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Kwan
Posts: 1046/1137 |
Originally posted by Mr. F-Zero
Don't generalise us Brits that way, to say we don't understand rap is silly!
Originally posted by Mr. F-Zero
After all, why would Scotland need rap when they have Franz Ferdinand getting the airwaves?
Hmm. |
Omega
Posts: 12/56 |
Originally posted by Ziffski
2pac was quite the extrodinary man. But between Xzibit and Wu-Tang, he ain't shit.
Damn.. How could I forget Wu-Tang Clan... |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2517/5458 |
2pac was quite the extrodinary man. But between Xzibit and Wu-Tang, he ain't shit. |
Omega
Posts: 8/56 |
I used to listen to 2Pac, Cypress Hill and some brazilian rap bands..
But in these days, the closest to rap that I'm listening it would be Beastie Boys.. |
Mr. F-Zero
Posts: 106/158 |
Hey hey hey, Lenina! Slow down there! Don't generalise us Brits that way, to say we don't understand rap is silly!
Britain may be a primarily white nation but there are millions of black people who live here as well, here in London we pretty much revolutionised the grime and garage scenes. Ever heard of Dizzee Rascal? He's a Mercury prize-winning grime artist whose garage-influenced rap is extremely original and he is very big here in Britain, if you go to any secondary school in London you'll see all numbers of kids listening to Dre, Kanye West, 2pac, Ludacris et al as well as our own artists like Rascal and Lady Sovereign.
What radio station do you listen to? Listen to KISS or any other urban-based stations and you'll hear tonnes of urban music, much more so than guitar based or techno based bands. Maybe its because you're in Fife, instead of England, that you don't hear rap often. After all, why would Scotland need rap when they have Franz Ferdinand getting the airwaves?
Seriously, we definately understand rap and the r'n'b culture, so much so that we made garage and grime our own. Listen to Jamelia, listen to Oxide & Neutrino, and you'll understand that Britain does understand what you say is a black phenomenon. |
Lenina
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I've never been really fond of rap music. However, while I was back in the US during my Christmas vacation, I suddenly listening to rap music on the radio. I really like the song Encore with Linkin Park and that other guy. I guess part of the reason I suddenly grew to like it is that I haven't heard any rap music while I've been in the UK.
Most of the people I know at school who are from the UK haven't really heard rap music. They mostly listen to techno. I don't know if this is true overall, but that's what I've found. I actually had a really funny experience with some people here is the UK and rap music. I was standing around talking to these three other girls. I don't remember what we were talking about, but all of a sudden this one girl, Rose starts singing. I couldn't figure out what it was that she was singing. Then it registers in my mind what song it was. She was singing "Jenny from the Block." It was so awful. She had such a thick London accent and she was singing to the right beat. Rose starts telling this other girl in our group, that "Jenny from the Block" is this girl's song and how this girl is |
Apple
Posts: 565/594 |
On the whole, I never been to fond of rap music.
I won't be ignorant and say it all sucks because I know otherwise. I have a few Spice 1, Onyx, NWA, Dr. Dre, Toupac, and Easy E releases somewhere.
Just not all too fond of the majority of the rap I've heard. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2424/5458 |
I'm digging Xzibit, they're pretty good.
I also quite enjoy Nas, also. My conservative ex-skin head gang member turned ghetto styled history teacher is all about the Nas. |
drjayphd
Posts: 815/1477 |
Zarathud: Might I suggest Busdriver? Even though he's basically a lower-rent Twista as far as speed-rapping goes, he's more interesting.
I've also come to appreciate Nas more lately. New album, first single, the beat's basically a typical blues riff. And his father (avant-garde jazz trumpeter Olu Dara) has the hook, too. 
Melvin: Who knew Dolores O'Riordan could rap?  |
Mr. F-Zero
Posts: 98/158 |
I like all rap, but especially Jurassic 5, Arrested Development, A Tribe Called Quest and Eminem. And of course The Beastie Boys.
