Not my first choice of tunes, but its definitly in my playlist

YES YES YES!!!

When it is good, it is poetry.

I like all kinds of music but I will pass on this!

Hip-hop was way better in the 70's and 80's than the Auto-tuned, sex-pot it is now.

I love Rap Music

Not my style if I can't understand the words or I can and find them depressing. I listen to music to calm, inspire, or entertain, and I have heard rap that fits the latter two qualifiers... so those select songs, I like.

Hip hop and rap is good music, but its gets old fast.

Not my cupa

This is ok if used right. I prefer country or rock and roll, myself.

Hip Hop is SLOW compared to GO Trance!

Rap/Hip Hop is like scraping the roof of your mouth off and then chewing on glass mixed with salt while hanging upside down by your toes and having your head dunked in battery acid. Sorry don't care for the stuff.

Most rap should be spelled with a c, but it's not all crap.

Though elements of the style can be traced back to Africa, modern rap (toasting over pre-recorded tracks) originated in the '60s on the island of Jamaica, pioneered by such stars as Prince Buster, Duke Reid and Sir Coxsone Dodd. Jamaica's biggest and most influential rap star was a toaster by the name of U. Roy (real name: Ewart Beckford), but rap was brought to The Bronx by a toaster (rapper) named Kool Herc (real name Clive Campbell aka Hercules) in 1967. A few years later, Herc had competition from Americans such as Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash (real name: George Saddler ).  1979's Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang was American rap's first hit record. Rick "The Prick" Rubin saw the graffitti on the wall and produced the first rap mega hits by Run-D.M.C. and Public Enemy and the rest is music biz history...

I prefer rock, but I listen it to it sometimes. I have nothing against it, and still don't see why so many people do.

Anyone with an IQ of 10 can rhyme words.

Absolutely horrible. Most lyrics in this genre are discriminatory, sexist and promotes violent and promiscuous behavior.

Listen to this once and awhile. My Son loves any music with beat.

I am definitely a fan

not into hip hop, but I do like some white boy stuff

Lost me on that one ,but if you say so, for my dime it's dying out so what's next?????

Don't like it. Don't suit me.

Don't mind if you like it or if it suits you, but please don't listen to it in my presence if your earphones aren't absolutely soundproof.

If you rap when I'm around I'll leave. Please don't try to rap in my home.

Its too loud/weird--I'm too old/square!

Since the democrats want to control our choices so much, why can't they get rid of something like this; that all educated people detest?

cooolll

The really old skool stuff and some of the gangsta stuff is tolerable.The rest sucks.

air pollution

No
Not a big fan of music.

Turn your hat around, pull up your pants and get a job!!

I HATE RAP! IT'S A DISCRACE TO THE PEOPLE OF MY GENERATION! WHO WOULD WANT TO LISTEN TO THE SAME BEAT OVER AND OEVER AGAIN AND HEAR ABOUT DRUGS AND KILLING PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO STUPID TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE! IT IS A WASTE OF TIME! THERE IS NO SKILL IN IT! AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SPELL CORRECTLY! WOW! THAT'S JUST WANTING TO DUMB DOWN PEOPLE'S KNOWLEDGE! I WOULD RATHER MAKE SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF MY LIFE!

it is very intresting to learn about RAP and hip-pop.

HIP HOP ROX

there no turn off greater than seeing a real cutie rolling up listening to that (C)rap... rap turns super models into unfuckable hags... nuff said

i dont like rap but i like hip-hop

... has reintroduced literacy and poetry to popular music. (...and culture?)

The worst. Seriously, people listen to utter crap.

There's some good hip hop music out there, but the majority is just garbage.

bad and terrible type of music.

Too loud, bad words, but fun to listen to

I prefer rock, but hip-hop is good too

Not my kind of music, sorry.

Drivel

A good style of music but I prefer rock and roll

great hy yar

real rap i love it i just dont like that negative shit....

A beat, alone, with spoken words, is not music. I don't care what Wiki or *Any*pedia says to the contrary.

ehhhh

Actually, rapping began with folks on the street just talking and "shooting the breeze" on a daily basis in the late '60's. The term was then associated with talking on recordings by the younger generation. I rapped every time I went out and meet up with any interesting character. We spoke frankly and passionately about current events, the weather, our kids, our jobs, etc. Thus, rapped!

Maybe I'm an old fart, but this all sounds the same to me. I take some comfort from the fact that my teenage kids feel the same way.

I can't listen to it. It all sounds the same...monotonously bad and non-musical...the people who perform it, whatever their race, are interchangeable in terms of their dress and mannerisms, and, at the risk of sounding like a closet elitist, it bothers me when people I've never heard of performing "music" I wouldn't listen to if you paid me live in opulent mansions and drive 4 or 5 BMW's. African Americans have been responsible for the best music, and I have to imagine that somewhere Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Johnny Ace are rolling over in their graves whenever this dreck gets played.

Sorry...no can do!!