How many members here listen to rap?

[Cody]

I listen to new rap and have serious bass in my trunk

[LoSTBoY]

I'm open minded about all music. With rap, I'm liking Kanye West right now. Snoop does do good albums. Tupac is always a favorite. Tu Pac is/was a HACK!!! He was, what we doctors call a "Glamour Thug" - NOT really a thug, but, his PR men said he was. A lot of these "Gansta Rappers" never saw a gang.....never threw a punch (unless they were punching themselves for being so talentless) AND,.....if you believe some of these "gangsta Rappers" and the horrible "street stories" they tell,.....welll.....trust me, they (80%) never lived the streets. I'm from Memphis and KNOW personally a member of Three Six Mafia.......that boy was spoon fed by his house-wife momma while daddy brought in $150,000 a year. Hmm, so him getting shot, losing a testicle, and turning up to court the next day in a wheelchair was all commercial.

[coma]

I love Hip Hop, I ain't ashamed to say it either. Afeni Shakur was an ACTUAL Black Panther party memeber, Conintelpro file and everything. For the record, I thought Tupac was repititious, but when you record 5 songs a day, everyday, that happens. Probably Most Prolific recording RApper ever. I grew up with Hip Hop. from before it had a name. B-boying(breaking as it's now known), Up Rock, MCing (rapping), tagging, the whole thing. Grandmastter Flash mix tapes, Busy Bee, Kool Mo Dee, Kurtis Blow, Fat Boys.Biz MArkie Doing BEat Box in front in my high school with his big head. Parrish from EPMD in school Band. Strait through Run DMC, NAS,NWA, Too Short to 3 6 mafia, UGK Possee. And whatever underground stuff is out there, including UK hiphop (which has become very good). IF you think rap sucks, you aint never heard KOOL KEITH or Ghostface Killah. People used to give me a lotta crap for diggin the beats and being of the caucasion persuation. "Why you trying to be black?". Which is real stupid. I have long hair and a beard and wear Motorhead T Shirts and speak without any fake urban affect. People don't care too much anymore, but between 80s to 1998 people get hostile (a lot of kindds of people) cause I made beats and could say a rhyme. When I was 15 or so we used to sort of battle while we partied by the train tracks, Filthy, insulting rhymes at least 5 years before NWA. People always did that but it wasn't on a record until about 1988. I love Slayer, I love George Jones, I love the Beatles, and I love me some stupid ass, ignorant, Banging Bass Hip Hop(and the smart stuff too, of course) If the only hiphop you hear is on the radio (or TV), you never hear anything good. It's out there, but you have to look. Radio sucks big time, especially in NYC, believe it or not. Used to be there was a great new record every week. Then it got corporate and turned into a wining formula. Now theres oceans of Commodified crap out every 5 seconds. That doesn't mean theres not quality out there, hidden under the mounds of dookie. For the record, Fresh Prince sucks, always sucked and always will. What are you guys talking about?!?! Will Smith is a dillhole.

[Danny]

I love Slayer, everyone loves slayer.

[coma]

everyone loves slayer. No they don't, and I'm glad they don't. Its hard enough getting tickets

[MikePizzoff]

I hate people that "love" Slayer but have no idea what "Show No Mercy" is.

[OddDNA]

Actually I really dont like that CD much, it is a little rough around the edge which I am sure is what gives it its charm. I like from Hell Awaits - Devine Intervention.

[MikePizzoff]

Dude, Show No Mercy is my favorite album!

[coma]

I'm a reign in Blood guy myself. And south of Heaven. People called it commercial when it came out.Huh? Slayer couldn't be commercial if they ate Babyface's brain. Chemical Warfare!!!!!!

[OddDNA]

I dont care what your fav slayer album is it is all matter of taste, I think Hell Awaits is up there from me because it is the 1st one I heard. But South of Heaven and Reign in Blood both got the most plays on my CD player... But Devine intervention had a lot to do with my friend being hospitalized for mental reasons because he would listen to that cd on Repeat and smoke PCP and kinda went nuts and started drinking the PCP he was using to dip the flakes....I went to visit him at Johns Hopkins and he was in restraints for writing letters to the nurses and saying he would rape and kill them when he was released...the only thing he told me to bring him was the lyrics to the Devine intervention CD....anyway we were friends for a bit when he got out and than he got into heroin really bad and I havent spoken to him more than saying hi since The Rams v. Titans Superbowl. Long off topic post...just got me thinking lol.

[Danny]

all this talk of 80's style bands has got em dusting off my guns and roses i got from my dad,lol. *que intro to sweet child of mine coming out of cd player*

[AssassinFromHell]

It seems like nobody here listens to rap. I'm not complaining, just curious if there is actually 1 or 2 people that do. I listen to early-mid 80's hip-hop. Stuff like Cold Crush Brothers, Fresh 3 MCs, LL Cool J, Skinny Boys, Mantronix, etc. But I wouldn't consider that stuff rap... it was fun, good, and the lyrics were entertaining stories not just random sentences about "bitches" and "bling" strewn together. I don't mind the older rap. I don't mind the ninties music. But alot of the new stuff really bothers me. I dunno, just something about it doesn't catch my ear anymore. I listen to literally every type of music so I'm pretty open. A few rap songs I'll listen to. But rap is probably my least favorite next to modern country. But like in modern country, there are some good stuff hidden. Still, rock kicks all ass

[Angry312]

I grew up in L.A., during the 70's and 80's, where listening to rap was something the gangsters did and the white kids didn't. Mostly, it was because I wasn't cool enough to pull off the carrying a three-foot boombox or collect the street cred to have my crew rolling in an old-school Lowrider with a kick-ass system. Instead, my friends and I collected handmade tapes of the classics, using them as sort of a private currency: MC 900 Ft. Jesus, Beastie Boys, Fat Boys, House of Pain. Still, I can always find time in my day to fit in some early Ice-T: he rolled the same streets as me, felt the same sunshine and fell asleep listening to the same gunshots and sirens. Different parts of the same town, I guess, but we did share Los Angeles. All the rest are still in my collection, but those handmade tapes are long gone, replaced by MP3 and DVD archives; still trade them with some of the same kinds of people. Man, I hate missing the 80's. Angry312; "Whitey Ford Sings the Blues" is still pretty damned awesome.

[Eyebiter]

After watching a teenage white kid crusing around the Best Buy parking lot listening to gangsta rap in his parents Ford Escort - lost all respect for rap music. Only rap I'd listen to is vintage Run DMC (with Aerosmith) and the Beastie Boys.

[OddDNA]

The fans dont make the music good or bad. If 1 million tools like a group or band it doesnt make the music bad. BTW did anyone check out the links I left at the end of page 2?