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Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Rappers have it easy
I've been comparing rap and rock for a while now (I know I'm a loser) and I've noticed that rap songs are OVERALL less intelligent (that means not all songs are bad). For example, I hate to do this since I like this song, P.I.M.P with 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg. In the first two lines of the chorus, they rhyme 'me' with 'me' (I don't know what ya heard about ME, but you can't get a dollar outta ME). I mean, if that happened anywhere in a rock song, it would've been uproar. Heads would roll! I'm sure there are countless other rap songs that do that. I dare you to find one rock song which rhymes the same word.
Also, rappers can be incredibly profane without many people caring. Wanna know why? Because rock 'n' roll made that possible. There are many drug, and sexual references in songs. There area also many songs about sex and drugs. Take a look at all of Meatloaf's songs. Paradise by the Dashboard Light for example. There's even a segment in the song with a baseball announcer announcing a guy "rounding the bases". Eric Clapton wrote a song entitled "Cocaine." There's a song called "Horse with No Name", which is a huge reference to heroine. Where do you think the phrase 'Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll' came from? And people were all over this! A majority of parents were anti-rock due to all of this. Yet the bands played on!
Nowadays rappers can talk about sex, drugs, violence, prostitution, and write a whole song based around the swears they want to use. And only the most militant of mothers groups care to lift a finger. Only rappers like Eminem get widespread outroar (but that's only because he talks about sawing off his mom's breasts, shooting her multiple times, roasting her corpse on a spit, and feeding her flesh to his parents because for some reason he hates them.)
Also, rappers can have songs where there's the same baseline the whole song, and the same harmony the whole song. Rock songs are a lot more musically complex, which is why they kick ass! There are no solos in rap, no actual instruments. It's just a synthesizer set to repeat until hell freezes over. Often I find myself getting lost in a rap song because I can't hear any music changing. It gets incredibly boring sometimes.
So in conclusion, rappers get away with boring ass music and repeating rhymes. Also, they don't get the controversey the rock 'n' rollers had to go through to let them be able to do it. The Kings of Rock deserve more props from the rappers. And someone need to tell them to spend more than 5 minutes when writing their lyrics and think of something else to rhyme me with.
To those who are about to rock, I salute you.
Also, rappers can be incredibly profane without many people caring. Wanna know why? Because rock 'n' roll made that possible. There are many drug, and sexual references in songs. There area also many songs about sex and drugs. Take a look at all of Meatloaf's songs. Paradise by the Dashboard Light for example. There's even a segment in the song with a baseball announcer announcing a guy "rounding the bases". Eric Clapton wrote a song entitled "Cocaine." There's a song called "Horse with No Name", which is a huge reference to heroine. Where do you think the phrase 'Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll' came from? And people were all over this! A majority of parents were anti-rock due to all of this. Yet the bands played on!
Nowadays rappers can talk about sex, drugs, violence, prostitution, and write a whole song based around the swears they want to use. And only the most militant of mothers groups care to lift a finger. Only rappers like Eminem get widespread outroar (but that's only because he talks about sawing off his mom's breasts, shooting her multiple times, roasting her corpse on a spit, and feeding her flesh to his parents because for some reason he hates them.)
Also, rappers can have songs where there's the same baseline the whole song, and the same harmony the whole song. Rock songs are a lot more musically complex, which is why they kick ass! There are no solos in rap, no actual instruments. It's just a synthesizer set to repeat until hell freezes over. Often I find myself getting lost in a rap song because I can't hear any music changing. It gets incredibly boring sometimes.
So in conclusion, rappers get away with boring ass music and repeating rhymes. Also, they don't get the controversey the rock 'n' rollers had to go through to let them be able to do it. The Kings of Rock deserve more props from the rappers. And someone need to tell them to spend more than 5 minutes when writing their lyrics and think of something else to rhyme me with.
To those who are about to rock, I salute you.