I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

It is true. I always have.

Granted, there are some songs I have liked here and there with a contagious beat or memorable, attractive tune that clicks with the brain’s funny bone on music, like Omarion’s “Post to Be,” Red Cafe’s “Pretty Gang,” Nikki Minaj’s “Super Bass,” and 50 Cent’s and The Game's “Love It or Hate It.” Certainly guilty, but overall I am not a lover of rap and hip hop. Most of it is just brainless static, like the ones I’ve liked. I’m just a casual consumer who’s not a rap fan but fell prey to a few hits that were meant to get us going.

I am one of the drastic few blacks, especially for my age, who really doesn’t relate to our culture’s music. It doesn’t resonate with me, and it baffles my people when I tell them I’m not into it. Just like how it really makes their jaw drop when I tell them I’m not into football - in fact they almost even take offense at it. But my life and my family are different, and this has a lot to do with my taste in music.

Upbringing…

My siblings and I grew up in a ghetto community with hoods and hood-wannabes (young blacks who want so much to relate to the thug life they hear in the songs they listen to and try to be bad and thuggish but don’t really have it in them) but our mom made sure we didn’t grow up INVOLVED in it, and she has been exceedingly successful at that, to the point where we stood out and had people in our community praise her for how she raised her kids.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

Along with this, she never let us listen to rap and hip hop, and I can’t say I was ever particularly bothered by that as a kid. She taught us that it’s filth with no substance and we would not be listening to it in her house. And most of it is exactly as she said. Even when I reached teenhood I myself grew more conciously disgusted of hearing it around me in our neighborhood, banging out of some idiot’s car or neighbor’s livingroom. I hated it. And I hated the way so many of my own people worshipped it like a pagan wooden idol that God was laughing at.

Rock music has always been my thing instead. U2, Stone Temple Pilots, and Led Zeppelin are some of my favorite fucking groups. And Latin music from Juanes, Belanova, Aventura, Pilar Montenegro, and Alejandro Sans. And pretty pop from white girls or half white girls like Colbie Caillat, Selena Gomez, and Sky Ferrera, that most black people would find incredibly funny to know about me. It’s what I’ve always liked and ain’t gonna stop liking it.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

For this matter, our family has never even really liked a lot of the stuff that is essential black like urban lit, football, ‘chittlins,’ or very many black movies. We’ve always been pretty diverse and raised to have a much wider view and appreciation for the bigger world.

Rap and hip hop don’t really mean much…

It’s sad to me the way the black American culture holds rap and hip hop to such high value. Even that show Empire is a hit in the black community. Black America has a nostalgic, traditional view of this kind of music, dreaming back to its roots in the late 70s and 80s, feeling that “it’s ours” and how we have to hold on to it like a dying language from an indigenous tribe or race. And holding on to it is indeed what even a lot of older blacks in their 40s and 50s are doing. I’ve been to black get-togethers and birthday parties where middle-aged aunts, uncles, and grandparents are happily jamming to Jay-Z and Rihanna. We say that rhythm and dancing is in our roots, and doesn’t change no matter how old we get. But I think it can get to be kind of ridiculous.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

Maybe what early rap or hip hop was back in the 70s and 80s was different, but what it is today really is just an overexplosive warehouse putting out a lot of garbage and foul trash with little or no meaning or worthwhile lyrics that I honestly cannot stand. It really is still the same old cheese from both male and female artists about “bitches and hos,” gettin’ money, getting back at somebody, gunnin’ ‘em down, pussy, alcohol, crime, the street life, proving that she fucks better than his woman does or he fucks better than her man does, yada yada. And on top of it society talks about how misogynist it all is, yet a LOT of girls and women are listening to this stuff too and liking it, and a LOT of them are not just black but white and Latina as well.

Even WatchMojo put up a pretty good video about rap’s cliches and content that my brother and I enjoyed watching and laughing about. Give this one the time when you’re done reading this.


All this music makes our youth - black and non-black - and the black community stupid. This trash poisons their brains and kills their brain cells and spirit. It makes them act like simpletons. It contributes to short-attention spans. And I’m not gonna sit here and engage in any debate with the people who want me to prove it with “peer-reviewed journals” and “statistical evidence.” We all know what we see around us, and if you don’t you’re either naive and choose not to notice it, or aren’t very perceptive and discerning. I don’t know how many times I’ve worked with or known someone who chronically listens to that excrement and they’re either constantly depressed, nasty in personality, or just simple-minded. They'll be the ones blasting that shit in their earbuds. Ripping down the street in their souped up cars and you can feel the vibration of the music when it goes by. It makes them broken and dead and simple inside.

