Listen to Rap , dont listen to piano

[Le-ackt]

Listen to Rap , dont listen to piano

[dinosaurtales]

Why?

[tosca1]

Quelle horreur!!  Please explain as no doubt we are all wondering what the connection is. :-/

[sary2106]

I listen to a little of everything - jazz, classical violin, classical cello, classical piano, rap, doom metal, rock.... I think it calms my brain to listen to music besides classical piano.

Sarah  

[amee]

To Le-ackt -

I agree with tosca1...please explain!

[frederic]

Hey, you guys listen to rap?
I don't.
I think its a bunch of garbage

[SteveK]

Ditto, Frederic!

[willcowskitz]

Though I hate rap myself, I'll now represent the rap fans here to prevent an actual argument.

You guys don't listen to rap?
I do.
I think its a great way of expressing oneself through lyrics.

[dinosaurtales]

Seems like garbage to me, too, but maybe I am just becoming an *old fart*

Mindy

[willcowskitz]

lol DinosaurTales, nice timing!  

[amee]

I can't stand rap
I never listen to it

[willcowskitz]

Me neither. That's my opinion. That's your opinion. Now what do we achieve by going around shouting about it...

Or are we trying to create some kind of an elite to raise ourselves above others? If anything sucks as much as rap does, that'd be it.

[Colette]

heh, nice response, but if anything sucks as much as elitism and, to a lesser degree, rap, it's the machine generated pop that's shoved down our throats...but thats just my uh, objective opinion...

[dinosaurtales]

I'm with you Collette - So much of the POP culture stuff lacks originality, it's more based on audience ratings, and made up of overly *produced* shows, music, and all.  Brittney Spears is a great example.  She's definitely talented, but without her *team* of production artists, she's not much ( except what you guys might think)

It's refresheing to hear any new music that comes from the heart.

[PoSeiDoN]

No.  Listen to Reggae.  

[ludwig]

I used to not like Rap, well the stuff that gets played on the Radio, but I never realised that there was a "serious" competitive and improvisational sort of society for rappers. I think that stuff doesn't get played at all, and can't be counted as POP music.... It is interesting how they arrange words to suit their emotions and stories they rap about, and they all rhyme, and thats an acheivement in itself... I still don't really understand the "art" of rap, but I think that it isn't easy to be one of those original and serious rappers.

[Dr._Blow]

The long list of replies to this moronic statement(including this one) show how much press any idiot without a brain willing to say something insanely stupid can garner.  

[thomas_williams]

Good point, Dr. Blow.
My stamp of approval is on Frederick and all you others who consider rap to be garbage.
Let's throw that junk in the trash can!

[willcowskitz]

Can I please get a Stamp of Approval from you?? It would mean so much to me??!

[thomas_williams]

If you consider rap to be garbage, you've got it in this case!  

[natasha]

actually eminem is ok if u dont listen to the swearing. its the constant beat that addicts mi!

[lea]

i actually reckon that rap is kool!!!!

but if its bcos u dont like the swaring get now thats what i call music 11(NZ VERSION) because they beep out all the swaring

i think that if u hate something still appreciate it, like u dont have to like rap but if u still appreciate it it doesnt mean u like it!!!

[natasha]

DinosaurTales......how can u say that Britney Spears is talented??? shes hopeless!!
natasha

[dinosaurtales]

She's no opera star (or brain from what I can tell), but she definitely sings and dances better than me!  Plus it takes some nerve to get up there and do that s**t.  A person who was actually hopeless couldn't do that at all!  

[Black_Key]

I can understand why a lot of you don't like rap music, but the to say that it's garbage is quite irrational. Sure their is a lot of rap that might sound unappealing: the lyrical content (sex, drugs, violence), but that's not rap always was, nor is that what rap is today.

One of the things that make rap different is its fundamental principle of verbal expression; the origins of rap also have very big impact on what it is today. Rap was made by urban dwellers as an outlet to tell their life stories to people who would listen. Now to say that's what rap is now wouldn't be accurate, but it is imprtant to understand that rap isn't what you hear on the radio or watch on tv; it's emcompasses a whole sub-culture that people never see.

The effort invested in a rap is substantial, the use of rhythm while cosistently keep a rhyme scheme requires tremendous skill. However, the music profession has been reduced to an effort to push as many cds as possible which has compromised the creativity and the freedom of the artists to a certain extent.

Well to preven a long story from beig longer I'll just say this: To insult a music form is really unecessary, because everyone listens to music for different reasons. I can say almost the same thing rock, techno and anything else that's new. I've heard these same negative comments about classical music and my reaction's been the same. I'm not saying that you ppl should like rap or anything, because people have tastes and their are bound to be ppl unwilling to expand their musical pallettes, but I'm just asking that you refrain from making statements like "Rap/Rock/Heavy Metal is garbage."

[chopinetta]

I AGREE WITH AMEE! I CAN'T STAND RAP EITHER! it's my opinion. only an opinion. so... no hard feelings...

