Hip Hop
How do you rate hip hop compared to other genres?
I know hip hop catches a lot of hate from fans of other genres, but how does it hold up against them with you as hip hop fans?
Do you think hip hop has made the same contributions to music as rock/pop/country whatever?
What's the highest placing you would give a rapper on a list of all time musical greats of any genre?
Hip Hop is the baby of music. It has only existed since the 70's, and has been given a bad name for most of those years.
Musical legends of other genres are fairly easy to find. The Beatles, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, etc are artists your pretty much born knowing. Where as Chuck D, Ghostface, Rakim and Kool G Rap are artists you have to find on your own really.
When people hear all of the one hit wonders on the radio, as well as all of the songs about sex, drugs, etc. They just say what the he'll is this? It's garbage. Which is partially their fault and partially the radios fault because they don't look hard enough and the radio plays the gabage that they are mistakenly calling Hip Hop.
Anyway, if you look at hip hop as a lifestyle, and consider the great, deep music an element of that lifestyle, then I rank it higher than all of the others genres, because it means more.
As far as artists I'd rank with put there with other greats, Chuck D of Public Enemy, Rakim, Pos of De La Soul, and Ghostface Killah. As far as producers, The RZA, Preemo, Pete Rock, Marley Marl, and Dilla.
I feel all of those artists had a role in making hip hop what it is today, and all of them are GOAT candidates, IMO.
Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray *HQ*
