Quote by "JohnRoggers":
Second of all...Mainstream rap is absolute re-hashed garbage! Underground is where the real stuff is, things like Wordsworth, Murs, Felt, Atmosphere, almost anything on the Rhyme Sayers label, and a lot of other....the mainstream garbage is pointless beats set on repeat for drunk idiots at bars/clubs, and the teens to dance to...
Welcome to the human race.
Some people are out to pay the bills versus getting their artistic expression heard by someone, and it's like this in every genre of music.
Some of it makes a statement, some of it pays the bills, and some of it is just music for the fun of playing music.
Ars gratia artis.
That's not to say pop music is completely without talent--just now I was listening to Lil Jon's "BME Click" for the umpteenth time. The way everyone flows in and works off each other is pretty fuckin' cool, and they use a slick combination of country words/slang and "rap staples" at roaring levels! It's almost a metal approach to rap, and that's what makes crunk so fun.
Is it educating people, making them more politically aware or positively affecting the current generation? Maybe not, but it goes hard as hell
It is kind of annoying, though, when people jump on the bandwagon and talk about how deep Kanye's material is, yet they have no idea about what's going on in the underground. But, I guess that's why all great underground music inevitably stays underground?
JR, have you heard of/listened to Sage Francis?
