Is it me or is rap music going down the drain?
By ram13288
@ram13288 (387)
United States
January 19, 2007 6:16pm CST
ive been noticing lately that rap isnt what it used to be. i mean todays rap songs arent about anything anymore except guns, cars, and degrading women. when rappers rhyme today all they do is think of one word to rhyme with another word without saying anything. for example on lloyd banks new album on line strikes me as the perfect example for this. its a song featuring tony yayo and he says "new york new york where ni**as die for the cheese, i air your house out like a can of febreeze" one line has nothing to do with the other. does anyone have any thoughts about this or know of any artists that actually have something to say?
3 responses
@merkava (1225)
• Philippines
13 Feb 07
I hate today's rap music. All the rappers do is trump each other. When you hear the song or read the lyrics it tells of nothing significant in life but theirs. THEIR car, THEIR money, THEIR "bling", THEIR girls/bit$hes or whatever they call em. It's always songs focused on them. How much more self-absorbed can you get!?!
It's as if 85% of the world's population of average people can relate to the rappers extravagant life. The bad part is that their songs get recognition and even end up in the top 10 songs. I like the songs of Bone Thugz and this song, I'll see you when you get there. They tell it how life is and not the rappers of today's generation, they tell it, how THEIR life is.
@Starlady0_1 (586)
• United States
23 Jan 07
One of my sisters ex husbands use to listen to rap music all the time. I have heard some of the new Rap and I really don't care for it. It seems like they really cuss way to much in the new rap.
@icjackson (186)
• United States
20 Jan 07
Rap went down the drain almost 20 years ago when gansta rap emerged.
It hasn't been the same since. Most of it has had a negative influence on it's listeners, and the term "hip hop" has been raped and misappropriated, too.
Hip hop used to mean something, and it used to be something different from "rap". It's all the same now.
If you think rap is just now going down the drain, you are probably too young to know what it really was when it was actually good.
I.C. Jackson
