Originally Posted by Socrates

I have noticed that in recent times, a lot more emphasis has been put on beats than the actual lyrics, or artist, period.

Honestly, ask yourself: "The thing I hear most about a good song from my mainstream listening friends is what?"

For me, it is "Man, the beat for *insert mainstream song here* is fuckin tight, have you heard it?"

It makes sense really, the new phenomenon of "crunk" music basically consists of beats with 500000 things going on and that override the lyrics WAY more than mot other songs. Then you look at songs that are blatantly saying bad shit about women and they don't give a FUCK, they just want to dance, they don't really pay attention to what the mother fucker is actually saying.

Thoughts?