"Rap" Has officialy died. The fact that this has 33+ Million views kinda hurts my poor soul. you must be stoned outta your ass to enjoy this shit. The fact that this kid is one of the big guys in "hood" rap is really depressing.
Every genre has a commercial travesty to appeal to people who think they like the music.
The genre's still pretty saturated with good music. I'm finding now that some tracks are being layered with Future Bass undertones which I think works really well. Anderson.Paak is probably my favourite around at the moment.
DJ Sketchy
I've got 2000 Rap tracks I need to run through for this year alone! All from zipDJ, who are the chart company for America and Canada! SO many epic tracks. I find it hard to chuck ANY of them in the bin.
Skidzorz
He's part of this new group of mumble artists that Future birthed along with 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, 300 of Montana & Lil Yachty. Don't get me wrong, the radio is FILLED with these guys, and you'll be hard pressed to find any rappity-rap lyrical rappers anytime before 10/11:00 at night (when Hot 97 and Power 105.9 or whoever do their nightly underground shows).
Fortunately there's still a million amazing rap artists out there, it's just the mainstream rap is no longer of the quality it was from 1995-2005. Rap no longer runs the airwaves anymore like it did ten years ago, and as such you'll see a lot less variety, and what the clubs/radio are playing is merely going to be this shitty top 40 ********.
That's however countered by a whole slew of amazing new artists like Lil Herb, Vince Staples, the ASAP crew, Bodega Bamz etc.
Plus you still have soon-to-be-legends like Jeezy and Game stil putting out quality material, and then you have the true legends like A Tribe Called Quest and Jay Z and Rakim and Raekwon putting out material.
AND you have all the random underground dues like El-P, Joe Budden, Killer Mike, Rock (of Heltah Skeltah) still consistently putting out material ..
Rap is in as good a place as ever. The mainstream shit might not be up to par, but is mainstream punk? Mainstream EDM? None of the shit is ever as good as it was when it hits the masses and is dumbed down a bit. But that doesn't those talented artists disappear forever, they just move away from all that publicity. Anyone who says rap is dead isn't looking hard enough.
Captain Triceps
I remember fondly back to the mid 90s going to my mates house, different part of town, it was near basketball courts and everyone there was into hip hop and rap, dressed in baggy pants and all that, you'd go to someones house and basketball would be on telly, or an NBA Playstation game, with a homemade mixtape playing in the background, feint smell of weed everywhere, half the people had a pair of decks, occasionally you'd hear a jungle tape being played round someones gaff, and when everyone had left you'd put on a film like Boyz 'n' The Hood or Juice or Menace II Society, we'd describe things we liked as 'baaad, man', magical times. Sometimes we'd play some old skool like Grandmaster Flash and try a bit of breakdancing. That's what rap and hip hop makes me think of.
Not this shit.
Captain Triceps
Oh, and GTA San Andreas.
Smoogie
quote:Originally posted by Captain Triceps:
I remember fondly back to the mid 90s going to my mates house, different part of town, it was near basketball courts and everyone there was into hip hop and rap, dressed in baggy pants and all that, you'd go to someones house and basketball would be on telly, or an NBA Playstation game, with a homemade mixtape playing in the background, feint smell of weed everywhere, half the people had a pair of decks, occasionally you'd hear a jungle tape being played round someones gaff, and when everyone had left you'd put on a film like Boyz 'n' The Hood or Juice or Menace II Society, we'd describe things we liked as 'baaad, man', magical times. Sometimes we'd play some old skool like Grandmaster Flash and try a bit of breakdancing. That's what rap and hip hop makes me think of.
Not this shit.
Sounds like America!
I never really got into Rap but I do appreciate the early stuff, not just for the actual lyrics but the scene and it's story. The hardships of the African Americans and how they kept on fighting racism and how despite Rap's violent reputation they managed to turn a negative into a positive by putting their anger into lyrics
These days I hear that 'Grime' has become big for the lyricists and I have heard that 'Hip Hop is dead' a few times lately as well. Maybe changing political ad social tides and changing attitudes in general means that Rap is not quite as it was back then. When I was leaving school their was a big focus on guys like Eminem who is white but put a new focus on Hip Hop and ever since then every other white suburban kids wants to be a 'Gangsta'
Audio Warfare
Yeah that's pretty crap. Still loads of decent rap and hip hop out there though, there is so many people doing so many different things.
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