Rap and R&B

[DMX7]

Is it me or have these two genres almost completely blended together in the modern era?

[Wild Cobra]

I don't know, I'm old school when it comes to rap:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKttENbsoyk

[xmas1997]

It could be, but I think rap and hiphop are definitely one and the same now and have been for a while.

[AussieFanKurt]

I think they've come a lot closer

Seems to be a need bread of indie RnB/Rappers

[AussieFanKurt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPQCra8FEew

RnB and Rap in one song

[TE]

Yeah tbh. There've been hybrids in this new generation of music. Some of it is IPod worthy, some of it sucks.

[DJR210]

Is it me or have these two genres almost completely blended together in the modern era?

Pretty much. Trash like Miley Cyrus continue to blur the line of the typical "rap/r&b/hip-hop" station with lame ass soft contemporary garbage because she made a couple of tracks with Juicy J after blowing him and his crew.

[baseline bum]

Fifty Cent and Bone ruined hip hop by making it into a shitty R&B.

[Fillmoe]

real hip hop still lives... you monkeys just aint looking hard enough.... go pick up an action bronson, flatbush zombies, chance the rapper, currensy, or danny brown mixtape/album

[Clipper Nation]

It could be, but I think rap and hiphop are definitely one and the same now and have been for a while.

Nah, there's still a difference.... "rap" is the commercialized shit you hear on the radio that barely sounds different from pop or R&B, "hip-hop" tends to be the more conscious, intelligent underground form of the genre....

[DJR210]

Fifty Cent and Bone ruined hip hop by making it into a shitty R&B.

You take back what you said about BONE right fucking now!

[Fillmoe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ohbKidZLiA

[DJR210]

Sick beat tbh. Loopable outro too.

[Fillmoe]

thats a harry fraud beat.. probably one of his better beats... his production is great on 90% of stuff.

[Creepn]

You take back what you said about BONE right fucking now!

No shit. Somebody needs to pop him in the mouth.

[DMX7]

I don't know, I'm old school when it comes to rap:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKttENbsoyk

That is not rap and never was.

[ohmwrecker]

There are two categories for music: Good, and garbage.

[baseline bum]

LOL singing faggots in Bone supposed to be hardcore hiphop. Can't believe how shitty they got from Eternal and on when Creepin was such a solid EP.

[leemajors]

i thought the Wu, namely RZA, discussed this at length almost 20 years ago

[Wild Cobra]

That is not rap and never was.
Yes it is. Have you ever looked up any definition for it? Did you play the Youtube clip and listen to the rhythm?

Aerosmith was rapping before the term came about. Here are three links:

rap music - genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rap+music)

6. Rap music
the real definition of rap music is using fast paced rhyming verses accompanied with a heavy beat an synthesizing rhythms. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rap%20music)

a : a rhythmic chanting often in unison of usually rhymed couplets to a musical accompaniment (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap)

Maybe this is your definition for rap:

1. Rap music
Summed up in five words: Nigga, ho, bitch, pussy, rims (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rap%20music)

[DJR210]

LOL singing faggots in Bone supposed to be hardcore hiphop. Can't believe how shitty they got from Eternal and on when Creepin was such a solid EP.

You're fucking crazy E. 1999 is a classic, every song from top to bottom is good. One of the best rap albums to ever come out in my opinion. Dark production, and each member at their best.

They have "In Harmony" in their name, and you don't expect them to be singing? :lol

At that time the Art of War double disc is where they changed their sound because DJ U-Neek was no longer the sole producer, but when you compare that album today to the ones that came after, the Art of War seems like a "old school" BONE album looking back.

[Wild Cobra]

That is not rap and never was.

What do you call this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

[baseline bum]

You're fucking crazy E. 1999 is a classic, every song from top to bottom is good. One of the best rap albums to ever come out in my opinion. Dark production, and each member at their best.

They have "In Harmony" in their name, and you don't expect them to be singing? :lol

At that time the Art of War double disc is where they changed their sound because DJ U-Neek was no longer the sole producer, but when you compare that album today to the ones that came after, the Art of War seems like a "old school" BONE album looking back.

E.1999 is a piece of shit; every song from top to bottom is fucking garbage, except Shotz to the Double Glock.

[cantthinkofanything]

pretty telling when most of the top ten rap acts are white

Beastie Boys
Eminem
Vanillia Ice (don't hate on that)
Living Color
House of Pain
Quarashi

[Creepn]

E.1999 is a piece of shit; every song from top to bottom is fucking garbage, except Shotz to the Double Glock.

Such blasphemy. You're ruining your credibility when you say stuff like this. I'm willing to forgive and forget though.

[DJR210]

E.1999 is a piece of shit; every song from top to bottom is fucking garbage, except Shotz to the Double Glock.

Funny considering you thought Creepin' On a Come Up was the shit. You are literally the only person I've ever known who likes Bone, but dislikes C.O.A.C.U. It's the same time period, same production, same subject matter. Makes no sense. DJ U-Neek produced both..

Not many people know that BONE were big Genesis players as were most of the youth in America at that time, and they actually sampled twice from Eternal Champions, that old Genesis fighting game. Those are both my favorite tracks on the album.


Such blasphemy. You're ruining your credibility when you say stuff like this. I'm willing to forgive and forget though.

Agreed. Burning the bible is more acceptable than what he just said.

[baseline bum]

Agreed. Burning the bible is more acceptable than what he just said.

Nothing wrong with that tbh

[Creepn]

Agreed. Burning the bible is more acceptable than what he just said.

...meh I wouldn't got that far lol. Bible got wisdom that can improve your life tbh, body and soul.

[Big Empty]

Bone Thugs is tha shit. alot of rap these days you gotta be in a club to bump. i like the slow thick bass lines you cant really dance to. only smoke to. thats all gone. the closest genre that plays that is the music out of houston. ok, let me put my cowboy boots and randy rogers back on im getting nostalgic.