the.know.how said:
the point of being a good rapper is being lyrical or at least having something interesting or insightful to say...so if someone is none or has none of those things, then yes i will say he or she is a bad rapper
who are you to dictate what a good rapper is? oh, you mean because someone told you thats how it has to go? nah man, shit is deeper than that little bible-rule hip hop shit, theres hella people in this world. if you like how something sounds or its to the point where it dosent make you want to bash your radio in, you can consider it tight, you can consider that a good rapper. remember, mc meant to move the crowd? look back in the 80s there was alot of wack ass rappers with party jams, some people liked it some people didnt. rakim didnt necessarily find the fat boys lyrical, but that dosent mean the fat boys didnt serve they place. nah mean?
what if afrika bambatta was out now, yall would prolly call em a faggot
the way i look at it, its like...thats why music like this sells
because theres people who jump on message boards and whine and groan about some shit they can just turn off or ignore (hip hoppers), and the people who like some shit aint payin attention to yall cuz they like it (regular people). rap is so much bigger than hip hop, and its time hip hop heads realize that its not some selective club anymore.
fact #1, may be hard to swallow but true: hip hops rule of someone not sounding like another person dosent matter in the real world, and thats why 20 people sounding liek TI can continue to sell 4 times above the regular hip hop nigga on a major label
the amount of energy hip hoppers put into hatred of different sounding music within their own genre is AMAZING.
i remember back in 1998 when i was in that mode...and i thought juvies "ha" was the worst song ever and a kool aid stain on hip hop's white shirt...fast forward 5 years and im playing 400 degrees every day and considering that album possibly, top 25 southern albums ever.
-end rant