colicolicoli
Droid Gang
If you loved hiphop you’d do the work yourself to find out these answers
Do y’all actually like Hip Hop?
- Thread starter KamikazePilot
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
the other thing is just where music is in general, it's consumed a lot faster, things don't stick, there's no collective experience of music, that makes it harder to even care about so much of the mainstream.
then add to the fact that rappers don't care about making albums, it's a formality at this point, that flies in direct opposition to how the 30+ crew grew up, we spent our saturdays in record stores, sitting with albums for weeks or months before taking it out of rotation. how you want me to listen to someone who can't put together a cohesive 12 songs (more than 3 mins apiece)?
then, as you age, you don't have that same amount of free time, so when an artist has 46 songs between mixtapes, albums, features, loosies in the span of 3 months, that alone makes you not even want to attempt to keep up - plus the likelihood of that being quality music is
lastly, you ask if we love hip hop, you need to ask that of a lot of these rappers. this shyt is all a hustle/game to so many of them, a quick buck. there's no issue with using it as a tool to get money, but you can't fault those of us who grew up on rappers that really loved the art, wanted to do it even if it wasn't lucrative, for not being impressed with people who make the lowest level of effort in their art. this is especially true for females right now where the right face and surgery is rewarded with stardom. no, i can't love and be passionate about strippers who turn to rap because they already have 1M social media followers.
all that said, you can absolutely find your lane going deep on spotify or soundcloud, etc. but the mainstream? nah, i can't expect too many of us to love it.
edit: and this lack of love for the music/culture is shown by how disrespectful and dismissive the current gen is of older music/artists. dudes revel in not knowing nas songs, makes jokes about pac or big dying, etc. no one is asking them to say it's their favorite era, but if you love the music, there's no way you don't spend some time going back. i don't love pre ~88 rap, but i gave enough of it a listen to understand the evolution and try to understand what the generation before me was listening to/loving
then add to the fact that rappers don't care about making albums, it's a formality at this point, that flies in direct opposition to how the 30+ crew grew up, we spent our saturdays in record stores, sitting with albums for weeks or months before taking it out of rotation. how you want me to listen to someone who can't put together a cohesive 12 songs (more than 3 mins apiece)?
then, as you age, you don't have that same amount of free time, so when an artist has 46 songs between mixtapes, albums, features, loosies in the span of 3 months, that alone makes you not even want to attempt to keep up - plus the likelihood of that being quality music is
lastly, you ask if we love hip hop, you need to ask that of a lot of these rappers. this shyt is all a hustle/game to so many of them, a quick buck. there's no issue with using it as a tool to get money, but you can't fault those of us who grew up on rappers that really loved the art, wanted to do it even if it wasn't lucrative, for not being impressed with people who make the lowest level of effort in their art. this is especially true for females right now where the right face and surgery is rewarded with stardom. no, i can't love and be passionate about strippers who turn to rap because they already have 1M social media followers.
all that said, you can absolutely find your lane going deep on spotify or soundcloud, etc. but the mainstream? nah, i can't expect too many of us to love it.
edit: and this lack of love for the music/culture is shown by how disrespectful and dismissive the current gen is of older music/artists. dudes revel in not knowing nas songs, makes jokes about pac or big dying, etc. no one is asking them to say it's their favorite era, but if you love the music, there's no way you don't spend some time going back. i don't love pre ~88 rap, but i gave enough of it a listen to understand the evolution and try to understand what the generation before me was listening to/loving
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dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
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Absolutely.
Rap, as in the genre is whatever. I find what I like/love and sit with it.
But Hip Hop as a culture is something I see everywhere in everything, it's bigger than the music and will continue to look and feel stale til the music takes a back seat.
A lot of nikkas on HERE don't even really like rap on a basic level, it's just too popular to for them to ignore and listen to/discuss something else.
Rap, as in the genre is whatever. I find what I like/love and sit with it.
But Hip Hop as a culture is something I see everywhere in everything, it's bigger than the music and will continue to look and feel stale til the music takes a back seat.
A lot of nikkas on HERE don't even really like rap on a basic level, it's just too popular to for them to ignore and listen to/discuss something else.
Formerly Black Trash
Philosopher, Connoisseur, Future Legend
I like punk rock
I love Hip-Hop with all my soul. A lot of the current popular music is barely Hip-Hop, and some isn't Hip-Hop at all. 
