imho Rap came from the ghettos.
The first one that made it mainstream was Eminem.
Great similarities with Elvis there. I love them both. Early Eminem was excellent.
Elvis played "black" music. He was very controversial when he first came out.


The fasions of rap - cap back to front, jeans hanging low, term of "homeboy" came from the jail systems in USA.
In jails the prisoners had to wear their caps back to front.  So the guards could visibly identify them by their faces.  Caps pulled down over faces can obscure identities.
The jeans would hang low as belts were banned. To avoid suicides. No belts means the jeans would drag.

The term of "homeboy" came from those let out of jail but that still had to remain in their homes for some time.

I like eminem. He just made it mainstream for white people. It has been mainstream in the US for ages.

Blues music was black music.

Not sure, I think tupak came after eminem. Em was the biggie.

member  Ems track "Stan "

Aussie, maybe so. But apart from being wrong on both of my guesses ..........

Do you remember "stan" ?

I have gotten used to being wrong now. 
Hardly even destroys what little remains of my self esteem.   

Rap came from the slums of America and largely still does, Sprint.

It's the lowest form of 'music' you can get.

It's basically just a continuous beat and talking... yes talking..

Because the people who created it couldn't sing for krap... hence... that's where the casual talking came in.

Can you honestly tell me that Snoop Dogg or Eminem has a good singing voice? 


Slowly but surely over the last century... music has gotten worse and worse.

First we had classical... which was the pinnacle of musical achievement in human history. Nobody has matched it. Suberb.

Then came Jazz... a very primitive form of music... but music nevertheless...

Then came the blues.... which further cheapened Jazz...

Then came rock... rock.... is VEEEEERY primitive compared to classical. Classical is a lot more complex... with different tones, instruments, notes, etc..... rock and roll is 100 times more simplistic.

Then it all went downhill from there.


Finally we have rap.... the lowest form of 'music'... music for cavemen basically. Which is why is emerged from the peasant sector of the United States. Anyone who listens to it doesn't realise that they're listening to it for the 'image' alone and is of little to music value at all.


Give me gospel any day. 

Ausnat wrote on Jun 8^th, 2007 at 3:06pm:


It's the best you can get, Ausnat. Seriously.

For REAL music lovers.

People who like MTV and all that krap are just in it for the image and that's it.


You know how sometimes you hear rock musicians saying... "I'm in it for the music maaaaan."

That's a bunch of bvll. They're there for everything but the music. In fact... one could argue that there 'music' isn't music at all. Just baby music.

Here is the Evidence people!

a lot of black culture that gets ascribed to ghetto american culture actually just comes from the basal evolutionary preferences of africans. the most salient example is the use of over sexualised gestures such as twerking. the very fast life evolutionary speed of africans relative to other humans leads to high emphasis on sexual expression; africans have more sex, attain sociosexual milestones earlier, and have a more rapid physical maturation (and conversely, usually shorter lifespans) than other human populations. breed young, breed more, f_ck a lot then die sooner. from the standpoint of maximizing their evolutionary fitness it's effective, especially when other empathy-hacked groups feel sorry for them and send them food.