You know I ride for my motherfuckin' niggaz.
 

Most likely I'm gonna die with my finger on the trigger,
They tell me don't get high, and I should try to make a living,
I tell them I'm a hustler and I'd rather make a killing

best rapper alive.

Yeah. Weezy F. Baby is my hero.

you know slick rick, Rakim, Chuck D, Eric Parish, and KRS 1 are still alive right?

It strikes me that you haven't enjoyed any rap in about 16 years. If there was a girl born the last time there was a rapper around you liked, she'd be legal now (in the UK).

More like 7-10 years.

I got sick of singing choruses, and raps about NOTHING other than how much money you got and how many "bitches" you can buy.

I like some Houston rappers though, even though they get silly, like chamillionaire, Devin the dude, etc., and always will have love for scarface.

Could I recommend this?

I don't know why I'm criticising, I know roughly fuck all about hip-hop.

Wack, pack, stick it up yer crack.

grime rules

Fuck that, you can have it back.

rap is one huge cliche.

it's like saying
music is one huge cliche.

^^^
agree

As if rock isn't one.

Next time you hear someone say 'yeah' in a rock song, ask yourself - what does this 'yeah' mean? It's amazing how this simple observation ruined a shitload of music for me.

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Not a U2 fan I take it?

not a nirvana fan i take it?

Yeah means "!!!"
As it's impossible to say "!!!" , they say "yeah" instead.

"!!!" is pronounced chk chk chk
Oh wait...

I only say that because I used to love rap. and I'm so disappointed at how bad it turned out to be, generic rap. I mean I got the first Grandmaster Flash album when it came out which was like 1980 or 81, (and I grew up in maine) so I've been listening to (or now hearing) rap for a long time longer than many of these rappers today have been alive! I've seen what was a totally creative and really liberating force self transform into a loathesome face for venal brutality and pathology; but most importantly, the music is not even any good. i blame it all on fucking puff daddy, that is some empty soulless shit right there man. the led zep rip-off killed it for me,

word.

out

just cuz there are shitty rappers on mtv like puff daddy etc doesn't mean all rappers suck nowadays or something like that.

Generic music, whether it's black metal, punk, shoegaze, electronic etc. tends to be disappointing, it's not just rap.

The good part of rap : the groove.
The bad parts :
-the samples ( = ripoff )
-the clichés ( not that there aren't any in other genres , but rap is on top for that ).
-seems the most important part of it is the lyrics.

Puff Daddy did destroy it all. I can't deny Biggie though, even the shit with Puff Daddy acting "street" in it was still great.

i have no idea who the hell is puff daddy to be honest..

Don't try to find out. He's just a wanna-be little man that has ego issues and is basically a money-grabbing bastard that screws up everything and everyone he's involved with.

hmm sounds like a soulja boy

Soulja Boy at least did it himself. Puff Daddy just rode on Biggie's rhymes until he died, then Puff Daddy realized that by making everything he did a tribute to Biggie, that he could sell records and continue to screw people over.

Puff Daddy couldn't even come close to Biggie's rhymes or flow.

"Navajo's creep me in they teepee" "heart throb? never. black and ugly as ever" I mean, c'mon. You really have a tough time getting past that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHDRkO_UmXY
Possibly one of the greatest "slow jams" ever.

haha, AFUCKINGMEN! not to mention the Gza, Raekwon, The Prodigy, Chuck D, Ghostface Killah, MF Doom, and so many others who whipe the floor with LIl Wayne's talent. LIl Wayne is decent, I like "The Inspiration" a lot, but the "Carter 3" is bullshit, weak ass beats with rhymes about girls, drugs, money, gangs, and cars, and ever worse, when he trys to be "prophetic" he'a pathetic. Lil Wayne is testament to how low the bar has gotten for Pop Music.

And the things, I used to rep lil Wayne. I just realized now how mediocre he is.

Surely Judging all Rap by what gets played on the radio is like judging all guitar music by The Kooks