As someone who listens to music for the feel rather than for the meaning of it, I can easily latch on to rap music. shoot me for all I care. IRONYYY
It's got the best beats these days because it's mainstream. Yes, the lyrics are garbage. The problem I take with people when I argue with them over music is how closed-minded they can be. It's like "I hate this because of the lyrics because they just suck." There are rappers that are actually good (Lupe Fiasco comes to mind) and you can find them if you're that anal about rappers with strong lyrical content.
But to shut out a genre of music simply because you dislike the general basis of it is being closed-minded. It's also, I find, quite inexcusible to simply state one song you like out of a genre (Most of my good friends listen to folk metal and think they're open-minded when they have "Poker Face" or "Hey Ya" or something mainstream, but will have less than 5% of their songs based on that.) Can I argue back? No; I am admittedly just as closed-minded, but for the sake of my own laziness.
If my friends show me something interesting that I like, I'll agree that it's good music. If it's good enough, it goes on my iPod. If it's rap...it's rap.
By the way, "Sexy Chick" is one of my top-played songs on my iPod; the beat is that good, but I honestly thought the same thing; why say "I'm tryin' to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful, but damn, girl; damn, you's a sexy b****" to defeat the purpose of your own lyrics?
I personally find rap mysogynistic, homophobic and hedonistic in all senses of each adjective therein. But is it therefore unlistenable? No. I can proudly say I have a lot of "rap" songs on my iPod; some even say the word "hag" in them and I don't take offense because the artist is speaking to a general public and not directly to you; you can only be so butthurt about that. >_>
The difficulty in admitting you like rap is that it's the cool kid music genre. If you go to a traditional high school party, unless you're trying to be different, you're playing top 40, which consists of a lot of rap music. Its fans can be wildly misinterpreted by the rebels of society, simply because it's assumed that people listen to rap simply because it's what the cool kids (or what everyone else) is doing, and if you do it, you're simply being a number and are sacrificing your individuality for attention. It's one of the stupidest forms of peer pressure, but it's a sad truth we of our society have to put up with. People are going to get a read on you based on the genres of music you listen to. Rap, R&B and pop are cool kid genres; rock and jpop/jrock are for nerds, etc. It's not a generalizing statement (i.e. all people who even hear jpop/jrock are nerds), but some people associate genres of music with cliques. It's how it is.
Be open-minded, I say. Diversify your playlist.
But if you're after lyrics, in rap, you're going to have to dig deep. It's a sad truth; rap these days sucks. But then again, so does popular music in general. The business is going downhill and it's easy to figure out why.
"I've seen a lot of things, but this...This is a first."- Ezreal, the Prodigal Explorer, after meeting Rammus