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Question about rap
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:53 pm
How did boasting and all of the showiness etc become so ingrained in it? Bragging about money, women, and the like seem to be 90% of what rap is all about - how did this come to be?
It seems like it could be any other form of music, or that we could be asking the same questions about country or rock or anything else as those genres developed but we don't. I don't believe the is anything special about rap that lends itself to constant boasting, so how did it become what it did?
And yes I get that there is underground rap where the lyrics are more meaningful, but by and large the mainstream of it is about cars, money, and women.
It seems like it could be any other form of music, or that we could be asking the same questions about country or rock or anything else as those genres developed but we don't. I don't believe the is anything special about rap that lends itself to constant boasting, so how did it become what it did?
And yes I get that there is underground rap where the lyrics are more meaningful, but by and large the mainstream of it is about cars, money, and women.
This post was edited on 4/4/16 at 7:54 pm
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Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:54 pm to DavidTheGnome
Music Board
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:56 pm to DavidTheGnome
shite I could rap about anything
Traffic
Traffic
Searchin for my chapstick
There's a Ford Maverick
Traffic
Traffic
Searchin for my chapstick
There's a Ford Maverick
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:57 pm to DavidTheGnome
Same way hair metal became what it became. Shitty and excess.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:58 pm to DavidTheGnome
Jews
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:58 pm to 805tiger
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Music Board
Forgot there was one my mistake. If the mods read this please move.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:59 pm to DavidTheGnome
My favorite is the Wiz Khalifa song, the one about looking for Molly, where he brags "My car is so fast that I got a ticket speeding" 
Like that is something special, I could get a speeding ticket in the shittiest old beater ever.
Like that is something special, I could get a speeding ticket in the shittiest old beater ever.Posted on 4/4/16 at 7:59 pm to SEClint
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Same way hair metal became what it became. Shitty and excess.
Good point.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
Money, hoes, clothes >> pick ups, high school sweethearts, old dirty jeans left in the hallway
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
Is that you, grandma?
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:02 pm to DavidTheGnome
I think its part of the black experience and probably has much to do with being slaves and then gaining freedom.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:06 pm to DavidTheGnome
I blame NWA
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To a kid lookin' up to me. Life ain't nothin' but bitches and money
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:06 pm to lsu480
My favorite line is from Missy Elliot. "Black eyed peas all up in my butt like fleas"
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:23 pm to DavidTheGnome
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If the mods read this please move.
I say this is a society issue as much as music issue, so this board is appropriate, IMO.
Why do rappers sing about those things? It's about what you don't have and therefore you want.
Other forms of music, predominantly sung by whites, will sing about things they want, yet don't always have , too: girls, sometimes drugs, etc.
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:24 pm to DavidTheGnome
Still better than bro country
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
Came along way from:
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Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:26 pm to East Coast Band
quote:It's like you've never heard of bro country or Lil Dicky
Other forms of music, predominantly sung by whites, will sing about things they want, yet don't always have
This post was edited on 4/4/16 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:41 pm to WestCoastAg
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Still better than bro country
Parallel
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:44 pm to SEClint
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Same way hair metal became what it became. Shitty and excess.
Good point. Unfortunately rap will not die like hair metal did
Posted on 4/4/16 at 8:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I think it became so intertwined with the degenerate gang lifestyle. Live fast, get yours and die young. These guys knew they never needed a retirement plan when the average life expectancy is 30 if you are lucky. Money, stuff and women are what is considered successful in the inner city community unfortunately. Blame American society that prioritizes competition, consumption, excess, keeping up with the Joneses. These inner city youth are a victim of the bullshite lie we are all conditioned with growing up.
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