What's with all the rap?

[mrdevious]

It's getting really annoying, I don't know if all you have noticed, but it seems more and more commercials are all using rap. All the fast food places, and clothing lines, and now as I just saw, even a milk commercial, they're all full of rap music. seems there's an excellerating number of companies all using this crappy music (crappy to my ears, don't get all worked up rap people! ) , I'm starting to get mighty tired of listening to nothing but crappy rap during commercial breaks. what do you think?

mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on 09-18-2005. What's with all the rap? It's getting really annoying, I don't know if all you have noticed, but it seems more and more commercials are all using rap. All the fast food places, and clothing lines, and now as I just saw, even a milk commercial, they're all full of rap music. seems there's an excellerating number of companies all using this crappy music (crappy to my ears, don't get all worked up rap people! :p ) , I'm starting to get mighty tired of listening to nothing but crappy rap during commercial breaks. what do Rating: 5

[Melton420]

i personally love rap and i will always love rap, its just like rock n roll, we dont care that rock n roll is on the commercials and on tv, so i dont really understand the problem, if you dont like it...... MUTE

[mrdevious]

i personally love rap and i will always love rap, its just like rock n roll, we dont care that rock n roll is on the commercials and on tv, so i dont really understand the problem, if you dont like it...... MUTE

rock and roll is on once in a while, rap is on something around 80% now.

and I don't have a mute for my t.v. (old one in my room)

[kontrol87]

Ok...i love rap...but...seriously...rap these days SUCKS....

let me take you back in the day man...when 2pac, Snoop, Dr. Dre, Bone Thugs n Harmony, Eazy-E, DJ Quik, and Cypress Hill was poppin...the 90's man...90's rap was the shit!!! Thats still all I listen to...these days the rap is shit because we got people like 50 faggot cent, and all those stupid southern rappers who dont even have good lyrics....but...i think the dope west-coast rap is comin back....get the DJ Quik cd...you will like it!

P.S. You can never go against Bone Thugs...they are weed lovers like us...you dont even have to like rap to like them.

[NightProwler]

yea i dont like rap, except rage against the machene.

[mrdevious]

yea i dont like rap, except rage against the machene.

are they rap-metal or something? don't really know about their stuff. don't like limp bizkit anyway, hope they're not like them.

[kontrol87]

nine inch nails is some pretty dope rock...sometimes they bust hardcore fukn hiphop beats...and it sounds sick.

[ermitonto]

I dislike most rap since it promotes senseless violence, sexism, and the use of material goods or "bling" as a status symbol. These people claim to represent the impoverished ghettoes yet live it up in their mansions with their millions of dollars (which could easily be used to improve the conditions of those impoverished ghettoes, by the way).

Also, in general, rap songs don't have much of a real constructive message to express to its listeners. A lot of it is simply praise of intoxication, prostitution and material wealth. When they do try to address a real issue that has some significance, for instance the impoverishment of the ghettoes they claim to represent, they will only try to portray how bad things are while completely ignoring potential solutions people could take to fix the problem. Even if they had something thoughtful and insightful to say, the lyrics are spit out so fast that the listener has almost no time to reflect on it.

I have found a few exceptions to these general trends, but they tend to be bands which mix rap with some other music form, like Rage Against the Machine (rap/metal) and the Kottonmouth Kings (rap/punk).

[doomfreak]

are they rap-metal or something? don't really know about their stuff. don't like limp bizkit anyway, hope they're not like them.

Rage Against the Machine is probably the best hard rock band that ever was.

As for rap in commercials, all you need to do is put 2 and 2 together. Rap sells, corporations flock to money like flies on shit so of course they would incorporate rap into commercials. i blame corporations for pimping out rap and turning into the crap it is now which is termed by people like myself as 'commercial rap'. there's a bustling underground for hiphop full of all different sorts of genres and sounds.

as a matter of fact, outside the U.S., some hiphop stations play jay-z songs alongside mr. lif, MF DOOM, immortal technique and other underground (independent) artists.

[Maui Wowie]

I really despise new rap, too preppy and fake. All classic rap and hip-hop is what I like, something with an actual beat. The whole urban lifestyle was interesting to me, but i'm not gonna go out of my way to dress like a stupid looking white moron.