How Do You Feel About Today's Rap/Hip-Hop Music?

splates · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:00 am

crunk has more focus on synth lines

im not really a huge fan of either

Mick · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:01 am

i hate samples. They are shortcuts to thinking.

(there are, of course, notable exceptions, blah blah blah covering my ass)

Sketch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:09 am

Mick the Stripper Wrote:

i hate samples. They are shortcuts to thinking.

Only when used poorly.

nobody · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:18 am

You can say the quality hasn't changed...which is totally subjective and argueable. But, the sounds are vastly different....just a fact. So, yeah, the music has changed.

And, College Droppout was a good album, although I thought the follow-up fell flat. May have to check out that Lupe Fiasco.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:10 pm

el_scorcho Wrote:

I like some hip hop, and would like to get into it more. But it bothers me that so much of what is popular now in the genre has really horrible, negative lyrics. All of the violence and glorifying selling drugs gets old pretty quickly. Not too mention the constant disrespect towards women.

Plus, there's something reprehensible about people who got rich by making art constantly sending out this message to kids that the real way to success is selling drugs/violence/doing whatever you want.

I think those comments officially make me an old man.

couldja pash me mah teef, shunny?

I don't seek out the indie stuff, because I really don't care for the genre in general much. I still dig old school RUN-DMC, Beasties, Public Enemy, et al. The rap videos that I see on MTV, MTV2 and Fuse make me wanna (people just don't understand, how I can just kill a man).

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Sketch Wrote:

Mick the Stripper Wrote:

i hate samples. They are shortcuts to thinking.

Only when used poorly.

and sometimes a strait up loop is creative simply by the context that it's used in, or taken from.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:26 pm

splates Wrote:

alongwaltz Wrote:

I can't stand any current mainstream rap.

...

you have the worst tast of anyone on the board though

dimmit, that's MY TITLE :!:

fancypants · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:02 pm

Hyphy is obviously better. Crunk? Flimshaw! Yay area, what!

My relationship with hip hop is as follows. Once or twice a year, my friend and I will drive down to San Diego to visit our friends there, and listen to hip hop the whole way there and back because she's big into hip hop. Then I'll get back home and start playing all my fav's -- heiroglyphics, public enemy, de la soul, and some dj stuff like kid koala. This will go on for a few weeks, then all of a sudden I'll get bored with it again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:38 pm

update to 2010... whats tickling your ticklespot?

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:53 pm

Jay Electronica is the best shit out atm.

Leon · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:32 pm

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

bort · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:33 pm

i liked it better in 2006

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:48 pm

Leon Wrote:

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

i can tell you're young.

there's nothing corny about...

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:57 pm

There was a point when I made an effort, but I've pretty decided that I just can't follow every genre of music. If something comes across my spectrum that sounds interesting, I'll check it out--otherwise, I feel like I'm a lost cause for hip hop.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:58 pm

bort Wrote:

i liked it better in 2006

also:

Elvis Fu Wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting the return of Master P to his former glory.

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:00 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Leon Wrote:

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

i can tell you're young.

I was thinking the same thing.

#comeonson

Leon · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:08 pm

f4df Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

Leon Wrote:

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

i can tell you're young.

I was thinking the same thing.

#comeonson

I'm young you're old, but that aside I'm not saying all the old stuff was terrible, some of it's good like Rakim. I think that just in terms of beats and rhyme schemes and flows the new stuff is far ahead. I mean I'm not talking about nelly or 50 cent or any of that. Back in the day the beats were a lot simpler, the rhymes were a lot simpler, etc. I just think that it's evolved.

paper · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:26 pm

I'm glad I missed this thread back then....not gonna bother reading all of it now. For the most part people on this board aren't into hip-hop/rap, but the ones that are into it know what's up, and I respect their opinions on the genre. There is good stuff being made these days, but I think overall the quality of what is coming out now is down compared to even 4 years ago. There are ebbs and flows and I think stuff will get better eventually, but I'd agree it's somewhat of a low-point currently.

paper · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:28 pm

Leon Wrote:

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

Illmatic is probably my top one or two hip-hop albums ever, but I gotta say you need to be schooled on the genre if you think this was the start of hip-hop.

paper · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:33 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Jay Electronica is the best shit out atm.

I dig it...wouldn't say it's the best right now... Really, a lot of what comes out nowadays is mixtapes and individual tracks on blogs and shit....you really need to be into the genre to search it out and see what's out there. Otherwise people just hear what's on top of the charts and that's just not a good indication of what's really going on in hip-hop.

In all honesty the best thing I've heard this year is probably Eminem's verse on Drake's track Forever ...that verse is amazing.

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:35 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Jay Electronica is the best shit out atm.

you got that electrochem mixtape right?

Leon · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:02 pm

paper Wrote:

Leon Wrote:

I'm I the only person who thinks that old school hip-hop sucks when compared to modern stuff? When ever I hear old school stuff it just sounds corny. I don't think Hip-Hop came into it's own till Illmatic.

Illmatic is probably my top one or two hip-hop albums ever, but I gotta say you need to be schooled on the genre if you think this was the start of hip-hop.

Not the start of Hip-Hop. I know that the old stuff was important as a foundation, I believe that Illmatic is the beginning of modern hip-hop, at least how I think of it.

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:19 pm

f4df Wrote:

Dalen Wrote:

Jay Electronica is the best shit out atm.

you got that electrochem mixtape right?

i have the Victory mixtape.

electrochem?

f4df · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:30 pm

electrochemicals mixtape... some overlap with that victory one....

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ywyitznzguu

Dalen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:07 pm

oh shit, nice dude, thanks.

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