re: Rolling Stones Co-Founder Reveals Why He Can’t Stand Rap Music

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They sample real songs to create a hook, and then yell over it. I've never been a fan of rap, but the "best rap songs" all use music created by someone else.

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Off the top of my head The Roots and Kendrick Lamar both use real bands in the studio.

There’s also a difference between sampling like Puff Daddy used to do where it really is a repackaged hit from the prior decade and sampling like Kanye did where he’s pulling on much more obscure tropes to create something that sounds reminiscent of a previous era but also entirely new. The most obvious example would be the whichever early DJ heard the opening drum from “Long Red” by the band Mountain when they played at Woodstock and thought this should be what people rhyme over for the next five years

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That's a fact. But, Mick Jagger = 80 years old. Keith Richards = 79 years old. Ronnie Wood = 76 years old. They are my parent's age, and I'm 53. They should look rough.

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I think Mick Jagger is a notoriously clean living health nut. There was a while where he was stopping into my parents Catholic Bible study pretty regularly with healthy cookies for the group. I think Keith Richard earned his look by like the age of 40. Jagger looked like a girly Barney Fife when he was 25 and then turned into Skeletor because of his genes

They actually dropped a new song and music video a couple weeks ago. It’s not bad.

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it does actually take a lot of talent to compose and perform

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To some extent, sure. But how many rappers have their beats, loops, samples, "hype men", etc. sitting there when they walk into a studio? And for most of it, there's zero finesse. It's just a lot of mumbling and yelling with a pile of overdone production. Most of the best known rap songs wouldn't have caused the slightest ripple without sampling hooks from musicians who know how to compose a song.

Whether it's pop or rap, there's a huge contingent that would just as soon have a cheap drum machine going in the background that they can clumsily two-step to. And like the bankers that run cinema, a product that is cheap, infinitely repeatable and doesn't demand expensive talent is always a win.

Country music needs some of that Bakersfield sound back.

I doubt it would work but it would be nice if Dwight Yoakam had a clone.

Probably no rock music without hill music.

Angry is a damn good song.

But, Keith is right. Rap is bad "music".That being said, Ronnie Wood has been the main guitarist for at least the last 30 years for The Stones. He carries Keith today.

It sucks

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