asylum.com — Once upon a time, rap music was all about legitimacy, beginning with the poet activists of the '60s and the inner-city residents rhyming about life on the streets of the Bronx in the '70s and '80s. Then something happened. Something horrible.
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nyxerebosDec 2, 2009
Agree about clubs, some (more obscure) bars have excellent music.
eawgoalieDec 2, 2009
I'm going to take a guess and say that Asian Dub Foundation is dub (and probably other Jamaican style music) and not hip-hop.
horakhtiDec 2, 2009
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Closed AccountDec 2, 2009
"Horrible rap" == redundant.
acroyear2Dec 2, 2009
WHY MUST I CRY!!!!???
badenglishihaveDec 2, 2009
You know what to do G, bust a move (1989 but it's close).
hiprocksoulDec 2, 2009
There's good rap out there.. Just not the garbage they're pushing down people's throats. Real rap is: Theory Hazit, Mars Ill, Braille, Othello or The Grouch & Eligh just to name a few.This article was geared more towards dissing the silly stuff, but to me the gangsta, ignorant hyper sexual stuff in mainstream rap is just as silly. Lil' Wayne for instance and his hit "Lollipop" a song all about a blowjob. I'm glad he's getting some, and women want to "lick the rapper"(done in creepy auto-tune Wayne voice), but really? I mean really? Rap is about saying something. Bragging about your foreplay or your ability to pop someone 'cause you "ain't a wangsta" does not impress me. Nor does your ability to sell coke in your past impress me. I mean coke is a drug, is it really that hard to sell to an addict? Try selling health insurance policies, now THAT would be gangsta! It's(rap) rather boring and uninspired... How far down mainstream rap has fallen, I would only expect it to appeal to 13 year old males that just learned how to cuss and want so bad to get laid. Much like the kids you hear on Xbox live. It's amazing that grown women and men support this garbage and keep the flow of crap coming. If it didn't sell, then they'd stop selling it. Wake up people and support the good rap artists. If you keep buying s**t, they'll keep selling you s**t.
dinnerDec 2, 2009
Come now. There's an entire genre of 'socially conscious' hip hop which explicitly decries all that stuff. In fact, there's so much of it that I've nearly gotten sick of hearing music about how the 'gangsta rap' is so bad.