Yea thats right. Hip-hop is a scene, not just a form of music. In hip-hop you have "rappers", turntablests, break dancers and graffiti artests. The music normally has a lot more meaning, but there was a lot of battling amongst hip hop rappers, which sometimes got pretty meaningless, but they had fun, and that was the point. It wasn't about money or hoes, it was about giving inner city youngsters a fun alternative to drugs and violence.
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Because every young person who lives in da city becomes a coke sniffing thug part of a gang if they don't rap. That's excactly what I mean the "I rap to stay off the streets dawg" mentality, what's that about? Isn't it about the music? Or is that all there is too it, a simple distraction because your life is SOOO hard otherwise.
So you've established that you're a head, here's something I don't get about a lot of the real heads.
Why does love for Hip-Hop & love for "EDM" (hate that term BTW, lumping all House\Techno\Trance\Breaks\D&B in with the poppy "Electro" remixes of Rihanna\Beyonce and xit is pretty much the same thing as saying ALL Hip-Hop\Rap = Lil Wayne) and love for Hip-Hop have to be mutually exclusive?
The type of person (me) who finds some solace, empowerment, meaning, enjoyment, whatever out of Hip-Hop would probably find something of value out of GOOD House\Techno\Etc. For me, they are the only two types of music that scratch my itch for the realness. Something in my soul craves fat, grimy ass basslines, tribal beats & syncopation, the pulse and energy of raw music. If you can't find that shit that gets in your bones and makes you nod your head in House, you're listening to the wrong House. I'm telling you, the difference between the commercialized BS "EDM" and the real underground shit is as pronounced as the difference between Nicki Minaj & Black Moon. No comparison, one is art that captures a segment of life and one is trite.
I'll bump my Boom Bap AND my Uhn Tis till I die.
I'd buy that t-shirt and wear it every day.Originally Posted by SparkDogg
There is not a credible musician in the world that doesn't appreciate ALL types of music. Who'd have thought Chris Martin (Coldplay) was a Beastie Boys fan?
If you close your mind to any single type/genre of music you are depriving yourself. As a DJ (ANY DJ), that is just unacceptable. Nod your head to some Country, whatever, enjoy music from ALL genres. Your heart n' soul will thank you for it.
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Everything about this post is just a piss off lol, I grew up in the UK where rap isn't as well knowen as other genres but now living in Canada obvs I've listened to a fair bit of it... most of it is complete crap, why do I care if you girl has a big ass, you have gold teeth and have fired some guns lol, now just because alot of it seems like ego rapping, i'm not saying there isn't good rap, Jurrasic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, but to say Djing wouldn't exhist without Hip-Hop\Rap is complete BS, "SOMEONE" needs to do some music history classes, if anything, without DJ's, rap wouldn't be where it is today, look back at any live rap shows on youtube all those who made a name for themself have a Dj to accompany them, Djing came from disco, djing was playing records live any genre, rock, pop, dance, electronica etc. . .
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