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

[Rakim Allah]

Yeah I can agree with that. Not everything new is necessarily better and vice versa. A lot of MCs haven't come as far as Rakim took the game and not many MCs can tell a story as good as Slick Rick can but at the same time, I'd take Alchemist over the bomb squad

As great as ALC is he still hasn't produced an album as good as It Takes A Nation or Fear of A Black Planet

At both their best...I'm going with the Bomb Squad. Not only did they compose great beats but classic songs. Wall of Noise

 

[Rakim Allah]

I think today the problem is that dudes have no problem biting somebody elses style. Its one thing to quote somebody or pay homage to a tough bar but everybody and they mama has used the Migos flow. That shyt used to be the number one cardinal sin. If somebody has a huge single your guaranteed to hear some songs that sound just like it come after. Its the same thing with production. Everybodys been using the triple hi hat since Lex Luger first used it. There just not much creativity in the game anymore and that's comes from a lack of love for the culture. If you cant listen to anything from the 80s you have a lack of love for the culture plain and simple.

Yep...biting has been around since Hip Hop's inception but you got called out for it. Hip Hop used to police itself. I think Puffy was the one who destroyed all that when he took the Town's "Playa Hata" and used that against people who called him others out for being unoriginal and bitin.

 

[Rakim Allah]

1st episode of Yo MTV Raps 1988

 

[Techniec]

i still fukk with some whodini tho

 

[L. Deezy]

i still fukk with some whodini tho

yep

 

[KangCraSS]

i still fukk with some whodini tho

No lie .. I used to serve this cluck in STL who said all you had to do to get some bee-yitches was have some
pink champelle and a whodini album and the draws was yours breh .

 

[Yehuda]

 

[Techniec]

that batteram



this is one of the greatest beats ever

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I'll even go a step further.

There are ppl that even look down on 90s hip hop.

They'll say dumb shyt like "The Franchize Boyz are better than Bone" or "I'd rather hear that Nae Nae song over any Bone song"

Some nikkaz think what's happenin right now is better than anything back then

 

[KangCraSS]

I'll even go a step further.

There are ppl that even look down on 90s hip hop.

They'll say dumb shyt like "The Franchize Boyz are better than Bone" or "I'd rather hear that Nae Nae song over any Bone song"

Some nikkaz think what's happenin right now is better than anything back then

Those are normaly the lil Nykughs that take it up the coat doe .

 

[Dont@Me]

i am sick of the excuse i didnt grow up in that era so i cant listen to it. Hell man, we didnt grow up in the slavery era either but we respect and appreciate what our ancestors did. we didnt grow up when Martin luther king got shot either But everyone knows who he is. Now listen in no way am i comparing Martin luther king or slavery to hip hop. im just saying just because you didnt grow up in that era doesnt mean you cant appreciate it. Shoot look at comedy. how many people grew up with richard pryor or eddie murphy. Yet you can watch raw over and over. I grew up around music. Dad stayed listening to Phyllis Hyman, Anita Baker, Howard hewett. My older brother loved hip hop. I wasnt into it then. too busy watching cartoons. But when its in your house daily, you begin to appreciate it and now man i couldnt imagine not listening to hip hop.

And what did i say?

I understand that they paved the way and made it what it is today, but I didn't grow up in that time period and can only look at it from a purely aesthetic perspective as opposed to a nostalgic one. I feel like the hip hop I listen to now is a trillion times better and more complex and sonically pleasing (deeper lyrics, better rhyme scheme, better samples used/flipped, better musicians, just better everything...but of course I have to go deep underground to find it).

When hip hop heads start singing some 80's hip hop song I just sit there feelin a disconnect. I appreciate it, but can't genuinely enjoy it.

just like how i'm pretty sure I wouldn't genuinely enjoy slavery but I can appreciate the fact that my people went through it and gave us a fighting chance for today. And i didn't grow up in the classical music era, but I play piano and love that shyt. It's not an excuse or exclusive to a "generation" (for me anyway), but just my palette and what I like.

Some of you peeps either can't comprehend what i'm saying or just skip over it and get too offended by the fact that I don't like what you like and can't interpret what I'm saying.

 

[Dont@Me]

I'll even go a step further.

There are ppl that even look down on 90s hip hop.

They'll say dumb shyt like "The Franchize Boyz are better than Bone" or "I'd rather hear that Nae Nae song over any Bone song"

Some nikkaz think what's happenin right now is better than anything back then

This is the mind fukk, because as i typed the OP, I imagine that same thing and think those dudes are idiots. It's different if they just say they don't like it and actually gave it a try though as opposed to "NAW PUT DAT GUCC BACK ON"

 

[Techniec]

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Here's the secret: you pretty much stick with the era you were born into and later.

I love Hip Hop like a lunatic but try as I might I couldn't dig Kurtis Blow. I can hardly sit through some of the early early 80s 12 minute disco funk mashups.

I first heard Run DMC, Fat Boys, UTFO, shyt like that. Kurtis Blow was at the end of his run by then I guess but his style was a tad too "Huh Huh Huh" for me at the time.

As a scholar I have studied some of the older stuff but til this day my ears only like what I started on and up.

Actually: I go from 83-2003. Most of this Contemporary Rap hurts my feelings.

Kurtis Blow was always wack though, even during his time. Afrika Bambataa, Treacherous Three, Cold Crush Brothers, Furious 5 >>>

 

[KangCraSS]

Yun Nykugh's stay thinking they invented the wheel ..