Poll Hip Hop Music

[fsci123]

After a basic arguement with my friend i decided to make this post...

DO you like hip hop music...

 

[Kveldulf]

No.

Simple question, simple answer

 

[ky]

I love Americn Hip hop.I listen to lil wayne and artist like that

 

[Izack]

No. It simply isn't to my taste.

Like any type of music I don't dislike it enough to argue about it, it's just not in any of my libraries.

 

[jedimaster1214]

No, i have a dis-taste of that entire genre. I mostly stick to classic rock (Beatles, Doors, the Who, Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Boston, the Eagles, etc....)


BUT.

Some songs are catchy and funny:

And:

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[PhantomCruiser]

I like what hip-hop used to be (really old school stuff).
Sugarhill Gang's "White Lines" is a classic. Clean (and often funny) lyrics. And I credit Run-DMC for getting Aerosmith back into the spotlight.

 

[halcyon]

Does Beastie Boys count?

Half the hip hop on the radio sounds like a 3rd grader made up the simplistic beat/single notes on a xylophone and some rapper started shouting into a mic.

Music? More like noise.

 

[Ross]

Yes I would definitely say Beastie Boys counts as hip hop.

I don't really like hip-hop that much any more...I used to when I was in high school, before that it was punk rock. But I never liked the stuff they played on the radio, I listened to more underground stuff.

I have since expanded my musical library substantially.

 

[jedidia]

I happen over something I like every now and then, but it's rare. I still consider it a legitimate art-form, though.

 

[Urwumpe]

I like some, but most are pretty poor in my eyes...my heart belongs to Heavy Metal anyway.

A pretty good musical parody of German Hip-Hop groups:

(Sadly the only really good song of this one)

In contrast, something more serious:

Though in my personal taste, nothing beats the non-hip-hop of Fettes Brot:

 

[Belisarius]

Old-skool only - with very few exceptions, the scene in the 1990s and beyond became lazy and uncreative.

Gangsta violence and negativism destroyed the essentially fun nature of the music, and commercialism killed the creativity. In this way, though PE and NWA are great artists in themselves, they had a terrible influence in the music that followed.

Exceptions today include Missy Elliot and a fantastic young performer called Dazzle who puts out trax on YouTube, and is an absolute sweetie besides being highly talented and very beautiful - though not beautiful in the approved commercial-MTV music way like Beyoncé, she's darker and more voluptuous so she has little hope of fronting her own music on videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/wvawwtopline

My absolute Old-Skool faves are Erik B and Rakim - Follow the Leader and Microphone Fiend are legendary tracks from the late 80s. I play Microphone Fiend about 5 times a day and never get tired of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY90c4ehYzw

Then there's Afrika Bambaata, Man Parrish and Mantronix. Old-skool hiphop mixed with electro sounds influenced by Kraftwek and Jean-Michel Jarre.

Also a monster Old-Skool guy called Just-Ice and his tremendous track "Cold Gettin Dumb" from the early 80s. I loved it so much I made an extended mix with a 1940s kung-fu compilation video. It's a long video and not many people like it, but I get a kick from it still.

And for real heavy-heaviness, there's Original Concept "Knowledge Me"

YouTube - Original Concept_Knowledge Me

Back in 1984 in the Oakland Flats I heard a pimp-mobile blasting this at a thousand decibels and it was the heaviest sound I've ever heard in my life. Blew my mind.

You may hear a lot of people saying "I was into old-skool hip-hop in the 1980s" and suspect it's a lie, but in my case I can assure you it's true. Still love it after all these years, along with punk, techno, reggae and dub from the same era.

Creates the ridiculous spectacle of a middle-aged overweight white guy with hippie hair doing kung-fu and tai-chi routines to this kind of old-skool hippity-hopness. Sad. But I'm happy, so who cares.

Word-Up Bro!:thumbup:

 

[Keatah]

Hip hop 'music', to me, is a bunch of disjointed and scrambled noise.

 

[Belisarius]

That's because you only know the present-day stuff. Try "Microphone Fiend", link above. Rage Against the Machine and other rock groups cover it, because it's the best hip-hop track ever ever.

Typical comments on the YouTube page of this track say things like "I am a metalhead but i dig this! Believe it or not!". Lots of people who don't like hip-hop come to love this one.

 

[Blacklight]

I find hip hop, especially the stuff up on the "charts" horrifying. I'm an electronic musician with a LOT of experience with synths, drum machines, and samplers. I can honestly say that recording a hip hop tune like the ones that are up on the charts would take me only about 10 minutes total. From a musician's point of view, the tunes are slapped together very quickly and pushed out the door with a minimum of effort and it really shows.
The music I record here usually has upwards of 20-35 audio tracks. Your typical hip hop song usually has about 4 or 5 if you're lucky.
Hip hop lately has also been guilty of SHAMELESSLY ripping off old songs. Especially now. As it stands, for the past several years, chart topping hip hop tunes have blatantly used the choruses to ALREADY HIT songs as part of their songs to make them hits. These songs usually have completely forgettable lyrics except for the part of the song they pull out of the old hit song. So it goes. You want your song to be a hit ? Just rip the chorus out of an old song that's already a hit and your song will be a hit !!! Nothing ticks me off more than hearing the chorus to some great 80's tune where as soon as the chorus ends, someone bursts in rapping. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Oh. And don't get me started on Antares Autotune. You can't listen to a hip hop radio station without hearing that thing being used in EVERY SONG !!!

 

[Urwumpe]

Hip hop lately has also been guilty of SHAMELESSLY ripping off old songs.

Is that ripping off old songs? They just got the old music directly from the source...

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Oh. And don't get me started on Antares Autotune. You can't listen to a hip hop radio station without hearing that thing being used in EVERY SONG !!!

The worst autotune accidents have not been in Hip Hop... Justin Bieber for example - which is as far away from Hip Hop as Mercury from Pluto.

 

[jedidia]

Hip hop lately has also been guilty of SHAMELESSLY ripping off old songs.

Then again, who isn't?

 

[Ghostrider]

Ain't no more than seven notes on da ol'pentagram, dude.

 

[Xyon]

No. If you ever listened to any of the radio shows I broadcast you'd know my type of music - Rock, rock and more rock. I tend to qualify that by pointing out a lot of bands who class themselves as rock bands because they wore a hairband and some tatty jeans and played a love song with a ripped-off bass riff - they are not. .

Primarily I'll take ACDC and Rammstein at the moment, with sides of Nickelback now and again. Seems to be all I listen to.

 

[Scruce]

No, i do not like any sort of Hip Hop. But just on the side, what would the "foreign" poll option include?

 

[Urwumpe]

No, i do not like any sort of Hip Hop. But just on the side, what would the "foreign" poll option include?

Canadian Jewish-orthodox Hip Hop?