I've got to ask you and I mean this with all due respect...
Do you listen to rap music because you actually enjoy it? Or do you just listen to it because you think it helps you fit in better to the "clubbin scene" or makes you look more like a player, err...excuse me, "playa".
The reason I ask this is because I've noticed people who listen to rap music aren't content with just enjoying it themselves. They insist on forcing everyone else around them to listen to it.
For example, I often wake up at 3 AM on a wednesday because people in their cars blast their stereos so loudly that my windows shake.
Fans of other genres of music seldom do this, so what is it about rap music fans that make them so determined to force their music on others?
Question for people who listen to rap music...
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Beetgreen
, mars 28 2010 03:47
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Posté 29 mars 2010 - 06:55
Stanley Woo
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I listen to rap because it incorporates two of the main reasons I love communication: rhythm and wordplay. Rap is a kind of poetry that I can really get behind. The incorporation of rap into 90s dance music is what made me listen to it, and once I got out of my teens and started expanding my musical horizons, I discovered that rap isn't just gangsta, old-school, or hip-hop.
Rap can be used to expose the problems of poor urban culture and communities. The way Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine (among others) use it, it's a statement to the masses on behalf of those who don't have a voice of their own. For gangsta rappers, it's a bar set really high for a poor urban peoples who don't have the same opportunities you or I do, giving them something to aspire to, role models that even the poorest and downtrodden can identify with. While I don't agree with that kind of materialistic, mysoginistic view of the world, I'm an educated Canadian man who can afford a home, food, and clothing by working a job that pays a living wage. Who am I to judge?
I like different kinds of rap for different reasons. I like parody rap groups like the Notorious MSG, who bust out rhymes on the underground New York Chinatown gangsta restaurant scene. I like MC Frontalot for the nerdcore topics and rhymes that I can identify with. I like House of Pain and Beastie Boys for very different urban perspectives. I like Rage Against the Machine for the activism, and Public Enemy for making the world notice the people who are often beneath our notice.
Heck, I even like rap when I can't understand the lyrics because the rhythms are fantastic and they have something to say.
Rap can be used to expose the problems of poor urban culture and communities. The way Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine (among others) use it, it's a statement to the masses on behalf of those who don't have a voice of their own. For gangsta rappers, it's a bar set really high for a poor urban peoples who don't have the same opportunities you or I do, giving them something to aspire to, role models that even the poorest and downtrodden can identify with. While I don't agree with that kind of materialistic, mysoginistic view of the world, I'm an educated Canadian man who can afford a home, food, and clothing by working a job that pays a living wage. Who am I to judge?
I like different kinds of rap for different reasons. I like parody rap groups like the Notorious MSG, who bust out rhymes on the underground New York Chinatown gangsta restaurant scene. I like MC Frontalot for the nerdcore topics and rhymes that I can identify with. I like House of Pain and Beastie Boys for very different urban perspectives. I like Rage Against the Machine for the activism, and Public Enemy for making the world notice the people who are often beneath our notice.
Heck, I even like rap when I can't understand the lyrics because the rhythms are fantastic and they have something to say.
