woa, wait. Rap Sucks?

[Fickle]

yeah. A lot of it does. It's true. I can legitimately watch Mtv and mistake one for the other and fall asleep and think I'm watching the same video an hour later (with Mtv, sometimes you really are).
Admitted a lot of them sound the same and blah de blah, but you know what? Some of it is pretty good. There are only a few I don't mind, and it's more songs than performers. I like Hey Ya, Get Down by Nas, Some Eminem, and a couple others. The ones that seem to have an oldish flare to them or just smooth beats and fun shit. I don't like to hear how 50 cent is going to blow away Ja Rules dad while fucking his mother, I want to hear about strange musings put to an old beat from the early 60's. Or easy-going bullshit put to a laid back beat that someone played with for six days and then slowed it down and now it's perfect.


And I'm a huge fan of a lot of Rock, I really dig in on punk (although I don't have enough of it), and I hated a lot of the eighties. I'm a defunct Nirvana child, who liked Alice in Chains and Soundgarden much more, hating All rap until the Beastie Boys, then Beck's crossover into a techno-rap-babble and then at last to Rage Against Machine, who finally made me open up to quick lyrics and hot loops (which, in Rage, were'nt really loops), and now I can appreciate a good beat. I love a good beat as long as it's not played out.

Wow, this is long and I haven't really said much. Some rap is decent. Try it before you buy it, sure, but at least try it.