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.

it took me twelve weeks to write a beat i felt good about on fruity loops. it took me twelve years to play guitar like i do. i'm not saying hip hop doesn't take talent, but half the rhymes i hear are about the same thing. money and women. I know that there's lupe fiasco and he's different and that there have been different styles sprinkled through raps history, but the majority nowadays is the same.