Look man first I'll handle this maturely and tell you that you're being very ignorant with your words. Okay lemme school on why rap first started. Rap started as a fun type party thing yes....but the true reason rap started is because of the conditions that the african american had to go through every day. The entire hip-hop culture (Emcee'n, B-boy'n, Tag'n, Dj'n) started as a way to get children off of the streets....to get them away from the drugs and the violence that was their everyday actuality. It also gave people who would have never been given a chance a way to make something of themselves and be able to live a sucessful life, making good money without having to sell drugs or wind up in jail. Education in some area's really is bullshit and for most people they just aren't given a chance. Rather than try hard to get a degree from a bunch of people who are just gonna look down on them anyway they say ta hell with all that. Thats still what they are doing. And though I know most of them really don't have a lot of lyrical talent I still can't hate on them for wanting to better their situation. We all make bad choices knaw mean? 50 cent is a good example...if he was never given a chance in the music industry he'd prolly be slingin drugs comin in and out a jail. And I know what you're saying "So what thats their fault they coulda gotten an education blah blah blah" all I say to that is unless you livin their reality....you dunno shit about it and you don't know if education really was an option for them....Some a ya'll have never experianced some real discrimination or some real racism so really you dunno so ya have no business talkin bout it. It really started as more of a no equal opportunity thing and still that way in a lot of cases today.
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I definetely don't understand why rap is as big as it is.
Sure, it may take skill to make good lyrics (although most the lyrics in rap are pretty bad anyways) or to freestyle or whatever but as far as carrying a good tone and being able to actually "sing" rappers don't show that they have that skill. At least singers in the other genres show that they can actually sing. Rappers just pretty much yell out things that rhyme.
However, i do think it takes talent to be able to write some of the lyrics they do. But music isn't just about being able to write good lyrics.
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Now as for you. Do you write lyrics yourself? And by lyrics I mean
REAL lyrics not the rinky dink shit you see on MTV everyday.(If you need an example I'll show you) Cause if you don't then you really don't know what you are talking about. Take it from me. I am both a rapper and a singer...I'm not blowing smoke up your ass I really and truely do both and I'd like to think I do both extremely well all conciet asside I have a real passion for it. And I can tell you for a
fact I do both and rapping is
MUCH harder than singing. If you have a good voice you can sing anything and it sounds good. Most of the worlds most famous vocalists don't even write their own lyrics they just sing other peoples songs and no one has a problem with it. (Ex: BoysIIMen, Celine Dion, Various boybands & girl groups have had most of their big hits written for them...Destiny's Child for example, etc.) In the hip-hop world you absolutely cannot have the lyrics written for you and get away with it. It has to be complete originality. If someone finds out you have a ghostwriter....you're nothing. Rhyming is not as easy as it seems especially since you have to accurately portray exact feelings and emotions all while still rhyming. When you sing you only have to put words or sentences its not hard if you look at most songs the lyrics are very simply written and since you have a good voice it's very easy to make the simplest lyrics sound great. Thats not the same with rapping like you said since yer basically just "talking" you have to have something else there that is of appeal. You have to have a good flow, delivery, word usage, metaphors, multiple rhyme schemes...all while keeping time. I challenge any of you to write a rhyme and impress me. It wouldn't be easy. It's really hard to explain but I do both and I know it for a fact rapping is definitely harder than singing. If you really wanna do it good and respectfully instead of these fuckers who do cat in the hat rhymes for a quick buck I can honestly say it's one of the hardest genre's out there except for Choral and operatic music....and instrumentalism.
Asta!!