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Crownley wrote:
There's a lot of phenomenal hip hop and rap out there, but I would hardly call most of it "Gangsta rap". Hip hop has evolved a lot and artists like Cunninlynguists, Aesop Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and Death Grips are some really innovative hip hop groups from the last few years. Though I will say the majority of "gangsta rap" is really ridiculous and doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence.
Thank you.
Hip hop culture is just that, though, a culture, not a genre of music alone. I would guess less than 5% of hip hop music is gangsta rap.
And some gangsta rap is very much political and anti-censorship which basically makes it a part of hip hop culture.
I do hear a lot of misogyny in MOST genres of music so let's not pretend hip hop has a patent on misogyny. Most people I hear saying "all hip hop is this or that " or "hip hop isn't music hur hur" are talking about some crap they heard on TV or the radio so I am okay with that since they don't know what they're talking about and it's perfectly okay for them to have different opinions than me or whatever.
I especially dislike "alternative" music but I don't expect anyone else to.
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04 Jan 2014, 10:24 pm
meems wrote:
Crownley wrote:
There's a lot of phenomenal hip hop and rap out there, but I would hardly call most of it "Gangsta rap". Hip hop has evolved a lot and artists like Cunninlynguists, Aesop Rock, Kendrick Lamar, and Death Grips are some really innovative hip hop groups from the last few years. Though I will say the majority of "gangsta rap" is really ridiculous and doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence.
Thank you.
Hip hop culture is just that, though, a culture, not a genre of music alone. I would guess less than 5% of hip hop music is gangsta rap.
And some gangsta rap is very much political and anti-censorship which basically makes it a part of hip hop culture.
I do hear a lot of misogyny in MOST genres of music so let's not pretend hip hop has a patent on misogyny. Most people I hear saying "all hip hop is this or that " or "hip hop isn't music hur hur" are talking about some crap they heard on TV or the radio so I am okay with that since they don't know what they're talking about and it's perfectly okay for them to have different opinions than me or whatever.
I especially dislike "alternative" music but I don't expect anyone else to.
Wholeheartedly agree with this, I listen to a lot of introspective and political stuff (I'm from the UK and we'd just sound silly if we rapped about pulling drive-bys and blasting uzi's/techs) and there are so many extremely intelligent lyricists both here and in the US, that being said, I do like to listen to a bit of Gangsta Rap now and again. I'm a massive fan of Rhyme Asylum from the UK and their style is mainly horrorcore with some insanely good wordplay but they do the political/introspective stuff equally well.
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