You seem to not get it do you. If you want hip-hop to teach you morals you are an idiot but if you'd rather listen about going down on a bitch then you're a bigger idiot. There's just a line of stupidity in hh lyrics beyond which I find songs unlistenable.
I don't get have a problem listening to a song about sex acts because i'm pretty open-minded when it comes to discussing them so why should listening to a song with lyrics like that "make me an idiot"?
movin on.
To me music is not something ordinary - When I listen to it I usually don't want it to be something just to bump my head to. I want to feel it and listening to good music is something special to me.
Most of all I like it when I hear a rapper talking about things that fit to my ideology, who thinks in a similar way that I do or talks about things and experiences that are more familiar to me.
I could listen to that whole gangsta stuff when I was younger and I thought that it was cool. I grew out of it and now I find it too silly to listen to. And I can't just ignore the lyrics in a hip-hop track - silly lyrics just piss me off and/or make me turn the audio off.
Most of all I like it when I hear a rapper talking about things that fit to my ideology, who thinks in a similar way that I do or talks about things and experiences that are more familiar to me.
I could listen to that whole gangsta stuff when I was younger and I thought that it was cool. I grew out of it and now I find it too silly to listen to. And I can't just ignore the lyrics in a hip-hop track - silly lyrics just piss me off and/or make me turn the audio off.
Blu in my headphones on train rides.
Three Six Mafia in the car.
Tupac any time.
Eminem on my laptop speakers.
etc.
Actually I oppose the gangsta music part. It seems when you were younger you listened to gangsta rap because you wanted to be in that state of mind. For me, it's just pictures. Like Casino, Scarface, or The Wire. I don't come out feeling like I should push coke, but I get entertained nonetheless.
Point nr. 2 - There are tracks I remember for years and they often remind me of various great moments of my life. I wouldn't want to reminisce and think "ooh I remember that! 'Fuck that bitch, give me money' was playing at that time and it was a great time of my life".
Sometimes when a rapper paints a picture for you, accompanied with a good production it's way more stimulating and can take me higher and deeper in my mind than reading a good book.
The Last Emperor would be a perfect example of this.
Sometimes when a rapper paints a picture for you, accompanied with a good production it's way more stimulating and can take me higher and deeper in my mind than reading a good book.
The Last Emperor would be a perfect example of this.
I guess that it's something you just won't understand.