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Title: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Jay_J on November 03, 2006, 05:32:36 AM
Thats what i wonder since i was listening to rap... Vote guys!!! See what we want to most?
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Larrabee on November 03, 2006, 06:05:21 AM
First thing I notice is the beat.

Great question, by the way.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: M Dogg™ on November 03, 2006, 06:10:51 AM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Jay_J on November 03, 2006, 06:22:46 AM
Till the begining of 90s, raps,flows and rhymes were making a song rap with toneless old skool beats(includes only bass and drum kits), later the guys like Dre started to use samples and that was the way to go todays modern melodic rap music.After the chronic and doggystyle music came into rap game and been an important thing. Yes rap means lyrics but it needs a quality music to make people listen the lyrics, isnt it? Sometimes beat can be awsome but it needs a chorus to efect y'all, some hasnt a good one can sound avarage with a good beat and good verse and Sometimes collabos can make a song interesting like Ice and King-T's Check your game and Eminem and Dre's Guilty Concience, i think both got avarage beats, but rap and collabo makes them interesting maybe a CLASSIC!
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: -CaliKid- on November 03, 2006, 04:21:48 PM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.

^ i agree, the beat's gotta be tight.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: westkoastanostra on November 03, 2006, 04:42:42 PM
it depend what mood i'm in....could be the beat or could be the lyrics...or even the flow...
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: WC Iz Active on November 03, 2006, 04:52:32 PM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.

Couldnt say it any better.  If the beat is great enough though it can also give a song lasting power.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: anony on November 03, 2006, 05:19:31 PM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.

thats it right there
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: proverbs aka DD on November 03, 2006, 05:36:56 PM
dr dre said that as a dj the most important part of a song is the first 15 seconds..

there gotta be a beat, a chorus or a line that keeps me on the song.. if not i'm flipping thru the cd to find another track..

Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Bulldog - Your Not Gafflin Nobody on November 03, 2006, 06:02:59 PM
i listen for flow and lyrics first. but if a song that aint too hot lyrically has a dope beat and a dope hook it can still be aight.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Diggfinger on November 04, 2006, 09:19:30 AM
Lyrical content. And a smacking beat is prefered of course.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Chief on November 04, 2006, 09:37:27 AM
beats always come first... if the beats wak, i cant stand a song... if the lyrics are doo doo, then i hate a track too, but the first thing you hear is a beat when you play a song...

and then again, look at jay-z, he generally picks good beats, but alot of people hate him because of his content/voice/flow.. then you got pac rappin over some mediocre beats, that only pac can make good, and he can make the track a classic...
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: J.D. Wykid, Esq. on November 04, 2006, 09:58:58 PM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.

word. i come for the beat, i stay for the lyrics.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: T-Dogg on November 05, 2006, 01:25:39 AM
the lyrics are the ones that make a song have lasting power, but it's the music that first bring me in.

word. i come for the beat, i stay for the lyrics.

Yeah yeah. The beat hooks me in, but if it doesn't a have good flow and good lyrics on it, track ain't all that.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: CRAFTY on November 05, 2006, 03:30:32 AM
Yeah yeah. The beat hooks me in, but if it doesn't a have good flow and good lyrics on it, track ain't all that.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Jay_J on November 06, 2006, 07:32:08 AM
interesting replys :)
it seems most wants to hear a good music first..
Nobody choose chorus? Why we got a man named Nate-Dogg in west coast :D
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Oklin on November 06, 2006, 07:48:10 AM
Nobody beats the beats
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Noname on November 06, 2006, 08:30:11 AM
I always prefered beats and flow over lyrics. Thats why im probably on a westcoast forum and not a eastcoast forum.
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: 'EclipZe on November 06, 2006, 08:33:29 AM
Chorus, if u got a dope chorus (f.e. Lean Back, In Da Club , Deep Cover etc) thats attractive, ur in  8)  oh and beats i lovee beats ! after that comes the rappin
Title: Re: What comes first for you about a rap song???
Post by: Jay_J on November 09, 2006, 07:45:49 AM
Chorus, if u got a dope chorus (f.e. Lean Back, In Da Club , Deep Cover etc) thats attractive, ur in  8)  oh and beats i lovee beats ! after that comes the rappin

i agree with you ;)