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What's with all the talk in here about rap just being about guns and hoes? That's not every rap song. But more importantly, the guns, the crime, the dope, usually there's motivation behind that. They aren't just saying let's go play basketball and shoot somebody. It might be behind the scenes a little and not some lesson like Jeremy or We are the World but there's reasoning to what they're saying. You might not see things the same way or agree but that's their world and what they know.

See Em's cry/survivor songs. Len called it livin on a prayer type, that's right and that's never really fit well in hip hop. Rap is grounded in a certain reality and mentality, it's not just music, some things just don't feel right. Those songs don't. Maybe good for youtube and the pop charts.

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5 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

i don't like whats eminem's best song as the title. everyone has a "best" em song that they think is best for them. and mine change from time to time. "cleanin' out my closet" is my current best Eminem song. "lose yourself" was another that was at one time my best em song. "beautiful" was one the best song for me as was "without me". some may agree some may thinks these are crap but everyone has different tastes :shrugs:

The title was crafted to specifically annoy people. 

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2 hours ago, J Dog said:

What's with all the talk in here about rap just being about guns and hoes? That's not every rap song. But more importantly, the guns, the crime, the dope, usually there's motivation behind that. They aren't just saying let's go play basketball and shoot somebody. It might be behind the scenes a little and not some lesson like Jeremy or We are the World but there's reasoning to what they're saying. You might not see things the same way or agree but that's their world and what they know.

See Em's cry/survivor songs. Len called it livin on a prayer type, that's right and that's never really fit well in hip hop. Rap is grounded in a certain reality and mentality, it's not just music, some things just don't feel right. Those songs don't. Maybe good for youtube and the pop charts.

I just like things that break the mold a little, if it works or just for the sake of it. Like punk turned into a religion. That wasn't what I thought it meant. As soon as there's a dress code it starts to feel weird. Same thing with metal or hair metal, suddenly you have to do it. I get there's a market and product, but how did hip hop evolve to this set thing. It could have stopped with The Message or Grand Master Flash. Someone could have stopped it and said no this music has to be about this and NWA was rejected or never even made. It has to be organic I guess. It's true, it has to be this sometimes, but at the same time all these labels don't hold me back from getting something out of Headlights. It's not hip hop but is hip hop a catch all for great. Like you achieved the status of hip hop. 

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7 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

:facepalm:

Once you use an emoticon I've won. 

I'm now derailing my own thread that is on fire because I used the word "best" in the title to spike people's indignation. 

I guess, I'm justa sick sick bastard

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8 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

this song may not be like a "deep cut" or whatever but i like it a lot....rap does not have to be all about drugs, murder and hos to be good

Excuse me? you seem a tad misguided there honey. Of course it has to be all about drugs, murder and hoes to be good. It's better this way. Rap God is where it's at right now for me. From the old ones I like Kim, Murder She Wrote, Stan, Kill You, and Stay Wide Awake.

I'm an excellent rapper btw, but you probably guessed it by now. No proof, just take my word for it. (Sorry, I'm fuckin' high, it's brutal)

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9 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

reluctantly i agree with you. for example i think Kanye is the scum of the earth but i like Golddigger.

No reason to be reluctant about it. Life's way more fun, when you appreciate music by it's own merits, without caring who wrote it or other shit like that.

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13 hours ago, Rovim said:

Excuse me? you seem a tad misguided there honey. Of course it has to be all about drugs, murder and hoes to be good. It's better this way. Rap God is where it's at right now for me. From the old ones I like Kim, Murder She Wrote, Stan, Kill You, and Stay Wide Awake.

I'm an excellent rapper btw, but you probably guessed it by now. No proof, just take my word for it. (Sorry, I'm fuckin' high, it's brutal)

ummmmm yeah. that's what it is :facepalm:

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4 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

do you take requests? or just kill at random? maybe we can do a Strangers on a Train thing?

R U saying you wanna be my train buddy? we can do it all! drink tea when it's all shaky and it's in Texas or in Vegas or some shit. I was never in a casino, but we can play monopoly on acid and play with your cat and drink coffee that was brewed in Brazil. You should probably decline to all of the above plus tax. Your red hair makes you an easy target unfortunately. What can we do but to be ourselves and so much more.

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1 minute ago, Rovim said:

R U saying you wanna be my train buddy? we can do it all! drink tea when it's all shaky and it's in Texas or in Vegas or some shit. I was never in a casino, but we can play monopoly on acid and play with your cat and drink coffee that was brewed in Brazil. You should probably decline to all of the above plus tax. Your red hair makes you an easy target unfortunately. What can we do but to be ourselves and so much more.

LOL no it's a movie and the plot of the movie was two strangers meet on a train and one plots that they could kill someone the other wants dead and vice versa :P 

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Just now, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

LOL no it's a movie and the plot of the movie was two strangers meet on a train and one plots that they could kill someone the other wants dead and vice versa :P 

Oh. That was almost awkward. We're cool right? I think we're cool.

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10 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

LOL no it's a movie and the plot of the movie was two strangers meet on a train and one plots that they could kill someone the other wants dead and vice versa :P 

Throw momma from the train was a kinda 'funny' remake of Strangers on a Train wasn't it?

 

 

just realised what thread this is...I don't even like m&m

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17 hours ago, wasted said:

I just like things that break the mold a little, if it works or just for the sake of it. Like punk turned into a religion. That wasn't what I thought it meant. As soon as there's a dress code it starts to feel weird. Same thing with metal or hair metal, suddenly you have to do it. I get there's a market and product, but how did hip hop evolve to this set thing. It could have stopped with The Message or Grand Master Flash. Someone could have stopped it and said no this music has to be about this and NWA was rejected or never even made. It has to be organic I guess. It's true, it has to be this sometimes, but at the same time all these labels don't hold me back from getting something out of Headlights. It's not hip hop but is hip hop a catch all for great. Like you achieved the status of hip hop. 

Actually, there is a bit of a dress code when it comes to hip hop. Not everyone can do true hip hop, which kinda helps separate rap from other genres and imo, that's one thing that makes rap so special, not everyone can or should do it.

Not saying you can't like a song like Headlights or Not Afraid, that's fine. But for me, and many true hip hop heads, we don't really rate songs like that.

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29 minutes ago, J Dog said:

Actually, there is a bit of a dress code when it comes to hip hop. Not everyone can do true hip hop, which kinda helps separate rap from other genres and imo, that's one thing that makes rap so special, not everyone can or should do it.

Not saying you can't like a song like Headlights or Not Afraid, that's fine. But for me, and many true hip hop heads, we don't really rate songs like that.

They aren't really hip hop songs. I'm just talking about how a genre is formed. In term of evolution of a genre, it must evolve from certain elements but who presses stop snd says this is it, and why? Is it around the time it gets first big relative success or just before? 

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