Chronic said:
People are on his dick because he raps about politics, they're just jumping the conscious rapper bandwagon. Happened with Mos Def, happened with Talib Kweli, happened with dead prez and it will happen with just about every rapper that raps about 'conscious' shit.
People need to pull that stick out of their ass and realize that it's not the content that makes rapper's good, it's how they bring their content. Whose a better rapper? Rapper A with a great flow/delivery, amazing lyrical skills and talks only about guns or rapper B with a shitty flow/delivery, alright lyrical skills and talks about politics? If you think rapper B is better you should stop listening to rap music because you don't understand shit about it.
Why are people so damn desperate to distance themselves from popular rap or rap that talks about "money, cars, hoes and guns"? You should focus on distances yourself from wack shit. Content doesn't make you a good/bad rapper. Finding a topic interesting is purely subjective while rating a rapper is based on objective measurements. If you don't find guntalk interesting that's cool, that's your personal preference but don't start bitching about it being 'bad content'. You sound like those old white people bitching about rap music.
But if you can't remove that stick from your ass you should at least check out the better 'political' MCs/groups like Public Enemy, Paris and The Coup.
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Your crazy.... Yea all people that listen to Immortal Technique don't listen to other political rap
People listen to music not just rap for different reasons, just like people watch different types of movies for different reasons. I listen to political rap cuz that's the lifestyle I live, I don't give a fuck about money, cars, or whos got the biggest ass in the club. That shit is not relevant in my life so it's not relevant in the music I listen to.
Some people are on Tech's dick yes, but it's the same way some people are Em's dick, or Commons dick. Every rapper has dickryders, and just like take it or leave it when it comes to Tech's music, take it or leave it that there will always be dickriders.
But you can't say I'm fuckin wrong for choosing rapper B, because that's my opinion and thats my preference. Sure Eminem can molest a beat like a motherfucker, but I'll take a mediocre flow like Paris over Eminem any day of the week, cuz Paris is on the same shit I'm feeling. I don't give a fuck if the beat, the flow, his rhyming sucks, hes on the same page as me and that's all that matters.
LOL and I"m not gonna stop listening to rap music because you say MY OPINION is wrong. Public Enemy , Boogie Monsters , BDP, YZ got me into rap music when I was a kid, and guess what the fuck they speak about.... Politics and Social Struggle.
That's how it goes in every aspect, I'm gonna listen to Capleton, Turbulence, Bob Marley over fuckin Elephant Man or Sean Paul any day of the week.
Everybody listens to rap for different reasons, you can't knock somebody for the reason they listen to it. I could sit here and diss motherfuckers for listening to what I THINK is bullshit all day, but it's not gonna get me, or what I love about my favourite rappers anywhere.