Can someone explain to me what's so great about hip hop?

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Can someone explain to me what's so great about hip hop?

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listen to old skool hip hop and you'll know..

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it's too damn popular down south. All radio stations, all clubs, car decks, shops...it's everywhere

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid listen to old skool hip hop and you'll know..

Well, some of the older stuff is listenable because it actually had "messages," but that seems to have mostly been replaced by idiots incapable of rapping about anything but women, drugs, and cars. So much newer rap seems almost like an unintentional minstrel show, some kind of nasty cobbling-together of all the worst stereotypes about blacks:

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The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the American Civil War, African Americans in blackface. Minstrel shows portrayed and lampooned blacks in stereotypical and often disparaging ways...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minstrel_show

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Well, some of the older stuff is listenable because it actually had "messages," but that seems to have mostly been replaced by idiots incapable of rapping about anything but women, drugs, and cars. So much newer rap seems almost like an unintentional minstrel show, some kind of nasty cobbling-together of all the worst stereotypes about blacks:

When women, drugs, money, bling and cars begin to be the topic, it seazes to be real hip hop...

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Well, some of the older stuff is listenable because it actually had "messages," ...

cue

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Originally posted by twilightki : It feels like something you'd listen to at 4 in the morning, or listen to in your car while you're going in a tunnel.

Classic:

Easily the best video evar.

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Originally posted by jupiterone

That was good.

+1.. that's good shit right there...

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What people call hip hop these days is everywhere and it's very annoying...

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Originally posted by Omega_M hip hop is dead people, fucking dead !!

hip hop with real meaning is dead...commercial hip-hop... not so much..it's fuckin everywhere!! i just can't understand why so many ppl still like it..definitely not upbeat enough for my taste..EDM for life!