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    CaptainJistuce
    Posted by creaothceann
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO GO GO GO!

    Yes! Says My Ho!

    This is not the Ninja Rap you're looking for. Move along.
    shadowinthelight Tomman, I would love to hear your opinion on the music in the Mortal Kombat 11 trailer...
    NTI Yeah. I suppose during the first decade of this millennium, the label "rebel teenager" was still something related to what Nirvana had accomplished a few years early. Linkin Park and the likes really put their names into history during the 00's.

    I'm very aware of the minds behind each group, and I believe firmly their work was sincere back then, but the tag "rebel teenager" haven't been the same in the last couple of years like it was when Fear The Clown, Foo Fighters, Thousand Foot Krutch, etc dominated all radio channels.

    It has been rather... generic, which is why I'm including it in the same group as pop music.
    wareya The music targeted at "rebel teenagers" is the least mainstream pop there is, and it also has the most diversity. Linkin Park isn't/wasn't a dishonest job, and neither are Green Day, Sum 41, or Blink 182. There's actual artists behind those names.
    NTI
    Posted by wareya
    Mainstream music is good, actually.

    I mean, the composers are fairly competent at their jobs, Max Martin and co had more than 50 songs to chart at billboard for the last 20 years.

    Problem is, the most musically inclined people get sick of it. Every song hit just sounds the same. Because the music industry cares more about selling a product, mainstream serving composers just follow formulas targeting at rebel teenagers or socialites, there simply isn't any identity at all to mainstream music.
    creaothceann
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO GO GO GO!

    Yes! Says My Ho!
    CaptainJistuce GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO! GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO GO GO GO!
    wareya Mainstream music is good, actually. It's just that there's so much more obscure stuff that you're more likely to find a large number of gems after you search through the obscure stuff for long enough.
    jjndig I should mention that I was talking about people that surround me who listen to the shitty mainstream stuff... I guess like memes you have to dig deep to find the good stuff :P
    Screwtape If modern pop is the accessible, exciting descendant of classical music, rap is the accessible, exciting descendant of poetry. It's not about melody and harmony, it's about intricate rhythms, metaphors, and double (or triple) meanings.

    Go listen to Rap God by Eminem, then explore the high-school English class dissection to learn about all the references and layers of meaning. It's also worth watching an analysis of the rhyming scheme; check out the way he switches between repeating some set of vowel sounds then switching up to a different set, then returning later for emphasis.

    After all that, you might not enjoy listening to rap, but hopefully you'll agree that there's at least some tracks worthy of respect.
    NTI
    Posted by tomman
    Butbutbut the tricked-out Hummers with TVs on the TVs!

    And the nearly naked bikini bimbos on the champagne-filled pools!

    And all those coke parties!

    Oh, yeah. Those things too.
    tomman Butbutbut the tricked-out Hummers with TVs on the TVs!

    And the nearly naked bikini bimbos on the champagne-filled pools!

    And all those coke parties!
    NTI But rap is actually about the lyrical and the background content, the world has just been granted with shitty rappers lately, so no big deal people think so poorly of it.

    Having studied music or technically speaking, I should say that to write rap (well, good rap), you just gotta be a genius. Much beyond than singing on top of a beat, there is an entire process into engineering the sound, voice, effects and general development of the lyrics being sung.

    Besides, musicians (not rappers, those fucked up the genre) tend to write about the reality, social criticism, history, philosophy, etc. Thing is, rap supposedly should make you reflect on life, and I'm telling you that without even liking rap at all, AOR is my thing.

    Sadly, the biggest mainstream representatives of this music style suck ass. So yeah, in the meantime, rap is garbage.
    jjndig i hate rap

    it barely passes as music to me, music is about both the lyrical and the background content, to me

    though I really like instrumental pieces too, rap just sounds like talking with a generic beat to me if i ever hear it
    Kawaoneechan The Fresh Prince was totally a rapper.
    tomman The only rapper I've ever listened to is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

    ...wait, that wasn't even a rap group, but one of the greatest sitcoms from the '90s.

    I'm not even into rap/hiphop at all - those genres were never a thing at this side of the Americas. Instead, we got the bastard degeneration known as reggaeton, but even then that was a kinda recent happening (early '00s at best)
    NTI
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    Posted by TheMTtakeover
    Idk what age group you are in, but I think almost everybody in the world has heard Crank That at some point.

    Nope, never heard it.

    Same deal, never heard it too.
    CaptainJistuce
    Posted by TheMTtakeover

    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    You're probably better off for it.
    I have no idea who Soulja Boy is.


    Idk what age group you are in, but I think almost everybody in the world has heard Crank That at some point.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
    Nope, never heard it.
    Late 30s, BTW. Old enough to remember when Nintendo was synonymous with video games, and a veteran of the great war that broke their monopoly.

    Only rappers I know off-hand are MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.
    TheMTtakeover
    Posted by creaothceann
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHC_rfX50U


    wtf....

    I thought Death Note was a band. xD


    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    You're probably better off for it.
    I have no idea who Soulja Boy is.


    Idk what age group you are in, but I think almost everybody in the world has heard Crank That at some point.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UFIYGkROII
    Covarr
    Posted by CaptainJistuce
    I have no idea who Soulja Boy is.

    You're definitely better off for it. Garbage-tier rapper.
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