Why do the youth of today love gangster rap and call it real but songs that have a positive meaning it's lame?

i listen to gangsta rap (btw, its hard to find REAL gangsta rap these days)

...a lot of which have meaning and some that don't but just sound good

and i also listen to almost all other genres

and i'd say they call it lame because they are only exposed to gangsta rap. if they were exposed to other genres at an early age, they'd like it

I don't think that is a very accurate statement. Youth love gangster rap because they're stupid and it receives so much media attention. That doesn't mean they hear a song with a positive meaning and automatically say it's lame, unless its christian rock, because christian rock *is* lame. There are plenty of positive popular bands out there, weezer is a pretty good example.

Personally, I do not like gangster rap. But I do like lots of music with very negative meaning. Songs with a "positive meaning" tend to actually BE lame. If the songs were not built around positive meaning it would be one thing; if these songs were instead built around the music with the positive meaning added as an afterthought, they would be considered good. In fact there are many songs like that currently; try stuff like "Times Like These" by Foo Fighters, "Simple Man" or "Poison Whiskey" by Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, "Banana Pancakes" by Jack Johnson; etc and so on and so forth. These are great songs, classic songs, everyone knows them, and they have positive meanings but they were built around music and feeling, not around ideals. That is what makes a good song.

Kids of today don't love gangsta rap. How many times do I have to say this? You are confusing mainstream rap with gangsta rap, its not the same thing. Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, Yung Joc aren't gangsta rappers. Ice Cube, Geto Boys, Spice 1...now those are gangsta rappers. Gangsta rap was popular in the 90s, its not really around much anymore.

Because it's good music. It's from the streets. It's some ones real life story some where.

Sent you a message, sent you an email

Hasty decisions we may still prevail

Both needed breaks, we both needed to bail

Walking thru the corridors of my mind

The hideaways, the nooks, there filled with good times

Memories certainly yes they still bind

Still a common man and yeah that's for sure

Still a bankroll and yeah still can tour

The madness, the thing we had was much more

Come back home, don't be out in the world

It's a rat race and always for a girl

And most scavengers have found the pretty pearl

It's for the faint of heart who never get enough

Gotta get tough, buckle em up, we call em duds

And we, and we and we ahhh

We gotta gettin up

We gotta gettin up

Today is nice come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Tonite is right come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Come over here baby, don't look so grumpy

This kind of lifestyle could be so comfy

We can start a clan just like the Kennedy's

You and I advance, certainly we can expand

Feelings that should never end

And you respect me like a friend

But love me like your man

No other could contend

Or we could be like Doves exposed 2 history

Like staying with each other with truth and chivalry

The things we go thru they shape our identity

Yes pretty let's do this all nite

Consummate this thing and make it alright

And when we cuddle up and promise that it's right

We gotta gettin up

We gotta gettin up

Today is nice come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Tonite is right come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

I like to watch everybody gravitate towards you

Your magnetic presences make them come thru

The same way you got them you got me too

Now look at our lives so colorful

A wonderful spectrum, not 1 tone dull

Full of excitement and not 1 lull

See we had an understanding, oh yes we did

I'm bringing it back, I'm puttin in my bid

Have a couple of kids, have a couple of cribs

We like Louie D and ????? like martin and corretta

Doin it to death, no one can do it better

When we leave our physical our sprits still together

Come on now, here's a placement for your hand

You rockin with the #1 MC man

The #1 controller of right with the plan

We gotta gettin up

We gotta gettin up

Today is nice come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Tonite is right come on we gettin up

Said we gettin up

Said we gettin up

ya I hate that too. You can pretty much make a song about anything these days if it goes a little something like this ( I will make this up in 5 seconds)

Yo Yo yo ni***a,

Yo ma chick is ridin in my lamborghini,

I give her all the moneyyy she wants,

She take it all off fo' me,

and I get a new chick da next day

Cause Im from the hooooddddd

kids in general like the music they are raised around the best.

maybe rap is more true to them, and a positive song is just a fantasy to them, something they can never reach.

lol, I am very opionated at this matter.

I very much hate what the new rap/ hiphop songs stand for, it is totally mess up.

I only listen to song with meaning like rock/metal but I guess thats just my opion

I'm 17 I hate that crap, I enjoy music from the 80's and 90's. Why do the adults of today generalize all "youth" into one catagory?

I didn't like gangsta rap when I was a teenager, I thought it blew. I hope today's youth feel the same.