UK Rap/Hip Hop/Garage : The Debate

[tristy]

Well if you like quantity you have the US.

If you want quality? Welcome to Canada and the UK.

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I agree about the quality in Canada, sorta. K-OS is fucking awesome. Fuck the UK though.

America has plenty of quality rappers, though.

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[Colly]

I think the problem with UK rap is that barring artists with mainstream appeal, e.g. The Streets (Genuine wit, understandable lyrics for the Q readers) and the GLC (comedy), no one outside of London really cares. Up north your rap fans are essentially, as mentioned by someone else, chavs who wouldn't listen to your up and coming grime types anyway. They'd be listening to Fiddy Cent and whatever that really shit one is that were number 1 on CD:UK. There isn't really a market to sustain a large UK rap industry, just a few standout stars such as Dizzee Rascal and the like.

[Enter Blue Guy]

Well if you like quantity you have the US.

If you want quality? Welcome to Canada and the UK.

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Edited May 8, 2005 by Enter Blue Guy

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

Well if you like quantity you have the US.

If you want quality? Welcome to Canada and the UK.

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I agree about the quality in Canada, sorta. K-OS is fucking awesome. Fuck the UK though.

America has plenty of quality rappers, though.

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I see you have not discovered Sir Abdominal.

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[Guest Weaf]

Up north your rap fans are essentially, as mentioned by someone else, chavs who wouldn't listen to your up and coming grime types anyway. They'd be listening to Fiddy Cent and whatever that really shit one is that were number 1 on CD:UK. There isn't really a market to sustain a large UK rap industry, just a few standout stars such as Dizzee Rascal and the like.

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[MalaCloudy Black]

As long as the music sounds good, who cares where they come from.

Psicosis wins.

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

As long as the music sounds good, who cares where they come from.

Psicosis wins.

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[tristy]

Fuck Canada.

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

Go ahead bitch, Attempt to fuck my country with that twig you call a penis.

[tristy]

Go ahead bitch, Attempt to fuck my country with that twig you call a penis.

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[Guest Mr McFarlane]

That's a lie, I'd take a canuck over a yank rapper any day. You giant manwhore. And I have my own sexy syntax.

[MalaCloudy Black]

it's funny because by definition kou & co. are the yanks, being that they're the ones up north to us.

[Enter Blue Guy]

By definition canuck = Canadian

.... Fresh like uhhhhhhhh!

[tristy]

I'm a southerner, fuck the yankees.

[Guest Mr McFarlane]

it's funny because by definition kou & co. are the yanks, being that they're the ones up north to us.

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[MalaCloudy Black]

I was never your lover, you were just a fling, my heart lies with Tristy

[Ananas]

Well if you like quantity you have the US.

If you want quality? Welcome to Canada and the UK.

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I agree about the quality in Canada, sorta. K-OS is fucking awesome. Fuck the UK though.

America has plenty of quality rappers, though.

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I see you have not discovered Sir Abdominal.

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[tristy]

You sent me 3 Feet Deep.

[DMN in the House]

Its no contest, anyway you want to look at it, even the US mainstream scene, which pretty much suck ass, has people like Nas, OutKast, Ludacris, Jadakiss, and Eminem, people who have shitloads of talent, and would stomp any of the UK rappers. Slick Rick don't count either, he might as well be American, even if we do keep trying to send him back .

Anyone who says otherwise is a UK homer. You have TONS of influential rock bands, but you're rappers fucking suck. I listened to Dizzee Rascal, he fuckin' sucked. I don't know what you consider hip hop over there, but you'd get killed by the people mentioned above, and half of the underground scene, where people like Slug, Canibus (both are kinda in-between mainstream and underground. Slug less so then Canibus), Necro (on lyrics alone), etc would SLAUGHTER any UK rapper in a battle.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Slick Rick is awesome, I just gotta say that. Children's Story rocks the pantaloon.

Ever listen to Roots Manuva tho syco?