I like everything but country and rap... (bs)

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Sir Nerdlaroid

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I live very close to the gulf, so yeh I know alot of people that listen to country alot of them are rednecks, so yeh I guess thats what turns me off of country music. =\
 
i recently saw post of people discussing how 50% of rab merabers always cop out when they first start posting how they like 'everything but country and rap'. well i thought we could come up with a thread to show people that these 2 genres are nothing to be discarded and they should be just as open minded towarRAB the wonderful music that both have to offer.

i would like to begin with my favorite country artist, johnny cash. he is one of the most influencial artist of the 20th century, selling over 90 million albums. his musicical authenticity and great song writing ability speaks for itself. enjoy.

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rap is not exactly my favorite genre, but it doesnt mean that it isnt full of great musicians who make great music. personally i am a huge fan of outkast. these guys make groovtastic funkadelic jams. its hard not to love a group who made such a badass song dedicated to making love, stankonia. for impressive lyrical content look no further than the overplayed (yet amazing) ms jackson, where andre discuss's his failed relationship with erika badu and the aftermath that followed.

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now obviously there is a lot more obscure artist out there, but i wanted to start with something everyone would (should) have at least heard of. so please come one come all, and lets end this musical bigotry... can i get some mf doom or david allen coe?
 
haha, like MF Doom's really early stuff.. before he was MF Doom, there's a pretty strong 'kill whitey' vibe in some of that material.
 
I used to listen to hip-hop actually, and I was a big fan of a lot of 2pac's material. I know everyone's probably heard this, but for the sake of the thread...


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i honestly dont listen to much MF Doom so i wouldnt know about that; i just know a lot of my frienRAB who listen to more rap than me talk him up big. like i said, rap isnt my favorite genre i just hate how everyone comes in with the same bull**** attitude towarRAB rap and country. all music has relevance.
 
i didn't mean it in a Texan stereotype way, although I guess assuming country is omnipresent there was a bit presumptuous... It's like the American misconception that the English are obsessed with tea... okay we ARE but that's a bad example
 
I know what you meant...besides I was just thinking that I do have a cowboy hat, I've rode a horse before, and I have a BB gun...not quite a shot gun, but whatcha gonna do? lol

No albums from Hank and Dolly though.



I understand where you're coming from. I assume though that these people are listening to the crap on the radio though? I know it's been said, but it's still worth it to look into country beyond the mainstream.
 
I've been trying to expose more people to the alternative country music, you should check out my "Gothic Country/Americana" threat in the country section. However for the sake of exposing more mus I'll post a few songs.

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I can respect that, but again, the genre is called hip hop.. not rap! I agree with you though, people shouldn't dismiss an entire genre if they've only heard the ****tiest of examples, or if anything at all.
 
It's only really in very recent years that I have started to expand my musical horizons and these 2 genres haven't really recieved any attention yet. My dad likes country music and everything he would listen to I hated, although I don't know if I would still feel the same now. I can now at least recognise that its probably worthy of a quick explore to see if theres anything I can get into that isnt Johnny Cash. I say that because Johnny Cash is probably all of the country music I own.

I liked the likes of Dre, Snoop Dog and Eminem when I was a bairn and would have it all on my minidisc player during school. I did have a awful taste in music then though to be fair. Since then I've gotten into J5 and some trip hop and thats about it.

So, thank you for this thread!
 
I don't know if I'll ever come around to modern country, but rap has somewhat been growing on me. I've been getting into a lot of trip hop and I've always had a thing for Jurassic 5.
 
sheez if you don't like the 'kill whitey' vibe you might as well forget anything affiliated with Wu-Tang and a bunch of names that won't mean anything to you. But if you check I think you'll find most of the hip-hop figureheaRAB of now and yesteryear were/are merabers of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X's church (before they killed him for not being corrupt and greedy, ironic much?)... if you want to narrow it down to nice Utopian hip-hop then you are talking De La Soul... but even Tribe and especially Jungle Brothers had plenty of black separatist overtones.

It's one of my favourite parts of hip-hop to be honest.
I haven't heard the Dead Prez thing in question, but it's not to say there is (often) open talk of killing white people, just getting as far away from them as f*cking possible

edit: and anyone that dismisses hip-hop and country entirely is... how can I put this.. a child. Or they certainly don't spend enough time listening to music to warrant signing up to a forum full of nuts. It's not subjective taste, you are missing a piece of your soul and you won't find it here. get your song title and GO AWAY
 
I like rap but I still cant stand country, alot of people say 'what about Jonny Cash', he's barely country to me, he's like the Bob Dylan of country everyone likes atleast one of his songs. But still cant get into country.
 
But he is. The vast majority of his music is Country. He was influenced by Hank Williams. I have said it before and I will say it again. There is a young audience that only now like him due to Hurt.

I am not trying to force you to like Country but you don't get it if you think that Cash is not Country.
 
Jurassic 5 is excellent, Quality Control is still one of my favorites of the decade so far and their debut was stellar too. Shame they never followed up on their legendary album
 
They were alright if you had decent equipment to record onto. My hifi is the absolute doggs bollocks, I will seriously only ever get rid of it when it gives up and dies but it is quite old so it wasnt the best for recording onto minidisc.

Minidisc was great for that, but to buy albums in that format? I never understood why anyone would do that but then again, not many people did hence why it met its timely death.
 
It shouldn't. A lot of what people call rap is actually rap. Hip-hop is a blanket genre, rap is a sub-genre. Sort of like how all punk is rock but not all rock is punk. Hip-hop also refers to trip-hop, new jack swing, turntablism, scratch, reggaeton, etc.
 
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