People who hate Hip Hop Music

[Magneto2.0]

Quickly...

Hip-Hop is a sub-genre of the overall Rap genre...

Within Rap you have:
Old school hip-hop
Hip-Hop
Gansta Rap
Freestyle
Trip-hop
Mainstream Rap
etc...

There are many different rhythms and flows of lyrics, many different beats...some jazzy....some bluesy...some rock...some electronic...

Then there is the message that is conveyed in the lyrics...

Hip-Hop tends to be the mouth of the street...how life is. Poetry.
Gansta Rap tends to be more about gang-life, living large, ladies, money...etc.
Trip-hop tends to be more dark, mellow, and slow...almost sensual
Freestyle is flowing freely...on the spot...trying to outdo yourself or your opponent
Mainstream is what is on the radio...mostly a combination of all of the above

Mind you if you don't like it, you don't like it...I like Rock, but I don't care for Southern Rock...it happens.

I just get picky, and my music snob comes out when people get genres mixed up.

It's cool.

Rock on,
TFG

Eh, exactly. Hip Hop is the culture, rap is just an entity in it.

Hip Hop is B-Boying (Break Dancing), Mcing (Rapping), Djing, Graffiti.

Now, Rap has different genre, correct; Gangsta music, Hardcore, East Coast, West Coast, Down South, Conscience, Political, Sexual, Comedy, Shock, Horrocore, etc...

[Socnorb11]

Like I said, if the neighborhood is full of crackheads, I don't want to live there, even if some of the neighbors are really cool.

But, I've got no problem with people who do like hip-hop.

[haltz]

Well, the cool thing about albums is that you can listen to ones that you like. It's not like if I listen to Pearl Jam I get chained to a chair for a subsequent hour of Puddle of Mudd. When you purchase an album or song (or steal it or listen to it on youtube) they come visit you in your neighborhood, and they don't bring their annoying neighbors with them.

[planet planet]

Haltz clarified a little bit, but I'm not getting the crackheads analogy. You're concerned if you expose yourself to hip hop, you might get the bad with the good? Otherwise, it sounds like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

[maddash]

Like I said, if the neighborhood is full of crackheads, I don't want to live there, even if some of the neighbors are really cool.

But, I've got no problem with people who do like hip-hop.

You realize you're writing this analogy on the internet. Again, the INTERNET. You know, the place where... oh, 95% of it is hardcore pornography. Do you see the irony here?



Like haltz said, Music is generally a passive experience. It's not like you pick up a KRS One album and all of a sudden you're inundated by rappers calling people "[expletive]" and whatnot. It's not really like that at all. You pick and choose what you like and, at worst, ignore the rest.

[Socnorb11]

Haltz clarified a little bit, but I'm not getting the crackheads analogy. You're concerned if you expose yourself to hip hop, you might get the bad with the good? Otherwise, it sounds like throwing the baby out with the bath water.

My understanding is that hip-hop is a "branch" of the rap industry. Since the rap industry is producing smut, I'd prefer to not partake in the industry as a whole.

Personally, I think that rap and hip-hop fall into the same category, and it's difficult to differentiate who's producing the trash and who's not. I think most common folks would agree.

[Socnorb11]

Like I said, if the neighborhood is full of crackheads, I don't want to live there, even if some of the neighbors are really cool.

But, I've got no problem with people who do like hip-hop.

You realize you're writing this analogy on the internet. Again, the INTERNET. You know, the place where... oh, 95% of it is hardcore pornography. Do you see the irony here?



Like haltz said, Music is generally a passive experience. It's not like you pick up a KRS One album and all of a sudden you're inundated by rappers calling people "[expletive]" and whatnot. It's not really like that at all. You pick and choose what you like and, at worst, ignore the rest.

Well, the "internet" is like the "music industry". I'm not opposed to the music industry as a whole.

[haltz]

My understanding is that hip-hop is a "branch" of the rap industry. Since the rap industry is producing smut, I'd prefer to not partake in the industry as a whole.

This is backwards. Grandmaster Flash was around long before Westside Connection (which was great in its own right, but probably not your cup o' tea).

[maddash]

Like I said, if the neighborhood is full of crackheads, I don't want to live there, even if some of the neighbors are really cool.

But, I've got no problem with people who do like hip-hop.

You realize you're writing this analogy on the internet. Again, the INTERNET. You know, the place where... oh, 95% of it is hardcore pornography. Do you see the irony here?



Like haltz said, Music is generally a passive experience. It's not like you pick up a KRS One album and all of a sudden you're inundated by rappers calling people "[expletive]" and whatnot. It's not really like that at all. You pick and choose what you like and, at worst, ignore the rest.

Well, the "internet" is like the "music industry". I'm not opposed to the music industry as a whole.

So the "rap industry" has enough in common (even thought that's the furthest thing from the truth) for you to say it all fits under the same umbrella?

Are the Dixie Chicks and Toby Keith kinda all the same thing to you as well?

[Jocephus]

Personally, I think that rap and hip-hop fall into the same category, and it's difficult to differentiate who's producing the trash and who's not. I think most common folks would agree.

is that really true? have you taken the time to listen to what you (might) like and what you dont? is it difficult to differentiate between ...black sabbath and marilyn manson?...a "heavy rock" band vs a "goth rock band"?