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Alternative rap is a type of rap music (that got popular during the late '90s as rap music entered major identity crisis) that self-consciously aspires to distance itself from the rest of the rap scene. Ok, if we bear in mind what current rap music became, that's not so hard to understand, but "alterna/indie/emo" rap is just another side of the caricature that rap music nowadays is. I would say that terms "alternative", "indie", "emo" rap are synonyms for one same thing: a tendency inside rap formed during late '90s music that is dragging rap away from its core, paradoxically as it may sound - no matter how some of those people are swearing that they're trying to "keep rap music in a healthy state".
Mostly, "alterna/indie/emo" rap circuit is based around labels like Def Jux, Anticon and few of them more (like Rawkus early on) and most of the artists inside of that little sect are whites. Of course, targeted public are also sub-urbanite white kids who really would like to get into rap, but have difficulties to comprehend Black (read: street) system of values {code of the street}, so they have those "white, handsome, intelligent, deep, intellectual and emotional" mc-es with whom they could establish better bond than with Jay-Z or 50 Cent, let's say. That said, "alterna/indie/emo" rap also could be called "rap music without the street component". Pretty confusing is that rap music (which traditionally pulled all its potency from the streets, all its rawness, grittiness, directness etc) is now robbed of that, having instead "white, sub-urban" mindset, point of view with which white, sub-urban kids can relate to because they can not stand the rawness of the street.
To be clear, this atmosphere around rap created early on, atmosphere in which white critics and public in general demanded of rap to be socially aware, engaged, smart, useful, productive etc. I'm not saying that this position is maintained only by white people, no. Certain black rap artists got on this bus early on, people like Common, Black Star, The Roots, The Fugees etc, which again rode on the wave created by Native Tongues and gropups like De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, Jungle Brothers, but I'd say that Native Tongues would be a different story in many ways than this "second wave of black conscious hip-hop". Possibly, Beck and all hype around "Loser" proved very influential. Artists like El-P, Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, Cage, Sole, Eyedea, Jedi Mind Trix (black group, to be sure), Buck 65 and what not are pretty deep into taking rap where real rap feels really insecure - white suburbs and that overall frame of mind.
One more important thing to emphasize also is that difference between terms "alterna/indie/emo" rap and "underground" rap exists and it exists big time. Contemporary underground rap ('97 onwards) never gave up on its hardcore, street-wise, rugged and raw integrity, so there is huge difference between artists like Kool Keith, Godfather Don, Scaramanga (Sir Menelik) or MF Doom on one side and type of guys like Sage Francis, Cage or Slug from Atmosphere on the other, although many people do not see or feel that.
Those are two pretty clearly different point of views and angles of approach to rap music.
white sub-urbanite: "Oh yes, Sage Francis' "Journals" are so deep, profound, and emotional, when I listen to it it's almost like Cobaine. Finally, I can relate to some rap music that's deep and thoughtful, and not violent, agressive, senseless, arogant, mysoginistic, blah blah blah. I found alternative rap very pleasing to me, a person who usually really would not give a fuck about rap music".
real rap fan: "Go listen to some Cage or Aesop Rock - you'd like those pretentious wankers that have nothing of a flavor, too".
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Meaning "Let's go get high and/or get drunk". This derives from the movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!". When Jay rap's, he raps about rolling blunts and drinking beers.
"Let's rap, Jay style"
or, perhaps if in serious withdrawel, "LET'S MOTHAFUCKIN JAY'S RAP NOW BITCH"
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gangsta rap features music u can actually dance too. the only dance u ccan do to rock is ... well what? n ppl dont like the lyrics? well i admit some are pointless bbut others are pretty good. n its pretty deep.. listen closely. n if the lyrics to rap are bad.. what about rock?? they dont even make sense.. its soo dumb. rap is so much better than rock. n classical... who ever wrote the stuff about classical music is probably around 90. so ya rap is the best.
Gangsta Rap is sooo frickin awesome
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nerd rappers like anticon and shit, they all have skills to use words that have no relation to the subject at hand in order for them to sound more intelligent and rush as many syllables in as quickly as possible while holding litte to no rhythm... not to mention the wack ass beats they are usually on. especially the subject matter, like i give a fuck how pathetic your life is and how you have done everything wrong and the government and society is to blame.
yo dude nerd rap is the fucking shit!it like totally rocks and its for whiteys like me
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A misconception. It is supposed to be a combination of heavy metal and rap music, but these genres are fundamentally different. Rap focuses primarily on rhyming vocals with a simple and repetative beat in the background. Metal is the combination of fast and complicated instrument work with intense vocals. Hence the two genres cannot mix.
People say crap bands like Linkin Park, Papa Roach and Rage Against the Machine are rap metal. None of these bands have an ounce of metal in them, and probably fail at rapping too. They are prime examples of undertalented, overwhore MTV bullshit.
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An untrue and nonsensical statement.
Literally: something an insane person might say.
guy: Rap is gay.
guy2: That's fucking stupid. How can a style of music have a sexual orientation? How does a style of music have sexual relations with another style of music of its own gender?
guy:...
guy2: GTFO
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an incorrect statement made usually by older white people who are undercover racists (im white and i rap so believe me i know)who dont understand the concept and are turned off because of the hard beats curse words and violence. Take away the beat and its any movie you've seen in the last 2 months. Rap is like telling jokes that dont have to be funny, using all sorts of literary devices for instance>> JAY-Z
The theme song to the Sopranos/
Plays in the key of life on my mental piano/
Got a strange way of seeing life like/
Stevie Wonder with beads under the doo rag/
Intuition is fair even when my visions impaired/
Knowing i can go just switching a spare/
On the highway of life/
Nigga it sharpen my sight/
Keen senses ever since I was a teen on the benches/
Every time somebody like eenus was mentioned/
I would turn green me being in the trenches/
Him living adventurous not worried about expenditures/
Im braving temperatures below zero no hero no father figure/
You gotta pardon a nigga/
But Im starvin my nigga/
And the weight loss in my figure startin to darken my heart/
Bout to get to my liver/
Watch it my nigga/
Im tryin to be calm but im gonna get richer/
Through any means wit that thing malcolm palmed in the picture/
Never read the Quran or islamic scriptures/
Only psalms i read was on the arms of my niggas/
Tattoed til i carry on like im non religious/
Clap who ever stand between Shawn and figgas/
Niggas say its the dawn but im superstitious/
Shit its as dark as its been nothing is goin as you predicted/
I move with bizkits stop the heart of niggas actin too suspicious/
This is food for thought you do the dishes/
rap is crap aint shit
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