Real Rap

When people ask me if I listen to rap I always respond NO. That is because I know they are referring to this garbage mainstream rap that fills the radios. This is not real rap, it is people mumbling to terrible beats. Half the time you cannot understand what they are saying. When you can, it is either 1) about drugs, 2)guns/killing 3) women, thats it. There is no feeling, no meaning, just something these "rappers" ( use the term loosely) came up with with their 10 iq. Why is this popular you ask, because the intended audience has an even lower iq. Real rappers don't get radio play because people cant understand the lyrics. Some real rappers for your reference (Atmosphere, Immortal Technique, EARLY gym class heroes and lupe fiasco) Some of these mainstream rappers do have talent and could make real music, but why don't they. Because it doesn't sell cds. Atmosphere and Immortal have more respect from real music lovers than Jay-z and Kanye ever will, because all though all four have talent, the former two refuse to sell out to major record labels despite multiple attempts to sign them. Underground mixtapes and online distribution is where these artist get they're music out and until the mainstream music listeners smarten up this is how it will stay.

Heres some lyrics to Atmosphere's "LoveLife"
Individually wrapped, placed in neat little rows
Becoming A piece, of everything that grows
Some numbers, A name, to indicate you played the game
Came empty handed and left the same
A soul is A soul and A shell is A shell
The border in between is full of everything you felt
Some cling to A cross because they're tired and lost
They leave it up to the weather to measure the cost
And everytime I look within I recognize the darkness
Familiar to the image of the artist
Staring at the bathroom mirror in A strangers apartment
Can't remember her name, don't remember how I got here
But here I am, thinking about death again
Humbles out the stress, helps the breath get in
I need to check my friends as well as my next of kin
To let them know I love them all to the end
And when the soul begins to reap, I think she'll know me from the sleep
I keep caught in the corner of my bloodshot eyes
And if she has the nerve, to let me dump a couple last words
I'm gonna turn to the earth and scream "Love your life!"
Love your life, quite cliche but I guess thats me
A ball of pop culture with some arms and feet
As discrete as I've tried to keep the drama and cancer
It's no secret I hunger for someone to feed the answers
I never expected a bowl of cherries
I'm just a virgo trying to find my own version of the virgin mary
And when I let them carry me to a cemetary
I wanna be buried with a pocket full of clarity

Let no tears to fall from none of y'all
Just remember it all, the beauty as well as the flaws
L-O-V-E L-I-F-E
Here lies Sean, finally free
And as I look across the sea I smile at the sun
While it feeds the weeds the nutrition they need
The people still breathe, the city still bleeds
I'm going to love it to death and keep planting my seeds
I'm going to love it to death and keep an eye on the seeds
I'll be in love till im dead, I keep reaching the seeds
I'll give all I got left just to teach you to read
Love life to the death and keep planting my seeds
And when the soul begins to reap, I think she'll know me from the sleep
I keep caught in the corner of my bloodshot eyes
And if she has the nerve, to let me dump a couple last words
I'm gonna turn to the earth and scream (Love your life)