Ok.......I'm sick of the Bullsh*t!!!!!!!!!!

[Atillah]

1. Rappers don't sing.....that's that. That singing crap is a rap/r&b hybrid genre created for the sole purpose of selling records. Rap is a form of music noted for its raw interpretation of the human experience. It relays the struggles, trials, and tribulations of people in our country(I was goin to say black men in the inner city but we all know that all that has changed.....for the better in most cases) and tells the stories of those who wouldn't have an outlet through any other art form. Any form of music that does otherwise simply isn't HipHop, its POP. Pop music is a bland and uncreative genre where it seems everyone looks, acts, and talks the same. And don't get it f*cked up, hiphop is now moving in the direction of pop(look what everyone raps about and how they dress, and how many singing "rappers" there are......Ja Rule, Nelly, ect...)...................Damn it..........I forgot my other point...........well at least this post wont be longer than the attention span of its readers!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanx for your time..............

Reply, but keep it short and potent istead of long and watered down............nah mean!!!!!!!!!

Holla!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flo' Dolo]

This is as short as it gets...

Attilah,

I have to mildly agree, and a bit less midly disagree. Here's why:

1) Some rappers got the pipes to do both.

2) Singing in and of itself doesn't make a hip-hop track an R&B or pop track - what about Killah Priest singing "Expand your miiiiiiiiiiiiind" on one of his joints?

3)

That singing crap is a rap/r&b hybrid genre created for the sole purpose of selling records.

This is doo-doo. The reason the two styles came together had nothing to do with a "plan" to sell records in my opinion... I'd venture to say it had more to do with the two styles of music coming from the same neck of the woods, so to speak. It's only natural that they would at some point, in some way, blend to create whatever the offspring would be. Singing's been "in" hip-hop since it's inception.

4)

Rap is a form of music noted for its raw interpretation of the human experience. It relays the struggles, trials, and tribulations of people in our country...

True indeed, but so is R&B, at least in its' truest form. And if you wanna say, "yeah, but it ain't really like that now," well, I can argue the same about a lot of rap shit.

5) forget about nelly, et al, artists like him are rappers, not MCs, they just blend from the opposite end (rap into singing) when compared with stuff like the old Mary J. Blige type stuff. I don't think anybody fronts on "what's the 411."

One,

Flo' Dolo

 

[flossyboy]

And don't get it f*cked up, hiphop is now moving in the direction of pop(look what everyone raps about and how they dress, and how many singing "rappers" there are......Ja Rule, Nelly, ect
Holla!!!!!!!!!!!

What you think mayne, hiphop was going to stay the same?. If it did everybody would still be rapping like Run DMC, Big Daddy Kane, Rakim.

Everything changes......survival of the fittest. If you don't change you won't survive. Now I aint saying you should and jump off the bridge with everybody else. But you gotta accept change. If that's the case, why you use all them old R&B samples(they hot too...much props)...............................

Hip Hop was built off R&B...Rhythm & Blues, so get ya mind right playa


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[Atillah]

@Flo Dolo, I was speaking of those soongs in which the rapper sings his verse, not singing in the hooks(that's a hiphop tradition now).

@Floss, yeah that's true, but back then R&B relayed the same messages as hiphop does. Many R&B artists of that time sang about the turmoil of inner city life and their struggle to escape the endless cycle of drugs, poverty, and crime.

 

[gec]

Are you fuckin serious?........well...platinum seller why don't you define "Hip Hop"

 

[flossyboy]

I don't know the answer but......

Hip Hop aint all about poverty, turmoil, and all f*cked sh*t. Why would they coin the name "Hip Hop". That sh*t don't sound like some poverty, sad , emotional sh*t. That sounds like some party, get on ya feet and drop it like it's hot type of sh*t. It wasn't until Dr. Dre that it "evolved" into hardcore, gangsta sh*t. Now it's "changed" into some flossy type sh*t.