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I just can't get over how spoken word (which I'm fine with) is used as a artistic medium, seems kinda shallow in itself

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actually I've always wanted to have this discussion lol



spoken word is fine to me if used as a tool in a song, but if the whole song itself is just spoken word (which is the basis of rap), I find it uninteresting and rather shallow



idk, just my take on it, and why I cannot for the life of myself, like rap

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rap has often far cleverer lyrics than most other genres (a lot of people can't tell because there are often inside jokes so they couldn't tell unless they tried). I mean you dig pop punk, right? I don't see how it's necessarily lazy since a lot of pop/rock albums are just common chords/chord progressions with singing over it. not so different than a beat with spoken word/rap over it.

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I mean pop punk is aight, I don't like it because it's deep n shit, and I only like a few pop punk bands and I recognize the genre as somewhat shallow. Also I can't stand the majority of the genre lol



I still feel like spoken word over a beat ranks pretty low

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spoken word is NOT the sole basis of rap. Never was and that statement is even more ridiculous nowadays when you have rap albums such as Yeezus or Run the Jewels



i just...i dont even know

hmmm

This album is balls

Speaking on depth of spoken word, I think many rap artists don't know how to maintain their conceptual
idea in tact within the fundamental structures of a song. They suffer from having to maintain a rhyme
of particular words together while trying to paint their story in its rawest emotion. Since the English
vocabulary is the way that it is, they have to find words that may have no correlation to their
artistic fluidity but must use it regardless for sake of structure. It's a limit a lot of rappers don't
know how to overcome and it tampers with the song's integrity. Hell, half of them can't even stay
consistent for more than a few lines. Hell hell, in radio rap consistency of a central idea doesn't
even matter in the least. Nigga bitches fuck shit weed money ass and a beat is where the $$$ is.

but really, fuck it.

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yeah, I've noticed that. some rappers are able to deal with that very well (keeping lyrics both

relevant and clever), though.

Yeah no doubt. I mean to be a 100% faithful to that would be pretty damn hard but there are some out there who do pretty good.

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I listened to Ghostface Killah before and I liked him

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have you listened to eminem ever?

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I despise eminem

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Like Kanye West, Jay-Z really blew it with his new album!

My cousin has been playing this in her car non stop. I don't remember anything about it.

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listening now; this is weird



i actually like the first two songs though

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somewhereinamerica is awesome

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heaven, futw, somewhereinamerica, beach is better are all really great songs



nickles and dimes, jay z blue, holy grail, oceans etc are all really solid too



its a good album

first song is so good

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i like part II/on the run, i guess its not like "A JAY Z SONG" but i think it's really nice