Why does everyone act like rap is some great holy artistic masterpiece?I was in the car with my coworkers and a 50 cent song came on and it was literally just random black people gibberish and my coworkers were going on about how it’s a really great or important song or something
>>130105159The people are retarded.
>>130105159Rap is washed. It is no longer of any cultural significance. Your co-workers are hilariously out of touch. You should pity them.
>>130105159>Why does everyone act like rap is some great holy artistic masterpiece?normies tend to misinterpret popularity with artistic merit and the media got along with it
It's embarrassing how many people who are "into music" mock the vapidness of mainstream pop and country, think it's a cardinal sin to say the same about rap and convince themselves it's as good as everything else they listen to
I honestly can't name any big rap artist right now. Not even one. Maybe Kendrick Lamar I guess or Drake. Apart from those, I don't know any.
>>130106390>I honestly can't name any big rap artist right now. Not even one. Maybe Kendrick Lamar I guess or Drake.Is "now" 2015?
>>130106421don't they still make music or whatever?Honestly couldn't care less.
>>130106421You're replying to a frogspammer.
>>130105159Not music
>>130106421Kendrick was most popular in 2024
>>130105159I think hip hop can have its own artistic dignity, but I also belive in a hierarchy between music genres, and so far it has always lingered near the bottom, as it has failed to produce anything really significant and aesthetically sublime in the grand scheme of things.the best rap albums are like 7.5/10 max, while the best rock albums can reach 9/10 and the best classical works 10/10.
>>130106316You have only spoken facts, therefore I hope this angel visits you in your dreams, and plays with your hair while you rest your head in her lap.
>>130105159Normies = goycattle
>>130105358Oddly I still hear hiphop in things still. Just because the top 100 says no more hiphop doesn't mean its not popular. And I'm not really into hiphop that much.
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>>130106390It's weird with rap, a song gets old in like 3 weeks. The rapper needs to do crazy shit in real life to get noticed. That is just not sustainable. Authenticity is a big deal. If you aren't representing yourself like you do in your music. The audience will lose the connection they had with you.I think there's also a degree of reclamation. White rappers were killing it for a good 10 years, even combining rap with rock. And making some stellar hits. But somewhere along the line Black people put their foot down on white people being involved in hiphop. They started to make their music subject matter very divisive in content. Through language and lifestyle. Most white people did not live in the projects, and they certainly didn't grow up around saying the n word. And thats going to be challenging to use the n word when you aren't from that world. So your life experience doesn't meet the baseline for the audience you need to impress. You would need to be completely insane to keep up with that high standard. There could be a talented white or Asian performer who did manage to get respect. But they run into a gatekeeper like Charlemagne. If you can't impress that guy he will wreck your rap career.Also perhaps the artistry within the music just got lost. Many rappers just have a few decent ideas in them. They aren't classically trained at much of anything. They are just after money and fame. So the music just falls apart after a few years. Leaving most of the work to be handled by production. And how much are they investing into some irresponsible retard not taking his music seriously? And a lot of the songs get very same-y. Very little experimentation or expansion of ideas. Tl;dr. The performers are retards and the audience demands way too much of the genre. There might be a decent run every so often. But it looks like we are moving away from rap and hiphop for a couple seasons.
>>130105159>boomer rock fags circle-jerk: the thread
>>130115531>Cope the post
>>130115531Us EDM chads also hate cRAP because it is bad and not music.
>>130115531sounds great
>>130105159Rap is inherently not good music. I'd rather read poetry if I wanted linguistically showy rants as the primary focus. Also of course the fact it's originated and mired in ghetto black culture and ebonics. Just a trashy genre.
>>130105159Because black people worship in western cultures.
>>130117441Yes but it's getting better people are tired of rap now We will still have gen xers who circle jerk muh old school hiphop though
>>130105159it was cool but falling out of fashion now
>>130105159Rap from a purely production value perspective is pretty cool, some of the most creative sampling I've ever heard were on hiphop projects.
>look up a rapper's album credits>200 producers and writers
>>130105358Rap has never been music more like
>>130115531i like classical, techno, rock, funk, jazz and moreand i hate rap because it's not music I can only tolerate it in nu-metal sections like linkinpark because at least that music takes you on journey which has both types of lyrics: singing and rapping and lets be real Chester singing carried hard there. The rap is just a cherry on top of all the icecream.
