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Dash87

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4. Mainstream rap was / (is?) extremely stupid. There's no artistic merit to it.
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 09:41 PM
Aug 2012

I'm sure there's talented rap artists out there who respect themselves enough to write beautiful songs, but it's drowned out by the hacks that sing about guns, violence, and all that stereotypical garbage.

Lil' Wayne. Lil John, Eminem, DMX, Snoop Dog, and all those other guys are, and have always been hacks. Their songs take no talent to write or perform, and the mainstream rap audience eats that crap up. It's basically the McDonalds of song writing.

Basically, you know you're a hack when you throw swears in your song for no other reason than to make it edgy, along with stupid ass made up words, because the 12 year olds won't buy it otherwise...

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