Can be either sexually explicit, really bad taste (Eg glamorising crack or meth with rhymes about guns shooting everyone) or music of really low ability eg Chingy. So three categories
Worst explicit rapper(s)
Most tasteless rapper (s) eg glamorising ghetto lifestyles
Most talentless rapper (s) eg badly sampled beats, soundalike rapping, loose rhyme flowz etc

My worst are explicit
Some silly song that has the line "Got get my stunners on"
Sir Mixalot - Put them on the glass

Tasteless, remember looking at some rap magazine a few years ago with all these ads for unknown rappers and one showed some skulls with bandannas smoking drugs and it said "Ghetty Green" showing a dude with really big lips and a hoodie holding "sum benjuminz"
T Pain, Cash Money Click and Little Wayne a real tasteless

Talentless

Akon, TPain, Florida, Lil Jeezy

The most offensive has to be Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice... offensive to the whole rap genre lol

shit, anything by Soulja Boy Tell'em.

All rap is offensive because they do not play instruments (anymore).

(c) Music:Non-Prince

Black Korea - Ice Cube

Tupac Shakur - Hit 'em up

The incoherent filth on that track is unbelievable even by tastless rap standards

OshunsBlessedSon said:

That was a diss track, it was supposed to be tastelss.

big booty hoes - biggie and too short, listen to that and tell me its not filth, probably why i like it so much

tony m

Huggiebear said:

Who's Lil Jeezy, is that a new rapper??

LittleBLUECorvette said:

He had a song at #1 on the american charts a while ago, unless I spelt his name wrong, happens a lot with me and the fact literacy is the enemy of a rapper these days.

Huggiebear said:

OK, you must mean Young Jeezy.

Rap music died when Tupac, Biggie, Erik B and Rakim, and those guys stopped making legitimate music.

The bullshit artists that have come in the past 12 years are beyond ridiculous, horrible, insane, un-listenable, vapid, empty, soulless, unoriginal and downright offensive.

ernestsewell said:

Cinnie said:

I would like to introduce you to the Roots..prince has alot of songs with a drum machine with instruments over it..no different than neptunes,kanye or many other producers...

BustDown -- Nasty Bitch



NSFW due to sexist lyrics that are offensive toward women.

coolcat said:

Ice Cube -- Cave Bitch

SavonOsco said:

The difference is that if Prince had to sit and pound out that same drum pattern, he could. He's not reliant on the drum machine, he uses it as an instrument. Rappers know how to create a loop, and their talents end there.

ernestsewell said:

I totally agree with what you're saying but Anotherloverholeinyourhead is the same drum pattern as housequake and other songs..hell in hip hop it's called the prince drum loop..what rap producers (not rappers most rappers dont make the beats) make over the drum loop displays some talent..you say prince uses the drum machine as an instrument, then what does the rap producer use it for?

BTW..todays rap is garbage especially that down southshit..but i cant let someone one say ALL rap is shit without a debate..like I said before.let me introduce you to the Roots and then I'll show u Jay-Z live because he performs with a live band

TonyVanDam said:

That is some pretty nasty and tasteless shit, even the picture is offensive

Who remembers the female rap group. BWP "Bitches with Problems"

SavonOsco said:

A rap producer usually RELIES on it as one of their only sources of instrumentation, other than creating loops from an old R&B standard. Someone like Prince doesn't NEED the drum machine. He can drum on his own, and do his own instrumentation. A rapper DEPENDS on other sources. Prince can use the drum machine as an option, not as a requirement.

NWA-Straight Outta Compton

ernestsewell said:

Why is an instrument necessary for expressing musical talent? I ask this because I had an argument with one of my friends the other day who's a "beatmaker" and he told me that everything you can do with an instrument can be done in the studio, and tried to argue with me that an instruments unneccessary. I was actually stumped. BUt I'm hoping you guys can help me form my argument so I can verbally kick his ass tomorrow

The Mighty Casey -- White Girls

Cinnamon234 said:

Straight Outta Compton is still a classic rap album mostly because of the political lyrics of Ice Cube & the beats of Dr.Dre co-existing perfectly.

But Niggaz4Life (the first and only N.W.A. album without Ice Cube) is FAR worse. Even today, I'm totally ashame of ever listening to this album.

Sandino said:

THAT is why Prince gripes about ProTools (although it has its place at times), and "Real Music By Real Musicians". I have to side w/ Prince on that one. Creating sounds in a studio and not using instruments is NOT talent, and not being a musician. It's being a computer geek.

People thought of Trent Reznor like that a lot early on; he described himself as a computer geek with music. He's since proved he can play and write. The computer becomes an instrument as well. Just like a drum machine. Prince can or cannot choose to use a Linn. It's an enhancement, not a requirement. If your pal had no computer in the studio other than to simply record music on, what would he do? He couldn't create sounds, create loops, or whatever, what would he do? People used to say that if Prince had nothing but a comb and a jug, he'd still try to make music. The computer has killed the musicians of the world.

TonyVanDam said:

Huggiebear said:

And yet, there were plenty of teen girls in South Central Louisiana that were fans of THAT track in 1991! Yes, they used to freak dance to that crap.