egolessindigo
G O H A R D
something doesn't have to be complex to be COMPLETE FIRE, and people who think rap is simple and dumb are RIGHT but anybody who says that kind of shyt is SWAGLESS and will be left behind hip hop is taking over the world
Whenever I hear somebody attack rap as simplistic or an easy art form....
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It's not a matter of other rappers having the idea, it's when the poster boy of your genre blatantly days he's a sellout and just looking to make money does the credibility of the genre go down. If the person who is considered the best/king of your genre and he doesn't even take it seriously, what are others going to think.
Again it's not a matter of what other rappers may think. It's like The Red Hot Chili Peppers saying a comment that Foster The People said. Who's words are going to hold more weight. When your at the forefront and want to be the KING of you genre and want your genre to be respected, you have to watch your words.
In closing, do you think John Starks words hold more weight than Jordan's in the basketball world.
egolessindigo
G O H A R D
im saying your a cornball if your looking for depth in rap music, you should just listen to the music and take from it w/e
LandryFieldsDad
All Star
You think people who would say that are going through
The history of hip hop listening to lyrical masterpieces
Or hear some garbage mainstream in passing on the radio
The history of hip hop listening to lyrical masterpieces
Or hear some garbage mainstream in passing on the radio
Hussein Fonzarelli
The Whitey Corp.
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newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
It really is....I mean any English professor in the 21st century could literally use some of the best songs as instructional tools......so much poetry with literary terms from the best lyricists.....
Metaphors, similies, alliteration, hyperbole, paradoxes, allusions, anachronisms, parables, personification, etc etc etc ....tons of rhymes schemes.....
HIP HOP IS RICH IN LITERARY DEVICES/TERMS Literary Terms and Definitions
It's not that other genres dont' do this, but you can find up to a dozen or so devices in one hip hop song......my 4th or 5th career option would be to be a professor that breakdowns Hip Hop songs
, and points out the literary devices in them and the overall meaning to them.... 
I love this music/art form
Hussein Fonzarelli
The Whitey Corp.
It really is....I mean any English professor in the 21st century could literally use some of the best songs as instructional tools......so much poetry with literary terms from the best lyricists.....
Metaphors, similies, alliteration, hyperbole, paradoxes, allusions, anachronisms, parables, personification, etc etc etc ....tons of rhymes schemes.....
HIP HOP IS RICH IN LITERARY DEVICES/TERMS Literary Terms and Definitions
It's not that other genres dont' do this, but you can find a dozen or more devices in one song......my 4th or 5th career option would be to be a professor that breakdowns Hip Hop songs
I love this music/art form
SHUT THE fukk UP
it really depends which examples you using
anyone can cherry pick a gucci mane or a lil b and selectively use them to make a case that rap is simplistic
but that shows they have an agenda
why not use an elzhi or a royce da 59
because it wouldnt work
anyone can cherry pick a gucci mane or a lil b and selectively use them to make a case that rap is simplistic
but that shows they have an agenda
why not use an elzhi or a royce da 59
because it wouldnt work
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
SHUT THE fukk UP
breh.....I will smack the prism rainbow off your scuba gear looking glasses.....
....
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
It really is....I mean any English professor in the 21st century could literally use some of the best songs as instructional tools......so much poetry with literary terms from the best lyricists.....
Metaphors, similies, alliteration, hyperbole, paradoxes, allusions, anachronisms, parables, personification, etc etc etc ....tons of rhymes schemes.....
HIP HOP IS RICH IN LITERARY DEVICES/TERMS Literary Terms and Definitions
It's not that other genres dont' do this, but you can find up to a dozen or so devices in one hip hop song......my 4th or 5th career option would be to be a professor that breakdowns Hip Hop songs
I love this music/art form
A friend of mine actually does this as his specialty in his English post-graduate studies. Semiotics of Hip-Hop and the like. Conversations are always fun.
........ damn that's awesome