Favorite rap tunes
 

LOL - NOT a rap fan here - at all :laugh:

Rap?
 

Sorry ,
my fav rap tune is by Blondie-
Probably one of the first rap tunes named "Rapture" :nod:

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oh I like it, sometimes. Last fave is a dutch rap: De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt :D

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oh I like it, sometimes. Last fave is a dutch rap: De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Watskeburt :D

and from the others you mention: missy elliot, she's really good. I find myself liking a lot of snoop dog songs too, they're really cleverly produced.


Edit.. Hmm, how did this happen? I thought I edited my first post. Uh, nevermind.

"I Play Chicken With The Train"---Cowboy Troy

Me either but it seems that every radio station here plays it (in fact, they took off a big alternative station here Y100--and replaced it with rap). I do like Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff's Summertime and Around The Way Girl by LL Cool J. My best friends boyfriend grew up in North East Philly so it's all he listens to and when i'm around them, I get stuck listening to it too
-_- I liked Twista's Overnight Celebrity and a few Missy Elliot songs. Other than that, i'll pass.

Right - ok - if we're counting "Rapture" here then that would be my favorite :D

Well, I love all of Blondie's rap tunes. :laugh:

I also love Black Eyed Peas. Does that count?

anything by Eminem, 50 Cent or LL Cool J - they could SO have a piece - hehe

I own two rap albums, both of which I love:

Beastie Boys: Ill Communication
Ice-T: OG

I'm one of these people that think good rap is as close as we get to Shakespeare these days in terms of rhyme and rhythm. Of course there's a lot of crap out there too!

I need to get me some Public Enemy.

I don't know but isn't it the 'popular' thing to say when you like pop/rock music, that you hate rap? As if the two are incompatible, almost. Same thing for Dance music. :shrug:
I used to be a bit more distrusting of dance and rap, but when you get over that.. there's a lot of great music out there.

This is a simple one. -NONE can't stand any of it. :nod: Bad poetry over stolen "samples" Do ANY play any instruments at all? Don't like the messages in general, videos are even worse. (Nice treatment of women - great language- *add sarcasm here*) Heavy bass that only annoys everyone around them. But what do you expect from an old white guy? :laugh: I can't stand the entire hip/hop rap "culture". Even DC's sampling of Stevie really annoys me. Write your OWN stuff. I find nothing redeeming about any of it. Find the entire genre tacky. Foul mouthed thugs who think money buys respect. I have an idea of where you can stick your "bling". In other words.....Don't really care for it.

I am not a big fan of rap, but I do love Rappers Delight. :] In fact, I "rapped" a verse of it for my daughter this weekend, and she said "can you do that again?!?!" I also like some of Salt 'n Pepa's stuff, "Let's talk about sex," for example.

I hate sitting at a red light in my car, with the windows up, and having someone in the next lane with the loud thumping bass and actually being able to hear the "lyrics." At least with the "older" rap you could understand most of the words. As much as I hate Britney Spears, I'd rather have my daughter like her music instead of rap.

Carol

Not even Rapture? :lol:

Francois c’est pas flashe non due.

That's not rap....it's BLONDIE. :] And she isn't siting on a car cursing while women's butts are shaking into the camera, with a peter gabriel "hook" being used as their own tune, and.....and...... :nod: :lol:


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I love Outkast.
That is all.

(oh and Lose Yourself by Eminem is great too)

Regulate - Warren G
Been There Done That - Dr. Dre
Crossroads - Bone, Thugs 'n Harmony
Summertime in the LBC - Dove Shack (f. Warren G)
Rainy days -Ja Rule f. Mary J Blige
Ms. Jackson - Outkast :thumbsup:
Gossip folks - Missy Elliott f. ludacris
Son Of Gun - Missy Elliott, C. Simon, J. Jackson
Nobody Does It Better - Nate Dogg and Warren G (gotta love Warren G :D )
Fu-Gee-La, Ready Or Not - Fugees
Guilty Conscience - Eminem, Dr. Dre
Stan - Eminem

... and some more...

Romy

Can I just say one of the first singles I ever bought was The Show by Doug E Fresh.
I bet not too many of you can remember than one, but it's a rap classic and was a big hit at the time.

Oh and I forgot to mention the Beastie Boys. Love 'em too.

Ooh!!
 

"Mo Money, Mo Problems" by Biggie, Puffy and Mase

That song takes me right back to high school the year I graduated.

Ok - how about:

It's All About the Pentiums - Weird Al :p

:lol: :lol: :lol: I think it would be LL Liddy Buck (Ladies Love Liddy Buck)!

Lmao!!
 

Hmmm...
Tupac Shakur's "The Way it is"--yes, he took Bruce Hornsby's track and rapped over it, but he did it for a specific reason--because Bruce's song is a classic about race relations, and Tupac wanted to bring it back while expressing his own take on race relations. Rappers aren't just lifting tracks because they can't think of original music, they're doing it because currently, it's the trendy thing to do in rap/hip-hop, and because sometimes they're either paying homage to the original artist or they want people to remember the message of the original song.

"California Love"--Dr. Dre, etc.
"Switch" by Will Smith (haha)
"Hate it or Love it" by 50 Cent (although I don't care for most of his stuff)
"Lose Yourself"--Eminem
"It Takes Two"--Rob Bass (does NO ONE remember this one?! It takes me back to junior high, which was like, 15 years ago!!! And I still hear it on the radio sometimes!)
"Get Busy" (can't remember the artist)
"Baby Got Back"--Sir Mix-a-Lot

There's more but I can't think of all of them right now. And I don't even consider myself to be a very big rap fan.

Ooh, I love that one, too. I love Blige's No More Drama album, it's fantastic. She's a GREAT live performer.

these names are tooo funny~

i like:
ignition-r.kelly
in da club-50 cent, i love "hey shorty it's your birthday..."
gangstar's paradise-coolio
hot in herre-nelly
big mama i think the name is by ll cool j
lose yourself-eminem

I just couldnt get into rap that much either...although I wont deny that some of it is very catchy.

I'm not that into it myself, but there are a few that I like. Just keep me away from Eminem or I'll blow a ****ing gasket.

She's really great and I love No More drama, it's such a passionate album. Actually, the best thing I got from Waiting to Exhale (besides Angela Bassett performance) was to discover her great voice on the soundtrack.

Romy

Sorry G&G ....Couldn't resist: :p

that is toooo funny & my hubby would totally agee, he HATES it!!! when i do listen to it, which isn't that often, is usually when cleaning & he is at wrk~

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Anyway, I'm with ya, diss--I can't take Eminem.

I want to cut his tongue out so that he can't speak and break his fingers so that he can't write "lyrics". :lol: