Burlington, WI
Quoted from Luckydogg420:With rap music now the mainstream, beating out rock n popularity. I think it’s time for a rap music pin to be made by stern. There are many different ways you could tackle it, like just pick an artist and completely feature their music, just like the current rock titles (Ac-dc, Metallica, ect). For this you’d need a proficient artist but there’s lots that come to mind. You could have it be a east coast, west coast rap battle and feature a couple artists. Or you could do something else.
I think it would be cool to have a “Rap battle America” pin. The rules would be kinda like GoT, but instead of picking a house to play as, you would pick a city to represent. Then you would rap battle other cities around North America until you beat them all. Your wizard modes (instead of Hand of the King and Iron Throne) could be a radio show freestyle; and live tv appearance. Or something to that affect. You wouldn’t even have to use any specific artists, you could just have the styles of music and flow from each city. (Toronto, New York, Atlanta, Compton, ect.) it be great to have music from Drake, Jay Z, Ludicrous, and Dr Dre, but that would probably be expensive. (Plus you could change the tracks if wanted.)
The playfield shots and targets could build a rhyme to battle in each city, with combo shots making better raps. The shots could be labeled as Diss, freestyle, flow, vocabulary, ect. The more shots you make in each city before you lock in the mode he better.
What are your ideas for a rap pin?
STERN, GET IT BUILT!
Rap and music really shouldn't be in the same sentence. Rap is not music. Music involves playing instruments and maybe singing.
Rap is basically poem reading with a toddler busting out the same beat track on his casio keyboard in the background. Most cannot play instruments, cannot read music or know the first thing about writing music. The producer, or recording studio, plays some generic track that he wiped up in about 10 seconds, and the others stand around and say....oh that sounds good. Lets lay that down.
I do not like country music, but I acknowledge it as a music. Takes talent to play instruments, write song structures that involve multiple instruments, and singing.
Rap does not fall into any of these catagories. But I do like Old school rap like Run DMC or 2 Live crew. Calling it music is a stretch, but I like it.
