I'm not an oldhead, but after hearing this track I realize Hip-Hop has lost something

[DaveyDave]

I agree but I disagree to some extent. It's actually a lot harder to find good music, especially for the older crowd that's not really in tune with the internet 24-7. With no radio play, no print ads, only finding videos online when you look for them/Google fav artists, it makes things much more difficult to know who or what's out there. That's what I think people mean when they say harder to find music. It's easily accessible but difficult to discover.

with hundred/thousands of blogs out there like 1994hiphop that have high quality downloads, that "it's hard to find" excuse is complete bullshyt. they have full discographies and rare albums you've never heard of or forgot about from back then, not to mention forums like the Coli where cats are constantly making threads about all kinds of artists and albums that you can easily do a google search and find out their album names.

 

[Newportbox]

Migos>>>>>

Not saying Migos better than all east coast shyt either,but sometimes you gotta know when you got a better thing

Coli the worst.

 

[Ohene]

listening to that OP track...after i just listened to Drake - hype off views.....

like the OP said the difference is clear...hip hop aint the same. the flows have regressed man

 

[Yoda]

with hundred/thousands of blogs out there like 1994hiphop that have high quality downloads, that "it's hard to find" excuse is complete bullshyt. they have full discographies and rare albums you've never heard of or forgot about from back then, not to mention forums like the Coli where cats are constantly making threads about all kinds of artists and albums that you can easily do a google search and find out their album names.

to be fair, shyt is not as easy as the golden age of downloading 2008-2011 imo.
you could google GZA liquid swords mediafire and it would be right there, or whatever new release you wanted.

shyt is hard outchea. thats why i evolved into streaming

 

[Ironman]

That vintage Queens musicNas the Goatyoung 50 that southside hunger Nature always underrated Queens in the building we in here

 

[KravenMorehead™]

 

[mortuus est]

I agree but I disagree to some extent. It's actually a lot harder to find good music, especially for the older crowd that's not really in tune with the internet 24-7. With no radio play, no print ads, only finding videos online when you look for them/Google fav artists, it makes things much more difficult to know who or what's out there. That's what I think people mean when they say harder to find music. It's easily accessible but difficult to discover.

finding good music is easy bro, been eating good for a long time

 

[AkaDemiK]

needed this after listening to views....

 

[HoldThisL]

Yo this shyt crazy, I been listening to alot of Fifty old shyt and these songs still sound great. Even 21 questions sound more tough than all of Drake shyts. Dat Nate Dogg Hook

 

[DaveyDave]

to be fair, shyt is not as easy as the golden age of downloading 2008-2011 imo.
you could google GZA liquid swords mediafire and it would be right there, or whatever new release you wanted.

shyt is hard outchea. thats why i evolved into streaming

i have a few blogs i go to for new stuff but if i think of an album i want the very first thing i do is google artist/album name and 320 or zippyshare or something and i find it 99% of the time. i've been looking for reggae stuff lately and it's a little bit harder to get some of the older 70s stuff but it's the same deal.

 

[A.V.]

Dead ass grew up with this as my favorite song in junior high / high school. I thought I was ON 50, a nikka I heard first on the In Too Deep soundtrack that was underground, with one of my favorite rappers, Nas.


This one of them joints you can walk around quoting random lines from, but if a nikka can't complete your sentence, you know he a fukk boy. This & "Be A Gentleman" era-50


Anyways, when I saw the thread title, I thought it was about the single I just dropped, shytting on the industry and all this new age fakkit shyt, weirdo rappers etc.




Wasn't disappointed though

 

[nieman]

with hundred/thousands of blogs out there like 1994hiphop that have high quality downloads, that "it's hard to find" excuse is complete bullshyt. they have full discographies and rare albums you've never heard of or forgot about from back then, not to mention forums like the Coli where cats are constantly making threads about all kinds of artists and albums that you can easily do a google search and find out their album names.

But these are only for the music heads and younger generation. You're excluding the casual listener, which is still a large chunk of the buying population. For the casual listeners, or potential new fans of the older generation, it's just that much harder because the older crowd isn't constantly visiting these sites. That's all I'm saying. "Harder to find music" is a valid statement. You have to go out of your everyday life to find new music, instead of having Video soul/The Box/Rap City/MTV on in the background and seeing a new video from an artist that catches your attention. You can't just turn on a the radio and hear 10 different songs by 10 different artists that sound different and gravitate towards one. It's doing a research paper and it will get lost in the daily living activities. People will google a restaurant before they google a musician. The only time these days a musician gets googled is either when they're in the news for fukkery or RIP'd. That's what I mean when I say go out of your way. You have to google an artist to find out what they have, and it should not be that hard. Even promotion in record stores has been reduced, combined with the reduction in numbers of stores.

 

[DaveyDave]

But these are only for the music heads and younger generation. You're excluding the casual listener, which is still a large chunk of the buying population. For the casual listeners, or potential new fans of the older generation, it's just that much harder because the older crowd isn't constantly visiting these sites. That's all I'm saying. "Harder to find music" is a valid statement. You have to go out of your everyday life to find new music, instead of having Video soul/The Box/Rap City/MTV on in the background and seeing a new video from an artist that catches your attention. You can't just turn on a the radio and hear 10 different songs by 10 different artists that sound different and gravitate towards one. It's doing a research paper and it will get lost in the daily living activities. People will google a restaurant before they google a musician. The only time these days a musician gets googled is either when they're in the news for fukkery or RIP'd. That's what I mean when I say go out of your way. You have to google an artist to find out what they have, and it should not be that hard. Even promotion in record stores has been reduced, combined with the reduction in numbers of stores.

i figured we were talking about people on sites like The Coli. EVERYONE on here is more than just a casual listener. if you're talking about the true casual listener then they will rock with whatever is on the radio and couldn't care less. there's all kinds of ways to find new music now on spotify and all that stuff. there's "radio shows" on spotify and apple music. there's playlists made by random people, artists and whoever else. old people already listen to what their fav music is, they had their time growing up and they have their fav music and they probably already have their collections. the average old casual listener isn't listening to the radio complaining about the music, they either like it or they listen to their own music anyway. young people on the other hand are savvy enough to know how to find their own music. they know how to find shyt on the net, it's not exactly rocket science.

i suppose it's my kind of generation who are used to having music spoon fed to them and they think it should stay that way. if they weren't savvy enough to keep up with how to find music on the net then i suppose they would be lost. i have ALWAYS had to hunt down Hip Hop because i remember when there was 2 rows of albums in the music shop, under RAP, lucky to have 10 albums in there. they didn't play Hip Hop on the radio like that down here, in fact i remember back when The Real Slim Shady or My Name Is (can't remember which one it was) was actually NUMBER ONE on the charts and the top video show here didn't play the video!!! top fukking song in the country and they don't play the video you remember when they used to cut the rap verses out of RnB songs on the radio?

 

[raoulduke187]

nikkas don't care about the lyrics much nowadays