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Damon King · 01-03-2006, 10:52 PM

Being one of musical background, I believe it is all on your preference.

As Koga has said, not everyone likes to pay attention to lyrics. It depends on the style of music, some genres, like rock, focus more on the instrumentals of music, (though there are meaningful songs). Music at first was just sound, organized sound put together to make beautiful melodies, over time, it developed, through individual creativity and church hyms and the like. Early 1900s, you had jazz and such, in the mid 1950s rock emerged, of course country, and in the late 70s, you have the emergence of Rap. Rap became quickly the black man's expression of his feelings, being that most urban blacks could not relate to the messages/lyrics of rock and roll or country. Therefore, the emergence of this genre allowed many blacks to let out what they felt in a way we knew how. Until then, the only urban outpour for musical talents were R&B and Jazz.

In short, lyrics are a big part of rap because of EXPRESSION. Through the years it was watered down to make money, hence these fake ass 50 Cents and Tony Yayo's, etc, in it for the money pretty much, no love for the art of the music.

Anyway, I'm done.

01-03-2006, 10:52 PM	#7
Damon King Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: US Posts: 862 Thanks: 2 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts Points: 8,924.89 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 8,924.89 Donate	Being one of musical background, I believe it is all on your preference. As Koga has said, not everyone likes to pay attention to lyrics. It depends on the style of music, some genres, like rock, focus more on the instrumentals of music, (though there are meaningful songs). Music at first was just sound, organized sound put together to make beautiful melodies, over time, it developed, through individual creativity and church hyms and the like. Early 1900s, you had jazz and such, in the mid 1950s rock emerged, of course country, and in the late 70s, you have the emergence of Rap. Rap became quickly the black man's expression of his feelings, being that most urban blacks could not relate to the messages/lyrics of rock and roll or country. Therefore, the emergence of this genre allowed many blacks to let out what they felt in a way we knew how. Until then, the only urban outpour for musical talents were R&B and Jazz. In short, lyrics are a big part of rap because of EXPRESSION. Through the years it was watered down to make money, hence these fake ass 50 Cents and Tony Yayo's, etc, in it for the money pretty much, no love for the art of the music. Anyway, I'm done.