Why does every rap album need an intro and skits?
#1
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Why does every rap album need an intro and skits?
Does anyone actually listen to these things? I think they're so pointless.
Every rap album these days has an intro for some reason, along with skits which aren't one bit funny or interesting. I just don't get it.
There aren't many rock CD's with intros or skits.
Argh.
Just venting.
= J
Every rap album these days has an intro for some reason, along with skits which aren't one bit funny or interesting. I just don't get it.
There aren't many rock CD's with intros or skits.
Argh.
Just venting.
= J
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Based on most of the shitty action and comedy movies that have come out in the past few years, most rappers seem to think they are accomplished actors as well.
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I've always thought of it as filler; an effort to increase the track numbers so that it looks like you're getting 14 or 15 tracks instead of the actual count of 9 or 10.
Tenacious D, on the rock side.....now they know how to do skits on an album. Pure gold!
Tenacious D, on the rock side.....now they know how to do skits on an album. Pure gold!
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I don't know...intros/outros are kinda cool sometimes, but the skits I could go without. MOST of them are just terrible.
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They can't come up with original background music and if they sample any more it costs them. So they have to fill up the cd with something even b.s.,since they figure if the public is stupid to buy this stuff they'll buy anything.
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I read an article somewhere that an artist said it was to get people to buy the whole album instead of itunes-ing a few of the good songs. In my case, they failed. Skits/intros make me go straight to something like itunes before I would buy the entire album.
Interludes are cool, skits are not.
Interludes are cool, skits are not.
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Everyone wants to audition for a movie, you know.
Still, that's fourteen tracks of music. Not bad.
Originally Posted by Tarantino
Exactly. When I see a CD with 20 tracks, but 6 are skits, I skip the CD.
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It's funny. I'm so accustomed to it after growing up listening to pretty much nothing but rap, that when I want to know what CD is in a player/changer, I'll automatically go to track 2 because 99% of the time on a rap album the first track would be some generic skit that I never listened to.
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I've long asked the same question concerning long intros on Metal albums. They sound and look cool in concert but on CD it's annoying.
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Originally Posted by Giantrobo
I've long asked the same question concerning long intros on Metal albums. They sound and look cool in concert but on CD it's annoying.
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As annoying as the skits are, they're still not as bad as hidden tracks... the ones where the last track on the CD is 10 minutes long: 3 minutes for the 'official' last song, 4 minutes of silence, and 3 minutes for the hidden track. It's bad enough they don't give the songs separate tracks but the long silent break is total crap.
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Originally Posted by Gil Jawetz
If it's not as funny as "Chinese Restaurant" then they should leave it off.
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Originally Posted by Dango727
It started with De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising," 3 years before Dr. Dre's album came out.