EPTWhy does everyone love hip hop/rap now? - Page 2
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nastyyy
United States262 Posts
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:14 pfods wrote: Girls who aren't into death metal aren't worth knowing or associating with. Alone forever? | ||
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imperfect
Canada1652 Posts
On December 10 2010 15:56 Headshot wrote: Computer generated noises? I've got two words for you. The Roots. this man knows. | ||
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Meth
Canada396 Posts
Mainstream music just sucks, and I don't know why the masses fucking enjoy it, I think they just more listen to the beat and when that one, dare I say it, "good" hook goes they love it. Hip Hop should be how it WAS, but it will never stop evolving and I hope it evolves into something better than what it is, or if the underground just floods the streets with their GOSU SONGS. SPEAK SOME TRUTH. FUCK IT IM BUYING SOME CDS AND SENDING EVERYONE A GOD DAMN HOLIDAY HIP HOP RECORD | ||
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
There are still enough metal and rock fans, so all is not lost. | ||
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Tyree
1508 Posts
The reason death metal isent popular and never will be is that people in general want to listen to happy music, or at least music that makes them happy. This is why rapping about actual social concerns (Public Enemy, early Pac etc) is not popular, and its more about bling this, bling that, hot car, hot bitches etc. Thats not to say all death metal is sad, cruel or miserable but to the non death metal fan it looks like music for people with severe depressions. Then you take into the fact that death metal dosent lend itself well if you play it in a club, what kind of reaction would people have? They just need music to dance to, something memorable and uplifting, not something about death, sins and destruction. I saw this (stupid) reality kind of show, where a bunch of stuck up women stand around in a tv studio by this small booth trying to find a date, like 20 of them, and a guy comes out, then they judge the guy on his looks then on his personality when a video package runs about who he is and what he does. This particular guy was decent looking (even as a straight male i can admit) and they showed that he was a electrician in real life, none of the women minded, he liked to play sports, again none of the women minded. Once his presentation video showed he was a drummer in a death metal band, more than half the women hit the "buzzer" meaning they wouldnt date him and only around 6 were left. | ||
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Sisko
United States121 Posts
For every good hip hop song there will be nine awful ones, and that's true of all music. If you don't listen to a lot of it, and be sure to avoid confusing popular with good, you surely won't like your brief encounters with it. | ||
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
I try not to judge music a whole lot, since no one is really qualified to do that no matter who they are. Judging the motives behind the creation of the music is ok with me though. Pop music is basically all motivated by profit, but we all knew that already anyway. That being said, comparing someone like [insertrandomhiphoprapperson] to the Romantic greats just makes me chuckle on the inside. Edit: On December 10 2010 16:19 Sisko wrote: If there is one thing that people take from this thread let it be this.For every good hip hop song there will be nine awful ones, and that's true of all music. If you don't listen to a lot of it, and be sure to avoid confusing popular with good, you surely won't like your brief encounters with it. | ||
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pfods
United States895 Posts
I know more girls into metal then I can count on my hands. | ||
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sawedust
United States506 Posts
With that being said, I don't mind listening to hip-hop/rap or death metal. They all have their uses for me. If there's a need to be pseudo-gangsta then rap it is, if I'm working out at the gym there's nothing better than metal to put me in the mood. It's personal preference. | ||
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sCCrooked
Korea (South)1306 Posts
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MahatmaSC2
United States192 Posts
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Scrapiron
74 Posts
On December 10 2010 15:40 MahatmaSC2 wrote: Where's all the love for metal? I listen to different kinds, from death metal like Cannibal Corpse to thrash metal like Slayer or old Metallica. I also listen to some nu metal bands like KoRn or System of a Down. I love it & the guys that play metal have far more skill than those who just use computer generated noises and talking into a microphone. Why did it grow so much more popular than metal, not to mention every other kind of music? Rap is fucking terrible and they probably have ghost writers as well as people making their beats for them (they are just faces for the music) and metal is the culmination of all that is right in the world. IN FLAMES WE TRUST | ||
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
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OriginalTritone
United States11 Posts
I don't share the OP's love for metal. Although there are some standout songs/artists, I really find it to be kind of a headache as a genre. I'm more a fan of progressive rock, blues, jazz, and even some classical music; but I've spent some time developing a taste for complex music--most people haven't. Sadly, our culture has side-barred some really great music that I'll never even get a chance to hear. And I do think that the commercialization of hip-hop is a sad reflection of our society's susceptibility to mass advertising. Popular music of every genre has been about the same thing since the 40's "take your slice of the American Dream, buy expensive and pointless things, fall into archetypes, judge people, be like me." | ||
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Romance_us
Seychelles1806 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:20 Fontong wrote: Yeah why don't we just listen to classical music instead? Much better imho. I try not to judge music a whole lot, since no one is really qualified to do that no matter who they are. Judging the motives behind the creation of the music is ok with me though. Pop music is basically all motivated by profit, but we all knew that already anyway. That being said, comparing someone like [insertrandomhiphoprapperson] to the Romantic greats just makes me chuckle on the inside. Edit: If there is one thing that people take from this thread let it be this. Agreed completely. To take this slightly further, it angers me to read some of these responses in this thread that allude to this idea that you shouldn't listen to X genre because the average person doesn't like it, or because you will get weird looks in public, or because you won't get girls, etc. Are these serious contentions? Keep in mind that the general population who are responsible for deciding what is "good" or not, are also statistically not very smart or innovative people, and the majority of them only listen to what they do because it's put on the radio for them. | ||
ArvickHero
10387 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:20 Fontong wrote: Yeah why don't we just listen to classical music instead? Much better imho. yes yes this  classical music is the best, sad that its declined from its prominent position D; | ||
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TheGrimace
United States929 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:23 MahatmaSC2 wrote: Some of the people here are confirming what my friend was saying -- he doesn't like metal because you can't sing or dance to it. Is that seriously a reason why people don't like it? You seriously read every response before your post and that's your takeaway from the thread? Your cherry picking to support your conceptions. Why limit yourself? | ||
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MahatmaSC2
United States192 Posts
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Swede
New Zealand853 Posts
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