The bar is lowered, there is way more wack shyt now. I listen to new people that are actually good at rapping. It is what it is.
The bar is lowered, there is way more wack shyt now. I listen to new people that are actually good at rapping. It is what it is.
Old school to new rappers is lil Wayne and Jeezy and Gucci and they give them plenty of respectthe other thing is just where music is in general, it's consumed a lot faster, things don't stick, there's no collective experience of music, that makes it harder to even care about so much of the mainstream.
then add to the fact that rappers don't care about making albums, it's a formality at this point, that flies in direct opposition to how the 30+ crew grew up, we spent our saturdays in record stores, sitting with albums for weeks or months before taking it out of rotation. how you want me to listen to someone who can't put together a cohesive 12 songs (more than 3 mins apiece)?
then, as you age, you don't have that same amount of free time, so when an artist has 46 songs between mixtapes, albums, features, loosies in the span of 3 months, that alone makes you not even want to attempt to keep up - plus the likelihood of that being quality music is
lastly, you ask if we love hip hop, you need to ask that of a lot of these rappers. this shyt is all a hustle/game to so many of them, a quick buck. there's no issue with using it as a tool to get money, but you can't fault those of us who grew up on rappers that really loved the art, wanted to do it even if it wasn't lucrative, for not being impressed with people who make the lowest level of effort in their art. this is especially true for females right now where the right face and surgery is rewarded with stardom. no, i can't love and be passionate about strippers who turn to rap because they already have 1M social media followers.
all that said, you can absolutely find your lane going deep on spotify or soundcloud, etc. but the mainstream? nah, i can't expect too many of us to love it.
edit: and this lack of love for the music/culture is shown by how disrespectful and dismissive the current gen is of older music/artists. dudes revel in not knowing nas songs, makes jokes about pac or big dying, etc. no one is asking them to say it's their favorite era, but if you love the music, there's no way you don't spend some time going back. i don't love pre ~88 rap, but i gave enough of it a listen to understand the evolution and try to understand what the generation before me was listening to/loving
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
of course you come with the excuses. no one said they had to love it or think it's the best, but to actively disrespect and revel in not knowing artists and music that literally put the genre in the forefront where it is now shows their lack of love for the music. i don't listen to no grandmaster flash, run dmc, krs one, but i respect and acknowledge what they meant to the genre. FOH with excusing these lil nikkas being willfully ignorant of hip hop history...history in general, gen z (and some of the youngest millennials) really has a problem with that.
Majestyx
Duck Season
actual facts. this new shyt aint hip hop. I'm not even gonna say its trash or its good. its just not hip hop. I've felt like a young brehs created they own genre. they may use an element of hip hop (sometimes) but its some new shyt. there is still hip hop being made, but its not this pop bullshyt these dudes on this site try to push like its hip hop, just cuz a dude is rapping. cuz if "rapping" is all it taes to make something hip hop, then garbage ass fred durst is and gwen steffani, and all the previous pop cacs that "rapped" on songs before.
this site has gotten weird anyway. it be miscellaneous poppy white bytch threads being made.
It's not good but it's a good way to see what's popular if you check it on Fridays.
I don't listen to full projects from these new nikkas but I check their popular singles to see if they're worth listening to. Not many are lol
It put me onto this which was good
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
It's not good but it's a good way to see what's popular if you check it on Fridays.
I don't listen to full projects from these new nikkas but I check their popular singles to see if they're worth listening to. Not many are lol
It put me onto this which was good
this i can agree with, yet let posters tell it, i'm supposed to do more to discover these dudes are raw. nah, if i check the top 5 songs on your page and nothing catches me, you're wack & not for me.
and that's why music sucks, wayne was trash yet got so big and inevitably spawned dumber, less talented, more drug addicted versions of himself.Every new rapper lists Lil Wayne as an inspiration.
Mooski
Polo G
Pooh Shiesty
Lil Durk
It's wild. My GOAT gets his respect
Wayne top 5 of all time.
He's a GREAT rapper and artist.
But of course his kids are more into the lean, autotune, Rockstar, weed smoking, dreadlocks,, face piercing/face tattoo image that Wayne created. My GOAT so influential
