PO5 : Hip Hop : broad palette of themes

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so what five hip hop songs encompass the broadest "palette of themes"?
this complaint comes up a lot. "all those songs sound the same", not always about the sound of the music, but about the same attitude or emotional territory or themes....

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

MC Lyte, "Cappuccino"
Kanye West, "Jesus Walks"
Quasimoto, "Return of the Loop Digga"
Devin the Dude, "Briarpatch"
Public Enemy, "By the Time I Get to Arizona"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

off top of head, probably not broadest, whatever. what a stupid, ignorant-of-the-music complaint.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this complaint comes from people who don't like hip hop, no? who cares about trying to "educate" them.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone better cite that terrible Dead Prez song about vegan diets soon. ;)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

may as well just list 5 songs that are about totally different things. so, uh...

Parents Just Don't Understand - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
I Wanna Kill Sam - Ice Cube
Lost in Space - Kool Keith
Tooken Back - Ghostface
Gettin Grown - CeeLo

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

misogyny
materialism
guns
confirming the worst stereotypes
nihilism

― brent staples (sym), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

veganism!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I think dead prez need their own POV themes thread. If only for the song about how they'd rather play chess than have sex.

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 12 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is embarrassing.

― Sean F (Sean F), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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