Quote Originally Posted by MistaPoleeseMan
Its funny when I hear people say rap music is easy. Let me see your favorite rock artist write 16 bars with 80 percent of the words rhyming. Multis, metaphors, similies, basically every aspect of the english language is used.

Compare that with a simple ass rock song that has some guitars and a hook thats usually repeated 1000 times with maybe 2 8 bar verses, and even that is pushing it. But hell, I dont need to defend hip hop, why do you think it has reached every place in America? Everything is imitating hip hop right now.

I do respect rock or any truly "performed" music. It takes alot to have 5 people playing on the same page everytime they go out. But still, rap is literature. Go dl fruity loops and make me a beat and tell me its easy. We are seeing more actual strings, drums, and shit like that than we used to.


I think the people who say rap sucks are the people who have only heard Puff Daddy and Mase, and have never heard of Immortal Technique or Jedi Mind Tricks. I thought rap was rich wannabe gangsters talking out of their ass for a long time too until I strayed away from what was just on the radio. Even Tupac's best lyrical triumphs never got a hint of airtime, talent doesn't pay the bills..it sure helps, but rapping/singing/playing to what is popular or fresh at the time certainly gets someone over more than similies and metaphors. Though I wish it wasn't that way


And yeah FruityLoops is hard shit man