Egotism How many rap songs can be basically be boiled down to "I'm the best, toughest, and hardest. Don't agree with me, I'll prove it"?



You really have nothing better to talk about than yourself? And how convinced am I supposed to be of your superiority that you feel you have to shoot someone in the face if they say something negative about you? No self-confident person would need to do that. In fact, the more you talk about how great you are, the more I begin to wonder who you are trying to convince, me or you.



The scary thing is that this mentality seems to be contagious and when combined with the glorification of violence, we have people murdering other people for inconsequential slights. We've gone from "words will never hurt me" to "stick and stones may break my bones, but words will cause me to get a bunch of friends, drive by your house, pepper it will bullets, kill you, maim your girlfriend, kill the little girl playing out front, and get myself imprisoned throughout ...more You have some valid points but today's rappers claim to be gangsters but are just pussies and say they don't care about the haters but still have to mention them in every song they make This is definitely number one. It always sounds so aggressive, violent and barbaric even when the rap is about something non-violent. Its like the drumming and chanting before a tribal war. Its simply the most awful for of sound that humans make and call art. I can't even bring myself to call it music. You want to justify your feelings you have when comparing yourself to a rapper, AKA relating to another human being, and you are in fact living an inferior life to the wiser being, so you throw up a little bit. Hate away ignorant hypocrit Even good rappers like Kanye East has too much of this. I think rap is going downhill real fast. First you had a cool guy named Eminem and old Kanye and now you get a song about a vegitable. What's so good about broccoli? It ain't that good.

Sexism I'm a freshman in high school, and I love jazz. I'm a huge fan of John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Duke Ellington, and several more. Songs like Naima by John Coltrane talk about their love for that special woman in their lives. Women inspire people to, they encourage people, and they change people (hopefully in a good way). But the way rap "artists" talk about women is just disgusting! They don't see someone they want to spend the rest of their life with. They just see a nice piece of ass that they want to have sex with. These dumb asses can't see anything beyond a sexy body and a nice ass. It's pathetic. It's also insulting that people my age listen to this, as if it's actually good. If John Coltrane were still alive today, he would be disgusted with what qualifies as music these days. Since the beginning of music, women in songs have been idolized. Songs have been about love and heartbreak, wooing the woman of your dreams, and the joy of being with the one you love. So much of rap is a completely different story. Sure, there are a few female rappers, but for the most part rap music unabashedly objectifies women. Instead of a woman being a person you do things with, they become a thing you do stuff to. Sexism? Wow. You ever hear Common's The Light? Eminem's Mockingbird (well, it's actually about his daughter, but still)? 2pac's Keep Ya Head Up? These are just a few of many songs where instead of being sexist, they actually stand UP for women and profess their love in a POSITIVE way and state how we need to treat women better (especially Keep Ya Head Up). Reinforcing the sexual double standard (pimps and hoes), advocating violence against women (slap a bitch), making it seem okay for men to mistreat women in all ways... Yup rappers are clearly winning kind of guys. Real men would never do this kind of thing; that's why it makes sense that all rappers are young immature boys, even if they may be trapped in a grown man's body. What's even more unbelievable is the support and popularity that some of these songs generate. Oh good, that's just what we need: a new generation of misogynist numb nuts. Yippee.

Pointless Lyrics I have always hated rap music. I'm black, so everyone assumes I listen to this trash. Nearly every rap song nowadays is consisted of controversial lyrics pertaining to sex, drugs, racism, money, violence, and struggles. I listen to rock and roll. At least they shift their style every once in a while. I listen to bands like Saliva, Motorhead, Disturbed, KISS, and AC/DC. I mainly hate rap because of stereotypical views. People assume that ALL black people listen to rap. I DON'T AND I NEVER WILL AGAIN. Even country musicians have some form of talent. "And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death / My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats / That can come about, ’cause the tongue is mighty powerful / And I can name a list of your favorites that probably vouch / Maybe cause I'm a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death / Really stuck in the schema of wonderin' when I'mma rest." -Kendrick Lamar



