So you want to know why I think rap is crap?!


Question: The question has been raised, and this was my response to someone else:

So you want to know what I HATE about rap? From what I've seen, many of them seem to be filled with hate. To me, that's totally unacceptable in this world filled with enough hate as it is. Many of them seem to glorify violence, revenge, drugs, sex - shall I go on? Many of them also seem to put down woman, or make it seem like they're only good for one thing. Notice I did not say ALL OF THEM, so don't jump on me for that. And if they'd also speak anything even remotely resembling proper English! It really concerns me that the little kids of today may grow up thinking that these lyrics tell it like it REALLY is! If I thought that rap music had any redeeming features I wouldn't feel the way I do about it. It's the only kind of music out there with such explicitly violent and sexual lyrics. Name one other type of music like that. Do we really need stuff like that? Aren't there better choices available? The rap "artists" have a responsibility to put out more responsible music, and you, the buying/listening public need to let them know that they certainly can do better. Got small children? Fill their ears with better stuff than rap.


Answers: The question has been raised, and this was my response to someone else:

So you want to know what I HATE about rap? From what I've seen, many of them seem to be filled with hate. To me, that's totally unacceptable in this world filled with enough hate as it is. Many of them seem to glorify violence, revenge, drugs, sex - shall I go on? Many of them also seem to put down woman, or make it seem like they're only good for one thing. Notice I did not say ALL OF THEM, so don't jump on me for that. And if they'd also speak anything even remotely resembling proper English! It really concerns me that the little kids of today may grow up thinking that these lyrics tell it like it REALLY is! If I thought that rap music had any redeeming features I wouldn't feel the way I do about it. It's the only kind of music out there with such explicitly violent and sexual lyrics. Name one other type of music like that. Do we really need stuff like that? Aren't there better choices available? The rap "artists" have a responsibility to put out more responsible music, and you, the buying/listening public need to let them know that they certainly can do better. Got small children? Fill their ears with better stuff than rap.
I agree with you, rap is all about money, women, and bling.
Another major characteristic of rap, is the stupid lyrics that a bunch of people try to sing over. I think that rap is pushing the limit on the laws of sampling music from artists that the public never heard in their life and getting 100% credit over their new song.

All the kids these days listen to it and all want to join gangs or be a badass. It is a bad influence on the young minds. Rap is crap and just about people wearing oversized clothes that look like dresses and saying bad words. It derogatates women and the lyrics about women are almost if not always about sex. One popular rapper called Big Pun has been beating his wife for years and she feared for her life so she couldnt get a divorce. It wasnt until he died that she could tell the story.

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i didnt read it F U
Thanks 4 showing your thoughts. Finally someeone who hates rap backs there answer up. I respect that. But not all rap is sex, drugs, hate, & violence. That stuf they play on TV & the radio play that. Not only does music do that but TV shows, movies, magazines, & other entertainment stuff promotes sex, drugs, & hate, & violence
I'm sorry but on the wrong side of town thats how it really is. Their are bitches and hoes, there are drug dealers, there are bloods fighting with crips. 99.9% of stuff said in rap songs happen, in the "ghetto"
why should we care?
we know everyone doesnt like rap (or hip hop), but the issue is, if you hate rap so much why do u even come to this section? i dont like rock, so i never go into that section, i wont waste my time hating when my opinion means nothin to the fans, or anything at all for that matter..the sun wont stop risin cuz of one person's thought
Youre an idiot. You acknowledge that not all rappers are these terrible influences and then you turn around and proceed to make blanket staements about rap music. Please return with a coherent and sensical argument or not at all.
You just have to listen to the right rap, like old school and underground. A lot of mainstream stuff is crap.
don't get mad, they only being real.
Cosign what ant said.. i read the 1st 2 lines and got tired of reading...

Glorifying drugs, violence, revenge, and sex?

Oh wow.. apparently uve never heard any rock songs..talking about Suicide, sex orgy, doing cocaine, and destroying things..