[Yoad]

I have nothing wrong with backround music with the great beat, but i do agree that something that has f*** as every other word is garbage. If rap didnt have that than it would be good.

[88keys]

Listen to Rap... Listen to Piano...

Just don't listen to both at the same time  

By the way, Rap is not "grabage". Just because it isn't "serious" music doesn't make it grabage... It certainly is much better than those avant-garde modern composers who seem to have forgotten that music is supposed to be pleasant to hear.

[Colette]

hmm. which avante garde composers are u speaking of...sounding pleasant or unpleasant doesn't define or peg contemporary compositions as good or bad...

[88keys]

I don't really understand what you are trying to say. How can something which is unpleasant to the ear be regarded as "good music"? It may have artistic value of some kind, even a quality of a masterpiece, but it isn't "music" unless this quality can be heard with a pair of good ears.

At least, that is how I define music. Perhaps other people would disagree, maintaining that "music" is any form of art which relies on sound... But to me it seems obvious that music should be appreciable by the ears alone.

Anyway, good atonal or avant-garde music is very hard to write. A medicore composer in the late 18th century could still write decent sonatas, but a medicore modern composer will get nothing but awful noise. Only the greatest contemporary masters manage to porduce good atonal music, and even then it can be done only by leaving a bit of tonality in.

Gladly, most composers today already abandoned the idea of "breaking the rules at all costs" and now they only use as much atonality or special effects as their music really needs. Not surprisingly, this realization has done wonder to the quality of their music.

[frederic]

Okay, it's been a long time since i've posted on this. Rap, to me now, is not garbage, BUT... not gold either... Well, it's hard not to appreciate, just a little, those hard core poeple who try so hard to be up there... they are giving all they've got.
But still i prefer classical.

And it is much better than those avant garde music in my opinion. I mean, any old fool can make that sort of mus... stuff.

[lea]

hey whose the guy who started this thingy cos why did he say not to listen to piano if hes on a piano forum thingy???

but nyway rap is kool-go shorty its ya bday were gonna party like its ya bday......50 cent r like the craze right now nyway

and theres nuffink wrong wit eminem either hes pretty awesome as well

lea

[amee]

Well it really depends on your own opinion - different people like different types of music

[eddie92099]

Music being the crucial word,
Ed

[NetherMagic]

hate rap, except EMINEM!  They make their own lyrics and music and stuff (i think) and it just sounds ultra good!  All the others suck, they're just a buncha words put together into a song with 4/4 time  

[Torp]

Thought I'd dig this out of the dungeon since this topic is being discussed again.

[mikeyg]

That was a bump and a half.

[Siberian Husky]

wow look at all these grown, mature, sophisticated, experienced individuals of awesome judgement that reflects quality, knowledge, and intuition....retards

[Torp]

wow look at all these grown, mature, sophisticated, experienced individuals of awesome judgement that reflects quality, knowledge, and intuition....retards

Thought you might get a kick out of this one.

That was a bump and a half.

Just wanted to show I wasn't afraid to go deep under the street.

[i_m_robot]

hey look at self

self's going to start a thread to bash a genre of music

why?

because self detests the manner in which the mainstream form of said genre is portrayed

self will completely ignore the fact that the entire genre doesnt suck/contain violence/offensive lyrics/and hoes

self will even completely ignore the fact that sex/violence/controversy sells

and thats the reason certain forms of said genre are perpetuated

why?

because we all know we should things based on what we see on tv and hear on the radio

cus itz not just done for the money

[rob47]

i rapped for money, sold out, made 100$, did 2 shows, got a gun pointed at me, and then retired.

[Siberian Husky]

Roberto Kawasaki's E True HollyWood Story...behind the Gangster Image

[jeremyjchilds]

Some rap actually takes skills, and think about it, without rap, we would be deviod of meaningful cultural references

...Bliggety Blang, Don't get no-no, each to thier Izzo...

[dave santino]

Sorry, but........rap kinda sucks. Listen to music, it's a lot more rewarding.

[Siberian Husky]

Sorry, but........rap kinda sucks. Listen to music, it's a lot more rewarding.

Translation:

i read the heading..a portion of the first post..scrolled all the way down..hit the "reply" button...induced verbal diarrhea...and scratched my nuts...

[silvaone]

Or are we trying to create some kind of an elite to raise ourselves above others? If anything sucks as much as rap does, that'd be it.

willcowskitz, if anyone has ever said anything for me to respect that would be it.... thank you


How can u like something if you dont understand it OR EVEN (as many of you dont) if you dont have any knowledge about it whatsoever! For those of you in doubt of real RAP i.e. the stuff produced from the culture of HIPHOP listen to typical cats, there you will find all your answers....

pz

- Silva

[mikeyg]

Translation:

i read the heading..a portion of the first post..scrolled all the way down..hit the "reply" button...induced verbal diarrhea...and scratched my nuts...

another kid safe post by the husky

[i_m_robot]

Sorry, but........rap kinda sucks. Listen to music, it's a lot more rewarding.

end ya life

its a lot more rewarding

place a veil of ya minds eye and you might as well just die