rap requires dedication. with rock, all you gotta do is play a couple instruments and be able to scream while singing. with rap, you speak from the heart, though people like young money and soulja boy ruined hip hop.
Are you sure what you are saying because as far as I know, rock songs inspired a lot of people. Don't you know that when they yell they express an emotion? The message of their songs it's worth of hearing rather than hearing some guy going to club and drinking beer!
for this I get that the we are born into the world and we ourselves have to overcome this thought that we always have to be better. The people around us judge us and expect us to do something and certain people resent them for it and they resent us for not doing as we are supposed to. We eventually break down and do what they want and have a mediocre life just like everyone else...Yes and steroid-pumped dudes with no shirts randomly rhyming about how tough they are and how much drugs they take is very intelligent music indeed.
You basically said a similar concept with your post about Rap.
Same as above. Not all those rappers rap about those things. Kanye often speaks on social conditions, i.e. dropping out of college, dead-end jobs, religion, car wrecks, family affairs, his grandmother's near death moments from AIDS, and other topics. (Note, I'm only going by his first two albums.) Kanye rarely raps about his toughness, or at least used to. In that case, I could say something about Rock Music like: "Bunch of dudes running around screaming on stage about drugs, ***, and money then jumping into a mosh pit." Now that wouldn't be very true, would it? =/
I'm not saying that rock/metal/punk are pure clean music. They're not, and that's good cause otherwise everyone would be listening to it. I don't only listen to that type of music. Enjoy the occasional Cypress Hill, which is filled with drug/money topics to. Yet with what I said I was referring on that persons choice of words as in ''rock is retarded'' ''hip hop all the way'', those kinds of words come from a person who does NOT listen to music, he just hears it. If you know what I mean. Words like that really 'bust my bubbles' because people can't appreciate music, they just listen to it cause it's 'cool'. As in lyrics like: ''fcuk the police'' ''yeah it's so cool that rapers don't like cops cause they're dumb'' and then people don't see behind the story, that some ethnic groups really ARE discriminated and the only way they can express their opinion is through music. Same as metal ''fcku it all, fcuk this world, fcuk everything that you stand for'' they don't wanna say look at me, I can swear...No, they are expressing their anger against the views of this shallow society. I honestly don't care about what other people do, how many drugs they take. How many ''h0es'' they did. Everyone interprets the lyrics themselves and we can't really know exactly what's behind the lyrics. I listen to it because it has a meaning and symbolism for me. I wasn't in any way saying ''rap is retarded''... Thank god we have different music tastes, and thank god not everyone likes the same thing. Thank god someone has the guts to step on a stage and say things we only can think. Imagine the world without artists like that. Everyone listening to Justin Bieber, hell on earth....
