Rap music or Crap music

Most of it is crap, some of it is ok.

rap is shit and the people who sing it are losers.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean your opinion is correct. That's called Solipsism.

I don't like it, but its cool that other people do. I don't get why people care so much that they have to argue like angry little SPeds "oh itz not music, itz crAp"

I have to say that rock can be just as shallow.

yo nigga ill bust a cap in your ass mitherfucker listen to the word homie you is a bitch

no matter what genre you listen to today most of it just talks about sex,drugs,violence. there are an occasional love song or song with meaning but still most is rubish.

Commercial rap is mind control, keep us fighting one another for paper, ice, and fly rides. The REAL artists never get signed, check out Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, Outerspace, Poor Righteous Teachers, and others. They rap intelligently on pertinent topics, the complete opposite of the media that the average slave is exposed to.

If you don't like rap, check out some real hip hop, start with the artists above.

Educate yourself even just a little bit and you'll see exactly how Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and other mainstream idiots are using mas media to keep the impressionable struggling for material posession, the underground stuff is more about spiritual awakening, positivity, and building towards a better future, things the gov'ment doesn't want to happen.

So listen to a few tracks, find and read the lyrics along with the song, real rappers are sometimes hard to understand if you don't listen to it, and it may take a bit of concentration to follow, but that's the point, real hip hop will make you think.

Commercial rap is mostly simplistic and shallow, and cater to drunken idiots in the clubs, whereas real rappers will spark thought and imagination. Commercial rap isn't music, it's the elite's propaganda. Do you think they'd let 'em rap on the airwaves if they weren't?

Real hip hop isn't music either, it's much more, combining emceeing, deejaying, breakdancing, graffiti art,(and I mean art, check out some of the top artists, they're ridiculous) and poetry. The mainstream lacks most of this, especially the poetry. Thre's not much eloquence to:

Holla in the club yall!
range with the dubs yall!

...or something equally stupid, yet subliminally powerful propaganda that keeps a nation of blind, deaf, dumb, and drunk killing themselves and each other over meaningless stuff like money, cars, clothes, booze, etc.

Check this, you'll never see this vid on eMpTy-V, he self promotes and distributes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6pw5vtswE

And the lyrics:
http://www.lyrics007.com/Immortal%20Technique%20Lyrics/Cause%20of%20Death%20Lyrics.html

An underground lyricist, i practice the art of weaving words into tapestries of thought over slammin' beats, battling in the street, freestryling, and this year i hope to get into the studio an do a full album, self distributed, the "man" ain't gonna have the deed to my soul, i'd rather go nowhere than sell out.

rap sucks dick, i hate and i cant stand when white people try to act black and all that crap.

Ugh... Eminem is a disgrace.

Rap is a disgrace.

how the fuk is rap a discrase???? there gangstas making more money u will ever make in your life come to think of it there fukin earrings r worth more then every fukin thing u hav anyway i dnt like rap and not all of there r gangstas but som r so shut the fuk up just becuz ure jelus of them dnt meen to say u can say any fukin nthing u want now fuk off u poor lil bastards

all i gotta say i hate fucking rock, rock is the worst msuic i ever heard, everything else is good, rap is good jus tlike infinite says everything he said is right, people should be judging music liek their opinion is everysone opinion, only people who really judge is stupid rocker people stupid fuckin faggots, im a str8 up raver at at my high school days me n my raver click would be the shit out of all stupid rockers whot alk shit about music especially to us so yea thats said

Most of it's crap.
I'm pretty soft core, I listen to a lot of new wave and indie rock now days...
Some rap is funny, and is nice to dance to at a party and joke around with you friends, or blast in your car as a joke. That's usually the only two times I listen to rap, and it's only funny rap like "Miss New Booty" and "Fergalicious" and what not.

Rap is a way of expression for people with a little talent, it's necessary because nature isn't fair with anyone, some are more talented and brilliant than other's... I've never met an evolved human being that likes rap 'music'... the level of your personal evolution is directly proportional with the art that you like... Someone with an I.Q of 90 can't understand or appreciate Classical, jazz or complicated metal music, but, he can understand a 'signer' that use the same tone forever, mixed with a repetitive beat and 8 notes melodies...