Rock is just as bad

"99.9% of us dont live in the ghetto"
are u retarded? there are more places to live than the ghetto and the suburbs..
Clearly u are a white trailor trash girl.. so why dont u go back there?
not all rap is hateful or filled with violence, sex, drugs, etc. Rap is a style. There are many songs and artists that send out different messages in their music. You said you were not referring to ALL rap songs but your whole message is saying you hate rap period. There are other genres of music that talk about sex and drugs and violence. Just because there are songs out there that you choose not to want 2 hear, no one is forcing you to listen to them. Noone is forcing this into the ears of little kids...thats what parent discretion is for. It is not the artists job but the parents job to screen what their kids listen too. Many people listen to rap who are against the whole violence, sex, drug messages....and there are many songs and artists out there that do not harp on those issues in their messages.
Okay for the future can you please stay out of a rap and hip hop section and comment this post in some other genre. Do you really think most of this section is going to agree with you? Your just going to get nasty comments, this is a section for people that like rap and hip hop. Now every single genre has some sex,drugs etc. in it, why don't you go about them not just rap.
Now, the lyrics, if you don't like it don't listen to it, i dont like to listen to the songs about sex and drugs so i dont listen to it.
Now about the children listening to it, I am pretty sure that when the artist make the music they don't indent on young kids listing to it, the album's and singles with some swearing and adults themes say so on the cover and children can't buy then unless the parents are buying them or someone gave it to them etc.
And might I add they can't go to the concerts either and they shouldn't be watching the TV shows with the songs on it,
it's not the artist fault there music is being listened to by kids
And as for the radio, yea i guess they shouldn't play the music while kids may be listening, they should do it when there at school or late at night, but yea the prob is there is sooo many children right know staying up past 12 so the peopel who really wanna listen to it can't coz the little kids want to be adults and wanna grow up so fast. So the people who feel the music not just coz they wanna be cool with all the other 7 graders! lol can't really listen to it.
And most kids don't under the meaning of the song unless the see the vid and get ideas from that but there parents should be watching to see what there kids are watching in the first place.


AND IF YOUR NOT GOING TO READ THAT^^ AT LEAST READ THIS--- How dare you say the stuff that happens to people that live in the ghetto doesn't matter to any one else!
any one feeling me? then i guess we shouldn't care about the poor people arifica straving beacuse it doesn't effect us!
Please think before you type hunni coz its im sure it has really has offened some people.
Not All Rappers Portray That image Your Talking About

Let Me Start of By Saying U Have No Right To Judge A Genre Of Music You have No Knowledge On The Rappers That Have Talk about y violence, revenge, drugs, sex Is Just ENTERTAINMENT !!! the lyrics have nothing to do with how he's living or actually thinks. IT'S ENTERTAINMENT!! Just like that violent DeNiro movie y'all probably watch every weekend. Anyone that can't see that is either an idiot to the highest degree or Just attention-starved

for those of you that use Main-Stream Pop-Rap to push your ignorant bullshit conclusions about a genre of music you don't know a goddamn thing about, y'all are the biggest attention-starved Ann Coulter wannabe pieces of sh*t on this whole website. Y'all ain't Bill O'Reilly. No one wants to hear your cliche genre defamations or your sh*t talking. If that's what you gotta do to be a rock fan, I'd rather be a fan of any other music known to man. For theAnswers that are mostly likely gonna follow mine saying something stupid like "rap is crap", the User just proved his/her lack of working brain cells, relevance, or consideration for anyone else on Yahoo Answers It's not rocket science. If you despise a certain artist or genre, don't waste your time listening to it, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Rap isn't about gangsters, women, drugs, cursing, and sex. Besides, Rock has all the words you mentioned as well. Rock is the worst genre out there in my opinion but you know what, statistics proven that Rock listeners are more likely to cause a felony. I can say the same about Rock. "Rock is nothing more than worthless genre that influences people to go crazy and mark their faces in makeup and the Rock artists has no talent". I respect your love for Rock, but you gone to far messing with the Rap Answers! Community.


And What If I Said

most Rock is mostly about screaming, saying hate lyrics, death and destruction but what can we do. I don't like Rock, but everyone knows that modern day Rock is trash, real Rock came around the 1950 through 1985. Any song that came later are just stupid. Nowadays it's hard to listen to Inspirational Rock, the main Rock songs that are good today are Burning heart and Eye of the Tiger. Today's Rock bands are dumb, but people have different tastes in music. Rap to me is the best music out there, but like I said people have different tastes in music.it has turned into nothing but SCREAMING AND SUICIDE NOTES. why would anybody besides the most depressed, malnourished, social scum, would listen to it?

honestly all rock is about is SCREAMING AND YELLING, AND SUICIDE, AND DEPRESSION... no wonder so many kids commit suicide.....


