Is hip hop the only genre where the lyrics matter and the music is whatever?
Because I never see any threads about hip hop music, only rappers.
Is hip hop the only genre where the lyrics matter and the music is whatever?
Connor Ortiz
Josiah Murphy
I don't know, I value production WAY more personally in hip hop. Kanye is one of my favorites but it isn't really because of his lyrics
Julian Torres
I mean yeah, they're the most important aspect of hip hop since the background music only exists to keep a flow for the lyrics.
Carson Jones
This.
Well, except his recent stuff which is awfully produced.
Nicholas Sanders
Dawg, what about country? Or singer songwriter?
Angel Sanchez
Rap, for a medium that places so much emphasis on text, is radically lyrically underwhelming. Nothing that rappers produce approaches poetry, or even the efforts of the best lyricists of rock music (still a far cry from poetry). They cling to tired themes, the most cloying of which is the braggadocio element (understandable at rap’s genesis, but basically nonsensical in the internet age). Not even the rhythmic element of rap music is interesting, lacking the metrical malleability of earlier generations of black musicians. Overall, a crippled medium lurching towards irrelevancy and death.
Jaxson Campbell
>Reading lyrics like a book
>absolutely no feeling for groove etc.
Just White people things
Camden Hall
Producers are about as famous as rappers nowadays
Gabriel Fisher
Who is Dr. Dre, dj Premier, dilla, madlib
Justin Nelson
that is an accurate description of mainstream hip hop, idk about hip hop as a whole though. You need to dig deep, anyways nowadays nobody has the attention span required to listen and pay attention to lyrics.