How is this pointless... Yes some individuals have pointless lyrics, but how can some individuals dictate an entire genre of music. Music reflects the peoples perspective, and the listeners are the reason why the bad rappers make money and continue to feed the listeners bad lyrics. Kendrick Lamar as well as many others express THEIR point of view and perspective on life and allow people to connect to it. I don't like certain types of rap, but that doesn't mean that I think that all of it is. At the end of the day, just listen to what moves you because it is JUST AN OPINION. These "lyrics" are the saddest excuses for lyrics I have ever heard. However, I will say that you know exactly what kind of person that rapper is. These "artists" that every 14-year-old "hood" kid just worships. Yeah, these are the kinds of people that kids these days look up to. No wonder this generation is falling apart! I'm surprised that this generation hasn't become extinct yet. The trailblazers of rap music like NWA had a point to their music. They were fed up with black on black crime, racism, prejudice, drug abuse, poverty, police brutality, etc. The music was intelligent and told a message. Nowadays rappers just sing about smoking weed, girls, cars, and money. Not all of them do but most with 2 chains being arguably the biggest culprit.

Glorification of the Gangster Mentality Yeah, you're bad, you know the streets, you know the plight of the people. But guess what? You're a millionaire. You've made something of yourself. So why are you still acting like your entire world is shaped by the neighborhood? Instead of glorifying the gangster life and helping make sure people and the neighborhood stay the same, why not do something positive. Instead of dropping $50k on a diamond studded grill, how about building a playground for the community. Instead of paying a half a million on a Bentley, why not send a few dozen kids to college. Here's another idea for such rappers: donate the large amounts of money they made to their families or others who live in such neighborhoods. They call themselves artist, they are not. Not one of them have any talent. Not one can sing, no real musical instruments, probably because they can not play one. Really dumb background sound effects and it is always the same dumb story with profanity, violence, violence against women. The recordings are bad, they sound like they were done in a bathroom. What is sad is that the youth are expose to this trash and like it. The Parent Advisory Label is a joke. If porn is not sold in regular stores, why should rap be on the shelves, it is the same thing. I think I've found it. The WORST anti-rap comment OF ALL TIME. Rap =/= porn, it's just what gets endorsed. Dozens of rappers use and play instruments, and have some extremely powerful messages that exceed that of ANY other genre.



You know what? I could say that no metal band has any talent, and you'd be down my throat. Actually, I think I might do that. If you can't dig above surface level for rap, why should I for metal?



Also, RAP IS A DIFFERENT WAY OF CONVEYING THOUGHTS. Not all lyrics can be sang. What matters is what they are saying, in which there are hundreds of rappers with a lot of lyrical talent.



I don't know if I'm done, but I don't want to give this guy any more respect. This is, in my opinion, the worst part of Rap. It completely alienates anyone who isn't part of the gang culture and glorifies being a criminal. Well, most of it, all of the mainstream at least. The best part of gangster culture in media is the part where it shows the cons as well, like the Godfather where it shows Michael becoming evil and even killing his own brother. This is nowhere to be found in Rap. Gangsters are evil people! Rappers are imitating gangsters, therefore, rappers are imitating evil people! Being a gangster is a miserable self-destructive lifestyle! Don't glorify it!

The Sound In my entire life I don't think I've heard of, witnessed or heard rumor of any rapper who can play an instrument. Talking into a mic isn't singing and the rest of the sounds in a rap song are made by electronic devices. There's zero skill involved other than the skill a five year old has to sing nursery rhymes.The 'Sound' is exactly that just terrible sound with a lot of bass and not much else. My opinion is the sound is good it just the lyrics and what they talking about is what getting on my nerves and I'm pretty sure it is for others too.

my opinion if they have good beats they need to have great lyrics because if u ask me money is the root to all evil so why u so hungry to get it when 9 out of 10 u got everything that u ever wanted...please change the world and not just for us but for yourself too. The entire genre is completely tone-deaf. It's what autotune and inability to sing, or even talk, brings to it. The Volume in RAP Is Way to loud and can hurt the eardrums as children! It can be hard on their hearing early This is actually not an ignorant statement. Google the loudness war. This way of mastering music is also found in other genres as well.

