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I like Kanye, been meaning to listen other artists like Kendrick. What's this place's thoughts on hip-hop?

In a nutshell, not for me. I prefer my rock music

I absolutely hate rap / hip hop music and in my personal opinion the whole world will be much better place as soon we get rid of all that crap. Everytime I am in gym and people put rap music into background, it makes me want to throw the stereos out from the window as that is no proper training music.

80`s melodic rock is more into my tastes and I prefer real music with good vocals where people are actually singing lyrics that actually mean something.

Nope, nobody has ever rapped about anything meaningful. Not even once.

ianj wrote: Nope, nobody has ever rapped about anything meaningful. Not even once.

Exactly.

i'm not exactly a hiphop fan either but each to his own of course. anyhow i don't mind it if mixed with nice soul parts

commodorejohn wrote:

ianj wrote: Nope, nobody has ever rapped about anything meaningful. Not even once.

Exactly.

Oh, you thought I actually meant it, and that it's true. I'm not sure whether that is hilarious or terrifying.

No, I knew you were being sarcastic. The question is, was I ?

commodorejohn wrote:

ianj wrote: Nope, nobody has ever rapped about anything meaningful. Not even once.

Exactly.

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable,
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,
Pounded on the table,
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom,
Hard as they were able,
Boom, boom, BOOM,
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
THEN I had religion, THEN I had a vision.
I could not turn from their revel in derision.

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK.

Then along that riverbank
A thousand miles
Tattooed cannibals danced in files;
Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song
And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong.
And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors,
"BLOOD" screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctors,
"Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle,
Harry the uplands,
Steal all the cattle,
Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle,
Bing.
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"

A roaring, epic, rag-time tune
From the mouth of the Congo
To the Mountains of the Moon.
Death is an Elephant,
Torch-eyed and horrible,
Foam-flanked and terrible.
BOOM, steal the pygmies,
BOOM, kill the Arabs,
BOOM, kill the white men,
HOO, HOO, HOO.

Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.
Listen to the creepy proclamation,
Blown through the lairs of the forest-nation,
Blown past the white-ants' hill of clay,
Blown past the marsh where the butterflies play:--
"Be careful what you do,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other
Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call
Danced the juba in their gambling-hall
And laughed fit to kill, and shook the town,
And guyed the policemen and laughed them down
With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK.

A negro fairyland swung into view,
A minstrel river
Where dreams come true.
The ebony palace soared on high
Through the blossoming trees to the evening sky.
The inlaid porches and casements shone
With gold and ivory and elephant-bone.
And the black crowd laughed till their sides were sore
At the baboon butler in the agate door,
And the well-known tunes of the parrot band
That trilled on the bushes of that magic land.

A troupe of skull-faced witch-men came
Through the agate doorway in suits of flame,
Yea, long-tailed coats with a gold-leaf crust
And hats that were covered with diamond-dust.
And the crowd in the court gave a whoop and a call
And danced the juba from wall to wall.

But the witch-men suddenly stilled the throng
With a stern cold glare, and a stern old song:--
"Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."...

Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes,
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats,
Canes with a brilliant lacquer shine,
And tall silk hats that were red as wine.

And they pranced with their butterfly partners there,
Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair,
Knee-skirts trimmed with the jassamine sweet,
And bells on their ankles and little black feet.
And the couples railed at the chant and the frown
Of the witch-men lean, and laughed them down.
(O rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile.)

The cake-walk royalty then began
To walk for a cake that was tall as a man
To the tune of "Boomlay, boomlay, BOOM,"

While the witch-men laughed, with a sinister air,
And sang with the scalawags prancing there:--
"Walk with care, walk with care,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, God of the Congo,
And all of the other
Gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you.
Beware, beware, walk with care,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom.
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom,
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay,
BOOM."

Oh rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile.

hamei, you crack me up, man!

favourite rap? since no-one but my main man hamei here's offered up anything, lemme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRC8c8SFNk (Faroe Islands)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8lJdKoyKH8 (Iran)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yih_bMc5B7o (USA)

Not a huge fan, but I like the electronic instruments sometimes used. I couldn't tell you something I like, but since I live in the Seattle area I have to lend some support to Sir Mix-A-Lot he was popular during my middle and high school year, he's a local guy and a pretty good all around guy.

And there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYOU8jyTAtI

Grandmaster Flash - The Message

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY

Afrika Bambaataa - Looking For The Perfect Beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJlYzBhLg4

Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDUEilS5M4

i'm a technohead, so no hippiphop allowed!

btw...found a pic of japanese gangsta/hiphop gang *looool*

Does Gangsta count? I'm more into rock/alt music, but enjoy some Dr.Dre from time to time. The lyrics are so outrageous it's just funny