Dwit
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I don't like rap so no..
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i rap whenever i listen to it
bennisboy
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llol, I love how this turned into a music style argument.

I hate commercila hip hop, like people rapping baout the size of their wheels and how many hos and guns they have, but I love it where they speak the truth with meaningful lyrics and actually trying to get the reality across of how shit the hood is, unlike 50 n those other american losers that try to make the ghetto seem sweet. If its so good, why dont they go back to it
DefCon-17
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Uzique wrote:

I don't rap, but I love white'n'nerdy hip-hop.

Anticon: all their artists are amazing. The hip-hop community seems to hate them because they don't conform to the boom-bap standards of 'old school' hip-hop, but I think their avant-garde attitude is brilliant. Sage Francis, Alias, Sole, Dose One, WHY?, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Passage etc.

Also like a lot of Def Jux stuff. RJD2, El-P / Company Flow, Aesop Rock.

MF Doom? DJ Shadow?

Oh yes please .

EDIT: I fervently believe there's a difference between the 'rap' genre and the 'hip-hop' genre. Everyone posting here to explain how much they hate rap (and the gangsta-culture associated with it)- then fair play to you on your views, but this topic has nothing to do with that. I personally completely abhor rap music, but love hip-hop and its' form of expression. Go figure.
Um, no.

That was quite a fail.

Hip Hop is a culture. Rap is a music genre.
Rap is part of the Hip Hop culture, along with Turntablism, Graffiti, and Breakdancing.

I'm seriously getting sick of people saying "I like Hip Hop but hate rap."
Jibbles
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SamTheMan wrote:

No, I'm white
RavyGravy
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Magpie wrote:



rapcat! love it
epic win.
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Uzique
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DefCon-17 wrote:

Um, no.

That was quite a fail.

Hip Hop is a culture. Rap is a music genre.
Rap is part of the Hip Hop culture, along with Turntablism, Graffiti, and Breakdancing.

I'm seriously getting sick of people saying "I like Hip Hop but hate rap."
I understand what you're saying, by talking about 'rap' as in spoken word / beat poetry as an element of hip-hop. But, people today through the mainstream whoring of 'rap' as a music genre, identify rap predominantly as things like 50 Cent / Eminem etc. Rap has all of the gangsta, West Coast, East Coast connotations, rap (southern rap particularly) has all of the stupid "Rollin' on 20's" and "Shoot u with my big gun" shit. Even though it is categorically hip-hop, I see that as being a whole different game from old-school hip-hop and the original sound. I don't see much in common between a Soulja Boy / Young Jeezy piece of shit and a Saul Williams release.

Does that make my apparent misinformation a little clearer? 'Rap' and spoken word as they are, by definition, are integral parts of hip-hop, but todays commercial 'rap' identity is quite far from the true hip-hop roots. Think Sage Francis freestyled it best: Dr.Dre used to talk about "express yourself", but then a few years later he was talking about how he couldn't get enough of the chronic.
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