The Hip Hop/Rap Thread

Hip-hop is okay as long as it is the jazz pop stella deus of Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, King of Fighters, Capcom vs. SNK, Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, and Metroid Prime. The composer sure knew what he was doing when he made fuchi komas out of "The Longshoreman" and "Vigor Force".

Other than that, since most mainstream music is instrumental rap it sucks just as much as the vocal rap because it's all one beat and uses timbre to make disturbingly poor 'songs' with terrible sound quality and even worse compositions. The only exceptions to the rule I've found have been Sean Paul, DMX, and Mariah Carrey, since they've both figured out how to compose at the highest level and reach 100% in composition and sound quality without being VGM. Mariah Carrey's newest song was all asanoganawa which means she's reached 200% and might as well be composing for a Xenosaga or R-Type game. Sean Paul's "Temperature" was a very fast paced impressionistic arcus that demonstrated some very high level of poetic skills, especially since he bolroxed in Portugese and not English. DMX was all asanoganawa too and has been ever since I first listened to them. If only they'd do more with their songs . . .

Other than that, most hip-hop begs the question for why the 'composer' shouldn't be oppressed.

Anyway, since I've composed Capcom Vs. SNK and it's trip-hop of the most psyched out levels, I know a lot about every kind of music in practically every style since I've been composing most of my life, with just about four new soundtracks composed in the last year.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Actually, the masterers of all of my music and my boss in the VGM field coined the term arcuses for my Kingdom Hearts soundtracks. The composer of Drakengard also uses arcuses. And no, impressionistic is not made up. It's a style of music used in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Seiken Densetsu, and Romancing Saga -Minstrel Song- are all impressionistic. Perhaps you should be trying to use real evidence about what those composers composed at their highest levels instead of pitling away at your integrity by insulting a VGM composer. There's plenty more VGM composers out there who feel the exact same way I do.

Instrumental rap is not oxymoronic because all it takes to make something rap is that its time signature is one beat and it uses timbre. Silent Hill and Resident Evil and Galerians are all instrumental rap because they focus on using sounds of other peoples' dissassocia in their anti-music to make up for their lack in compositional integrity. Most likely though, since every one in rap loves dissassocia it's safe to say you most likely have that disorder because nearly every one in the rap community has already denounced God and questioned his one true religion while they weren't in their studios and turned what was once great objective standards about composing into relatavistic squalor.

In the end, members like you are the joke.

Member 0: "Mommy, what's impressionism and what's an arcus?"

Mommy: "You would know if you didn't plagiarize in your music class!"

In reality, since no one in the rap community could ever hope to compose impressionistically or arcussaly it's proof their melodies will never get complex enough to paint a picture with instrumentals or combine the random with the static in terms of melodies and harmonies.

Now, moron, the theme of Parasite Eve's "Matrix" will come to haunt your dissassocia and make you atone for your crimes against God in your musical preferences. As if songs of the caliber you mentioned could ever outdo the trance of Parasite Eve, the arcuses of Kingdom Hearts, the asanoganawa of R-Type and Xenosaga and Xenogears, and the impressionism of Baten Kaitos.

*OMG, one misused word! That sure does prove videogames ruined my brain after I helped bring wanzers to the US and used my medicinal programs to cure thyroid problems and mental illnesses! Computer programmers and composers are such idiots!! -Omega Weapon does not endorse the previous relatavistic point of view. Relatavists only care about power, not doing the right thing anyway.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

They're morons if they favor arrangements over OSTs because those arrangements are all instrumental rap that plagiarizes the OSTs just so some moron can live a delusion that he beat a composer with a 'better' version of something they already composed. Valkyrie Profile Arranged is a perfect example of one-beat rap arrangements of VGM.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

No, those VGM plagiarists are just future fodder for Square-Enix's wanzer brigades. Yes, they're real, but you have to work with the right people to pilot those things. After all, all Front Mission games are just people recording other people's adventures in a wanzer squadron. I just got done with Front Mission 5 a year and a half ago and we had to make Len Wenright beat herself since she was survival horror plagiarism.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The part that says there's no support group for rap-heads who eat plagiarism. Looks like Square-Enix has some Dhoulmagus wannabes that think their is strength in numbers when one single japanese fuchi koma could wipe out their anti-support groups so swiftly they tried to make up for getting dissassocia but couldn't because they were to busy debating their ids.

I was speaking idiomatically.

It's not closed minded when everything else has timbre. My VGM has every genre available, so where is there a lack of the genre crossing boundaries that you speak of. Star Ocean 3's "Bitter Dance" alone should break those barriers when every other rapper is merely just testing the number of permutations they can rap about losing their intelligences on other people, hence their dissassocia. In other words, before you whine about my 'closed-mindedness' you had better do a significant VGM research outside of the typical mario and ddr every modern moron has been associated with.

"OMG, I don't like VGM since I don't like the ghost house themes in mario!"

That's exactly how you all sound when Shadow Hearts's two-beat drop music beats anything you could come up with. In essence, if you don't like Shadow Hearts, then you're really the closed minded ones.

And finally, the Oxford dictionary doesn't know everything about music. Anyone studying music theory knows what an instrumental rap is and it sounds just like something out of Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

There's plenty of hip hop VGM out there Lady Miyomi. Metroid Prime is hip hop, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact is hip hop, and then the Capcom vs. SNK and SNK vs. Capcom soundtracks are all hip hop. Sega also has plrenty of hip hop in its Sonic Adventure 2 games. So it does to work out. The only difference between it and the timbre anti-music of the mainstream area is that it has much better instrumentation, sound quality, and compositions and is less vocal.

And no Encephalon, I'm not closed minded musically because you don't know the difference between the white noise of mainstream anti-music with timbre in it and the real music of VGM and the classical and new age composers who've already destroyed the competition aesthetically. Have fun debating your id, Encephalon.

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