West Coast Connection Forum
DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: oasisgnr on July 19, 2001, 09:30:38 PM
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SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS RAP Are any of yall feeling socially conscious rap. I dunno..this may sound lame but like the cussing and the rhymes about violence, drugs, and sexually escapades are kind of what endeared me to rap in the first place. I mean..Im not saying there has to be cussing and mature subject manner for a song to be good, but I just dont think its rap unless its controversial or at the very least adult orientated.
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I'm not an adult and i listen to it.
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rap is rap no matter what it is..
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unless
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its will smith or nelly then it is called
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faggot rap.
3 posts to get my point across
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There is a difference between Gangsta Rap, Party Rap and Socially Conscious Rap Hittman. Gangsta Rap to me is Daz, Snoop, Jayo Felony, Party Rap, Bad Boy Records lives off of it, and then Socially Conscious are rappers like Mos Def, Talib Kweli and Tupac. These three always talk(ed) about world issues and what they feel about them. I feel this type of rap, although Pac could be put into all three of the aspects of Rap I looked at. I know there's more but I just put a couple of basic types of the music.
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Man there is nuttin' wrong with Will Smith. He has some tight stuff out there. Just cause he don't swear in his songs don't mean he a faggot.
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Social Conscious rap has to be my favorite. Its so much deeper than any other shit out.
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MC's like GZA, Talib Kweli, Pac [most of the time], Killah Priest, Bizzy Bone [98' and later], Remedy, Guru, and Outkast are socially conscience rappers. All of them, along with several others, have something deep and important to say in most of their songs, rather than just talking about murder or material things.
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Pac is gangsta rap, people...
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Pac is gangsta rap, people...
True, but he wasn't just a gangsta rapper, he did socially conscious rap too. "Brendas Got a Baby", "Part Time Mutha" and "Changes" had nothing to do with gangsta rap. They were all about social issues.
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I like Socially Conscious Rap the best cause it is deep and I feel it a lot especially some of Pac's songs that he did in that style also a lot of other rappers but I like music more that style for some reason. Don't ask why I just do.
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Yeah, thats kinda why I wish I had "This Life I live" insread of "Bitches" as the bonus song on my Space Boogie CD. This Life I live is much more deeper. I love that shit.
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I have both copies, with "Bitches" and "The Life I Live"....But i like "Bitches" better, cuz Butch Cassidy is crazy as fucc, I like him better than nate Dogg..
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Yeah I feel ya. I like Nate too but his voice is just gettin a little old. You hear it every 5 minutes. Its time Butch Cassidy to get in the spotlight. He could make a shitload of hits if people give him a chance.
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That smooth voice just makes him 10X more gangsta...
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now where the fuck am i gonna find a butch pic???
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i have nothing against socially conscious rap but when people look to those songs for answers that kinda bothers me... no doubt some rappers are intelligent and know what they are talkin about but just like in the rest of the world a lot of people that open their mouth dont know shit... and when hiphop fans dig a fav artist and turn to their music for inspiration i think a lot of the time the fact that the artist might not be givin the best advice is forgotten....... just cause the song sounds dope dont mean whats said is real even if its rhymed well..... but songs like "brendas got a baby" "changes" and some other pac songs definitely are important songs in hip hop and it is a shame that there is no longer someone making them however its also a shame that there are people preachin bullshit that rap fans buy into..... where to discriminate the good from the bad though is hard sometime
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yeah i feel ya, there are rappers who claim to be "Conscience" but they're just preaching bullshit