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Originally Posted by Big Ears
In answer to the first part, it is because:
- I like singing, not shouted/chanted/spoken lyrics;
- I like people who can write and record their own material, not people who shout over someone else's sampled music;
- I like rock music, not (for the most part) rhythm-based tracks;
- I cannot relate to the lyrics, ie. drugs, expletives, mysogyny, violence, race hatred and the like;
- I don't like the cliches, such as the hand-gestures, over-sized chains, 'designer' baseball caps, wearing a tracksuit not for the gym, jerky formation dancing, walking with an affected swagger;
- I don't like people singing about the streets of New York, when they've never been;
- I don't like the chanting in affected accents.
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I think you'd find that a lot of hip hop does not fall into the categories you're describing. Before I make any recommendations though, what kinds of music do you like?
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Originally Posted by Big Ears
In truth, I don't dislike all rap, for example: Afrika Bambataa's You've Lost That Love, Grandmaster Flash's White Lines; Gary Byrd's The Crown?; Last Night a DJ Saved my Lfe; De La Soul's Fallin'. Rap purists probably don't like these anyway.
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Why would rap purists not like those? A lot of that stuff is the foundation of hip hop.