Thread: Do you listen to "mainstream" radio music?

Originally Posted by GMoney

If it's on the radio, you know it must be bad. I'm convinced that the radios are colluding to play only the 10 worst rappers in the world. I love rap and it's by far my favorite type of music, but you'll never hear any good music on the radio. You won't believe how many people hate rap simply because all they've ever heard is Lil Wayne. If he was the only rapper I heard, I'd hate rap too. It's really alienating people from discovering genuinely good music, which is out there but you have to look for it.

Eninem is the only decent mainstream rapper i have heard, although some of his songs are pretty crap. 50 cent, lil wayne and usher are really shit rappers/hip-hop "artists"

Originally Posted by Puffin

Hardly anyone I know listens to Nickelback or 30STM, so I wouldn't consider them mainstream myself. Guess it's a matter of perspective.

Yeah, I hate to say it, but Nickleback and 30STM are some of the most mainstream rock bands you can find - especially in my area.

And I hate...hate...HATE 30STM. All of that high-pitched screaming from Jared Leto. It's like someone is shoving a cat in vice and cranking it with a horse-drawn tether. Ugh. Why?

But anyway, I don't listen to much mainstream, unless it's the rock station, and even that is kind of hit-and-miss. I love when they play some Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, Godsmack, Rage Against the Machine, KoRn, Sublime, Beastie Boys, etc. There are a few newer bands that I might like a single or two from: Nicleback, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, etc. If it's on 101.1 (WJRR), I can pretty much vibe for a while.

Then, there are the mainstream "hip-hop" stations around here, which I think are an absolute joke. Every now and then, they will play something I can vibe to, but mainly...it's all just 45 minutes out of every hour, listening to the same 5 Lil' Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross songs. It is horrible.

Mostly, I just listen to MP3's now, or try to find some lesser-known music, off of streaming net radio sites like Pandora and such. A lot of my taste is underground (Electronic Breaks / Drum n' Bass / Jungle etc), but I do like the classics. A lot of old funk/soul/R&B I can still groove to (my dad was a DJ, back in the day, so I grew up listening to Bootsy, Parliament Funkadelic, Luther Vandross, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, etc), and I will always have a spot for those. But as mainstream music marches on, I find myself becoming more and more detached from it.

My response to the poll was "rarely," btw.

Originally Posted by AustralianFire

Eninem is the only decent mainstream rapper i have heard, although some of his songs are pretty crap. 50 cent, lil wayne and usher are really shit rappers/hip-hop "artists"

Nas? Talib Kweli? Mos Def? ever heard of them... even then I know emcees that could trump eminem any day (but they're underground).

Originally Posted by Nufeather1

Nas? Talib Kweli? Mos Def? ever heard of them... even then I know emcees that could trump eminem any day (but they're underground).

nope, never heard of them, although i am refering to the mainstream rapppers

Originally Posted by AustralianFire

nope, never heard of them, although i am refering to the mainstream rapppers

The first three are pretty mainstream, not as much as some, but they're good. search up Nas-One Love