Finally coming to grips that I'm no longer a Hip Hop fan

[Carter G. Hoodson]

I'm 27, live through early 90's music when the sound and lyrics were there. Of course you had your random fad songs but we live in a era today where the majority of the records out today are just awful. The lyrics make no sense, can't gain anything informative from it, every artist sound the same and there's no real artistry in the sound. It just gives me a headache.

I grew up mostly on soul, funk, jazz and R&B....hip hop used to be an extension of that for me. My ear for music just cannot take what's out here today. I can do a cover on my keyboard with Ghosts all that I got is you but a drake and future cover is laughable.

For the Elder statesmen in hip hop, how do you manage to still support it?

 

[The Fire]

 

[yjmonn]

I fukked with Migos for a sec and they fell off and so did my interest in the shyt as a whole


I'm fukkin with 90s dancehall and 60s soul heavy tho

 

[Kitsune]

Some of the greatest talents the genre has witnessed are currently making moves, the mainstream circuit is for the birds regardless, its specificly for women and teenagers so its natural that it wouldn't resonate with you. Your at fault if you allow industry rappers comprehensivly define the genre for you though, those aren't rappers, they're urban pop stars

 

[H. Selassie]

You're still a fan of the Hip-Hop that you love, you're just not a fan of the game's current direction.

I feel you. I'm 26 and already feel the same sense of jadedness.

 

[Vonte3000]

Hip Hop is just at a strange time, the gate keepers failed and it's just fallen victim to the American system of pimping everything out for a dollar

 

[Juggalo Fred]

You just need to be a juggalo

 

[Birdie]

"Hip-Hop" Nowadays is a genre of music made by idiots for idiots.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Get on that K-Rino wave

 

[The Dust King]

I'm 27

Thats waaay too young for you to be givin up. Step ya search game up because you still lettin mainstream dictate your tastes.

You got 3 choices. Either come to terms your and give up

OR start findin the artists from the 90s and see they still make great music now (bootcamp,krs,cnn,mobb etc.) for instance treach and bumpy knuckles just formed a group and dropped a dope single.

OR give up alltogether on the present and future and just listen to old shyt.

"Hip-Hop" Nowadays is a genre of music made by idiots for idiots.

Your talking about majority of artists in the mainstream.

Theres more options than what the radio gets payed to play.

Then again its up to you to find out. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[End Cruelty]

If you werent a fan you wouldn't care at all. I just keep digging. Im 28. This is the oldest conversation in hip hop.

 

[NV-ME]

I'm 27, live through early 90's music when the sound and lyrics were there. Of course you had your random fad songs but we live in a era today where the majority of the records out today are just awful. The lyrics make no sense, can't gain anything informative from it, every artist sound the same and there's no real artistry in the sound. It just gives me a headache.

I grew up mostly on soul, funk, jazz and R&B....hip hop used to be an extension of that for me. My ear for music just cannot take what's out here today. I can do a cover on my keyboard with Ghosts all that I got is you but a drake and future cover is laughable.

For the Elder statesmen in hip hop, how do you manage to still support it?

older than you and my answer is i leave the club shyt at the club. i discover artists on sites like nahright and this (occasionally) & rock out w/ the shyt i like. havent listened to the radio in a min and dont miss it. im good on a diet of artists like gibbs, spitta, skyzoo, budden, king los, lupe, bronson, cole & jay elec when they drop shyt & make playlists. in between there i go back to 90s rap and r&b/blues. the older you get it actually makes shyt easier. fighting through the clutter to get to the quality.

 

[Jacaveli The Don]

It is definately cylical. The OG heads who were listening to Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, etc were superpissed when Gangsta Rap and Death Row came out in the early 90's and hated it. Just like how I hate the Southern inspired rap game now (not that I hate Southern artists )

The difference was, my rap legends were/are truly talented, Kurupt and Snoop can freestyle their asses off, 'Pac showed the widest rap range of emotions ever, Dr. Dre's ear for sound is unmatched in music PERIOD, and DJ Quik is one of the most talented musicians in rap EVER so I could hold a coherant, rational conversation with my peers about why I listened to rap.

I'll be damned if any youngin would tell me the value of Migos, Gucci Mane, Young Thug, etc in the same light.

That's IMPOSSIBLE.

TL:DR You are now the 'older' head who probably shut you down when you were listening to your favorite rappers around them

 

[DJDONTNOBODYPAYME]

Fake Deep nikka Thread

 

[Carter G. Hoodson]

Thats waaay too young for you to be givin up. Step ya search game up because you still lettin mainstream dictate your tastes.

You got 3 choices. Either come to terms your and give up

OR start findin the artists from the 90s and see they still make great music now (bootcamp,krs,cnn,mobb etc.) for instance treach and bumpy knuckles just formed a group and dropped a dope single.

OR give up alltogether on the present and future and just listen to old shyt.



Your talking about majority of artists in the mainstream.

Theres more options than what the radio gets payed to play.

Then again its up to you to find out. Ignorance is bliss.

Nah, see that's the thing....I can listen to those artists no problem. I copped the new cnn album, copped deeply Rooted...felt that hip hop spirit back but music comes and goes now. There's no new artists keeping me interested. It's too easy to throw on war report or poverty paradise. I have no problem staying in that lane, but outside of Cole and kendricknew wave...can't remember the last time I listen to a whole record and enjoyed it.