any hip hop heads that can't get down to 80's rap?

[Dont@Me]

quote that then.



right. i did that because you presented yourself in that light. your lack of self-awareness isn't my burden to bear.



just my observations based on what you gave me, you opened the discussion and then threw a fit cause i thought you came off like a pretentious teenager. my insight was that you're a goofball for making that big ass list of rappers and you probably aren't able to understand most of their 80s hip hop references.

my bad, i didn't realize you got to choose how strangers on the internet perceive your opinions. i'll ask what type of response you'd prefer from me next time.

No, I understand plenty of the references in the music that I listen to. That's also the beautiful thing about poetry, you may not understand everything and may have to decipher it/do some research on your own. But I think you're an idiot if you think that someone has to know every little thing about the history of the music they're listening to in order to enjoy it. I'm not a guru of 80's hip hop, but I know a thing or two and deeply respect the art. I find it lame as all hell that and old head thinks he is the end and be all of who is "real" and who isn't based on his subjective criteria.

 

[Wacky D]

I like the 80's and 90's fam...but even many of my favorite albums that i call classics from that era had filler...mobb deep, nas, wu, etc took the great stuff of that era and pushed it and made more complete albums..lyrically after Illmatic crazy heads stepped it up but i have enough sense to know that wouldn't have happened without rakim and g rap influencing Nas...same with production..marly was the foundation and everybody took it further..moving past jame browns and seeing what else they sample from crazy different genres...

i dont think you understood what i was saying.

i can think of PLENTY of '80s rappers with far less filler than mobb, nas & wu.

 

[Danie84]

Tell me if this doesn't RIVAL the current hottest whatever RIGHT NOW:

 

[Bondye Vodou]

 

[Awesome Wells]

Dudes in here really saying they can't listen to Slick Rick?

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Dudes in here really saying they can't listen to Slick Rick?

Slick Rick is one of those ahead of his time dudes.

Kurtis Blow on the other hand…

 

[Obie Obie]

I think the Rick Ruben sound fukked up a lot of it.

 

[Digital Omen]

More like early 80s, I can't fukk with it
All them leather outfits and studs and spikes and shyt, hard pass
I'll forever rate Marley Marl as one of the GOATs because he helped kill the drum machine sound
"People didn't wanna hear the old rap sound
We started samplin' beats by James Brown"
From 86 on, Hip Hop radically changed. By 88 some of the greatest productions ever, all-time classics that still jam TODAY, were released

 

[Ziploc]

If you don't like it that's just down to preferences but I'd feel different if people that don't know these records comment on anything hip hop(not just rapping) but lack any true understanding of where and how the building blocks were laid.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Dudes in here really saying they can't listen to Slick Rick?

yeah, but listen to drake and future. hahaha. it's hilarious.