What Would Your Ideal MC Rhyme About?

Most importantly, I'd love to see an end to the reign of "the Playa," which has gotten ten times as dull as the reigh of "the Gangsta" before it.

Oh yeah and food.

and food. oh yes.

i love The Streets and Roots Manuva because it feels like 'hip hop lyrics' i can identify with much more clearly - just a down to earth UK perspective that reflects life more as i know it

i love Missy's lyrics...i'd rather listen to women rap sexy than men i guess

SURREAL They Might Be Giants style lyrics would be good...Anti Pop Consortium could get quite surreal at times (no examples spring to mind tho!) - tho maybe no more than some of the more leftfield Wu Tang related stuff

what if a whole load of Beatles songs like 'Paperback Writer' or 'Taxman' were altered and designed for a hip hop track?

what if you could take the lyrics and subject matter of tracks like 'Emerge', 'House Of Jealous Lovers', 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' (i.e. teenage angst in hip hop thats not based on social rather than racial alienation), 'Fool's Gold' and expand on these to deploy in more of a hip hop theme?

you can listen to things like 'Danger! High Voltage!' by Electric 6 and its not that different from hip hop lyrics...

its all down to the imagination of the rappers out there - if they really want to push the genre forward they should expand the scope of hip hop lyricism accordingly

Speaking of unusual-for-genre subject matter I am most disappointed at the reception on F!leP!le of "Tickle Tune".

I overheard an undie/indie kid recently say something like "I listen to stuff where they rap about Greek architecture and shit". if I knew him better and he'd said it directly to me, I probably would've given him hell about it because that's the exact attitude I can't stand. say what you will about MCs who rhyme exclusively about sex and money and violence, but you have to admit, they're at least probably being sincere about what's really important to them. whereas the 'abstract' school of underground just rhymes about obscure bullshit that they don't really care about, they just want to sound cool and weird. that pisses me off.

i still think Cex has some growing to do as an MC and could stand to tone down some of the lyrical neuroses, but for the most part i like listening to him because he is rhyming about what i know...being a geek in Baltimore who loves hip hop and feels stifled by the genre police. which is, i admit, a fairly narrow demographic, but i think he is doing a lot that people can relate to more than, say, whatever the fuck Doseone is on about. plus he does have some great tracks about middle school and h.s.

isnt 'fool's gold' based on an ancicent far eastern proverb and a comment about music industry fat cats sacrificing their spiritual wealth for the material equivalent? oh i do sincerely hope so

'house of jealous lovers' is about meeting your ex at a party, obviously ;)

More rhyming about travel, heartbreak and the existence (or otherwise) of god.

1. Existentialism
2. Nerf footballs
3. Nico
3. 10th dimensional time-space objects
9. bacon
13. tetherball competitions
74. Damon Suzuki

There's a bootleg I fear to contemplate.

someone who could flow psychoanalysis and lit theory would be cool/hilarious.

more importantly, I want to see more pure fiction raps. Science Fiction, Historical fiction, alternate history. I want to see dispatches from these places/times/cultures. Will Smith does it a bit with his sci-fi movie tie-ins, but a cyberpunk anthem or miserable Soviet soldier or third-stage syphilitic prostitute during the French revolution delivered in a completely convincing time-warp style with tons of detail and lingo would be great. Obviously Mel Brooks owns this in movies/broadway. I'm also thinking about how in "Starship Troopers", they say things like "this place bugs" etc.

Back on topic: I want to see more MCs rhyming about '60s muscle cars, lucha libre wrestling, Italian caper films, Space Ghost, Vanilla Stoli, Muppets, fat people, Super Punch-Out!, medium-large Midwestern cities such as Minneapolis and Milwaukee, robot sex, Jim Kelly and Bullitt. This is mostly because most other topics are already well-represented and I just want to see how all the goofy crap I just mentioned would fit into hip-hop.

I vote to abolish the word "undie" as it is retarded.

I second that (next up: "Hanging With My Undie Friends" by Momus!)

When will hip hop bring forth its Weird Al Yankovich?

"[MCs] yr relying on yr tunes/like you was The Racoons"

it was a short and bloody career

MC Pitman to guest on Leeds Utd FA Cup record tho...