[quote=@GarlandDaHero] Could someone please explain to me why rap and hip-hop are so popular? The former I am especially dumbfounded by; it's all almost the exact same thing over and over again, what with all the talk about drugs, sex, profanity out the ass, and the frequent use of a certain 'n' word. [quote] [quote=@Fabricant451] They just asked to explain the appeal of rap music, not "Hey can you give me rap songs that don't have profanity?" [/quote] No, maybe he didn't outright state he wanted the opposite but he clearly [b]implied[/b] he didn't understand why people liked rap because every beat sounding the same, and the lyrics mentioned drugs, sex, cursing and the n-word. To properly respond I gave him wildly different lyrical subjects, beats and things that DIDN'T prove this assumption a lot of people have about rap... Telling the average person. This is why I love rap music, and why it's such great writing. Wake up in the mornin' Thinkin' 'bout money, kick your feet up Watch you a comedy, take a shit, then roll some weed up Go hit you a lick, go fuck on a bitch Don't go to work today, cop you a fit Or maybe some kicks and make you— When metal has lyrics like - Machines of air looking down on us - The beasts of dust as we grapple heel and hand, Mud and sand, (blood red oil) The chaff of the harvest Converted to currencies of wealthy means Stepping stones cut from our perforated bones Riches are reaped beside our bodies sown just to be thrown back again And forgotten if we stumble in Laid inside a homeless nest, Stuck with eager dirty needles, Shipped to an early steeple where boxes close Descend with grace as you defend yourself - Both charitable and chaste. Praise me for my valor, lay me on a crimson tower - Justify my endless terror as my “finest hour.” Treat me as a token to deceive the child Whom we fatten for this scapegoat slaughter. Or So this is the warning, you fall to learn. And to the girls, You're worth more than the cheap words. You see your body as beauty, but your pulse is worth more. Hear me, it's not what it seems, though the feeding tastes of honesty. This is the warning, you're just a hit to coax my urgency. or other music in general Oh you, pious and profane Put away your praise and blame Said, "A glass can only spill what it contains" To the perpetually plain, the incurably inane A glass can only spill what it contains This can go on, I can tell you the stuff I provided sounds more lyrically interesting...like people were talking about lyrical bluntness equaling power but which provokes a stronger lyric and paints a deeper picture? "There's leader and followers and I'm a dick, not a swallower" or A man at home with a hammer in hand Is thinking about his life Deciding that it would be best To kill his children and his wife A woman at home with a ring on her finger Is thinking about herself Her husband is a good man But she has sex with someone else. Not rap, but purely a writing standpoint, simple doesn't have to mean vulgar and immature. Also no that's not what I'm talking about, but I just realized I made a mistake there. It was another rapper people call fantastic. Got them mixed in my head for some reason. :P So sorry for all the wasted efforts and assumptions you made...I fucked up on that one. But once again I feel like even other mainstream rapperS have crafted better verses than Kendrick, but we really are just diving into opinions. So I would like the 12 writers, and 8 produces validated instead...how can you call someone a good writer if you don't even know if they wrote it themselves? I do feel like this is going in circles, and very very nitpicky because correcting me that the lyric wasn't by chris brown is ABSOLUTELY not needed. Already knew that, but the song was addressed to him. And I could post a bunch of awful kanye guest verses and bad lil wayne songs because this point it would be easy to overwhelm the good examples with those artists...I just feel like other rap artists have far more merit (and also have less than 60 people writing and producing their stuff for them. *Note the 60 part isn't literal and doesn't need correcting.*)