ROCK is Nothing But death& destruction and HEADACHES.......

so why do people listen to it
I'm sorry you feel that way. I was brought up to be open minded - and I really enjoy listening to all kinds of different music, including rap - and I have done from a very young age. It hasn't had any bad effects on my life whatsoever. If you don't like listening to it - then don't - just change the channel. It really is that simple. :-)
The average heavy metal songs glorify the devil so what's the difference. You are open to your own opinion but don't get mad when hip hop music reflects what the world dares to even talk about. Ex. farienheit 911, and sicko, these movies barely made it in the public eye because it exposed the truth of what's really going on.
Okay lets take this piece by piece since you wrote a lot.

On the very first line you say from what you've seen. Well judging on what you say you haven't seen much. Rap is not filled with hate. Rap is filled with realistic views on the world. The world is filled with hate, and rap just mirrors that. Violence, revenge, drugs, sex are all in the world today. Why shouldn't they be in our music. And I wouldn't say that rap glorifies these themes. Good rap doesn't. And commercial rap is only putting out what 99.9% of the world understands. I highly doubt that even you can't relate to at least one of those themes, in at least one time of your life. Men have been putting down woman since the dawn of time. Nothing new under the sun. Don't act surprised, because face it, most men still think their selves superior to women. And I've even known men (rap fans and not) that still think that women only exist to please them in everyway possible. As far as speaking proper English, this country has many slang terms that aren't proper that find themselves into the dictionary. "Yea", "Uh huh". Cause I know you've used these words before. Everyone has. Would you consider that proper English? And anyway, most intelligent rappers, do use proper words. And have you ever thought that rap can have positive message. Messages like, No matter what anyone thinks or says you can still do anything and everything you want to do, you can be whatever you want to be, and that unborn children are people to, killing them is wrong. I don't know about you, but if I had children this is exactly what I would want them to hear. And the only type of music with explicit themes? I don't think so. Rock music, Heavy Metal. Not exactly clean music. And all music is free expression. So do we need people to express themselves. Um... yea. And there aren't better choices there's just different choices. Rap artist have no responsibility to make the world a better place. Because face it the worlds not a good place. You can try and keep children as innocent, and ignorant as long as you like. But eventually there going to get out in the real world and their going to see themes from different music, movies, television, and books, being used in life. You can't shield them from the world forever.

And as far as 99.9% of people not living in the ghetto. My are you mistaken. I would say that about 90% of the world does live in extreme poverty. So what the other guy said was extremely realistic.
Well thanks for spreading ignorance.......
Now get the f*ck out of this section......
Call me rude if you please
um...what aim jeezy said, Why should we care about your opinion? If you dislike rap so much, don't listen to it, plain and simple
AS LONG AS THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO LIKES:


DANCING INTO HIP HOP SONG,

DANCING IN HIP HOP CLUBS,

DOING THEIR BRAKE DANCES

AND DOING THEIR BEAT BOXING.


<<<<<<<HIP HOP IS STILL ALIVE>>>>>>>>
I agree. If you watch a rap video, you see the same things. Money, cars, girls dancing in the background, bling, bad words, etc.
I couldn't agree more.

There are only a few rap bands that I like and they're not even "rap" the vocals are rap, but it's mixed with something like rock, or electronica, so on.

Twiztid, Insane Clown Posse, Zebrahead, Chronic Future..so on down the line, those are the ones I like, although Twiztid and ICP have a bit of anger in their music, I believe it's fun to listen to because they usually sing or "rap" about the bad people in life.

I personally hate rap because as you stated, they talk about women like we're "pleasure toys", if you will.

All they talk about, is dope, cars, big behinds, chains and stuff on their teeth that makes them look like a black hick.

Note: I listen to Rock, Metal, Goth (not the poser crapola) and a few other genre's, whenever I hear that cruddy style of rap, I mute it, I refuse to listen to that disgraceful so called "music".
I agree 100% with you. Rap is crap, it doesn't even deserve to be called music. It doesn't take any talent. Are they on stage playing a guitar? SINGING? I didn't think so. Atleast rock artists PLAY their own music and they sing.

Another reason is that, like you said, most every rap song is filled with sexual lyrics. Rock songs tell a story, I admit, there's a few rock songs with sexual lyrics, but that's about what, 10%, if that? And the videos... all these whores in scimpy clothing or bathing suits prancing about, how degrading.

Rock ftw.


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