Rap music WTF?

[look 171]

I called the county's building safety because I had a beef with a young bone head inspector. Of course, I was put on hold. I left it on speaker phone and walked off talking to to my drywaller. He smiles and ask, "when did you start listening to rap music"? Then I noticed, it was blaring rap out of my little phone. I am OK with elevator music or something, but rap? Who decides that? BTW, the bone head was straighten out by his boss.

[Arizona_928]

Hopefully it was pimping and drug use rap

[onewhippedpuppy]

Those are the oldies now, c’mon man!

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by look 171

I called the county's building safety because I had a beef with a young bone head inspector. Of course, I was put on hold. I left it on speaker phone and walked off talking to to my drywaller. He smiles and ask, "when did you start listening to rap music"? Then I noticed, it was blaring rap out of my little phone. I am OK with elevator music or something, but rap? Who decides that? BTW, the bone head was straighten out by his boss.

[Racerbvd]

Sorry, but rap isn't music, it isn't an art form, you can't have crap without rap.

[vash]

its music. it might not be my music..but its somebodies music.

I would go full immersion in RAP if my only other choice was interpretive jazz.

[RANDY P]

Bought a used CD player off fleabay. Powered it up, Whiz Khalifia's Rolling Papers came out. Listened once, then threw in garbage.

Rap used to be about giving a show.

Modern mumble rap is junk. Unimaginative, boring and same dumb repetitive themes. All the artists are interchangable.

[hbueno]

Well, at least it wasn't country music. That would be cruel and unusual punishment.

[raguilera]

Originally Posted by RANDY P

Bought a used CD player off fleabay. Powered it up, Whiz Khalifia's Rolling Papers came out. Listened once, then threw in garbage.

Rap used to be about giving a show.

Modern mumble rap is junk. Unimaginative, boring and same dumb repetitive themes. All the artists are interchangable.

^^^

[raguilera]

Originally Posted by hbueno

Well, at least it wasn't country music. That would be cruel and unusual punishment.

You know what happens when you play a country record backwards??


You get back everything you lost..

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Sorry, but rap isn't music...

Right, it's just noise. I feel bad for kids coming up now and having to embrace rap as "their" music. They're getting screwed out of any real musical diversity. It's hard to note any real differences between "songs" when most just feature heavy bass & percussion backing up some ignorant "poetry".

Rap seems to have devolved back to music's most basic elements. Not much different than early humans chanting while they pounded a hollow log with a stick.

My folks couldn't stand the rock and blues music I listened to as a teen, but even they could tell the difference between the Allman Bros., CS&N and Hendrix.

[look 171]

It was the typical yelling, or whatever you call that, talking really fast and that freaking beat that drives me up a wall. I can take disco all day long compared to rap. I can't stand that techo dance music neither. But damn, for back ground music while people wait for a call at teh county?

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Sorry, but rap isn't music, it isn't an art form, you can't have crap without rap.

From the amount of visual diarrhea you post here, I highly doubt your ability to comment on art.

[Tishabet]

Am I the only Pelican who likes rap? I like a lot of other stuff too and rap is not my #1 genre, but it definitely features in my rotation.

Just opened up my music folder on my phone, here are the top 25 artists alphabetically... 5 are rap:
2Pac (rap)
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger
The Avalanches
The Avett Brothers
Bad Religion
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds
Big Head Todd and The Monsters
Black Star (rap)
Blur
Bob Dylan
The Breeders
Chill Rob G (rap)
The Clash
Common (rap)
The Cure
Daft Punk
Dinosaur Jr
Diunna Greanleaf
Dr Dre (rap)
Dresden Dolls
Eddie Pennington
Elton John
Elvis Costello

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Tishabet

Am I the only Pelican who likes rap? I like a lot of other stuff too and rap is not my #1 genre, but it definitely features in my rotation.

Just opened up my music folder on my phone, here are the top 25 artists alphabetically... 5 are rap:
2Pac (rap)
Arlo Guthrie
Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger
The Avalanches
The Avett Brothers
Bad Religion
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Folds
Big Head Todd and The Monsters
Black Star (rap)
Blur
Bob Dylan
The Breeders
Chill Rob G (rap)
The Clash
Common (rap)
The Cure
Daft Punk
Dinosaur Jr
Diunna Greanleaf
Dr Dre (rap)
Dresden Dolls
Eddie Pennington
Elton John
Elvis Costello

I like the some of the older stuff:
Grand Master Flash
Public Enemy
Dr Dre
Some NWA (I'm not that big on them)

I drew the line when the lyrics went sideways, IMO.

My oldest son loves 90s music and for the most part - I couldn't stand the stuff and was vocal about it. I'm a passenger in his car with his brother and one of his friends. On the radio is Ray Charles singing "Georgia On My Mind". I commented to them "Now this is music, not the crap all of you listen to". Well the song changes quickly into a rap song sung by Ludricris. The 3 of them just busted out laughing. That was a humbling moment. They still laugh about it. It is tame compared to other rap songs.
Ludacris, Field Mob - Georgia ft. Jamie Foxx - The link is below.


https://youtu.be/_kH_EZF0XqM

[gsxrken]

Originally Posted by Tishabet

Am I the only Pelican who likes rap? I like a lot of other stuff too and rap is not my #1 genre, but it definitely features in my rotation.

Nope (to my family’s horror, lol). 54 year old degenerate. There’s no accounting for bad taste. I think what was partially to blame was that by 1995 my ear had had it with “Freebird”, “Stairway”, and “We are the Champions”.
Gotta be considerate, though. Some of the lyrics are atrocious.

But I’m all over the map too. Here’s my Apple Music recently played... schizophrenic

[Pazuzu]

I like rap, and I like it more when some old fat white dude starts whining about spelling crap with rap. Ehem.

Too bad some of you old fat white dudes won't spend some time listenin' and examinin' rap, lots of it is VERY complex, multi-layered works that take 5, 10 times as long to master together in the studio than some jingle jangle country song.
Yeah, there's lots of "make a dollar" pop music style rap, but there was lots of "make a dollar" pop music junk from CCR and ZZ Top and The Eagles and on and on...

[john70t]

The county building safety department is playing rap muzak?
I suppose it's the same thing as that 80db 8-bit scratchy and repeated classical muzak.
(i.e Designed to make the caller livid before the start of the conversation. "Like, we doan care yall")

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by john70t

The county building safety department is playing rap muzak?
I suppose it's the same thing as that 80db 8-bit scratchy and repeated classical muzak.
(i.e Designed to make the caller livid before the start of the conversation. "Like, we doan care yall")

Our county uses some musak piece that sounds like someone picked up the phone...but it was just a break in the music. so, every 56 seconds or whatever, you get excited, then you get depressed. Over and over again.

[RANDY P]

This is about as close as I get to modern rap. I like this kid