I won’t look down on anyone who likes a rap or hip hop tune here and there, but to be a chronic fan tells me a lot about what’s going on in your head.

R&B…

I don’t even really like R&B either for that matter. Less offensive than rap and does have more substance, telling a love story or expressing romantic pain or joy, but still this doesn’t really appeal to me either. Again, I like a few songs here and there but as a black person it just is not in my daily diet. And a lot of it is depressing.

I have definitely met a LOT of black people who are just like this, lol.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

The sound of it and the way the artists sing R&B nowadays is the most annoying thing about it for me. The original sound of R&B from decades ago was nicer and mellower, but now the women - and it is mostly women - sing it with extreme trebles and curly cues that are just irritating to my ears more than musically talented, and sometimes it’s so bad I can’t even understand what they’re saying. They’re doing the same thing in the gospel choirs too, with R&B artists saying they grew up in the church, and the gospel churches trying to model their praises after R&B.

And don’t get me started on the white chicks. Don't get me wrong, I like white girls, and I haven’t made that a secret here on GaG, but I really find it laughable when I meet the ones who love Beyonce and all the other female R&B artists. Some of them love black music so much that they think they can live their lives through it, as if the drama, man-slamming, and relationship experiences of the black women singing can apply to them too as white women. It’s such a joke. And it’s similar with the white girls who love rap and are black wannabes. They’re only attracted to black men who are hoods and feel like hoods are the best and strongest kind of black men, which is an even bigger joke.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

Plus I really hate the way so many white female singers today are trying to sing with the black woman’s voice. And it. Sounds. Ugly. Like Allison Ivy, Megan Trainor, and Becky G. Granted, it doesn’t really bother me with Sia or Adele - and I absolutely HATE Adele - because their voices aren’t that bad and Adele has something of a natural husky voice, but the rest of them have actually trained themselves to sound black, and probably from years of listening to that music. I’ve had chicks on YouTube try to fight me about it, saying, “That’s just their style.” But WHO did they get that style from? If hip hop and R&B never existed would they still be singing that way? When I want to hear a white woman’s music, I want to hear her singing in her natural Caucasian voice. That’s what I like about Selena Gomez. She has not succumbed to the group-think method of the music industry by trying to make her voice as sultry as she possibly can.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

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You become an outcast for being different…

Black people, especially the urban ones, think you must be an alien when you as a black person tell them you’re not into rap and hip hop. Sometimes they actually think it’s funny, and other times they will even take offense at it, particularly when they ask you why you don’t like it and you honestly tell them. And many times, when you're in a group with other black people and they know you don't like rap, hip hop, or R&B you pretty much get overlooked. They're not really interested in including you because you don't have the same interests they do. That's how seriously black people take our music. And what's even funnier is that we'll complain about how the white man stole our music, yet we have applauded and accepted white singers like Robin Thicke and Tina Marie only because they sing black. Such a joke.

I Am a Black Man... and I Hate Rap and Hip Hop

So for me, I want nothing to do with it. I don't listen to it, and I literally avoid people who actually love all that mess. And I don't want my kids listening to it either. I am a very diverse black man and believe all other black people should be too, and I will teach that to my children as well.

Do white people have music I think is crazy or crap? Absolutely. I'm not a fan of country and I hate death metal and all that other deep, dark shit, but I'm not white, and don't have to be ashamed of their creations. But as a black man? I can say I really do feel like rap and hip hop make us as black people look foolish.

#GetRidOfThatcRap

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  • I can't say I hate any type of music. I listened to rap/hip hop growing up. But the shit nowadays isn't very intelligent for the most part. Actually, music in general, of all types seems to be declining in a sense. It's like the meaning and emotion in most music is being taken out and replaced with "how much money can I get with a catchy hook and ass in my videos?". My favorite genres are Alternative rock/Classic rock/hard rock [Jimmy Hendrix, Metallica, RHCP, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, Twenty-One Pilots, Foster the People, etc.], Trance/Electronica [Daft Punk and Deadmau5 especially], Soul/R&B [Dwele, Jodeci, Earth Wind and Fire, etc.]. But I do like some country, some pop, a lot of Reggae. I do love a good beat and good vocals, but there has to be some passion or soul in every type of music for me to love it. Also, the industry seems to support and promote the wrong artists such as woman beater Chris Brown, drama addict Kanye West, things like this. This is why hip hop and rap are suffering. You have to listen to good rap (if you can find it), such as Kid Cudi, old school Tribe Called Quest, OutKast. These guys are really talented and not the norm.

