Rap Is The Special Olympics Of Music?
969664
Dude I just wanted to chime in and say that's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time!!! I would NEVER insult the Special Olympics athletes by comparing them to no talent hacks like Jay Z or 50 Cent!!
511789
In my opinion I think RnB, Hip Hop and Rap in general are way overrated. But unfortunately that seems to be all you can see on tv and hear on radios these days. To these genres have nothing to do anymore with the initial idea of making music.
711744
nothing rap is not music
210052
i dont think that it matters what race you r, if u like rap music then listen to rap music.
784183
"Hip hop music" and "rap music" mean virtually the same thing. However, some people associate the term "rap" with the more mainstream variety of the genre (which nowadays often includes R&B or pop elements) and reserve the term "hip hop" for the variety of the genre that stays closer to the roots of hip hop music (i.e. - speaking on social and/or political issues, storytelling, bragging about one's lyrical skills while roasting another MC, etc.).
989920
none... is that specific enough?... I hate rap... therefor I hate rappers...
1032429
Music these days isn't about talent... It's all about image.\n\n50-Cent can't rap, but he was shot 9 times and survived = platinum recording artist.\n\nMaking the Band people have talent, but their image is sullied by a reality show, bringing out their flaws = failures in the industry.
872599
That's rediculous. Rap is an artistic expression. No one's too old to rap. One of my truck driving instructors who is probably in his late forties, this short, skinny Southern carrot top with an ugly mustache and he could rap the DOT pretrip. He was so good at it, it was hilarious.
646074
99 % of (c)Rap is trash! Rap is CRAP! lyrically and musically.
286749
I guess there are still a few people out there who prefer to listen to music with some semblance of creativity, and watch videos that don't revolve around cars, bikinis and hotpants. \n\nApparently they thought so too at the Athens summer Olympics.
1183471
Because most of the popular stuff now is that rap charp, it's hard for anyone to listen to.  \n\nJust try and listen to some normal music and you love it.
782629
No.  Our country is becoming full of illiterate, violent morons and rap music has some culpability in that.\n\nI know lots will disagree but I can't see the sense in much of what's out there.  It's sad that so many get rich by contributing nothing but sorrow to the world.\n\nFor the artists that are responsible, sorry to throw you under the bus.  Generally this medium is exploiting kids that can't yet--and sadly probably never will be--think for themselves.
717324
The rap and hip-hop music is apart of their culture. Those things such as *pimping/huslting have really happened to these people. They have  SEEN the violence and HEARD the PROFANITY. If rockers can say what is on their mind in their music than so can BLACK PEOPLE. And we have the right of freedom of speech. YOU CANT destroy black culture. AND BLACK PEOLE arent the only rappers. PAUL WALL>>>>EMINEM. They are rappers becuz they have seen the 1)sex, 2)drugs, 3)violence, 5)Profanity[too much] 4)Hustling/pimping, 5)Acting "tough" and all that crap. THEY KNOW THE REAL WORLD. PEople singing about stuff that isnt real is why people chose hip-hop and rap music!
29990
Hip-hop/rap is uncreative, unimaginative crap.\n\nMoney this, cars that, ho's this, bling that and on and on and on.
34220
i think you'd be better thinking about individual artists. just for example, i'd say biggie smalls was probably better than eminem but eminem is better than ja rule. i don't think race has very much to do with how good a rapper you can be. i don't think it has very much to do with how good at anything you can be.
458974
The Special Olympics is like wwf wrestling, \nthe Special Olympics is not sports, \nit's "Sports Entertainment".\n\nThose guys get paid to be silly.\nThink about it, they wear helmuts to play pingpong.
1149818
I totally agree with you.\n\nAll I can say is it's rap dude. It's the social degredation of young people and it's actually celebrated.\nNot only does rap speak badly towards young women, it speaks badly to all young people. It teaches them that it's okay to be lawless, direspect your parents and teachers, and even consider shooting others.\nPopular music of the day, no matter what year your talking about, has the magical power to control young people's mindset and even the way they dress. \nIn my day, it was heavy metal, and alot of kids got into partying and sex because it made it look so glamorous. I know of alot of people today that are dead because they just couldn't "let go" of that lifestyle.