"I Hate rap...but" music you like

tonyled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VCdJyOAQYM

Botch

hondabbq said:

Music is like candy..........First thing you do is throw out the rapper.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!  
 
I've/we've tried rapping in a couple of the bands I've been in over the years, and it's definitely a skill and a talent that's beyond me.  However, I've never really cared listening to it.  I like melody.    

tarheelmatt

In Charleston,  WV grabbing a bite at Cracker Barrel.  Half way to our destination.  

jonnymack

YEMTrey said:

Good lord people.  

Public Enemy
Too Short
DJ Quik
2 Pac
Tribe Called Quest
Eric B. and Rakim
EPMD
Big Daddy Kane
Wu-Tang
O.D.B. (RIP)
Biggie
Jay Z

You're selling yourselves short if as a lover of music you haven't listened/enjoyed these sounds and lyrics. 
I guess it's generational, but I'm 41 and having N.W.A., 2Live and others dropped on me in Junior High was very impressionable. 

Brilliant line-up. Look I'm a MASSIVE classic rock fan, I bleed Rolling Stones riffs, but I also grew up in a very "rap friendly" area and absolutely loved the old-school rap (which was new school at the time). NWA's Straight Outta Compton was my generations Sgt. Pepper in my opinion. That album changed many things, good and bad but it's power was undeniable. Simply amazing. 

I would humbly add De La Soul, a very underrated group who have a long string of excellent releases. Also, I go way back to the days of Beat Street so many of the really old school stuff is awesome to me as well. Melle Mel, Treacherous Three, Boogie Down Productions all had massive influence on me.

I also loved death metal too so yeah I'm weird.

Legume

Nice Eric B and Rakim reference @YEMTrey hardly see them mentioned any more.

nobody's mentioned Run DMC, huge crossover impact in the 80s

GregW

Fred19Flintstone said:

You misspelled crap.  It's a common mistake because the "c" is silent.  

My thoughts exactly.........

Eggzellent

nolaegghead said:

Eggzellent said:

I can't think of a single more damaging category of music in human history this side of whatever is played at cult gatherings than what has sold millions of souls for the devil himself. 

You'll probably disagree with me but Reb Rebel Records and Johnny Rebel were KKK oriented genres. 

I have no idea who the above people are (chalk it up to "ignorant musical genre tolerance")..yet I'm pretty sure that every single one of them would all fall in to the above category and my point. 
The freedom to say what one would like does not extend to where this category of (cough) 'music' degraded to. Nor is it "OK" to approve of your children listening to it anywhere within your earshot merely because one lives and breathes to be their BFF.
'Rap' should have been used to flag a wholesale shift in tolerance. Instead it was used to illustrate how millions of parents would not give a rip as to what their kids played within their earshot..let alone ever viewed on their computers. 

GregW

hondabbq said:

Music is like candy..........First thing you do is throw out the rapper.

Well spoken. Agree 100%

Dobie

Music is like food, if its not your taste buy something else you like.....

Ozzie_Isaac

I just need to get this off my chest ...

I hate the Beatles,  and can barely tolerate the Rolling Stones.

I much prefer Aerosmith, AC/DC,  and Van Halen.

YukonRon

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I just need to get this off my chest ...

I hate the Beatles,  and can barely tolerate the Rolling Stones.

I much prefer Aerosmith, AC/DC,  and Van Halen.

Angst from a bad morning of airport Bravo Sierra?

nolaegghead

http://www.alternet.org/culture/ignorant-america-just-how-stupid-are-we

Eggcelsior

Some of you have bad opinions, since I do not agree with them.

Some of you have good opinions, because I agree with them.

-distillation of the Internet, 2016

Ozzie_Isaac

YukonRon said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I just need to get this off my chest ...

I hate the Beatles,  and can barely tolerate the Rolling Stones.

I much prefer Aerosmith, AC/DC,  and Van Halen.

Angst from a bad morning of airport Bravo Sierra?

Yep, you take your angst out on those you love.  Buffalo better get ready, I got 7hrs of uninterrupted sh't stirring.  I even have an extra phone battery.

YukonRon

Ozzie_Isaac said:

YukonRon said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I just need to get this off my chest ...

I hate the Beatles,  and can barely tolerate the Rolling Stones.

I much prefer Aerosmith, AC/DC,  and Van Halen.

Angst from a bad morning of airport Bravo Sierra?

Yep, you take your angst out on those you love.  Buffalo better get ready, I got 7hrs of uninterrupted sh't stirring.  I even have an extra phone battery.

Let it fly! (See what I did there?)

Ozzie_Isaac

YukonRon said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

YukonRon said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

I just need to get this off my chest ...

I hate the Beatles,  and can barely tolerate the Rolling Stones.

I much prefer Aerosmith, AC/DC,  and Van Halen.

Angst from a bad morning of airport Bravo Sierra?

Yep, you take your angst out on those you love.  Buffalo better get ready, I got 7hrs of uninterrupted sh't stirring.  I even have an extra phone battery.

Let it fly! (See what I did there?)

Someone belongs in the punitentiary.

hapster

nolaegghead said:

http://www.alternet.org/culture/ignorant-america-just-how-stupid-are-we

Interesting read... Scary. Thanks for sharing this

DoubleEgger

tarheelmatt said:

In Charleston,  WV grabbing a bite at Cracker Barrel.  Half way to our destination.  

Wrong thread Matt...

Chubbs

No Bone Thugs reference. Eesh

Ozzie_Isaac

Bone Thugs is a given .... 1st of the Month is a classic.

blind99

Not a big rap fan but there's stuff I like. Bone thugs for sure!  And missy Elliott is a genius. 

poster

I find the stuff that really sticks in my head are dual genre type music. Such as Blackstone Cherry kinda country rock, Yelawolf or linkin park kinda rap/rock or the hard rock/metal bands especially the covers such as disturbed's or five finger death punch. Heck even Nathaniel Radcliffe is almost a genre in itself rock/oldies?? lol

henapple

henapple

Phatchris

johnnyp said:

Blackstar is one of the best albums I've ever heard, of any genre 

The new Bowie album? I'll have to pick it up ;-)

henapple

henapple

Ozzie_Isaac

Phatchris said:

johnnyp said:

Blackstar is one of the best albums I've ever heard, of any genre 

The new Bowie album? I'll have to pick it up ;-)

That album made me want to stick pencils in my ears till I could not hear anymore, but I did listen to it.  So there is that.

fishlessman

i can listen to most things if its loud enough, load enough that the guy in the next car over on the highway is mad because he cant use his cell phone

Eggcelsior

henapple said:

Christopher Wallace is missed.