Right? They can't reproduce the sounds live because they aren't real musicians LOL. Those stupid rappers lately... they just talk over a sick beat and call it artistic. Rap seems to be all production lately. And remixes into remixes into remixes. The most appealing acts are the most controversial. Unlike satanic black metal metal, the controversiality is world-affecting when it comes to rap. People learn the lyrics, repeat them - BAM you have another prison inmate, and some traumatized victims of said inmate. Repetition man. Plus the videos have a lot of flashing. Just perfect for screwing up a mind.
Rap used to be amazing. Remember King of Rock? That was the first cassette tape I ever bought. My Dad loaded me down with metal records, so when tapes became popular - my first purchase was a rebellious one. From there I got heavily into the Beastie Boys. I fell out of rap as a main like, around the time NWA and stuff like that started poisoning minds. Saw it happening in slow motion back then. Now they have hit warp speed.
The artists you mentioned are visceral lyricists. Some with nearly supernatural talent for writing and rapping. But yeah, they are VERY bad live. I can't handle rap shows. Last rap show I saw was The Anti-Pop-Consortium, somewhere in Virginia. Not a bad show. Good energy and people. Only thing I like about modern rap is solidarity, and pointing out class instead of race. You don't hear a lot of racism in rap. Not even Gangstafied rap. There were no black or white people at that show. Just poor people smoking blunts and bobbing their heads. Pretty neat, but Good God they could not sing, rap or even address the crowd clearly, or with proper tone.
Now I will say this... when people are in jail... they get bored. They start tapping things and bumping their knees under tables. Get a whole pod of people doing that, and listen to a stir crazy dude start rapping. That is something to behold sometimes. Usually it is excruciating but people can surprise you. This one guy was pretty amazing. We got him a little myspace, set him up some virtual dj beats and let him go, when he got out on parole or whatever. Turned out to be an egomaniac with 8 kids and a crack habit, but dang he had genuine flow. Best material I ever heard in this life was in jail. Best rapper I've known personally is currently in jail AGAIN, where his favorite genre of music convinced him he belongs?
I don't really mind that modern rap is completely synthetic. Most things in my life are. I just hate the messages in most modern rap. Hopefully things will move past that, because in hip hop I find a certain exciting element that I can't find in other music. Rap is one of the best types of music. Top 3 for me. It actually hits me physically. It gets me speeding tickets. Very powerful stuff rap is. Only natural that it would be used to do what it is doing to poor people. Only natural to formally address this reality eventually as well, wouldn't you say? Right now the problem is still in the joke phase. You know how truth seeps into things. Eventually the rap industry will be under heavy scrutiny and some truths will come out. You probably know some of the little truths about hip hop I'm talking about. The surface agendas and whatnot. Plus the actual plan. Here I go with "the plan", again. I'll stop here lol
