I never saw a song make oldheads angry like this did when it came out

[<<TheStandard>>]

I thought that ringtone era was one of the darkest ages for hip hop. I remember thinking so much shyt was wack from 05-06......but as a DJ when I saw the responses to the records I had to appreciate it.


I was in college at the time and it was just undeniable what Laffy Taffy would do to a party. Even Betcha Can't Do it like me went hard at parties. It made me recognize that women really run hip hop more than nikkas. What they like goes.


This was my shyt and I'm pretty much a backpacker at heart.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

True. But they weren’t spitting over beats that sounded like Laffy Taffy.

there were plenty of cheesy beats back then

Plus rhyming became more complicated relatively quickly as part of a natural progression.

truly complex rapping took almost 7-10 years to develop within thee scene that we now know as hiphop

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I don't even think the song is the rap antichrist like most people but this whole "b bu but what about 'Rapper's Delight!'" or (insert random early 80's hip-hop club/dance track here) gotta be one of the dumbest most disingenuous angles I've ever seen on this board. And that's saying a lot.

Once Rakim (and a few others) dropped people stopped rapping like that. All that shyt was considered dead and out dated. So mentioning a style of song....that was considered dead by the end of the fukking decade it originated in....to justify another song damn near 3 decades later....is retarded. Just say you like the song and KIM.

Fred.

But it never did. That simpler old school Mcing style was still around even when advanced lyricism came along

 

[feelosofer]

I hated the song but I also understood that it wasn't for me.

 

[hex]

But it never did. That simpler old school Mcing style was still around even when advanced lyricism came along

Not really.

I guess this is the part where you mention Nice & Smooth or some outlier but the average MC in '91 was not rapping as simplistic as '81. So using that as a reason to defend "Laffy Taffy", a song that came out in 2005, is dumb as fukk.

Fred.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I'll die before I understand what the fukk was so awful about this song.

My opinion?

Things were moving away from nyc and everyone could see so there was a microscope on shyt from elsewhere that people were gravitating too. This song in particular being the jovial carefree bullshyt that it was just raised the ire of people wishing things would go back to how it was

Imagine your gf leaving you for a nikka who sells loose cigarettes on the corner and driving past them everyday to go to work seeing them sitting on milk crates laughing & bullshytting

 

[CrimsonTider]

I'll die before I understand what the fukk was so awful about this song.

How old are you?

because there was a time in history when hiphop forums definitely had some influence on rap.

This song signaled the end of that. It’s why You see all the hate from that song come from old heads still on rap forums

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Not really.

I guess this is the part where you mention Nice & Smooth or some outlier but the average MC in '91 was not rapping as simplistic as '81. So using that as a reason to defend "Laffy Taffy", a song that came out in 2005, is dumb as fukk.

Fred.

that's one example but there are plenty of others but even stuff like Miami Bass (call and response) and stuff like






was closer to OG HipHop than what Rakim did. And who cares if most mc's by the 90s were more advanced than Nice & Smooth? It doesn't negate the fact that it was a style of hiphop; and in this case, THE style of early HipHop. It's like saying New Orleans jazz isn't Jazz because they weren't playing advanced Bebop scales like Charlie Parker

 

[Rhyme n Tekniq]

Some of y'all are defending this trash like it was the best thing going in '05 and 'old nikkas' just didn't understand cause they were 'old' and this was the shyt.

There was lots of shyt better than this in '05 that was successful and wasn't getting clowned by the 'old nikkas'... y'all just defending the fact that of all the music out there, this is the shyt y'all chose to rock with.

It really wasn't an age thing as much as it was an EARS thing.

THIS

the lame azz nikkas have horrible taste and trying to pass it off as a changing of the guard and that nikkas became old instanly once this dropped... Muthafukers be brazen with their stupididty. The Coli.com where nikkas only speak in hot takes.


"Old ass nikkas hating..look at'em they hot yall... DEm DusTy nikkas super tight "

Most of the people riding for this song are cacs anyways, they generally like corny azz shyt like this

 

[hex]

that's one example but there are plenty of others but even stuff like Miami Bass (call and response) and stuff like






was closer to OG HipHop than what Rakim did. And who cares if most mc's by the 90s were more advanced than Nice & Smooth? It doesn't negate the fact that it was a style of hiphop; and in this case, THE style of early HipHop. It's like saying New Orleans jazz isn't Jazz because they weren't playing advanced Bebop scales like Charlie Parker

You cats need to stop trying to build whole arguments on outliers. Cats were listening to Outkast, Pac, Nas, Jay, De La, BONE, UGK, Wu, etc, in 1996. "Let Me Clear My Throat" was considered some goofy shyt. Not bad....just nobody took that shyt seriously. And I never even heard that Fat Man Scoop song.

Fred.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

Some of y'all are defending this trash like it was the best thing going in '05 and 'old nikkas' just didn't understand cause they were 'old' and this was the shyt.

There was lots of shyt better than this in '05 that was successful and wasn't getting clowned by the 'old nikkas'... y'all just defending the fact that of all the music out there, this is the shyt y'all chose to rock with.

It really wasn't an age thing as much as it was an EARS thing.

Song was marketed to 12-13 year olds in 2004/5/6 I forget the exact year. Now those kids have grown up, and are trying to rewrite history.

 

[AnotherRoute]

I don’t care what anyone say. I consider this to be the worst mainstream hip hop song ever and the darkest time in hip hop history oh my god 05-09 was so trash.

Then on the other side you had the fake ass return to real hip hop shyt happening.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

How old are you?

because there was a time in history when hiphop forums definitely had some influence on rap.

This song signaled the end of that. It’s why You see all the hate from that song come from old heads still on rap forums

This isn't true, you're lying.

 

[mr. smoke weed]

In real time people HATED this song.

 

[CrimsonTider]

This isn't true, you're lying.

It’s absolutely facts

The same type of rap fan hated this song