Do you like rap music? Why?

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I used to dislike rap, but recently I started to like it. They react bravely to social and political problems and lyrics are often deep🎤

NightHawk99 · Accepted Answer

People these days can't stand rap only because the first rap song they hear is a song made by guys like little pump or xan or one of those cringey mumblers. Because they chose to listen to those shitty songs, they thinl every rap song is like that.

But they even hate songs written by guys like 2Pac, Notorious BIG, NWA, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, because those songs tell truths sensitive people don't want to hear. I can't blame them. The truth is very hard to embrace.

But it's worth embracing. That's why those rappers will always outdo the modern generation of rappers, even in death.

Let rap haters hate. That's how the most legit of MCs prefer it, truth be told.

drummerdude25 · Accepted Answer

I tend to like rap when it’s intermixed with other sounds and genres… like if it’s like Gorillaz or something lol, ya know?

If it’s kinda got that alternative or experimental flair, I tend to like it a lot more. Or something like JPEGMAFIA… like this is a cool track.

Nobefore · Accepted Answer

I do not. When I was 16 I was listening to German and French ones little American maybe, but I never like them too much.
The problem with rap they always come from little or no educated people. They haven't musical tunes and similar to pop music they manufactured like a factory product. As a song addict, they don't mean anything to me. I prefer Altingun in Turkish modern songs. Their tune has freshly new side. It's an art form really.

doopayo · Accepted Answer

I like rap, people trash the genre because of a few rap songs that are demeaning to women/glorifying gang life. I feel like that kind of rap is dying out and new rap is actually doing creative things with their beats and etc. I would never trash an entire genre just cause of a few bad apples

ODC2112 · Answer

Rapping is not music. It is a form of musical oratory. Although it is one of the defining components of hip-hop, it has an older origin. The roots of rap can be found in West African music as part of a black historical continuum. For decades it has not entered any musical sphere. From the late 70's it was popularized by bands like Sugar Hill Gang, Kurtis Blow, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Kurtis Blow etc...

Do I like the style of singing? No I find it horrible, it has no melody, it remains in the dirt between the end of the millennium and the beginning of the new. If you notice all the music but some niche genres have lost the melody, rap never had it.

The first wave what they call old schol was still listenable. It had a very strong 70s funk and R&B base. Later it became trash made just to make money without a shred of heart.

420Rachel · Answer

Not particularly. My tastes are totally opposite of rap. I'm a metalhead 😂 Majority of rap, especially "popular" rap, is just trash. Old school rap is great and there's still some great underground artists nowadays, but I don't know many of them. Like I said, I like metal.

Anonymous · Answer

It's not my favorite, but some of the songs have funny lyrics.  And I like alternative rap like this And I like German rap

haphazard · Answer

I'm the opposite. I used to like rap now I can't stand it. I saw the way it influenced too many people in a negative way and lead to bad life decisions. Viewing rap "bravado" as a positive thing rather than a glorification of crime and promiscuous sex has lead to the decline of many black households and communities.

Kontrvnote · Answer

I like rap music. I mostly like songs with deep and heart touching lyrics and I don't like trashy rappers like 6ix9ine. I like listening to rap songs from different countries including Turkish rap.

Protein_mate · Answer

Oh yes, but I'm more old school:

ceciliamrs222 · Answer

i like, it’s cool i don’t pay too much attention to the lyrics but i like little durk, Pooh shiesty, little baby, xxxtentacion, moneybagyo, little uzi vert, little tjay, pop smoke….

IAMNathanael · Answer

I like a few rap groups. Like these: Antipop Consortium  The Black Knights

Pj1981 · Answer

I like some of all music. When it comes to rap I like older rap better than new stuff although I like mgk and G easy and similar. I like the older rap for example Tupac because when I was younger his music touched my soul. He was just so talented.

Anonymous · Answer

The only thing I like about rap nowadays is just the beats. I'm just not into the new wave of rap. I mean it's catchy and sometimes fun but it's not something I listen to in my car. But I love old school rap. I love the 90s and even 00s rap. Also I think my last favorite rapper is Kendrick Lamar. But I can't really think of anyone else after him that I truly like.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

Eww, NO. Unless is an anime rap battle parody. But other than that, all I hear from it is ass, drugs, money and a bunch of bullshit. And giving away they’re soul? HHHJJJLUURGGHEEEUUGGHH… And it’s way too artificial.

MrJMM · Answer

I don't give a shit about rap. I just don’t listen to it because either I hear about having sex or something else and I'm like... Ok bye. And my dad is just that classic white racist, homophobic, etc hater. So it's anything he would just spit on someone or something representing that he doesn't like it or someone.

BareNecessary · Answer

Meh I thinks its best for getting useful information out there for social and racial justices. I see the talent in it. I dont think its awe inspiring in the slightest tho. Just another artistic statement in most cases to me. Nothing I'd listen regularly to for sure

RolandCuthbert · Answer

I like some of it. Got into Future last year. And that through Rick and Morty.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The words, "rap" and 'music" are mutually exclusive! If I wanted to listen to someone talk in rhyme, I'd get a bunch of Dr. Seuss talking books while a kid plays with an electric typewriter.

