Travis Barker Confirms He's Faced Resistance From Rock Fans For Rap Work

In my younger years, I was a lot more insular and parochial when it came to music, and mainly listened to hip-hop. People are mercurial though, and I have a dozen genres on my iPod. One of the factors that lead me to listen to music out side of rap was the TV show Beavis and Butt-head. The show about two metal-heads, affected me, if only by osmosis and gave me an appreciation for alternative music. Nevermind was always in my Walkman, and I've since progressed to even heavier rock music like Cannibal Corpse. Outside of rap and rock, I listen to a multitude of genres from country to drum & bass and reggae to Asian devotional music. Bein' a B-Boy, I have an appreciation for jazz and other forms of black music that have seeped into hip-hop, and I love checkin' out the original breaks. Bein' black and street, I have a predilection for hip-hop, but classical music is the one type of music that leaves people incredulous when I tell them I like it. Those two disparate art forms are diametrically opposed to one another, but I like the unadulterated nature that both scenes adhere to.

you guys act like hes doing something special or creative when any fucking drummer in the world could do what he does, and a lot of them could do it better... if only they had been in a plane crash and were tatted up with a mohawk

If you ask me, Travis is better off working solo. Dude was the most talented member of Blink-182, a band that i can't stand. Too bad there's still close-minded folks out there.... "Give The Drummer Some" is hot as fuck!

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Bun B listening to radio head, yeah that is refreshing to hear. As far as music goes you shouldn't feel like you have to listen to this or that. Listen to what attracts your attention or makes you happy or that coincides with what your feeling. Can't hate on someone for preference with music as far as I'm concerned. Me personally I don't like to overwhelm myself with any specific type of music. I switch it up. Music is derived from many different things, A good rapper's work doesn't come from rap influence alone. Maybe Bun B got his energy listening to classical music or blues.

I listen to pretty much only hip-hop/rap, but every now and then I gotta play me some Bohemian Rhapsody.

blacks created music period.

Black people invited Rock N Roll & Hip-Hop so those fans are dumb asses!!!!!

hahaha rap fans are closed-minded? whenever a rap album comes out that's not murdering people, and features any kind of singing on the hooks, it's labeled "not hip hop." whenever a rapper wears skinny jeans, or normal jeans, or anything that deviates from the fashion of a 90's gangbanger, it's labeled "not hip hop." or they're called gay slurs. actually, the rap fanbase might be the most hateful fanbase ever towards gay people. the other F word and 'no homo' litter every forum. it's the one thing rap fans and white supremacists have in common - a fanatical, bottomless hatred for gay people. look at how many rappers drop the word f-ggot in their music. how many rock singers do that? or country singers? or pop singers? rock fans and rap fans are equally closed-minded. and, hilariously, they act like they're not. yeah, rap fans are so open minded and wise. that's why they called Kanye's last CD "not hip hop" and 50% of their vocab is the word 'f-ggot.'

dude's keepin'it real, that's all that matters!!