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  • It's amazing how much your upbringing can affect your right? Your mom sounds tough.

    • how on earth did you get "influencer"? i want one...

    • @SovereingnessofVamps She wasn't exactly tough, just firm.

    • I meant tough enough to not give into bad influence.

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  • Im black. and I somewhat can agree with you. There are some rap and R&B songs that I really like and others are like "wtf". I tend to not watch slave movies because they can be very depressing to watch. I stay in a rough neighborhood also here in Washington DC. So this is something that I can relate. You have guys that sit around allday outside and will talk about you badly. You can be minding your own business and they will pick with you. I don't blame you for being this way. I am the same way, I tend to stay to myself and mind my business but to the hoodlums you will stand out because your not associating with them.

    • As far as slavery, do you feel the same way about, say, the story of Moses or enslaved Roman Gladiators or the Barbaric slave trade or English enslavement of the Irish or Mongolian enslavement of the Chinese or even today with Asian women taken as slaves for prostitution?

    • @NyomiMcClinton You live in the Washington area too? Cool :-)

    • As a fellow culturally eclectic black guy, I can tell you that you're spot-on with the isolation from the urban "hoodlum" types. I've been called all types of names that referred to me 'not really being black'. So sad that so many black Americans ignore the "American" in that term, America is too diverse to be monolithic culturally. :-/

  • Hm. I used to feel the same way. My mum didn't listen to the truly vulgar rap and she allowed me to develop my own tastes in music. Many people relate to rap music just like other relate to pop music. I personally cannot get into music like Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez, but I also will not listen to something like Lil' Wayne. When it comes to rap, I prefer artists like Logic honestly. I don't even listen to much rap outside of him. Nothing that has come out within the last 30 years at least.

    People say, "Oh there is little in rap and hip-hop besides violence and sex." However, is the message in the pop industry that much better? We have songs by T. Swift and Demi Lovato (I think that's her last name) always telling young girls that it will always be the guys fault when something goes wrong. That they should never take the time to self reflect and improve individually. For Goodness sake, I was dragged to Katy Perry show and I saw 8-9 year olds singing "I wanna see your peacock-cock-cock!" At least some of the rap is relatable, as there are many still today that have to deal with gun violence. I swear sometimes I'll come across some pop lyrics of some current artist and wonder, "Did... did a horny 8-year-old write this? Or was it some "damaged goods" teenager?" I get that some blacks practically embody the "thug life" because of rap music. However, I'd rather be around that than some bland embodiment of "Oh, he hurt me so bad. Nothing is ever my fault/We'll be young forever. Let's go 'all the way' tonight!"

    I used to be ostracized mercilessly by others of color for having different tastes. For speaking the way I do. So I get how fucked up it is being cast out for not liking what I "should" like.

    All that said, I would never make it a point to avoid someone who loves a type of music. Why? Because I bear in mind that that is just one part of them. People are so multifaceted. To make such a crude assumption is not only an injustice to them, but also yourself.

    I guess in the end, it's more about what is the least intolerable to you.

  • I get it, rap can be bad, but it's not all like that. I love rap or hip hop and I don't listen to any of the stuff that''s "popular" now because I feel that's not real hip hop. I've branched out and now love Norah Jones, Shura (a uk artist), Maroon 5, and Fitz and the Tantrums. But I think artist that are out now give guys like Talib Kweli, A tribe called quest, common, Nas, and outkast, and other really good artist a bad name. I guess it just bothers me that some of the artist I listed above get grouped into music and artist you talk about and most people will assume that all rap is about bitches and money when there are people out there that make music that works the mind and not your behind.