No Talent Goes Into It Rappers have no talent with musical instruments, and don't have any creativity. They don't craft interesting lyrics on top of emotional/exciting music, they just talk and use a computer generated beat. I pretty much only listen to music from before the turn of the century because artists then were creative and worked hard to perfect the words and tune to the song, and the result was a fantastic variety of songs that really can bring out emotions in people, both happy and exited, or sad and lonely. The fact that every rap song sound the same comes down to their lack of creativity and general inability to play and create real music. So apparently people like Nas, 2pac, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Black Thought, GZA, Common, Talib Kweli, Mos Def have no talent? Do your damn research before stereotyping a whole damn genre. Plus, The Roots are a band of live instruments where there's a guitarist, drummer, bassist, etc. Absolutely no talent goes into rapping, half the rappers can't sing without auto tune and the are bit picking up and instrument and plating them they are just pressing a button that plays an "artificial beat" and the songwriting sucks with pointless and stupid lyrics. The only genre of music where you need no talent whatsoever to play. You don't need to learn how to play any instruments or even sing. Thus, since no talent is needed in rap, a lot of it sounds the same.

Songs Bragging About Having Money Don't get me wrong, I love rap music. I even like some songs about making money, but only when its about the hard work and effort involved. But I hate songs that just brag about having money, and telling people that they don't have as much. If someone is talking about getting enough money to feed their family, like Dr. Dre did in "Forgot About Dre", then it is not bad. But someone talking about how they have a ton of money and are blowing it on stupid stuff just pisses me off. For the love of God, NO ONE CARES ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE! Music isn't about having money. I understand that people need to make a living somehow, but that's not the main idea. Music is about expression and inspiration. It's there to explain something to you. It has a deeper meaning behind it. Music isn't just about making money. That just isn't even music. I have no tolerance for that. Stop with this bull about having a lot of money when you not giving it back to a church or to help better yourselves.



Now it is a free country but that don't mean you can talk about you having money when you cracking credit cards while other on the street busting they asses to make a penny. The dumbest thing is that modern rappers talk about how much money they've got and they're gonna spend it all on cars, Jewelry, and making it rain in the club. You're wasting away all of your money. Even rappers like Pac and Biggie would find that stupid.

Misinformation Rappers are talking about things that a young person might want to do. It's steering black youth in the wrong direction in life. The youth are dropping out of school trying to do things that rappers are talking about. A lot of things that rap has "taught" people are specific to the ego of the rapper and have no value to their stupid fan base. Most rappers say things that are meant to rhyme, but It ends up sounding really stupid and gets a lot of people in trouble.

No Variation They need to paint a visual picture to complement they're beat. Wavy trap artists such as Playboi carti, ethereal need to channel energy into the wave they create. Mike G from OF can spit descriptive though. Why does the game always gotta convey either struggle or lavishness where's the in between? You can be lyrical without rapping about negativity and violence but Eminem has been spotlighted as the lyrical standard. Battle rap hasn't helped even though I love some battle rappers. Also where's the love for other Detroit MC's pay dues. Descriptive language is key hip-hop deserves a atmospheric renovation. This only occurs mostly towards somewhat famous rap music. Some examples of variation in rap is: Nas with his Rakim influenced sound and somewhat slowly and little, but still, changing rap sound. Red Hot Chili Peppers with their mix of rap and funk elements (If You Have To Ask and Mellowship Slinky In B Major are prime examples) that definitely goes further than how Will Smith used to mix rap with dance music elements. Amoc (Inari) and Slincraze (Davvisámegiella) which raps in almost/somewhat extinct languages. Rage Against The Machine with their unique mix of rap and metal with unique solos by Tom Morello (Bullet In The Head, Settle For Nothing) as well as Linkin Park with Mike Shinoda (Faint, Somewhere I Belong). Kendrick Lamar with his tone variation and song structure that shows that you can mix the sound of the older stuff with the newer and that it is all about how you do it and how well. Beastie Boys with their punk influences, whilst sounding nothing like the metal rappers, ...more Rap can be summed up as, pointless rhyming that doesn't sound good, has no meaning, and is full of curse words, layered against a cookie cutter beat that isn't even catchy, layered and compressed for bad quality, with a stupid, I'm tough image. Point being, it is all the same, it is lame My God, every "rap" song is exactly the same! I was never a big fan of rap music, but at least Eminem actually had a message, and his songs didn't all sound exactly the same. These songs insult the intelligence of every human being that dares to listen to this horrendous heap of garbage. Also, you don't have to say "f***" at least 10 times in every song. It doesn't challenge anyone at all. A 5-year-old could point out everything wrong with this!

