The Hip Hop/Rap Thread

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

I equate talent based on what sounds good. Most underground music sounds like total garbage.

Well, that´s your opinion. Personally I can say that I pretty much only enjoy alternative and "underground" (I don´t really like that term btw) hip-hop. I can´t stand most of the flashy commercial beats and I don´t like what most of the "money-making" rappers are talking about.

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

You can throw at me all this nonsense about integrity, but it's all bullshit. You don't have to be a sellout to make music that is marketable.

I agree, saying someone is a "sellout" because his/her music is marketable is pretty much nonsense - no matter what genre of music we are talking about. But you have to actually want to make marketable music as well!

You are talking about bad rhyme and beats in underground hip-hop - well that´s all pretty much subjective - but if, for example, Immortal Technique had the hippest beats and the most marketable rap-style ever, I think there would still be problems with the mass market as his music deals with themes that just don´t work in clubs with da hoes in d4 h0us3..

How ya doing, buddy?