Music was just better back before hip-hop:
(The crappy-ass shit that kids listen to nowadays. They have the nerve to call the monotonal gruntings of some mysogynistic moron "music", just because it's accompanied by some punk-ass scratchings from a record.)
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The rap and hip-hop is worse than 3rd Grade poetry.
You guys have just been listening to the wrong hip-hop/rap. Just like not all rock is death metal, not all rap is gangsta.
I wrote a post on this a while ago on my blog, where I detail a bunch of good, positive hip-hop-style artists that are trying to improve the world: Link
Here's a quick list of artists to check out:
* Michael Franti & Spearhead: One of my favorite artists ever, Franti is THE MAN. You should check out his documentary on Iraq and Israel, I know I'm not alone, where he travels to Baghdad and Israel to see for himself what people are living with over there.
His album Yell Fire! is the result of that trip and is basically an attack on the Iraq War. The title track's lyrics include: They tellin' you to never worry about the future / They tellin' you to never worry about the torture / They tellin you that you'll never see the horror /
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
* K'naan: A Somalian kid who escaped from that country right as the warlords took over. He now raps about what life was like before and during the madness. One of my favorite songs of his is "Hardcore" where he puts gangsta rap in perspective with the war zone his home has become. One of my favorite lines from that song is "If I rhyme about home and got descriptive I'd make 50 Cent look like Limpbizkit."
* Asian Dub Foundation: This band is really hard categorize. It's like Rage Against the Machine, a dub reggae band and an electronica group all blended into one awesome British sound packed with politically charged lyrics.
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