  • Well... interesting, for sure. I mean, I definitely get your angle of "just because I'm a black man doesn't mean I like or should like rap and R&B." I have kind of an opposite perspective, as a white guy who grew up on rap and R&B, and being chastised or mocked by other white people, sometimes even family members, of "trying to be black", which has always pissed me off. I don't like that I can't listen to a certain genre of music, wear a certain style of clothing, talk in a certain dialect, without being accused of culture robbery. I grew up in a mostly black neighborhood, lived amongst and went to school with mostly black folks, etc... like I'm not just stopping by for a few hours on the weekend, I live there too. I don't wear it as a badge of honor nor am I ashamed, it's just a place like anywhere else, but when people come at you like you're Malibu's Most Wanted and insinuate your whole persona is fraudulent, I'm not going to take kindly to that. And I've seen it go the other way, as you've described, within your community, and people's "blackness" being questioned. But just like two or three years ago, I turned on my car in the downtown area where I live now (which is suburban/rural, and populated by ultra-liberal hippies and/or professor types, plus some hipsters), it was summer, the windows were down, and I was playing rap. A young girl in her 20s got my attention, I turned my music down, and she goes "you know you're white, right?" Like are you serious? That's ignorant, as well as rude, but like I said, I get it, just opposite.

    It's just really dumb how much we let music influence our thinking and even our behavior. But you evolve, ideally. I've traded baggy jeans and fitted hats in for sportcoats and pocket squares... but I'll still be bumpin' DipSet when I show up. Or maybe I won't, maybe it'll be Pink Floyd, maybe it'll be Skrillex, maybe it'll be Blink-182, or some other band or genre I've expanded my listening horizons to include. Like I said, you evolve. Point is, when you hear any of that music playing, there shouldn't be a preconceived notion of who will step out of the car.

    As for the way you live your life, look, I was once a "drug dealer", selling weed, which is going to be legal in my state starting in 10 days. It's not like I was out hustling crack in the hood and ducking the task force, I was selling kind bud to college kids. I didn't do it to feel "gangsta", I needed money, there was a market, and I love weed anyway. (Continued)

    • But it wasn't rap that made me do it, haha, and I of course saw guys like Dr. Dre blowing trees when I was getting started with it, but I could have seen the same from Willie Nelson or countless classic rock groups. So I don't always buy into the influence music supposedly has on behavior. Some, sure, but not as drastic as I think it gets painted as. I was I white kid in college, if i picked up and moved to Harlem to become a thug because Juelz Santana made it seem cool, then I'd buy into it more, but I don't think that happens much. Kind of a chicken-or-the-egg thing, or correlation is not causality. If gangsta rap ended tomorrow, there would still be gangs, there would still be violence, there would still be drug trade, all that shit, man. You just wouldn't have Rick Ross and Jeezy providing the soundtrack anymore. I'm not denying that music can have influence, I just don't think it's necessarily the direct source of the problem as you seem to. But I get where you're at with...

    • ... cultural expectations.

  • Thanks for telling us how you really feel. I'm sure many black people agree, but it's like me when I attack feminism, which is basically a rich Anglo girls trip, even black women often imitate it. I also get attacked or ignored, and many girls on Gag block me automatically without even talking to me.

  • Im black and i hate it too... its always about the same shit. Remember when people used to SING songs... and you had to have a great voice...
    Now its all these morons who think that a couple rhymes and a phat beat, and its aired on the radio, thats why these stupid ass little kids are all aspiring to be rappers. a couple rhymes, a nice beat and bam... mixtape.
    Tired of people coming up to me trying to tell me to listen to their mixtape... you dont see country singers do that (yea, i LOVE country)... thats because country singers know that they have good shit... i mean they have a city dedicated to them (Nashville)... what do rappers got?
    And R&B doesn't even exist anymore... i rarely update my songs anymore... no good ones... moral of the story...
    Rap is cRap.

    • YES! EXACTLY! I would sooooooo give you Best Answer if we could do it for Takes.

    • lol, thanks for the thought. I remember one time, i was going to a buddy's house and i was blasting country really loud in my car and singing along with it and i came to a red light and stopped. This green car pulled up with 4 black girls in it, and they were talking and you know how people look at the next car, so im guessing she heard my music and turned around to see the "redneck" blasting country... i guess she was gonna just glance, but she did a double take when she saw... me :) so she tapped her friend and now i had FOUR girls looking at me weird. I just smiled and waved, they didn't wave back lol. Its like, because you are black you should like a certain kind of thing... i was raised on reggae for lords sake and i ended up in country. I still like reggae though. it has meaning. Have you noticed that most rap now, is just people talking with a beat in the background? doesn't take a brain or a voice to rap.

    • OMG!!! Yes, you have got it so right! That is the SAME thing I'm trying to tell people here! I am really surprised at the way the females are actually sticking up for the stuff. I guess it says a lot about their intelligence level, or lack therof.

