by jonny_boy34 on Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:44 pm
The nearest I get to listening to rap music is One Minute Silence or Rage Against the Mother. I appreciate that real rap and hip-hop have real lyrics and the rappers have real things to say other then "i've been shot, i'm so cool, i'm a street gangsta so i thought i'd get someone to make a computer game of me and make a shit film because i'm an idiot etc". But musically it doesn't do anything for me, and at the end of the day I can say the lyrics are nice, but it's still music and the majority of the rap music itself that I have heard makes me feel nothing at all. Unlike heavy metal of course.
I've often thought actually that hip-hop and metal share similarities indeed. Both have faced big problems of censorship in the past, both have had their images tarnished by mainstream idiots who have no idea about the real thing and what it's about, and both have quite niche audiences, when it comes to the good stuff at least. You have to dig quite a lot deeper to hear the underground stuff that is worth listening to, a fact that applies to both metal and hip-hop I imagine. Just a thought I had one day. Obviously the actual music is very different indeed (though both genres tend to be quite aggressive generally), but there you go.
I never really had much time for the Beastie Boys, possibly because someone I used to hate was really into them and went on abou tthem all the time, which made me hate them too. But Jamie's been trying to convince me every now and again that they are good, and gradually I'm starting to see it... but I don't really like his voice, which kind of ruins everything for me. Anyway, fun on toast.