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Ha well alrighty then so first off by saying beats are music you contradicted yourself. Secondly in what world is just mindless yapping, I don't know what rap you have listened to but it's very different than what I do. Many rapper s are very socially conscious and in my opinion the wordplay from people like Aesop Rock and MF DOOM are nearly unbeatable and completely have the right to be called poetry.

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listen to me stroke my delay pedal

ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

Machine

Agree

Agree


Aaaaannnddd... Agree completely.

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boost my ego

listen to me stroke my delay pedal

ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

DwnWthVwls

Can you explain? Trying hard to do what? You said impress you but I don't understand how you come to that conclusion based on a performance that was made for the public, not your satisfaction.

He rhymes pretty effortlessly compared to some artists like Biggie/Immortal Tech where you can sometimes hear them gasping for air.

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EPOCH6

Anticipate many hundreds more, they're unstoppable.

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Blanche_Minim

I don't consider the rapping effortless. It's hard to explain, but I listen to "Ever, ever After" by Carrie Underwood and she seems to be trying too hard to sing in that recording. Maybe it's the loud background or something.

I think using some kind of an extra grit or force in their voice gives me the impression that they're trying too hard and their songs aren't even that good.

Chula Vista

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

What? If you're laidback and screaming then you're doing something wrong.

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Chula Vista

But if your being laid while on your back and screaming it's an entirely different story.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Blanche_Minim

The beats (I'm not talking about the rhythmic drum beats) has harmony in it. I am also into Gospel Music and I regularly go to fat chords.com to learn some PHAT chords.

I did not mention hip-hop or R&B if you notice. I am talking about the rapping. I read a lot of write-ups and I have it written down in my Evernote. I don't consider rap to be poetry (even if they talk about politics) and I don't think their lyrics will get published in any form in the future. I read better write-ups than in rap. However, there was one rapper where I was impressed by his rhymes, his name is Akil Dasan. I was just impressed by him because he was playing funk and jazz on his guitar and he was beat boxing and rapping at the same time. He also breakdances. That was the only time I got impressed by hip-hop and then this 50cent and all throngs of rappers showed up. Talking about pimps and money. I got turned off by rap. How can you consider that art?

I think the song by Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower, I feel that it has some lyrics that talk about the political situation now and it was made many years ago.

Blanche_Minim

My life is more peaceful now compared to when I was a teenager. Coincidentally the kids who bullied me back then listen to rap. Connect the dots.