what is the reality of rap?
449724
Rap should have a capital letter "C" at the beginning.\n\nIn it's origination, it was awesome - a vivid expression of street-life & gang-life. The voice of poverty & oppression.\n\nNow it's all corporate trash. 50 cent was "invented" by a clever producer and a good PR team. There is too much glorification of guns 'n' drugs 'n' hos......what alot of BS !
721495
well did you no that rap is a form of poetry
1045755
well lets see ... Rap is better known as C.rap cause all you get with rap is 5 guys who think they can sing or dance (neither is going right) \n40 cars that can bounce up and down (i can make that happen in my back seat) and 100 mostly naked women. gee if you have to watcha  lousy video to see that, then you have no life. \n\nRock:\n\n1. Beautifull Day (U2)\n2. Promises (Def Leopard)\n3-10: any rock group thats still alive today. I saw Quiet Riot, ACDC, KISS all in las Vegas in 2000. Most of those lost their spot light 20 years ago. But they still sound good. \n\nR&B\n1. Boyz II Men of the early 90's\n2. Will Smith (still doing ok)\n\nand thats about it. eveyrthing else aint music. I have my radio set to 2 radio stations in town. When i go out of town i might listen to some country if there are no radio stations around. My cd player doesnt work right now so i have to resort either to tapes or radio. \n\nBoth stations play rock: light to heavy Metal. The only other station i ever listen to sometimes (sometimes) plays R&B. \n\nMovies have gotten ruined by Rap. We need to bring back movies that arent all about rap. Thats all you hear in the credits. It aint music.\n\nBritney Spears, Jessica Simpson, NSync (better known as Nstink), Back Street faggots, all those people think that dancing is more important that music. All you hear is words. \n\nBack when i was growing up, it was the music. If you knew half the words to a song then you either had amazing hearing or no life. I think the first song i ever learned all the words to, and even it had music to it, was Ice Ice Baby.
610939
I dont know what backpack rap is but i think he is a good rapper. He doesnt rap about the same corny thing that others are, money, jewelry, cars. He rhymes about real life and things that we are thinking about but do not say. He is more os a lyricist than a rapper to tell you the truth. He thinks about his lyrics and its impact rather than saying what he thinks we wanna hear.
657256
Many rap acts push the envelope of sexuality, drugs, murders, and gang life.  But rap isn't doing anything that hasn't been done before.  Metal music tends to celebrate many of these themes.  The difference is that music in the past usually pushed the envelope using some time of clever lyrics or symbolism.  Today the rap lyrics just come right out and say it.  The biggest difference between rap and the other genres that have the same celebration of unrealistic decadent lifestyles is the quality of the musicianship.  Do any rap musicians even know how to read music or play an instrument?  The real crime here is that the hip hop generation is growing up listening to crappy music.  There are quality musicians all over the world not being heard because of the popularity of this music that's all about the lifestyle and not about the musicianship.
543467
I think the majority of modern rappers are a bad influence. they rap about mostly sex, drugs and violence. and society scratches their heads as to why teens are attracted to all of that.
1115104
Rap in general. All they "rap" about is sex, drugs, cars, gangs, and fights. None of them actually write songs with meanings, just things little tween kids want to be or do when they grow up. Music is important and special and shouldn't be treated like shit to telling people how to smack their bitch up or something stupid like that.
965310
"if hip-hop should die before i wake, i'll put an extended clip inside of my AK/ \nRoll to every station murder the DJ, Roll to every station murder the DJ." \n-Nas "Hip Hop is Dead" \n\nhttp://www.nobodysmiling.com/hiphop/promotional_audio/86873.php               Go here\n\n\nYou awnswerd my question and thanks again
938111
all of rap isn't violent or stupid.  There are other rappers that are great Will Smith and many others.  Rock also has very violent lyrics.  If you listen to more Rap then you will see that it's not so bad.
526614
Well originally rapping over old music was a form of street showmanship. It's an integral part of hip/hop for the mc to brag about himself, because ordinarily he/she would be competing in front of people with another mc.  When gangsta rap became popular they took that same formula and started pretending that they actually have some criminal persona.  It is all for show, and really ruins a lot of otherwise good music. Current rap music is all smoothed out and over proccessed into this homogenized featureless sound product, which is why the radio all sounds the same. Go check out a real hip/hop show in your area, like an mc competition, and you might get a chance to hear some real hip hop.
574833
Lyrics to a rap song?
1032429
Music these days isn't about talent... It's all about image.\n\n50-Cent can't rap, but he was shot 9 times and survived = platinum recording artist.\n\nMaking the Band people have talent, but their image is sullied by a reality show, bringing out their flaws = failures in the industry.
804609
If it was in playboy, it had to be true\nI think it's rap music\n\nGod bless you
349484
eminem cus he got some reality in his songs
928713
Nothing. It's a way of reaching souls for Christ.  Rap is a culture. Some people who listen to it in the world think they have to leave everything in their culture behind when they come to Christ. And some people aren't going to come to Christ by people singing Amazing Grace no matter how sweet it sounds. I know not all Christian rappers rap about God and I don't listen to them. I listen to the ones that use their talent to glorify God. There are a lot of Christian rappers who do represent Christ. Ex: Lecrae, Trip Lee, Tedashii, the Ambassador and the Cross Movement. I am a born again Christian and I listen to it. That doesn't mean I don't like worship or slow music. I have a lot of friends who like rap and that's my way of witnessing to them. That my opinion.                                                                                                                                                 \n Rep 4 Christ and God bless
711282
It seems that a lot of people here are a little confused.  Here's the straight answer...\n\n"Hip hop music" and "rap music" mean virtually the same thing. However, some people associate the term "rap" with the more mainstream variety of the genre (which nowadays often includes R&B or pop elements) and reserve the term "hip hop" for the variety of the genre that stays closer to the roots of hip hop music (i.e. - speaking on social and/or political issues, storytelling, bragging about one's lyrical skills while roasting another MC, etc.).\n\nBut to be really specific, hip hop itself is a culture. Rap music or hip hop music (specifically, MCing) is just one element of that culture. The other elements of the culture are graffiti, breakdancing (aka - breakin'), DJing and a more recently added element, beatboxing.
717324
The rap and hip-hop music is apart of their culture. Those things such as *pimping/huslting have really happened to these people. They have  SEEN the violence and HEARD the PROFANITY. If rockers can say what is on their mind in their music than so can BLACK PEOPLE. And we have the right of freedom of speech. YOU CANT destroy black culture. AND BLACK PEOLE arent the only rappers. PAUL WALL>>>>EMINEM. They are rappers becuz they have seen the 1)sex, 2)drugs, 3)violence, 5)Profanity[too much] 4)Hustling/pimping, 5)Acting "tough" and all that crap. THEY KNOW THE REAL WORLD. PEople singing about stuff that isnt real is why people chose hip-hop and rap music!