hahah you go to bed at nine.
haha, ive been away for quite some time too… my first response to this thread was months ago, it just wont go away! anyway, yeah i still personally think that something as ridiculous as rap would never help me fall asleep or have LDs, but once again… personal opinion, if it helps you go for it!
OMG!!! ITS TEH NU 50 CENTS!!! YAYZZ!!!
But seriously, the coolness of that rap is equivalent to LUEshi. Thats a good thing, by the way.
I would eat this rap for lunch.
HAHAH get it? (wrap)
LOL ROFFLES
LET’S ALL LAUGH K?
Uhm… First of all, I would like to say: rap sucks. Talking in rythm is NOT and will NEVER be music. But if thats what gets your groove on, Ill leave that be, brudda. Pfff… Pffhbbhht… Ahehehhehehem. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Very sorry about that. I hope I did`nt offend anyone. falls from his chair, laughing so badly it hurts
That’s what I thought about it. Rap is just talking…so wow. Rappers are considered talented because they can talk with music in the backround. 
I’m a teenager, but I consider (most) rap annoying and offensive. This one isn’t, but most rap music is. But hey, if it works for you, go for it man.
yeeess!!!, down with the rap!!..up with rock!!!
There’s a word for you people within rap/hip hop culture: haters.
If you want all of your ignorant opinions about rap overturned, go out tommorow and buy yourselves a copy of “I, Phantom” by Mr Lif.
Although I’ll agree that the stuff in the charts is often an embarrasment, it is no excuse for writing off an entire genre of music.
Comparing 50 Cent to, say, Aesop Rock, is like comparing Britney Spears to the Moody Blues or the Beatles in terms of rock music. There are a few really good bands and many stinkers in every genre.
Listen to some good rap:
Listen to “The Tussin” and “Hackers and Crackers.” Those songs are hilarious.
Yeah, Aesop Rock’s lyrics are just plain amazing, especially on Labor Days. “This is for the thinkers, this is for the urchins allergic to their own stingers” heh. He’s on the same label as Mr Lif (DEF JUX) and they are all really talented ‘New School’ artists who really push things forward with both lyrics and production.
And rock music is just shouting… so people are considered talented cause they can shout louder than the music in the background 
Seriously, I like rock as I like just about any kind of music, but rap is one of my favourites. No, I am not talking about 50cent and stuff…
I am always interested in the lyrics, no matter if it’s electronic or rock, but rap simply got the most interesting lyrics. To me the most important part isn’t performing a song, but writing it, that is where a rapper shows his talent (although performing it in a good way is really difficult)
Exactly. You can reduce any activity and make it sound meaningless. “Playing the drums is just hitting things with sticks, what’s so special about that?” “Football is just kicking a ball about, what’s so special about that?”
If you’ve heard a really great rapper in full flow you’ll know it is every bit an art as anything else.
Whats wrong with rap
it aint all crap
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
You feel the bass in your chest
crusen down the street doing your best
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM.
I like rock,
and I have a cock,
I aint no jock
When I listen to the clock.
It sounds like…BOOM BOOM BOOM.
Kavaa: you’re rocking synchronisticly! Check out the similarity of your verse’s main theme to the chorus of this Aesop Rock track:
[i]Aesop Rock, ‘Boom Box’, from album ‘Labor Days’
Raw I’m a give it to ya. With no trivia. Raw like that Aesop Rock iron fisted bliss militia. A bent funny bone drone community spit a thousand and one ripples to cripple the continuity. Tap water builds character. I irrigate it straight to main line, you wanna do the same? Fine. These pretty profit grommit teams solidify to clot the slippery city sump piston pump dream. Behold old king credible. Kind soul with a Russian roulette bad mood spin off where every day a thousand strangers pray for empty chambers. 1/6th buckle. 5/6ths sweat bullets trying to keep it subtle but I’ll get you. My novelty wobbly rope bridge broke inches prior to dry land but duck skull stepping-stones suit the mix down well. Well when the rumor spreads that ya’ll stupid, I’ll be the cat with guilty look on face and shirt that reads ‘I didnt do it’. God, is it on? Is it beyond basic? Does it ice grill you or is every song faceless? Does it have a title? If it didn’t, would you name it? Does it babble about nothing like a drunk atheist? We could run that Orwell’s '84 warp for the room 101 detour 'til each client fidgets with his or her own worst fear specifics. Swerve around the cobra kisses. See when the venom over-loads this vision I’m a suck the poison out and spit it. You stole my sneakers but your feet just never fit in. Serves you right for trying to walk a mile outside your limits. I’m a tiptoe across this yo-yo string until you walk the dog out from under my feet and skip town. Sit down.
CHORUS
It goes boom, boom, boom.
