Rap Anyone ?

[HateSolstice]

So you're saying gangster rap isn't rap because it's not like the underground stuff? What?

yes, do some research. Oh wait you said you dont really care so you may stay ignorant and continue hating the genre for what its not. (no offense)

I've been bboyin' for more than 5 years, which means i've been connected tightly with the hiphop culture and im living it everyday. I know what i'm talking about.

And there's a big difference between those who are rapping about how they really lived in their youth (there was violence, drugs and hate)

and those who promote it. AKA disgrace to the whole genre

Meh, offend me or not, I don't really care. It's the internet, and I don't get offended. So say whatever.

I don't understand the need to make up new nonsensical words just to express something can be said with already existing words. Yes, I know, language "grows and evolves", but only when necessary. We have established words with established meanings based upon very long-standing uses and intended definitions for things that had no such description otherwise. Yes, it's another part of that entire rap/hip-hop culture I can't stand: illiteracy.

Your underground "artists" are not the norm, and thus are not the public face of the genre or industry. Sorry. I'm not claiming what they do isn't just as authentic, but I am saying they're not the only "truth", if you will, of the movement. You can make every god damn argument under the sun you want about how this guy nobody ever heard of that just released a demo on YouTube is what it's really all about, but you're not going to change the very fact that rap has been, for twenty years, about violence, drugs, and whoring. How are you going to deny twenty years of the public face of rap being what it has been? That's like saying I can deny that the 1980s hair bands weren't all just about sex and drugs, when it's fact that that is exactly what they were. Sorry, personal denial and proclamations of "you don't get it, I live the life!" don't cut it when it comes to public perception by the very people that promote the lifestyle. They ARE the genre, not some kid no one has ever heard of.