People who hate Hip Hop Music

[wart57]

Can't I just not like it because I don't like it? I am sure a lot of people think 80's music sucks, to each his own. I don't like it, I have heard enough of it to know I don't like it, and I hear it constantly as cars go by with their music blasting so loud I can feel my dental work rattle. If you like it, good for you.

[Jocephus]

i like hip hop/rap. i would say, in my opinion, that the current era of (mainstream) rap does not compare to the older stuff. dre, snoop, warren g, ice cube,eric b and rakim, busta rhymes...i like those guys a lot (granted i dont have alubms, more just random songs). i like the roots, jurassic 5, a tribe called quest as "newer" rap artists. i think rap can be pretty beautiful...again, to me, the older music talks much more about the artist's situation/life....which i can relate to...it seems like a lot of the current rap (to me) is a lot of "me, me , me" kinda music...about how many cars, how many "[expletive]" they have, etc...

i also think, though, taht many rap songs are made to be dance/club songs...so, as long as the beat is good, tahts really what matters...but back in the day, there was a message that was trying to be made

but, thats just my opinion....

the only music i really "dont like" would be techno...and im talking like ...real techno...the stuff tahts done in european trance clubs...

[Magneto2.0]

I'm not sure what your point is. Either you're making a statement that one particular song is, in fact, "thug music," or you're using this one song to indict an entire genre. If it's the latter, that is ridiculous. Picking one song, out of thousands, proves nothing.

No, the fact is people hear songs like these that rise to the top of the charts and not others that might be considered good hip-hop music. The facts are this is why its called thug music, because this is all most people hear. People have lives, they don't all have time to sit down and dwelve into the intricacies of a genre of music. DJs get requests for songs like these, and this is what gets heard. It doesn't matter what really exists at the end of the foodchain. If you're going to complain about people calling hip-hop music, thug music, then stop making the kingpin talking about jizzing on a girls back. Seriously. You wonder and complain about it, but the reasons why its called thug music are perfectly logical and comprehensible.

It's been quite a while since a rap song that's been that vile in terms of violence or degrading of women has been the top of charts. And no it's not perfectly logical or comprehensible, because you're taking one genre in a artform that has 100s, and pigeonholing it as "thug" music as a whole. Which is insane. Now, are some artists perpetuating violence and sexploitation? Of course, but not every artsts is, and I'd say it's close to half that do not. And I'm not a big proponent of underground hip hop as a lot of people are over mainstream, but they certainly have more freedom to discuss more ranges of topics then commercial accessible artists do, due to the fact of how music is played on the radio and television.

Right now the biggest problem with rap is the mainstream has become infested with no talent hacks (Solja Boys, th Mims and what not), that have no artistic merit in their songs and are just dance crazes for teeny boppers.

[tscards]

funky cold medina!

I really don't get into modern publicized hip-hop - trying to stand out with overboard offsensive lyrics (such as those from an immensly popular current song... er poem posted previously). Those types of lyrics & "attitude" is so not needed. What bothers me the most is the "attitude" - maybe over-generalizing here - but why the mean looks on all faces if you have all of these women & fame?

Again probably over-generalizing here, but standard video = pool or club with scantily-clad women and rappers rapping with such mean looks on their faces. Most of the time looks like they are not having any fun.

I really like a lot of types of music -- however because of these things I do tend to stay away from hip hop rap. Maybe I'll look up some of the ones listed earlier to see if they can change my generalizations some...

[Magneto2.0]

Can't I just not like it because I don't like it? I am sure a lot of people think 80's music sucks, to each his own. I don't like it, I have heard enough of it to know I don't like it, and I hear it constantly as cars go by with their music blasting so loud I can feel my dental work rattle. If you like it, good for you.

Of course. I stated form the very beginning, you don't have to like rap or even respect what the artists do. I'm talking about people who label it as "thug music" or "talentless hacks, making noise" without knowing anything about it. People have a tendency to hate what they don't understand.

[omaha_red]

People have a tendency to hate what they don't understand.

i hate math

[ThatGuy]

[Freed Roger]

ultimately hip hop is targetted towards white crackers and suburban rich teenagers -usually girls. the irony is that it often is derogatory towards those groups.

[Socnorb11]

funky cold medina!

I really don't get into modern publicized hip-hop - trying to stand out with overboard offsensive lyrics (such as those from an immensly popular current song... er poem posted previously). Those types of lyrics & "attitude" is so not needed. What bothers me the most is the "attitude" - maybe over-generalizing here - but why the mean looks on all faces if you have all of these women & fame?

Again probably over-generalizing here, but standard video = pool or club with scantily-clad women and rappers rapping with such mean looks on their faces. Most of the time looks like they are not having any fun.

I really like a lot of types of music -- however because of these things I do tend to stay away from hip hop rap. Maybe I'll look up some of the ones listed earlier to see if they can change my generalizations some...

That's pretty much the way I feel. Enough of it is vulgar to make it all a turn-off for me.

It's like living on a block that's only half full of crack-heads. Yeah, half of the neighbors may be "OK", but it's still a bad neighborhood that I'd rather not live in.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

rap is funny