Rap Music: Love, Loathe, Indifferent?

it all depends on what they are rapping about as to if I like it or not. I have a large collection of rap music.

saying that "rap is misogynistic shallow music that glorifies violence and materialism" only betrays complete ignorance of the genre.

i like it. obviously.

I like raps with clever rhymes or puns. The message being conveyed is important to me as well.

Rap can be beautiful when it's actually about something. When it has meaning and passion, I love it, probably my favorite art form. But all this junk they play on the radio that's just about sex, violence, drinking, and drugs is just so...eh. Anyone can write about that, and it doesn't mean anything. Make it mean something. And then I'll respect the hell out of you because good rap isn't easy to create.

It fully depends on each individual rap song, whether or not I dislike the song. Some songs I love and find them to be very well written and have very good meanings to them. While others I would like to claw out the eyes of the singer who thought it would be a good song.

I can't stand it. It's not evenly remotely music as far as I'm concerned, it's just a bad string of rhymes set to a rudimentary beat.

Older rap is great and I only like a few new ones. Most of the newer rap sucks in my opinion. I like to stick to my rock.

I really dislike rap. It's not my genre at all. I love rock and heavy metal. Rap has never been my thing.

Saying a great deal of rap "misogynistic shallow music that glorifies violence and materialism" but to say rap is categorically so is to assume it is some how a defining point of the genre. This is no more true then saying TV dramas are misogynistic shallow programs that glorifies violence and materialism.

Also it often not really about misogyny, violence or materialism. What it more often about is seeing those things presented in a way that is not approved by "tradition" Americana. Misogyny for example if expressed by a rich white men in suites you have a Aaron Sorkin drama on premium cable, if a black mam in bling expresses it that is when it is a threat to society.

I'm finishing a class on Sex, Gender, Ethnicity and Hip Hop so I could go on for hours about this. But to keep it short modern Hip Hop culture is a very problematic culture but so is the rest of mainstream American culture The key to fixing both is to movie to a more critical analysis of both.

I love it

I love Public Enemy and Tupac. Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate" makes me smile and think about how much I hated all of it in high school. My musical taste runs the gamut, centering mainly on indie folk and stoner rock, but it was a very Cher in Clueless "I love Josh! " moment when I came to the realization that I truly DO love Public Enemy.

I dislike stuff like Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj because I think it just doesn't take a lot of talent.

But when I listen to Atmosphere I am just mesmerized by how amazing it is