Hip-Hop has nothing to offer

[lakeside resort]

It steals music from older genres and has people rap over tracks produced over it. What is good or original about it?

[slackerbot]

hip hop is awesome. it brings the urban flava to the masses. and it adds such awesome lingo to our daily vernacular such as.. bitchez, ho's, chronic, blunt, skeet skeet skeet, bust a cap, po po, bling, izzle, son, playa, and many more.

[nagasawa]

The same criticism can be leveled at every other genre. You have to find the pearls floating in the sea of turds.

[CaptainPajamaShark]

Originally posted by lakeside resort
It steals music from older genres and has people rap over tracks produced over it. What is good or original about it?

depends on what you're listening to. a lot of it is uninspired drivel but there's also plenty of unique and original stuff floating about that doesn't get heard by the mainstream

[chocolate cake]

Hip hop dance moves and grooves
Interesting hand gestures
Hip hop clothes
DJ Kool Herc
scratching
big jewelry
grills

[randall fairbrook]

Originally posted by lakeside resort
It steals music from older genres and has people rap over tracks produced over it. What is good or original about it?

the word is not steal, the word is "interpolate, nugga...


also, slacker you forgot cosign+1...

lakeside..obviously you have not listened to kool keith's sex style

[mwt.]

I've always thought of hip hop as a sort of sound-oriented collage or mixed media.

[fmstlr]

Hip Hop makes DYI music possible for people who don't have formal musical training.

[matu]

Originally posted by fmstlr
Hip Hop makes DYI music possible for people who don't have formal musical training.

Yeah, until rich old white people screw it up like jazz.

Hip-Hop needs no defense, only more talented people to practice it.

[fmstlr]

Originally posted by matu


Yeah, until rich old white people screw it up like jazz.

[nagasawa]

Originally posted by matu


Yeah, until rich old white people screw it up like jazz.

For the record, there are quite a few old black people that screwed up jazz, too.

[FDM]

exhibit a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KBQdkIzaXU

exhibit b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3jzJU5Ick

exhibit c) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUlGd5C5X7k

[slackerbot]

Originally posted by nagasawa


For the record, there are quite a few old black people that screwed up jazz, too.

hey, leave DJ Jazzy Jeff alone!

[nagasawa]

And Bobby McFerrin has managed to screw up pop, jazz & classical!