Earth to A.R. vertical, burden has increased at an alarming rate. Bliss is down a point. Murder up. Glee down and still falling. Still crawling outta bed at 2 on Saturdays came this blind soldier burning confessional. Ease back. Let a heart thump echo normaley for ten. Let the back burner boiling point descend. I race the derby in the first heat. Strike personal space with a most utterly putrid version of grace. Spit the gimmick. Sit and fidget wild. In 5 you’ll be jumping through hoops like Coney Island freak show midgets. Wanna be a fighter pilot? Driving that childish early Wright Brothers experiment prototypic model fossil. Sitting, sweating bullets on the console. Busting accidental dirt bike donuts outside the most ridiculous poison tongue brain silo. Dead before the chubby debutante conquered the high note. Schooled by the cruel intention invention’s pensive sideshow. See contrary to popular certainty I alone advance without an earthly poem and dance, and a handful of zoning fans. Combing every chance to own the land I roam with dome in hand and truly be its only camper happy with the scrap heap. I convince myself it’s on, therefore it is and the melody settles beneath the fact that I’m just spitting for these kids. I tried to get 'em all open, and once I quit and said I didn’t care that’s when they all threw their hands in the air.
CHORUS
It goes boom, boom, boom[/i]
Hm… Well, Ill check Aesop Rock out.. But if hes just as lousy as 50 cent Eminem and those nitwits, I`ll just continue hating rap.
Well I suggest you compare the Aesop Rock lyrics above to the lyrics of 50 Cent “Candyshop”
50 Cent: Candy Shop
[i]Yeah…
Uh huh
So seductive
[Chorus: 50 Cent & Olivia]
[50 Cent]
I take you to the candy shop
I’ll let you lick the lollypop
Go 'head girl, don’t you stop
Keep going 'til you hit the spot (woah)
[Olivia]
I’ll take you to the candy shop
Boy one taste of what I got
I’ll have you spending all you got
Keep going 'til you hit the spot (woah)
[Verse 1: 50 Cent]
You can have it your way, how do you want it
You gon’ back that thing up or should i push up on it
Temperature rising, okay lets go to the next level
Dance floor jam packed, hot as a teakettle
I’ll break it down for you now, baby it’s simple
If you be a nympho, I’ll be a nympho
In the hotel or in the back of the rental
On the beach or in the park, it’s whatever you into
Got the magic stick, I’m the love doctor
Have your friends teasin you 'bout how sprung I gotcha
Wanna show me how you work it baby, no problem
Get on top then get to bouncing round like a low rider
I’m a seasons vet when it come to this shit
After you broke up a sweat you can play with the stick
I’m tryin to explain baby the best way I can
I melt in your mouth girl, not in your hands (ha ha)
[Chorus]
[Bridge: 50 Cent & Olivia]
Girl what we do (what we do)
And where we do (and where we do)
The things we do (things we do)
Are just between me and you (oh yeah)
[Verse 2: 50 Cent]
Give it to me baby, nice and slow
Climb on top, ride like you in the rodeo
You ain’t never heard a sound like this before
Cause I ain’t never put it down like this
Soon as I come through the door she get to pullin on my zipper
It’s like it’s a race who can get undressed quicker
Isn’t it ironic how erotic it is to watch em in thongs
Had me thinking ‘bout that ass after I’m gone
I touch the right spot at the right time
Lights on or lights off, she like it from behind
So seductive, you should see the way she wind
Her hips in slow-mo on the floor when we grind
As Long as she ain’t stoppin, homie I aint stoppin
Drippin wet with sweat man its on and popping
All my champagne campaign, bottle after bottle its on
And we gon’ sip til every bubble in every bottle is gone[/i]
I think a quick compare and contrast shows that it is frankly a miracle that Aesop and Fiddy are even categorised under the same genre.
listening to Aesop Rock - Fast cars
Ive heard worse... And hes not as tasteless as 50 cent… slaps 50 cent for ruining raps reputation
I still prefer rock/punk/Goth, though…
If you’re downloading see if you can get “Rock and Roll” by Edan (from album “Beauty and the Beat”). See how many rock references he packs into his verse (Edan is the second rapper in the track btw).
I presume you’d like some of the darker rap out there… maybe “The Cold Vein” by Cannibul Ox would be up your street. Anyway, good music is good music whatever the genre. ::joins in the fiddy cent beating::
Jesus fiddy, I listen to your shit it made me sick twice
The only thing you got going for you is that you got shot six times
Hey so hold the questions, I hope you believe in heaven (reloading sound)
Put that mic down you clown I got a glock to make it seven
::shoots fiddy cent::
Heheh no I don’t approve of gun raps but he asked for it! 
Tupac is pretty good, he is one of my favourites. Kanye is good too, he knows alot 
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I don’t have alot of songs by artists that aren’t in the mainstream because I don’t download alot of music, not saying I don’t enjoy that kind of music though. I have about 0 “mainstream” rap songs though so it doesn’t really matter, I just don’t download enough music. I have alot of songs by Tupac, Kanye and this Canadian rapper named Classified, suggestions welcome if you know any good underground songs.
Check out Atmosphere and Sage Francis for some really fresh sounding rap styles. DJ Format and Emcee Abdominal are great too. And Mr Lif of course. There’s loads of really great stuff out there… gotta admit I kinda like the new Snoop Dog track too, mainstream as it is. He’s on the spiritual tip in one verse which I really like to here, especially from a gangsta rapper.