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Originally Posted by Skettios
Sorry Gilda, I don't want to sound mean, but this kind of talk makes me really angry. It's not street music, it's not all sampled and the lyrics aren't that hard to understand, and Kanye doesn't even swear that much if at all, I don't remember.
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I fear I've been misunderstood. I know it's not
all sampled, street music, misogynistic, anti-police, and and-authority. I never said it was. There is, however, enough of those things that it creates for me a barrier to finding the other stuff you refer to.
That the lyrics are difficult to understand is, I would think, undisputable. When I listen to rap, I have difficulty understanding the lyrics, and that makes it very difficult for me to even understand the message, let alone appreciate it.
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Originally Posted by keyshawn
What is so sad about the world of hip-hop is that the public's perception is totally mangled.
The media is primarily at fault for this, due to their nature of primarily focusing on sensationalism [*shakes fist at Bill O'Reilly, amongst others] as well as sex, bling-bling, and violence [shakes fist at MTV and the Big 5 record labels].
The underground world of hip-hop is a bit divided into different idealogies. There's a group which attempts to emulate the mainstream world - in which some of them reach the mainstream, and thus continues the cycle of the crap hip-hop.
However, there's the other group, which indentifies itself with tolerance, social equality and justice.
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Wonderful. I'm glad there is more to it than just the surface aspects that show up in the media.
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It's 2005. Rap has been here for a long time now, it's time to recognize it for the legitimate genre that it is. You talk about barriers, I firmly believe people that don't like rap or hip hop have never listened to it.
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I accept it as a legitimate genre. I have listened to it, enough to know that I have difficulty understanding the lyrics, and enough to know that it just doesn't appeal to me.
For those who love it, good for you. I'm glad you have a music form that speaks to you. It just isn't to my taste, for the reasons I state above.
Gilda