I'm in college now. College means you get exposed to new things and new ways of thinking. That's already happened; some people here have interesting music tastes. While I prefer anything that clearly has effort and love put into it (more strictly anything in the spectrum from rock to jazz), my roommate is literally part Jamaican and listens to old R&B (Boyz II Men and all those 90s singers) and I imagine has heard Bob Marley more than once. That being said, there are some things that are popular on campus which I have immediately come to hate.
Which brings me to the point of this random rant. forget rap. Seriously.
I have never heard a rap song that I liked. Ever. The only "talented" rappers are those that can do it very fast, and even then that doesn't qualify them as musicians. Everyone bitches about how similar and repetitive modern pop songs are, yet they'll listen to loving rap songs that repeat the same god damn hook for the entire five or ten minutes without saying jack stuff. All these rappers have their richards out for themselves, bitches and hoes and forgettons of money, and the only reason I repeated what everyone else has said is because these loving rappers repeat everything that they say. Over and over. Point me to a song where these topics are NEVER brought up once. I challenge you.
And to add salt to the wound, the backing tracks to these songs are either complete stuff or strung so far out that they are run into the ground and they become loving annoying. I wouldn't have such a big problem with these rappers earning tons of meritocratic profits if the backing tracks were decent, but it's like these loving morons don't even know what chord changes ARE, much less how to use them. They don't even change ANYTHING about the backing track except for the beat, and it's in the most handicapped, predictable loving way possible. I swear, being a musical composition student it especially pisses me off because you have much more thought out stuff out there yet THESE roostersuckers are the "voices of our generation".
I don't know anyone who hardcore listens to rap who isn't a frat boy, sorority girl or thug. Otherwise, it's completely ironic enjoyment. Speaking of thugs, guess what another topic in these songs is? Guess what's contributing to the decline of the black community? Woo-hoo! Time for a forgetIN' break-down... of the societal structure! forget the police, amirite?
And let me be clear, here. There are songs with rap in them that I absolutely love. Look to Gorillaz for songs with good musical choices and rap lyrics that don't touch on the same stuff over and over again. Gorillaz got me to like Snoop Dogg (granted I think everyone likes him at this point) because of his part in the intro to Plastic Beach. But these songs AREN'T rap songs. They're songs with rap in them. There is a huge loving difference. Snoop Dogg and all the other rappers Gorillaz employs contributes RHYTHMICALLY to the song. Typical rap song will have the loving dumbass rapper go off on multiple tangents (but not really) without paying real close attention to what's playing behind them. Praise Damon Albarn and the Gorillaz for not following the crowd.
I think the rap fans are planning on killing me at this point so I don't really need to say anything more at this point. forget rap music. Stop making dumbasses famous for the wrong reasons. It's not music, it's poetry. And forgetin' stuff poetry, at that.
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