.
Eminem, now there is one who deserves respect - even of you dislike most forms of rap. He is a great wordsmith. I often think that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would be plying his verbal trade in this arena - partly because it pays!

However, for every decent rapper with rhythm and a skill for words there are 10 wannabes who suck.

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
You're not one of those people who refuses to listen to any "commercial rap", purely becuase it's "commercial" and not becuase it's good or bad.

+ I forgot to mention Nas and Grandmaster Flash.
No, I've listened to them. But they're crap. Come on, 50 Cent? You've got to be kidding, mate. Him, along with Tupac Shakur, have got to be the rappers I can't stand the most.

MF Doom, RJD2, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beastie Boys, now that's class.

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Originally posted by Hindstein
However, for every decent rapper with rhythm and a skill for words there are 10 wannabes who suck.
Like every other genre.

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Originally posted by Hindstein


However, for every decent rapper with rhythm and a skill for words there are 10 wannabes who suck.
This it true, but applies to every other genre as well. As well as art, film, theatre. Any art form.

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
Come on, I want to see your attempt at rapping, just to prove that any one can do it.
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Originally posted by Palynka
No, I've listened to them. But they're crap. Come on, 50 Cent? You've got to be kidding, mate. Him, along with Tupac Shakur, have got to be the rappers I can't stand the most.

MF Doom, RJD2, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beastie Boys, now that's class.
Well, 50 Cent isn't great, but he's got 1 or 2 good songs. I don't know how you can't like 2pac.

A Tribe Called Quest are alright, and Beasties Boys need no introduction.

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Originally posted by badmoon
Funshine Bear needs your help
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Love-a-lot Bear can get you high
Kirksey, Freddie and Marinakatomb represent in this thread, which I'm sorely tempted to revive.

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Originally posted by Palynka and Freddie2006
Like every other genre.
True, but it does seem that rap has more. Maybe it is the perception that it is easy money leads to polluting of the airways with the second rate and talentless.

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
Well, 50 Cent isn't great, but he's got 1 or 2 good songs. I don't know how you can't like 2pac.

A Tribe Called Quest are alright, and Beasties Boys need no introduction.
Got a girl in a castle and one in a pagoda,
Ya know I go rhymes like Abe Vigoda.

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Originally posted by Hindstein
True, but it does seem that rap has more. Maybe it is the perception that it is easy money leads to polluting of the airways with the second rate and talentless.
Or perhaps a lot of people living "in da hood" see people from their background turning into world famous artists, and they realise that there is a way out.

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Freddie, do you know about Krush?



Edit -Funnily enough, what's on youtube from Krush is much worse than his albums. The good ones there are not exactly hip-hop (Final Home, Aletheuo and Danger of Love).

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Originally posted by Hindstein
True, but it does seem that rap has more. Maybe it is the perception that it is easy money leads to polluting of the airways with the second rate and talentless.
I agree that it's less interesting and more vulgar performers are the ones that get more airtime. Most of the ones I like I've never ever seen on tv or heard on the radio.

I was put off good hip-hop for years because of it and rediscovered it through DJ Shadow and DJ Krush, which are basically electronic music with a lot of hip-hop roots.

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Originally posted by Freddie2006
As well as art, film, theatre. Any art form.
I agree, but it does seem that there is more room in music where the talentless are richer and more successful than in other art genres