British Rap Vs. American Rap

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Lately, I've been gaining a worldly look on music...
A couple of my friends and I were kinda arguing about, British Rap and it's Sound and it's difference against American Rap...
I say it's DIFFERENT, they say it's the SAME...
Now tell me, blokes, chicos and homies, what YOU think is the contrast....
Your comments will be highly appreciated, especially if you prove my view to be true!!!!!!
Cos I'm always right.....

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1. Lady Flight is always right...
2. If Lady Flight is ever wrong refer back to rule #1...;)
 
A big diff ladyflight
britts are more old school rap to me
they don't rhyme about the same things as we americans do
to me they blend their hip hop witha little techno
now as that's not bad
but i don't here too many britts bumping in the clubs
the us dominates the rap charts,
we set the main stream for hip hop.
Bling Bling:cheers:
 
I say they are total different. The US dominate the rap charts yes, but thats because alot of US rappers rap to please the fans to make money. Take nelly, dmx etc. They're lyrics arent all that impressive but they have cathcy songs and thats what makes them money. British rappers seem happy doing they're own thing.

Also, in the US rap is something alot of people do. In britain its not. So obvioulsy there aint as many rappers in the uk as there are in the US.Therefore there aint enough brits to compete with the breeding of rappers in the US :D
 
Hip hop in the US has got so huge that it has it's own sub genres and stuff...In the UK proper hiphop acts are small in number and operating under their own volition - therefore it's like the early days of US rap, genuine and more noticably about the art form - In the US you have labels like Rawkus and Tommy boy who have acts similar to UK acts - you also have a gang of labels that cater to a pop-hiphop market, Deathrow etc. that sell alot. Since there isn't a mass market the scene is orientated towards a real type sound.

Sonically acts are more influenced by reggae/ragga sound systems (where alot of producers came from).

Seems that the lines are blurring (in some ways) between garage and hiphop - In the uk the culture of the MC is different.
 
See I told my friends basically the same things you guys said , and they insist it's the same... I even showed them different records to compare...
BUT NO, no one ever listens to Lady Flight...Actually I think that they are bitter or sumthin about Rap music being embraced by all Nations...They are angry youth...
But like I've said before...Lady Flight is ALWAYS right...
Almost...
 
theres definetly SOME UK rappers who try and sound american.

But most UK Hip Hop is different to US hip hop.
 
i haven't heard any british hip hop. you guys have links i can check out?

chronos
 
Check it out some superb UK hip hop tracks too download from wherever you download from:

Skitz ft. Roots Manuva - Where my mind is at - from the DJ and Producer Skit'z comp. album

Task force - Liquidized language - rawest london lyricism

57th Dynasty - Pharoah intellect - from the album THE SPOKEN WORD, other tight cuts; LIL BRO, words, power and sound - a classic album - They have their own label .. www.fasfwd.com - lots of clips etc.

Rae and Christian ft. Queball and Curt Cazell - Anything you want - These guys are promoters and producers, they do loads of remixes

TY - the nonsense - mature type poet, mad beats

Check out stuff by Roots Manuva, Mark B and Blade, Moorish Delta 7 - look up UKhiphop and you'll find a good site with appropriate links.

Y'all need to peep French Hip hop too
 
essentially they're the same, but you've now got young british mcs/producers coming through that are are influenced by british hip hop its self, rather than US Hip Hop which results in a very different outcome.

uk & us people have different values and it shows through the hip hop.

phatsacz is right, its more old school over here, just people rapping at open mic sessions and that.

i used to love us hip hop but i cant really find anything in it for me anymore
 
breitish rap is wack as hell. uk ppls accents are gay as hell
 
Black Panther said:
breitish rap is wack as hell. uk ppls accents are gay as hell
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LOL I couldn't have said it better myself lol at the spelling of British LOL oh man
 
America is killin the competition

We invented hip-hop, and Ive never even heard a british person rap. I bet you its wack as fukk though

Yo Im a British rapper...Pshhhh!

I cant even imagine that!
 
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S.A.S - The only UK that I like and the only UK that actually sounded good in my opinion from beats to lyrics.
 
I dont gi' a phuck nigga. UK flows be weak as ****. We came up wit it so we do it the best.
 
foreign rap can be extremely ill. but as far as its concerned, brittish hiphop is the worst bottom of the barrel ****.
 
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