Racism 10 So much of rap music talks about how difficult it is to be considered a lesser person because of the color of your skin and how one's heritage can be cause for other to hold them back. But ask yourself when you listen to some of these lyrics, are they helping or hurting the cause? Think of some of the negative stereotypes of specific ethnicities and then consider how many rap songs reinforce these stereotypes. What do rap songs say about people of other ethnicities, including white people?



This nation and the world has a poor history of treating everyone equally, and there are certainly still issues today, but most people have far more influence on their lives than they would believe. Most people feel held back at some point in time and if they really examine the situation closely, they'll realize that they are the ones working the hardest to keep themselves down. This, however, is not true. Rap is part of the black culture. There is no racism when the culture accepts it. We accept it because of how we feel we relate to it when we listen to it. Rap music is not racist, and only people who can't go 10 seconds without expressing how their political opinion is right believe that. I'm talking about both liberals and conservatives. Both sides are dumb as hell, hence why I have no political alignment. Politics ruin everything. The preserve the mentality that Whitey is keeping you down, your only choice to survive is join a gang... it's pathetic. The TRUTH is you are limitted by one thing, yourself. Obama proved you can go as far as you want in life. There are no more excuses. The fact that rappers keep the Racism issue going is lame and pathetic. Every other rap song is about how blacks are targeted by whites, especially police officers. Seriously, it's annoying and not true. Ironically they all rap about smoking weed and doing drugs and they wonder why they get arrested/pulled over

The Contenders

Songs About Sex 11 It's not just that there are so many songs about sex. It's that so many rap songs talk about sex in such a gross, degrading way. Why would anyone want to listen to "Wait (The Whisper Song)" by Ying Yang Twins, "Some Cut" by Trillville ft. Cutty, "Play" by David Banner, "Every Girl" by Young Money, "Love Me" by Lil Wayne ft. Drake and Future? All of these songs try to be sexy, but they all come across as gross, annoying, or both. They make sex sound disgusting, humiliating, or painful instead of fun. It would be like putting Donald Trump's "Grab her by the p****" conversation to a rap beat. What girl would want to listen to that? What girl would want to listen to any of these songs? What girl would be attracted to any of the guys rapping in these songs? Do you seriously think that the things they describe are what most girls want? It seems that for most of these songs, the rappers think they are genuinely being sexy and attractive to women. To me though, the stuff they describe in ...more You people do know that that Crank that Soulja Boy songs was about ejaculation right? I think that really all rap song's are. Ever heard pop songz eh

Kids Trying to Imitate Real Gangsters 12 That is 90% of the kids in my class. I am currently in 8th grade, male, and black. About 90% of the black kids in the school listen to rap. Half of them steal peoples phones and money, curse at grown ups, and one guy even tried to fight me when I said I listened to rock and roll. They also brag about being self proclaimed "thugs." Here's a message kids: you ain't no gangster and you NEVER will be. I would rather be a scrawny, rock and roll loving nerd than a cheap ass wannabe thug. This is sadly true. Because of our modern glorification of violence in rap music, some kids take it too seriously. I love classic rap, but I'm also glad that time's past, because the influence it would have on our generation could be awful. When a five year old is throwing up gang signs your way and singing rap music, you know you don't belong on this planet. That would be more than half the population of 8th graders on the planet.

Glorification of Drug Use 13 It's not the fact that rappers use drugs. After all, decades of music were influenced by mind altering chemicals. It's that all the negative aspects of a drug culture are put on display. The use of hardcore drugs, the peddling of drugs, the violence that goes along with illegal and addictive substances. Brian Wilson may have used drugs, but he wrote about Good Vibrations and not about the years he spent confined to his bedroom sleeping and taking drugs, the deterioration of his voice and his mind, and the tragic loss it was to the music world when one of it's most brilliant members was no longer even a functioning member of society. OK...



First, I like rap music, I'm not a hater. Second, it really angers me when I listen to a song like "Purple Pills" by Eminem. He took drugs, look where that got him: a decade of awful albums. (Encore and Relapse)



He even disses those albums in Cinderella Man, on Recovery.



