Ya...I've heard the old argument that flow and beat production is important. If you talk about these things, this thread is not for you. fukk the musical side of rap for a minute. You want some 'hard' music? All the rappers I've ever listened to have some sort of weakness. It took me a while to realize that the hardest music is just tribal music, mostly drums but sometimes with wind instruments, chanting, or song. Native Africa and America have the best tribes I've heard, but it's worldwide.
See, I hate reading books. I like nonfiction because I'm getting facts in a pure form. Fiction is so shytty... they expect you to spend 8-10 hours tracking a flowerly, repetitive, eye-straining text just to get a simple fukking moral out of it? Pass. Poetry > prose, for it's pointedness and laconic wit.
I look at rap (good rap) as poetry. Rap represents a very traditional form of storytelling. I think for about 200,000 years, you had people sitting around fires and telling stories that explained life and morals or maybe just made a few bros/chicks laugh. They added rhyming and music to it so it would be easier to remember, kind of like Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, classic novels that rhyme all the way through. Nowadays, you're finally starting to see rappers who match the poetic and thoughtful level of a Robert Frost or Langston Hughes too. Here's who I like:
-Aesop Rock
-Illogic
-Sage Francis
-Childish Gambino
-Eyedea and Abilities
-K-Rino
-Cecil Otter
-Busdriver
-Mac Lethal
-Mr Complex
-Chino XL
-Wise Intelligent
-Cormega
Tell me who I can add to my list. Who should I check out?
See, I hate reading books. I like nonfiction because I'm getting facts in a pure form. Fiction is so shytty... they expect you to spend 8-10 hours tracking a flowerly, repetitive, eye-straining text just to get a simple fukking moral out of it? Pass. Poetry > prose, for it's pointedness and laconic wit.
I look at rap (good rap) as poetry. Rap represents a very traditional form of storytelling. I think for about 200,000 years, you had people sitting around fires and telling stories that explained life and morals or maybe just made a few bros/chicks laugh. They added rhyming and music to it so it would be easier to remember, kind of like Homer's Illiad and Odyssey, classic novels that rhyme all the way through. Nowadays, you're finally starting to see rappers who match the poetic and thoughtful level of a Robert Frost or Langston Hughes too. Here's who I like:
-Aesop Rock
-Illogic
-Sage Francis
-Childish Gambino
-Eyedea and Abilities
-K-Rino
-Cecil Otter
-Busdriver
-Mac Lethal
-Mr Complex
-Chino XL
-Wise Intelligent
-Cormega
Tell me who I can add to my list. Who should I check out?
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