Does anyone else miss the blog rap/blog rock era?

[JayStarwind]

It hurt my heart when I saw that brotha on Masked Singer

Masked Singer features B/C list celebrities. Why are yall acting like Wiz is playing in the G League? Lol.

 

[JadeB]

Anyone familiar with the rock side of the blog era? What was your favorite band?

 

[Redwood]

Anyone familiar with the rock side of the blog era? What was your favorite band?

Arctic Monkeys was pretty cool

 

[mbewane]

I felt like it was an in between time between Spotify era of 2015+ and the rapper cosign era of the early to mid 2000s. Technology was advanced enough to have relatively easy access to music but not saturated enough that artists had to relay on streams for success.

Yeah I think it was like a perfect balance between more access but not too much and not monetizing everything. Tons of dudes were just dropping one off projects, or just a couple of tracks on their SC page, free download, not even a mixtape, it was like this big "let's just get our music out there" movement. I was deep into Soulection and that type of stuff and absolute HEAT was dropping like every week from artists I had never heard of and would never hear of again lmao. I mean as strange as it sounds I had a lot of fun in that era all by myself in front of my computer searching and digging, ending up on random blogs about mexican eletronic music

 

[karim]

2009-2014 was such a legendary time for hip hop and rock music brehs. I was in middle school/high school during the times and it just brings back good memories














And this is just 0.0001% of it
Shout out to Kitty Pryde

It wasn't a legendary time, you were just a teenager so this is the time that shaped your taste in music although I will admit that you caught a halfway decent time, there is brehs on here looking through rose tinted glasses at the murder inc run or the swizz beats pushing three keys on his triton over and over era

 

[old boy]

Pac Div
Danny Brown
TiRon & Ayomari
Curren$y
Blu
Fashawn
Dom Kennedy
Melo-X
U-N-I

GOAT era in rap.

facts. to add on:

the cool kids
tanya morgan
flatbush zombies
sonic (before the punch heard round the world)
based god

 

[50CentStan]

Blog rap is literally the reason we are at this low in hip hop. Those bloggers became gate keepers, and they did a terrible job.

 

[JayStarwind]

There was a thread some time ago in The Booth about this. It was a cool era because you had more access to new artists that were seemingly appearing out of nowhere every other day, but you still kind of had to dig in those blogs to find them. More guys got on but there still was a premium on creativity so there was a lot of diversity. And as a fan it was fun as hell to go from one blog to another, to YT joints with 3000 views, to Soundcloud and Bandcamp to try to find this or that track you heard on some random mix. I loved it especially as I was also kind of digging in the whole electronic/bass/"trap"/moombathon/etc scene.

And diversity was the biggest selling point imo. Folks dog the era because they feel like it was boring, but every rapper/group having their own style was dope as it opened up listener's ears to different sounds and perspectives. No one sound dominated which allowed everyone to eat.

I only experienced the Rap side of things. What are some of your favorite Electronic projects from back then?

 

[JadeB]

D

Pac Div
Danny Brown
TiRon & Ayomari
Curren$y
Blu
Fashawn
Dom Kennedy
Melo-X
U-N-I

GOAT era in rap.

Does Crenshaw-era Nipsey count as blog rap?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I miss the 'Golden Age'.

NOTHING.....BUT.....CLASSICS.

There's like 8 samples in this ONE track.....



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[Tunez]

Banks was going off during those years

 

[JadeB]

Blog rap is literally the reason we are at this low in hip hop. Those bloggers became gate keepers, and they did a terrible job.

I could see that point. The music was amazing but the execution was bad. The Anthony Fantano types made reviews that put rap into a pidgeonhole.

 

[10bandz]

Masked Singer features B/C list celebrities. Why are yall acting like Wiz is playing in the G League? Lol.

rap fans dont give a shyt about him. Kush & OJ era dont even resonate anymore cuz he sold out so bad

D

Does Crenshaw-era Nipsey count as blog rap?

Marathan, Marathon Continues

 

[10bandz]

I could see that point. The music was amazing but the execution was bad. The Anthony Fantano types made reviews that put rap into a pidgeonhole.

does he still make reviews? He was a cornball

 

[Yinny]

Blog rap is literally the reason we are at this low in hip hop. Those bloggers became gate keepers, and they did a terrible job.

And they were shyt writers. Vibe and the other mags, I used to really look forward to their pieces and reviews - not as a Bible but they were actually good and had interesting non-salacious stories.

Fader, etc really became about everything but the music itself (lifestyle-shoehorning "the culture"), which wasn't even that remarkable. Then they became contrarian or just insufferably wrong womp womp