Taking Sides: Rap vs. Rock

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rock is not racist. think back to the days of good ol' cobain. he was everything but racist. and if you try to insult him as a druggy fuck off he had a rough childhood. some people dont kno that he was introduced to drugs as a child because of his hyperactivity and sleeping pills to counter the effect so he could live like a normal person. i am tolorant of rap most of the time but the truth is i can not listen to more than 2 songs without wanting to rip my head off. listen to the pixies meat puppets sonic youthnirvana etc.... i also hate those punkers and metalists, kmon man listen to some alternative or grunge.

― tarbosh, Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

rock is not racist. think back to the days of good ol' cobain.

This makes it sound like music from another century. Oh wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Disco!

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 30 January 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i also hate those punkers and metalists, kmon man listen to some alternative or grunge."

I am going to go eat a bowl of sick and jab myself repeatedly in the ear with a rusty fork.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surely you'd have to eat a bowl of sick with a spoon?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Depends on the texture.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Taking Sides: Fred Durst vs. Bowl of Sick

I favor Bowl of Sick, personally.

(Man, that would be a GREAT band name!)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 30 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

That sounds like a band Fred would sign to his record label.

Its like saying Red is better than blue, it makes absolutely no sense.

Are you seriously saying that it's wrong to have a favorite color?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i am tolorant of rap most of the time but the truth is i can not listen to more than 2 songs without wanting to rip my head off"

Yeah, that's pretty tolerant, man...

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...

There is no way you can compare rap to rock. Rock is far superior than rap. It takes more talant and way more skill to make it in the world of rock. Bands must practice for days and days, weeks and weeks, and months and months in order to get some respect from other musicians who have been there. I have no respect for rap or hip hop because they have all sorts of advantages and machines when it comes to writing their bullshit. Rock musicians just have their mind and feelings and that is it. To make up something that you truly made up yourself, and not something from a fucking machine, and have people love it and breath every single word of the song is an awesome feeling and it can only be felt by Rock artists. Rock is oh so much better than rap will ever be. Not to mention the lives shows either. Rock rules in the category too!!!!!

― Sledge, Monday, 2 June 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

Um, have you ever tried to make a hip hop track? didn't think so.
Machines just don't program themselves.
In short, you're retarded.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:19 (twenty years ago) link

"all sorts of advantages and machines when it comes to writing their bullshit"

Much like your internet posting, Sledge!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, link to the best MC verse and beat you've created to show us how easy it all is.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

Back in my day, you didn't need no fancy power amplifiers and electric geetars in order to make music. No, back then you had to have talent. Couldn't just get by on being loud and having whoop-dee-doo effects. Why me and my cronies used to rock the casbah with nothing more than cow bones and a washtub.
Bah, kids today!

― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

this thread is SO MUCH FUN!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link

Pop (as in "old-fashioned melodic pop") beats both anyway. That being said, rock does of course have no problem beating rap.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 23 October 2003 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

i think rock is much better than rap anyday rap ppl just rap about crap really and anyway i have never seen a rapper play an instrument!

― Alma furlong, Monday, 6 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll take Matos's word for it.

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Rap

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Alrite. Rap sucks. "duh rap has so much meaning like we so tite we can make up namez such as FASHEEZY cuz we be bored aight son? ye ye time to do shrooms so bounce" and rock "AHHHHH!!!!!KILL ME KILL YOU FUCK YOU!" What I find better is RAP ROCK. YEA THATS THE SHIT. LISTEN TO KID ROCK SND YOU'LL LOVE THE COMBINATION. BOTH RAP AND ROCK SUCK ALONE. RAP ROCK RULES.
L8ER.

-- TOE-KNEE IM A PLAYER THAT YOU LOVE TO HATE,GOT UR GIRL SUCKIN DICK ON VIDEOTAPE

This may be the greatest thing I've ever read.

How is it that all the pro-rock people cite Slipknot as an exemplary rock band? It seems an odd choice, to say the least.

― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Shut up.

― UL® (blastocyst), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Elsewhere on the internet:

person 1: "Personnaly, I like rock more than rap, the only rap thing I really like is Run DMC, 'cause it's the only rap group that doesn't have those ghetto rimes that don't make sense or they make a very forced rime."

person 2: "Also, I forgot 2 very important rap bands:
Korn, love Coming Undone and Freak On A Leash."

person 3: "Korn is not a rap band."

person 4: "You're right, and you're wrong. Korn isn't a rap band, they're New Wave, which is a band that mixes rap and rock lyrics in their music. I'm not a huge fan of Korn, I'm just a fan of some of their songs."

― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link

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