Does anybody listen to hip hop?

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List your 5 fav rappers in any order…

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Lol Sorry No. Coming from a classical background of music - its just noise to me, with aggressive speaking, from people compensating for not being able to sing properly by speaking it in monotone.

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  1. Tupac
  2. Big L
  3. Guru from Gang Star
  4. Nas
  5. Lil Wayne
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Is there a difference between hip-hop and rap?
KJ52 is pretty good
Shakira is pretty good
I like Snoop Dogg because he’s just a nice person and he’s talented
DMX rip

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I like poppier hip hop like

Drake and Childish Gambino

Outkast

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I used to like a few aussie rappers many years ago like Drapht, Wombat and 360. But i dont have a taste for it anymore. That was when i was a young lost hoodlum douchebag.

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I got maybe 5 rap songs in my entire playlist of 500 songs. I think the songs are funny, I don’t take them seriously.

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I was all about rap in the 90s, but toward the end of that decade I started losing interest, got exposed to metal by a college roommate, and now I can’t stand most rap. I can still listen to some 90s stuff, though, partly out of nostalgia.

Back then my favorites were the Geto Boys (RIP Bushwick Bill) and 2Pac (RIP). I also liked Spice 1 quite a bit, along with some rappers who were a bit more underground, such as Seagram (RIP) and Devin the Dude. Well, I guess that’s five rappers/groups.

Jeez, I’ve got three dead rappers in there: Bushwick Bill (cancer), Tupac (GSW), Seagram (GSW). I’d never heard of Seagram prior to his posthumous release, “Souls on Ice.” I recommend “Sleepin in My Nikes” or, for something lighthearted (but still totally gangsta), “Flintstones.” Actually Spice 1 had a funny song that was still quite gangsta, too, “187 Proof.” Best Spice 1 song imo is, and idk if the forum will allow such a title, “■■■■■ Gots No Heart,” off the Menace II Society soundtrack.

I really don’t know any rap of the past 25 years. Modern rap all sounds the same to me.

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Crazy it seems that a lot of rappers are shot and die of a GSW

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Y’all remember this guy here?

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Tupac died so young. He was only 25. RIP. In my opinion, he’s the greatest rapper of all time.

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Eyedea, Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott, Beastie Boys, Snoop, and some old school hip hop like Grandmaster Flash and Sugar Hill Gang.

Finnish artsts Draama-Helmi but that is maybe spoken word music more than rap.

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+1. Very gifted and relatable artist. Shame he passed so young, as well

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yes, world has lost very much with Eyedea’s passing. he was extremely talented. I’m excited to find somebody who listens to Eyedea too! not many know about him, at least here.

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Eyedea’s songs are basically like essays you may read someplace like college or university lol he was very smart and introspective. His free styling and battle raps are legendary

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yes, I completely agree. he had a way with words and talent with music.

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  1. johnny 5 / oyg
  2. opio / ghostface killah
  3. paserock
  4. promoe
  5. esoterik / son of ran
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Oops forgot
Da Vinci code
Last breath doom
-‘/

Edit oops I forgot nas

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I love music. I think what people miss about hip hop is more than its roots. It’s an athletic music not unlike flamenco or bebop. It gets written off because it’s vocal and not a ‘real’ instrument. Bus driver, Immortal Technique, Deltron, Aesop Rock, there’s so much talent that is worth one’s time to experience. Forget commercial radio, look for music and you will experience music.

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