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  • I bet you catch flack from this but I can respect your decision not to tolerate something that you have an aversion to. It's odd when other white people like country music, but many of them do. I can't relate to country music at all and hearing it makes me want to punch someone in the face, it's so annoying to me.

    • I can understand that as well, lol. I've actually had a lot of white people tell me they don't like country. I don't care who gives me flack - and I know it's coming, and they'll give all the explanations in the book, but it won't change my mind.

    • I don't care who gives me flack either. I can actually say some pretty unladylike things when someone tries to tell me why it's great or tries to get me to listen to it lol.

    • Oh that sounds hot, saying unladylike things, lol.

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  • I believe every music genre can be good. I grew up in the South, not a fan of country music but I don't get anything out of hating it, people like it for a reason, same with classic rock, I really dislike listening to it. I can appreciate it and still dislike it a lot. I don't HATE anything, that's a strong word. I actually like rap music, I don't want to hear it all the time but it's a nice vibe, depends on my mood, it can make or break a night. If I'm out with my friends and drinking, that's what I want to hear. I want rap. Pop is okay sometimes. My favorite thing, is indie/folk music. I don't seem like I would like that but it's just my thing. I can appreciate things like Shakey Graves, Alabama Shakes, Ray Lamontagne. That's my thing. But I still like R&B a lot, I can appreciate what my people make, even if I don't like it. There's too much music out there to limit myself. I won't shun a whole genre like that. I won't call something crap because it isn't my thing, that's incredibly ignorant. I don't know, posts like this just make people sound old lol. "Darn, kids and their rock n roll! Stop watching that man gyrate on the television." I'm lucky to be able to enjoy variety. You're not better for being black and not liking rap and hip hop, it may not have meant to come off that way but that's totally what it sounded like, like it's something special that you don't like a music genre. Nothing wrong with being black and liking black people things. If you like things that aren't black, that's fine, but you don't really need to connect the two. Just how me like indie/folk has nothing to do with me being black, I like it cause I like it. Regardless, rap has been massive these days, it's some of the only music I hear, it's like that for a reason.

  • I would agree with what you said for the most part, however I think the real problem is that its pretty much the same thing that happened to metal in the 80s. Originally something good record producers got a hold of it and twisted it into a manufactured sound that lost its edgyness and its meaningful lyrics (they literally tell you what you can and cannot sing/rap about). Thats why I usually stick to very underground rap when I do listen to it like atmosphere who has some very intelligent lyrics about his life, problems and even about getting older or Aesop Rock who is like the franz kafka of rap. But I don't think its necessarily bad for people to at least take some influence from other styles, otherwise we wouldn't have any music at all, rock got a lot of inspiration from blues and even heavy metal has elements of jazz in it. But I would agree that if your simply emulating the style then that makes what your doing less valuable as your not adding anything new or different but just creating a knock off. I do find it odd how completely uniform the black community seems to be in its musical tastes though, it really is rare to find some one who is black who doesn't listen to rap/r&b. Interesting take.

  • i'm a black guy. i consider myself a fan of music not by genre but by quality of a song or band. so there's rap i hate and rape i love. country i hate and country i love. classic rock is probably my favorite genre but even then there is plenty of classic rock i dislike

  • "Plus I really hate the way so many white female singers today are trying to sing with the black woman’s voice."

    I wasn't aware we had a type of voice lol.

    Anyway, I don't see why you felt the need to announce that you're black and don't like rap. There's plenty of black men and women, young and old, who do not listen to rap or hip hop. I teach at a black high school near the projects and a lot them love Justin Bieber, The Beatles, Evanescence, Adele, Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus. Heck, the graduating seniors last year voted 'It's The Climb' by Miley Cyrus to be their class song.

    Dunno, I don't think it's as common to believe black men or women love rap and hip hop as you think it is. Many of my students hate it and they're from the hood and still live there.

    • If I didn't feel the need to say it and didn't think it was true, I wouldn't have said it.

  • ... Okay, and? I'm perplexed as to why you specifically had to point out that you're black and don't like this particular genre of music. Plenty of black people have music tastes that stretch beyond or don't include rap/hip-hop/R&B, this doesn't make you special, nor is it groundbreaking.

    Your comment about white singers singing like black women perplexes me. Firstly, what is a 'black woman's singing voice'? It's awfully ironic of you to lump all black women (as if they all sound the exact same) in the same box, when your entire take is you denouncing people who have preconceived notions about you and your music taste because of your race.

