ThatDude

Ok, I have something to say about every post in here. I'll go from first to last. 1. Disses are nothing more than boring. You pretty much wasted your time writting this. It was not complex at all, you had no punchlines, and your delivery was just weak. Structure lacked, and the flow was hardly consistant. Physical instruments when performing does not make music art, when making beats you use those SAME instruments. Instead of having a "band", you have a producer and a vocalist. The producer is the master behind the beat, and the vocalist is the one who tells the "story" to the song. Music is all alike, whether it's Rap, HipHop, Country, Rock, Punk, or anything else. Rap is not the best form of music, but it is still music. The content usually persist of the same topics, but the artist still write, which is still a form of poetry. I dont think either of you actually listen to rap music, you may hear the music, but you dont listen to the actual content. Yes alot of rappers talk about money, ho's, and cars, blah blah blah, but that's not all they talk about. Yeah it may seem like it, but it's not. There' are those "thug" / "Gangster" rappers, but there are also educational rappers such as Kanye West, Common, and numerous more artist. I agree with you to some point, Rap & HipHop are far from the same musical type. Rap is more stuck to the same content, but HipHop is diverse. You can talk about political issues, or you can talk about drama, or anything else that will make listeners think. I kind of took this to offense, because I am a hiphop artist. I dont write about guns, ho's, or none of that. I juss flow to what I kno. I've gone through stuggles all my life, I may talk about it here and there, but what I write about, is what entertains people. I also discuss politics and what not in my songs.

For how short they were, they were nicely done.With a little bit more length to them, would execute the poems alot better.Try to use about 16 lines, that's about standard for poetry.

Not to complex, but consistant. Stayed on topic, but you kept it short.

To me, that sounds like a virus attempt. I wouldn't try that if my life was on it.

I put banners up of a musician site to buy gear from, and they mail me a percentage of what was bought + a little extra for the traffic I send them.

I use them both, but I use Yahoo alot more. :-/

I have done some of what FireFoxRocks was talking about, and they do tend to work. But you can't juss do it every once in a while, you have to stay on top of them.One thing I do that gets alot of traffic to my site is, I am affiliated on rotation under Music on Myspace.com, and I put banners + links on my page, which gets hundreds of views a day, and a majority of the people click to my forums, the only problem is, the free host I was using no longer host forums no more. For one reason or another, I dont kno. I had the most active forum that they had hosted.

Google use to be my favorite search engine, but recently I find myself using Yahoo WAY more. I have only used ask .com once, which was way back in elementary school because Google & Yahoo were disabled.Yahoo > Google > anything else > ask .com