Rap duo 8Ball & MJG raping about AIDS and protecting yourself way back in 1996.

that was over 10 years ago... today rap does NOT give positive messages... well the popular mainstream doesnt...

TotalAlisa said:

agreed. Mainstream rap is atrocious.

Intellect doesn't sell unfortunately. Sales mean nothing to true music fans though.

Canibus is the greatest writer in the history of makind imo and he gets shitted on by hip hop fans for being too complex.

TotalAlisa said:

Hip hop can be divided in 3 sections:

Mainstream

Underground

Experimental

I have been listening to that compilation full of AIDS-awareness songs thinkin' we need more of this.

Cinnie said:

Pffft. We need more of THIS!

No we need more of this!:

if you look for music to be about enlightenment and learning, THEN YOU ARE A STUPID MUTHASUCKA

qvgangsta18 said:

Thats the best kind If it werent for groups like: De La, Tibe, X-clan, BDP, PE,( I could go on) Id be a LOT less informed.

fcukthepolice said:

okay honestly i dont know that much about rap now... I used to listen to it from really 1998-2002... for a short while, when it was still good.. and the actually MUSIC had some of the best beats ever created...

but my favorite kind of music was always Pop/dance

Cinnie said:

Im gonna grab this when I get home. I dont I've ever listened to the whole thing.

fcukthepolice said:

I'm glad to see there r some more Canibus fans around here. He is a superb lyricist. But again, lyrics have taken a back seat to hooks and beats. There is still some dope Hip-Hop out here, the sad reality of it is though, you have to go out of your way to find it.

qvgangsta18 said:

What about kids who watch Sesame Street?

http://www.youtube.com/wa...aTLEvupVv0

X-Clan Funkin Lesson

http://www.youtube.com/wa...ekP1avBpjE

B.I.B.L.E - Killa Priest/GZA


I love this joint!

Stop The Violence-East Coast Self Destruction
[Edited 12/7/07 11:15am]

unkemptpueblo said:

so what did they teach you, enlighten me, i need to know,

unkemptpueblo said:

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth!

Man, that was a really sublime album, that Liquid Swords. I hated Beneath the Surface though.

For recent examples of MC's covering "important stuff," check out Talib Kweli's "Eat To Live" from Ear Drum or "U, Black Maybe," from Common's Finding Forever or "Katrina Clap" from Mos Def's Tru Magic.

namepeace said:

Right on, and those are totally mainstream* (*Hey, Finding Forever is nominated for a Grammy and Eardrum debuted at #1).

mrpunkfunk said:

AGREED!

k os is also brilliant. He's a great producer too.
Black thought from the roots is another great lyricist.

unkemptpueblo said:

Yeah that's all killah priest.

Great song.

'for years religion nothing but divide'; THE TRUTH and still THE TRUTH. Are you listening prince?

You have to go to the underground scene if you actually wanna hear some serious, intelligent stuff...

They could rap about God and Jesus but it still wouldn't stop it from being boring. Put some instruments behind it and then rap about something important if you absolutely must rap instead of sing.

Cinnie said:

Can't argue with that reasoning. Com and the MCs Formerly Known As Black Stsr are not underground anymore.

vainandy said:

Whose they?

what is boring?

Those were very ignorant comments from you.

fcukthepolice said:

that's andy's schtick...his presumption is that if he doesn't like something it must not be good. the shtick is getting old.

KRS-1
Immortal Technic
Paris

What they said.

fcukthepolice said:

"CRANK THAT SOULJA BOY!"