One of the main reasons people today use drugs is because they think it's popular - and songs about how great drugs are doesn't help. Studies show that glorification of drugs is done the least in the rap and Hip-Hop genres (no there no interchangeable). The only reason people think only they do it is because it's the most listened to genre of music right now. Rappers are herbivores, they worship the plants called weeds. They are in same class as goats, they are REAL.

Songs About Killing People 14 Look, obviously you must be comparing your whole life to these rappers, because most you obviously "hate" or "curse" them.

If they gave all their money away to a new fassaud like, "the answer to the nations family problems", children's playgrounds, would you even care? Not that much. Statistics say that "would rappers care about you? ".. Not that much. Why write about murder when you never killed anyone and you can go to jail for it. The glorification of violence is a key theme in many rap songs Too many lyrics are "Cops are comin' we hidn' the crack! Shoot em' down and fire back!

It's Just Talking 15 My friends in school always sing it but to be honest its just making random words up and rythming them with other words so that's it and rap is going to be the best noo way. Also I hate how they always swear its just bad influence and making people go haywire. Also when people here this they do this weird poses and like in mature pointing the finger like is that what you are going to do in life there is 10000000 things more useful to do then this so rappers go help people and stop acting like you're the best MOVE ON IN LIFE First of all Rakim never swears. Second of all there are GOOD rappers like Nas, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, 2pac, KRS-One, Hopsin, Dizzy Wright, Eminem, Public Enemy, Outkast, Akala, J-Jon, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli and many more who rap about things that are wrong with this world. They have better lyrics than any musician in any other genre. I'm certain you can't name any better lyricists except maybe some rock singers like Kurt Cobain or Freddy Mercury. Pablo4lyfe most people like Kurt Cobain and Freddie Mercury actually put meaning into their songs and there are many other music artists than them and rappers that can actually put sense into songs. Also rock music especially has different lyrics rather than the same old talking about "money, women, drugs ETC" So just bare that in mind and listen to more of bands like Nirvana, Queen, Foo Fighters... No wonder both opera and rap are crazy! Take your pick: singing when you're supposed to be speaking or speaking when you're supposed to be singing. Talking? It's not even that. If someone says "that dude can't rap", it means "he does not have a speech impediment."

Songs about Getting Drunk, High, or Intoxicated 16 Its just people complaing about there lives and how it sucks and that all they do is smoke weed and do drugs and in my opinion its just a bunch of synths making sounds and people singing random lyrics that someone who lives on the street would give them. If you take out the lyrics from rap music, There are no words

Random Sounds Replacing Instruments 17 These morons don't even know what music is. How about instead of using background music that sounds like a DS having a mental breakdown, you actually use real instruments, like a drum. Those sound way better than the Gameboy on LSD sound we got instead. It's just a spit in the face to anyone who loves music. Yeah! The Black Eyed Peas invented autotune and ruined it! If not for them, Britney Spears would've produced real music. They are even worse than Bonnie McKee, Justin Timberlake, Ariana Grande, Patrick from Fall Out Boy, Harry from One Direction, and even Max from The Wanted! Electronic musicians use synths and engineer the sounds with precision. Rock musicians play guitars and drums. Classical musicians have orchestras. Rap "musicians" have autotune. This is why I hate modern music. This and voice editing. I mean anyone can sing when there voice is edited. I mean rockers have electric gutairs but you still need skill to play them.

Stupid Dances Invented by Rappers 18 every time I see one I like whit the hell are they doing they look so damn stupid The Soulja Boy - Soulja Boy

The Dougie - Cali Swag District

The John Wall - Troop 41

The Shmoney Dance - Bobby Shmurda



I guess the only way to get people to buy your crap is to do some dumb gimmick in order to attract more people.



Seriously? Where's your talent? You should focus on the rapping and the music. Focus on your talent instead of dancing!

It's Repetitive 19

Perversion of the Language 20 Along with excessive use of profanity, there is a theme of general disregard for proper syntax, spelling, and pronunciation. It's hard to consider someone intellectual and a poet when their lyrics are filled with dis, dat, da, dose, and strengf. Please no more swearing or I'll kill you wrappers.

Rappers Using Stupid Slang 21 How is slang stupid

22 Anyone can do it

Mumble Rap 23

24 Trap Music