Well from the family tree of old school hip-hop
Kick off your shoes and relax your socks
The rhymes will spread just like a pox
'Cause the music is live like an electric shock
I am known to do the Wop *wop*
Also known for the Flintstone Flop *flop*
Tammy D getting biz on the crop *crop*
Beastie Boys known to let the beat...
"Mmmh..drop"
Now when I wrote graffiti my name was Slop
If my rap's soup my beats is stock
Step from the tables when I start to chop
I'm a lumber jack DJ Adrock
If you try to knock me you'll get mocked
I'll stir fry you in my wok
Your knees'll start shaking and your fingers pop
Like a pinch on the neck of Mr. Spock
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Jarukoth
Posts: 2351/3194 |
Like many other suburban white boys, I like rap a bit. D12's "Get My Gun" + Bass = The Shiznit, yo.
I also like Flava Flav. No, I don't like his music, just the fact that he's really stupidly obnoxious, and I think I can kick his ass.  |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2377/5458 |
Originally posted by Toxic
haha, yep, fuck the police
(for the record, I like NWA)
Fuck the moderator's comin' straight from the Craziness
User got it bad cause he blue
And not silver, green or yellow,
So the mods think
They have the authority to censor posts.
Well fuck that shit, cause I am the one
who will be banned when back talk Ziff
Or colin, or ace or any nigga who is staff. |
Toxic
Posts: 2252/2857 |
haha, yep, fuck the police
(for the record, I like NWA) |
Ramadan Roy
Posts: 482/816 |
Originally posted by Ziffski
I'm comin' straight outta Compton!
As am I. Believe it or not, I also enjoy some forms of rap. Nearly all of them being old school, preferably from the early 90's and 70's era. My favorites include Grandmaster Flash and NWA. Grandmaster Flash's "Message" is powerful (first heard it when I was 8, on Encarta Encyclopedia '96), while NWA delivers a nice type of attitude in their music. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 2367/5458 |
I'm comin' straight outta Compton! |
Zarathud
Posts: 53/55 |
I like instrumental hip-hop in the vein of DJ Shadow, Prefuse 73 and Kid Koala, but there's very little lyrical hip-hop that ever leaves much of an impression on me. Aesop Rock, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Deltron, Mr. Lif, Roots Manuva, Blackalicious, Jurassic 5, and the Beasties are all listenable, but I can't say I'd ever really bother buying any of their albums. They just don't make much of an impact on me really. |
Bella
Posts: 1383/2962 |
+ Kanye West
+ Eminems new CD..it's funny
+ Tupac..
K-os
Some songs I don't like at all..Dead Celebrity is underground or something?
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Kwan
Posts: 1017/1137 |
Originally posted by Melvin
I'M A GANSTER
I'M A STRAIGHT UP G
THE GANGSTER LIFE
IS THE LIFE FOR ME
SHOOTING PEOPLE BY DAY
SELLING DRUGS BY NIGHT
BEING A GANGSTER
IS HELLA TIGHT
You forgot the
PIMPIN MY HOES
IN MY LOW RIDER
SHAKE THAT BOOTY
UH YEAH UH YEAH
*insert black women moaning in ecstasy* |
Uncle Elmo
Posts: 838/1062 |
Goldie Lookin Chain. Best Rapgroup. Ever!' *nods sagely*
Actually it sort of depends on many things. I LOVE Eminem's "Stan" and "Toy Soldiers", but that ight have something to do with the samples (Dido and Martika).
I also love Faithless' "Insomnia", but is it a rap song (because there is a rap", some sort of poetry or just a dance record? Discuss.
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DarkSlaya
Posts: 3219/4249 |
Originally posted by Xeogred
The only rap I can stand is Run DMC and the Beastie Boys, they've got the rapping going on, but with rock instead of two beats and annoying girls grunting repeated for 2 minutes.
Amen to that. I totally agree with this. |
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