How can people like rap?

Question

I do not listen to rap. The main reason is the lyrics. Its all about s*x wild parties drugs money and that all leads back to s*x and the desecration of women and our bodies. Plus the cussing. There is no reason to call us women their well the b word. I think you get my drift.So please tell me why people like listening to that. And on top of that let their children listen to it.

Answer 1

you came from the rock section huh. another ignorant person bashing something they dont know.

Answer 2

Who said I listen to that.

Thats not rap, thats C-rap.

I listen to Common, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, Mos Def, Eminem, Tupac, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, etc.

Here, I'll give you a few tracks to listen to that you might like. Not about the stuff you just mentioned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s26EEQ1_n...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHReQQnMV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zxCAfVe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUoUDuAPC...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqn5f2ISn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igt-jW4e8...

Well, the Immortal Tecnhique one might be too real for you.

Just please, check some of them out before you make such a generalization on all Hip-Hop/Rap.

I hope I helped. You don't HAVE to listen to it, I just hope you do. If you do, I'd like to hear what you think. Have a great day.

Answer 3

you need to listen to good hip hop before you be so ignorant. you probably only have heard mainstream rap, nowadays most mainstream is c**p like soulja boy and other people. listen to nas, tupac, eminem, immortal technique,bone thugs, krs1, rakim, big daddy kane, and gangstarr and there is much much more but i wont name all of them. listen to crossroads by bone thugs and if that song doesnt change your view on hip hop, i dont know what will. you just have to be willin to listen and listen closely to the lyrics not just the beat.

Answer 4

Listen to Jurassic 5... or x-clan... or some of the other hundreds or thousands of artists/groups recommended on this site...

Answer 5

Why do people listen to gospel is the better question, fool.

Answer 6

This is why I like Christmas Rap best!

Answer 7

There's no internet answer to this question, cuz rap music aint about all this you previously mentioned which is in fact the "american way of life" and even if rap was about this, i don't see why y'all would complain right I mean that's the way 98% of the people wanna live anyways right?!!

So I'm just sayin hip hop, rap, lyricism call it what you may, has many different aspects of life to it, so you have to get out there and look for good hip hop cuz it aint gonna come to you through the radio, and if you let the radio and media fool you then your a freaking ROBOT!

Answer 8

Rap is more than s*x and drugs, you must be listening to the wrong stuff.Try some 2Pac or The Game. And I don't think you know what ********* means, A ********* is a female or MALE that wants to take everything you have and make you fall off from the top.

Answer 9

there is so much more than that... i listen to eminem and he talks about more than that!!!!  

Answer 10

I know don't you just think this is the truth

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 11

Some rap is c**p, but how could you not like this beat, and the way they flow on it??????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1jn-31bD...

And some rap has good messages, and not talking about all this petty materialistic, womanizing type stuff. Look up music that Common or Mobb Deep did, like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LQiuQ1xI...

Answer 12

Shut up bytch, swallow.  

Answer 13

How can you not like rap.

Answer 14

Delete this question before you embarrass yourself.

OH WAIT.

Answer 15

?????

Answer 16

i don't really know about that voodoo music but one thing i know is that, most of this musics are worldly music. it's good to sing and compose a song but mixing it with such ugly images and words will temp the youngsters more. in which it makes the media gets more richer and richer while our brains gets dumber and dumber.

have you ever heard the Katy Perry song -I kissed a girl?( not a rap song but a good example for this topic)

it has nice rhythm and yet such ugly words were used. my friend likes that song so much and i always keep reminding her that what you sing always represents your personality.

Answer 17

eh,i dont know

but i check out my music

vampirefreaks.com/dagavaq

myspace.com/dagavaq1

Answer 18

that is just alot of mainstream rap if you actually took time to look into a lot of rap you would realize that they rap about issues and struggles not just what you mentioned, some rap even has good messages you just have to find it.

so before you diss rap, listen to it not just some of it.

Answer 19

The same way the like everything else

Answer 20

Ughhh...another one of YOU people

Answer 21

There's plenty of quality hip hop out there, you just have to be prepared to search for it. But I agree, most of the mainstream rap nowadays is talentless garbage.

Answer 22

You are obviously listening to the wrong kind of rap.

Answer 23

I think you've only been exposed to some hip-hop, not all is about what ur talkin about, listen to some Nas and Lupe Fiasco and u'll understand. Ualso have to understand that it was bred by a culture and if u don't understand the culture, don't try to understand the music

Answer 24

not all rap music promotes the themes you have enlisted, although some not all songs talk about such things, its not that smart to be categorising all rap music in this way...afterall its a genre that encompasses other facets of life, music unites peoples from all walks of life therefore although it may not appeal to some audiences it still does have hold some relevance to us all. Just a thought to ponder over!

Answer 25

There's a lot of screamo/post-hardcore/hardcore music that's about death, destruction.... Does that make me a bad person?

Or if someone has a piercing, does that make them a bad person?

To each to his own.

I'll never understand why people like pop music, or why people are homophobes. Why you can't let people like rap music when, for all we know, you love Mitchell Mucho or whatever.

Answer 26

.....

Wanna go play with bleach?

Answer 27

Because it is about more than just that stuff that you said.

Answer 28

I understand what ur saying.. Rap and hip hop has enough power to influence young ppl to dress and act a certain way... its the way its been for a while. And its really ANY type of music, so fo all the people who are getting affended, I think its different types of musics that can influence us.

Some rappers talk trash or talk down on God, which affends religious people, and some rockers praise the devil without sugar coating...or bling.

Basically we should really get in depth of something and see it form other peoples point of views, and find out real facts about it before we make any conclusions. I know ppl with no religion that listen to hip hop, and will defend it against questions like this. I know religious people who look at rap, rock, hip hop in a more depth and they can find things that they find offensive. Like a secret "bad" message. and then i know people like myself. Stuck in between and trying to figure out if its all bad or if music is something to just listen to. However, I do believe in God.

And she came at u guys respectfully, no pin=pointing. Be generous and treat her with the same respect. See i can be saying all this c**p but im not.

Answer 29

I can see why they call women like you byches.

You are obviously listening to the wrong kind of rap. Listen to talib kweli, mos def, immortal technique, hieroglyphics, nas, dead prez, public enemy, and wu tang.

SHUT UP AND SWALLOW BYCH

Answer 30

:\ Shut tha f**k up hoe!I'm so sick of u people commin over here tryin 2 bash RHH.If u don't like the music, don't listen 2 it.Plain and simple dummy! Go listen 2 your Barry Manilow b**ch!

Answer 31

cuz I'm an E-thug, I sell drugs, kill, and shoot on the daily, I have a whole crew that does nothing but drink liquor and smoke weed w/scantily clad women not to mention  kill others for no reason other than we think it will up our respect...I pray to Gotti not god, and I've got guns the size of the empire state building, with slugs the size of light poles...not to mention we do this while stacking billions on the daily, yet were still poor and sell drugs to survive