I've been noticing lately that a lot of artist who sell a lot of cd's (or at least people who burn cds for others) have REALLY idiotic songs. Songs that can be about nothing and yet sell more than artists who make music with meaning. I can't go to any Rap site with out seeing music videos about these "rappers" and and them bragging about how much money and slutty women they got singing about how much slutty women and money they have (confusing, I know :P ). Every year the content has been getting worse and worse(f*cking Soulja Boy, are you kidding me?!), I have to look towards European rap to get anything with quality. That also brings up the issue with the name "rap", it's actualy an abbreviation that means Rhythmic, African,Poetry. Rap used to transend cultures, some of my friends and girlfriends that like rock also had many rap songs in their music collections. Now the only people that like rap are the ones who are either diehard fans (me :P ) or people who go with idiotic trends.
So now I'm going to name some GOOD rappers that aren't infected with the BS of most others.
(Briton)RZA: he's amazing, he does a bunch of collab songs with Ghost Dog and his music has a mix of Blues and Jazz. he's known to have many songs without vocals
(Germany) Fettes Brot: Even though they are one of the many German bands their beats can trancend all language barriers (they also got an interesting history on their name wich means "Fat Bread" :P )
(Briton) Klashemakoff: He's considered the Jay-Z of Briton, he is one of the only true rappers that is both popular and has the decency to not show half naked women in every Music Video
(Spain) Natch Scratch: He used to be a drug dealer but eventualy became a Spanish sensation, his music is olds school and can rap faster than any human being I have ever met (I recomend learning spanish If you want to listen to him)
(France) Houdini: altough not particularly my style he still can drop a mean beat, he shows what true rap is al about
(USA) Jay-Z: Altough most of his songs aren't worth listening too he does have a couple that are awesome, I suggest you give him a try
(USA) Nujabes: ahh,Nujabes, of "SAMURAI CHAMPLOO" fame. He does a bunch of songs other than that, all off them quality. He usualy raps about the issues I mentioned above but also about awesome stuff like ninjas and samurais :lol:
(USA) Kanye West: His latest songs were amazing, they really have that olds school feel while still keeping it fresh and awesome.
(USA) Tupac: It's Tupac, nuff said
(USA) Common: more Blues than rap but awesome nonetheless, check him out if you have the chance
and that's only a couple of the ones I can name off the bat, I might give a full list in my next blog
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