I understand some people don't like rap or hip-hop, but do you agree that some of it is great?

I can appreciate that some of it is well-crafted, musically and lyrically. It’s not my thing, but I can appreciate some of it for what it is. I just hate what I hear blasting out of the clubs and people’s cars. I’m more of a real-instruments kind of gal.

”…if you don’t like rap or hip hop, do you like anything?” Ha!

I like older rap.

Some of it is good just like any other genre, except female screamo, that hits a decibel that hurts.

Talent is talent regardless of the medium used to express it.

I’ll admit it, I kinda like some of it. I have to say, most of what you hear on the radio doesn’t give it a fair representation. Although Eminem and Wiz Khalifa are kind of cool. My favorite rap music usually comes from the Gorillaz or MC Frontalot.

I like weird rap groups like Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are pretty great. But I do like some older rap music. The rest is just shitty to me.

I like both kinds of music, Country and Western.

Actually I like some of most types of music. I have yet to find much hip hop or rap worth listening to more than once however.

I have Brahm’s symphony 2 playing right now.

Sure. At least “some” of almost anything is great.

Then again, see here.

I listen to everything, from heavy metal to mongolian throat singing, However I’m not that big on rap. Having said that, the rap songs that I do like I love.

The first three that come to mind are RUN DMC – It’s tricky / Eminem – Stan / Puff Daddy – I’ll be missing you.

EDIT: oh yea, i really like anything by 2 live crew.

I love Wu-Tang Clan. Because they are not something to fuck with. I also like Jedi Mind Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs, Beastie boys and some of Nujabes’ collaborations. Haters gonna hate.

@Michael_Huntington Yeaaaaaahh. I love Wu-Tang.

@Michael_Huntington Nujabes is a beast.

Yeah. I like a lot of Eminem’s music.

The last time we had a question about hip hop and rap, uberbatman gave me links to two songs that I thoroughly enjoyed.

But I am so turned off by the violence and degrading of women that I tend not to listen to it.

I can appreciate that some of it is well-crafted, musically and lyrically – yeah, exactly what @Seelix said. But there’s maybe… 3 songs I enjoy listening to, and so much of it has been taken over by severe degradation of women and violence. So mostly, I agree with Chris Rock.

I can and do appreciate good rap and hip hop music. When I was younger I used to say I like all music except… Nowadays I have an appreciation for all well-crafted music, no matter the genre.

I like most music, but I just don’t care for the rhythm of rap and hip hop music. I also don’t like the fact that a lot of the lyrics are very mysogynistic and often violent sounding. That really bothers me.

I also don’t like the fact that some people who enjoy rap in their cars, turn it up so loud that it actually shakes my car, especially when sitting at a stop light. I realize that people who listen to other types of music, also turn up their music really loud (Norteno, Tejano and Speed Metal are common examples), but the thundering thumping bass lines in rap and hip hop are especially disturbing. I don’t want to hear or feel other people’s music when I’m in my own car with the windows rolled up. Especially when it sounds like a distant explosion and feels like an earthquake.

I have heard a few things that were comical, like Weird Al Yancovic’s White and Nerdy and I sort of like a couple of rap-style or hip-hop style mash ups like PM Dawn’s version of Set Adrift on Memories Bliss or this “Rick James/MC Hammer mashup

Not sure if any of those 3 examples really fits, though.

@Jude sugar hillllllllllllllll

I like it [ not all because some are really crappy ]
It’s my favourite genre. [ hip hop ]

I started listening to it just when it started spreading [ my aunt had some cassettes and she had all genres recorded .. I started listening to some and rap caught my attention. As I grew up I started understading it better the way of living the music / the way of spreading your message / what cultural benefits it can bring ]
Too bad nowdays it’s only for the money and only a few do it for the music.

I love Gorillaz, which is mainly hip hop and incorporates a lot of rap into their songs. That’s about as much as I regularly listen to, but I can recognize a good rap song when I hear it. They exist, just not on the radio these days.

Baba Brinkman is the best. Liberal science atheist evolutionist literature rap.

I like what I have heard by Greydon Square for much the same reasons.

@Mariah Gorillaz FTW

Rap is good sometimes, but it could be much, much better if the rap that gets any airplay was about anything other than sex, money, or status. I am sure it is out there. The reason many won’t accept rap is because it sometimes sounds like a broken record (and I am not talking about when scratching).

@KatetheGreat Have you heard Tyler, The Creators new album yet? He was one of the guys in Odd Future, and it’s really, really good.

I tend to think a lot of the rap I listen to has somewhat experimental beatmaking and good/clever lyrics. Sage Francis is one of my favorite artists ever, in any genre. I also really like Mos Def, Foreign Beggars (This song mostly because Noisia does the beats), Dizzee Rascal, The Streets and Saul Williams.

And of course, there’s also instrumental hip-hop like Blockhead, RJD2, and Beats Antique

I think that if you hate rap/hip-hop you’re just looking in the wrong places.

Some of it is great. If you really appreciate music. You will find good stuff from every genre. I don’t really like rap in general but I can appreciate some of it.

@Mariah – Gorillaz are all over the genre spectrum. My fav Gorillaz song is On Melancholy Hill

@dverhey Perhaps – but my interest in spending hundreds of hours trying to find that rare, hidden rap/hip-hop gem that isn’t degrading to women or glorifying violence when I’m not a big fan of the style (regardless of lyrics) isn’t really that high.

I am going to agree that the old-school Def Jam stuff makes me wanna hip and hop, but that the stuff that came later that disrespected women, men, and even animals (holy crap!) makes me want to do a drive-by.

But i do want to point out that I highly appreciate the underground hip-hop, like the stuff that comes out of the Anticon label, and also more lesser known artists like Mike Ladd.

I like music that has a meaning, besides I’m angry/horny/greedy which seems to exclude a majority of the rap I hear on the radio. I actually like some rap, but then I have absolutely no idea how to dance to it. . .
Without embarrassing myself, that is.

Rap to me is just like any other music genre, some you like and some you don’t. I have yet to hear one genre of music that I liked everything that artist’s in that group performed.

@MyNewtBoobs I suppose, but I don’t find it that hard. Instrumental hip-hop in Pandora is quite effective, as is this music map site.

I like Sage Francis.

And I like that music map site.

I think this Rap is pretty good.

Oh yeah, there’s good quality music in any genre. Some hip hop is great, some is pure shit. Obviously Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothin to fuck wit.

Thanks for the input, everyone.
@Seelix Oops, I meant, ”...like any of it”.

Definitely. You just have to look hard to find it.

I like some of the old school stuff.

A lot of what I hear today lacks imagination.
How many times can you brag about being a thug and a pimp?

What really annoys me is riding in the car with my daughters and having to suddenly switch radio stations because every other song is about some jerk trying to get in some girl’s panties.

Next.

Well, yeah! It’s the same with jehovas witnessessesss, there’s got to be one I wouldn’t turn my hose on surely!