    • Second, why does it even matter? A good singing voice is a good singing voice.

    • ''don't act black'' that's a mindset many have.

    • @Sabretooth True, it's pretty sad.

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  • I wonder if it`s really the music itself that makes the difference or the propensity that people have to try to be like other people and having those rappers as models.

    You were taught to be your own man and think by yourself and not be influenced by others. That enabled you not to indulge in the "gangsta" culture which is a plaguing the ghettos and is probably the main reason why there is so many black people in jail. Gangsters are idolized by that culture.

    • You bring up a very, VERY important part of hip-hop that most people don't The music is satire to me, purely entertainment. I don't try to live my life like I'm a gangxta, trap boy, pimp, etc. Unfortunately too many people in urban cultures (especially black Americans in these areas), embody this music as a literal example to live their lives. I work as an educator in an area with a lot of inner Los Angeles migrants, and I can tell you right now; when they listen to hip-hop, they use it as an example to live their lives. It isn't "just entertainment" to them. These hip hop songs and lyrics are being taken literally as a model of lifestyle to live. You can tell by how much they embody the music when they listen to it. So sad. :-/

    • @Prof_Don Sad indeed

  • Great explanation.
    My opinion: I'm white and I love old school (late 70's to mid 80's Electro and Hip-Hop music. I got like 200 songs of that style. I really enjoy the rhymes, the scratching, the beats. And the lyrics are actually nice to hear because there is no swearing. And they make sense. All I hear in modern rap is F words, N words, and others that decrease my mood. So disturbing.
    You can like any music you want no matter what race you are or what others think. Ignore those who judge you for it because they don't under and don't want to understand. Blast your own music when you feel like it.

  • This is the most STUPIDEST uneducated article I've ever read. There is NO WAY that this guy "grew up in a ghetto community".

    Anyone who knows rap it never going to use examples with PUFF DADDY. Did he just say Nikki Minaj. A main picture of little wayne? REALLY.
    Dude who wrote this article has been basing his taste of rap from Tmz or another celeb mag.
    All of the examples he mentioned are POP.

    If you are going to make an article know something about it... jeez.

  • Just because you are black does not mean you have to like rap and hip hop music. I'm from africa. Like legit African but i schooled abroad and although i do like rap, i prefer classical music like vivaldi and also Africans dont listen to rap just because we are black our music variates but the most common is afro pop

  • Whenever I see the cover of a rap album, the singer's picture is full of hate, as are the rap songs. That hate turns me off. I prefer the old Motown of the 60s and 70s. Dancing the rumba with a girl to Stevie Wonder's 'My Cherie Amour' is true happiness.

  • I love rap and hip hop, I listen to it a lot in the car. I can understand not liking it because you don't like the music, but disliking it because you associate it as a stain on your culture seems... I dono, grasping at excuses?

    Good music is good music. Although I will conceded newer rap is crap compared to older stuff.

    • "but disliking it because you associate it as a stain on your culture seems... I dono, grasping at excuses?" - Seeing as black people created it, yeah it's a stain.

    • Oh gawd that reply *cringeee*
      https://m.popkey.co/71e484/ldbWK.gif

  • I mean you think everything makes black people look foolish so can't say that I'm surprised. I personally am a lover of all music. I'm eclectic as hell. When it comes to rap, I like rappers like Kendrick Lamar, Common, J. Cole, and old Kanye. And of course the GOATS like Eminem, Jay, Nas, Biggie, and Pac. I wouldn't call myself a hardcore rap/hip hop fan tho. And I also don't know too many black people that would judge you based off your music choices. Mighty funny how you talk about how people judge you but then turn and say you avoid people that "listen to that mess". Bit hypocritical don't cha think?

    • Not really. The reasons they judge me for not listening are not the same reasons I judge them for listening.

    • THANK YOU!! @CHARismatic110!! Your response brings me joy. The artist you mentioned get lumped into some of the trash that's out now and it sickens me when that happens.

    • @kJm91 lol you're welcome. I'm not a huge fan of mainstream rap. The trash that's out todaybis what gives the genre as a whole a bad name and people the ManOnFire here the fuel to write stuff like this. Today's rap IS crap. It's mumbling over top of very catchy beats. But what isn't fair is to discridit b the genre as a whole based off that. Because there ARE still dope artists out there.

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