sigh
i still use the term hip-pop cause there's no other way to distinguish it really, most people think hip-hop and rap are the same
and a lot of rap artists call their music hip-hop
idk

anyways...there's still a lot of good shit out there
check out atmosphere, illogic, heiroglyphics, people under the stairs, cunninlynguists, mos def, josh martinez, k-os, blackstar, ozomatli, jurassic 5, aesop rock, blueprint, a tribe called quest, common, dialated peoples, and last but not least, foreign exchange to name a few
(<3 hip-hop)


and as for instrumentals...two names i got for you: dj shadow, rjd2

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All that commercial rap and hip hop is just shit.
Older tracks were much better and eminems old songs kill his new stuff today.

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Originally posted by Mr. Pink i dont like black people.

Finally someone who speaks the truth, represent!




As for rap, well, i hate the rappers, but some music in a club sounds ok...

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what the hell is with Beyonce Knowles winning best dance track of the year all the time.

i listen to a lot of instrumental rap...sick beats minus the degrading lyrics

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Originally posted by trance4life627 i listen to a lot of instrumental rap...sick beats minus the degrading lyrics

An old acquaintance of mine used to make stuff like that I once tried by remixing some Super Nintendo music, and it would have been good had the original track not been better suited to Ambient Instrumental is good. In any genre

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Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Immortal Technique.

I like rap that has meaning and isn't about how much of a pimp he is and telling kids how you can get rich by quitting school and becoming a gangsta. 99% of the mainstream rap is absolutely horrible. Generally though, it's musically too simple to captivate my attention.

hip hop has been cheese after 1997 or 1999.

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nowadays a rap is made for white ppl thats why it sucks. White ppl don't know shit they should be hanged and fucked up the arse. Listening to bad rap and not even real rap those u see on mtv are sell-outs and fakes.

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Originally posted by DJ_TWiLiGHT hip hop and rap are two diff things. . .I love hip hop. . .lyrics don't ususally include. . . "slap her witha dick" "stick it in her ear" or "yo mom"

You do realize the stupidity of your statement?

Unfortunately I can't blame you for saying these things as they are a general state of ignorance in the rap scene.

Hip hop is NOT music it is not RAP it is something you do.
But most of all it is a movement that includes Graffiti Breakdancing and Rapping for roots.

Hip hop as a musical genre is a bogus term.

It's also a very sad state of affairs when most of today's rap artists complete degrade the original values of the music and have no knowledge of the history of it.