Lazi-boi · Answer

I used to like rap but all but despise it now. There's so much better music out there and you'll be better off listening to the music the "sample" AKA steal because they have no creativity or talent.

Feelicks · Answer

I like it because it's it's ironic to listen to music about drugs and murder while shopping for baby food.

Actually not a huge fan, most of it is shit.

Like that astronaut in the ocean song? Does that dumbass mean a diver?

Bogoboj · Answer

I like some and especially the one's like u said rap songs with a message but for some reason most of them are not in English.

hannahjo022 · Answer

Depends on the artist and the rhymes. I really like listen to the old school stuff that I grew up to but not nowadays.

SaoirseS · Answer

Some rap is ok but a little goes a long way. To me it sounds like someone reading Dr Seuss with a drum machine in the background.

The-Wise-Phoenix · Answer

Rap music is a very generic form of music.  It's a person yelling over a repeating drum riff. And nobody is actually playing any drums either. It's all done on computers.

Celtero · Answer

Nope. It's low-brow unskilled trash that anyone who can talk to a beat can make.

PurpleDrank69 · Answer

I like 80s - 90s rap music better than modern rap music
Not saying that there isn’t good rap music today, but I think back then there was more good rap music and it was more creative.
Most good rap today is mostly underground.

jackderby_01 · Answer

Yeah, expressing yourself through lyrics and rhymes with a good flow is epic

JBlade · Answer

There are a few rap/trap songs that I like but I usually don't find it appealing to listen to.

Bjornasey · Answer

Yeah I do not listen to this genre, who even finds enjoyment of listening to rapists?

dominicanbeauty · Answer

I love rap. I honestly can't imagine my life without it. It made me who I am today...

Azaelia · Answer

Yes. It's not bcs of the song but it's bcd of the singer. They look so charismatic

Lj0011 · Answer

Im the opposite i really liked it when i was in my teens then as i got older really started to dislike it. Much prefer rock, house, edm, folk and a whole bunch of other music.  But each to their own.

FamilyGuy2020 · Answer

I hate Turkish Rap Music. Mainly because I am fluent in English, German Russian, Arabic, Pashtun, Persian

MudRucker · Answer

"Deep lyrics"? If rapping about fucking hoes and bitches is your definition of "deep" I guess.

Phoenix98 · Answer

I like specific artists but not so much the genre as a whole if that makes sense.

sp33d · Answer

I like the art of the MC, I'm not so on board with people agreeing with what's being said just because it sounds cool or catchy.

Nikki6t6 · Answer

Love rap… from old school to modern… just has that vibe to it and what you said regarding having a lot to say regarding social issues.

Anonymous · Answer

The kindest thing I can say about rap is that it has a low ceiling when it comes to quality. Even the best songs aren't particularly profound. It became popular because it's relatively inexpensive to make and produces simple earworms.

zagor · Answer

Very little of it. I used to hate it all, but I've found some that's very creative and moving.

najekim · Answer

Enjoyed early rap like Run-DMC & MC Hammer. But gangsta rap came and ruined it, IMHO.

Babygirl_S · Answer

I don't like it because I have a different taste in music.

Thegreendagger · Answer

Nah I'm over it. It got to main stream and generic now

TheAfrikan · Answer

I Love it because it makes me love who I am and even get some words of empowerment when listening to it.

Chthou95 · Answer

"They react to social and political problems"  Thrash metal - Am i a joke to you?

Anonymous · Answer

I despise rap. it's the most repugnant, awful genre or so called music. and rapping about bling, bitches, violence, and money, is hardly deep lyrics.

LoveIsFake · Answer

Before when it was about the struggle now it's Like, skeet skeet RA yeet spra

mrkdvsn · Answer

No. I find this kind of "music" extremely irritating and upsetting to be exposed to.

Jaspersuxx · Answer

Im not a big fan of rap but every now and then i find a rap song i like im not big on caring about the lyrics just the music

malwins · Answer

People that dont like rap dont understand the wordplay 😁

MDollarBill · Answer

Rap is not music. Music has melody. Rap is just vulgarity set to a click-track.

Anonymous · Answer

LOL@ "lyrics are often deep" This statement is a definite candidate for the funniest statements ever made on GAG

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

No, besides maybe one or two artists occasionally.

Anonymous · Answer

I listen to underground rappers more than I do mainstream rappers.

SlightlyEccentric · Answer

Can't spell crap without rap

JesseJayNeak · Answer

Yes, the old school kind

crmoore · Answer

Here and there but I'm generally not a fan.

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes I like it the American style

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

No. They all sound so similar.

OddBeMe · Answer

Not really. But no worse than country.

karaspara · Answer

I like some sure

ItsMeItsMe1989 · Answer

i used to hate it but now i like some of it

Anonymous · Answer

Rap music is an oxymoron. It's not music at all.

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