I FUCKING HATE RAP!! Except for Afroman:)

Like I don't understand that why some people argued which rap or rock is better. Man, everyone have own likes. See I don't listen to rock and I don't argued like them. Most people don't understand what the different between of rap and hip hop. Anyway, I hate that some rapper are act gangsta wannabe like 50 cent, young buck, some crap of east coast rappers. Mostly east coast rappers are act gangsta wannabe. West coast rappers are pretty good. I like them because they don't do shit like 50 cent or Jay-z. I know some of them like hold money on music video. That just because they do street drug dealer and doing gang business. And yeah I know that some rapper are dumb. I can't tell to ya that why I like rap. Sorry.

Each to their own I say.

I hate rap but some folks would hate the music that I enjoy, so hickory down.

Like i've said before "rap IS crap"

it is absolute bullshit. no one should be exposed to that repulsive garbage!

First of all where the fuck is the talent in rock all you do is scream into a mic rap is
poetry it takes lots of skill to rap
lets see you rockers rap fucking idiots
go stick a syrnge in ur throat bitches

Agreed. You said it better than I could have.

I think you couldn't possibly be more wrong.

Appreciating certain music is not about I.Q.'s at all.

People who appreciate Classical music and other genres do so because of exposer: They were exposed to a certain genre of music at a critical point in their lives and thus developed a quick afinity for this music.

IF you were the same person you are now but you grew up in an inner city neiborhood in NYC during the early 90's, likely your music of choice would be gangster rap because you would be able to realate to the situations presented in the songs; Guns, Drugs and crime. These are all common denominators in imporvershed inner city areas. And also because hip hop at it's best and original porpuses is an expression of many of life's problems and srtife. And Guns, Crime and drugs would liekly be causing you strife in that area. So you head for the music that most liekly reflects your enviroment and you relate to it.

If you grew up on the outskirts of Helsinki, Finland, Likely your music of choice would be the Finnish folk-pop music that seems to popular there.

To tell you the truth I kind of like that music too (at least what I've heard) :P

I enjoy a wide range of music. In my early days my dad exposed me to artists like Sting, Rod Stewart, UB40, and others..

I enjoy appreciate rock music like, Tool, System of a Down, Linkin Park and many others.

I like Norah Jones and even John Mayer a little bit.

But the main music I listen to is Rap. Mainly Underground and Old School/Golden Age hip hop.

I enjoy:

--Rakim
--The Gza/Wu Tang Clan
--Jeru the Damaja
--Little Brother
--Cannibal Ox
--Murs
--Nas
--Kool G Rap

many many others.

You see, most people's problems with rap comes from a failure to distinguish from the commercial MTV/BET rap from the non-commercial non-conformist underground hip hop.

There is a very good article about Hip Hop in Natinal Geographic Magazine in the April 2007 issue. It explains adequately the origins of Hip Hop/Rap in black music culture.

CRAP MUSIC! Rap music degrates women and influance kids to do the same, acting like pimps an players it pretty fucking gay all togeather lol rap music is faggy. Plus it take no talent to rhyme a bunch of words togeather really fast. Jim Morrison, now there's an artist. Rap music is for Ignorant people and Gangsters that dont know any better. Thats all there is too it, and all the smart people know it.

rap music is so fucking gay

all of its crap

Rap sucks ass those fucking gangsters

Leave rap alone some ppl like it some dont!god..

Eminem...the best rapperout there.

And Tupac isn't dead

I'm a doctor,

Chris UFC raps about horse fucking

I don't have anything against people who like rap, but in my opinion, rap is like poetry about girls and cars with swearing for guys.

Infinite knows whats up. Rap, just like rock, can fall on either end of the spectrum. Most popular rap is the same recycled crap we've all heard. The artists that infinite mentioned, and some others like Army of Pharoes(sp). Even Dell Tha Funky Homosapien, with his trippy space-raps. Commercial rap is garbage, but look deeper into the genre before forming such a quick opinion on it. If you still don't like, to each their own

Rap sucks i can write you a list of good music lets start with thinkman,rupert hine rainbow and hey homies go o o o to hell o and by the way Xiaolin showdown is the best cartoon.
Sad they stooped it.

Yo, Strech go listen to Illadelphia Half-life. The Roots, fool!

rap sucks ass...they talk about the same shit in every song!