Damn, I am 777 posts past due for my introduction.

Anyways, welcome to Music Banter. You seem to be a nice guy, and, from what I have seen, you seem to have a decent taste in music. I can tell you this - this site is great for expanding your taste in music.

True. I listen to all kinds of stuff I didn't when I first joined here.

You may be pretty happy with your judgement on hip-hop as it is, and if so then thats fine. I won't tell you that you should make an effort. But I guess I would suggest that you at least keep an open enough mind to click on a Youtube video here and there around the boards once you start to get a feel of peoples music tastes, and who you are likely to respect.

I'm not a big hip-hop fan but I have found lots of stuff I like in my time here.

Welcome to MB!

I must say I'm still trying to understand hip-hop, but I still don't. It still sounds all the same to me. I do start to understand electronic music, though.

Dalek's album Absence, Aesop Rock's album Labor Days, and Madvillain's debut album.

Try those and we'll see if you still think that.

After reading my intro post, along with most of those that followed, I think I'll back off my statement about the rap & hip/hop. It's hard for me to imagine that I would ever hear and enjoy listening to that style of music. But, I will say, all I've ever been exposed to is what I hear blasting out of car windows or in movie soundtracks. In the area I live in, there just aren't any radio stations that interest me. It's either top 40, new country, bluegrass, or golden oldies. There is a station or two that plays music for what I'm going to refer to as college-age people. I'm not ashamed to admit that I don't know what to call that type music. Would it be some kind of rock? Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, etc.

What I'm saying is this - the urban music that I've been exposed to could be the lowest common denominator of that kind of music. It could be that exposure to rap & hip/hop at a different level might adjust my attitude upward a notch or two.

I just don't want to come off as some sort of rigidly stern blinders-wearing redneck, unwilling to have an open mind. There is a lot of that here in the south, and I'm bothered a lot by that attitude.

Same.

Downloading. I think I downloaded Madvillainy a couple of weeks ago for someone here. Clicked, thought it was crappy and deleted it after that person got it :).
But I will try.

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Hey, I said I didn't like hip-hop :D.
You don't expect me to like it because you do, do you?

Nah, I just want you to give it a chance. I was in your position a year ago, but I eventually began to like it.