New Rap songs completely die in like 12 mos

[Ghost Utmost]

I was trying to imagine walking up on some young adults and throwing on Bad and Bougie or Black Beatles

Like if I was as hype for these songs now as people were when they came out

(or that Molly Percocet shyt.. whatever that was)


Right? Like super fan. Like this was my SHlT

They would look at me like I had dogshyt on my shoe and was tracking it everywhere.

I imagine they would not only think I was insane for liking such ANCIENT relics, but I honestly don't think their young ears would register the sounds as dopeness. Even if the same song got heavy rotation during its run

Or as ubiquitous as Lil Wayne was. I NEVER hear anything from his run where he was literally everywhere. Like if you bang one of the CLASSICS of the auto tune mumble rap trap like genre they would boo loud as fukc

 

[old boy]

i think in hip hop we're so obsessed with new shyt that we have a tendency to move on very quickly. thinking back to the 1995 for instance, we weren't trying to hear a classic like humpty dance at a party right after raekwon ice cream and that dropped only five years prior! lol so i'm guessing it may be the same dynamic for these youngsters


but trust me they still love bad and bougee & mask off

 

[Ghost Utmost]

i think in hip hop we're so obsessed with new shyt that we have a tendency to move on very quickly. thinking back to the 1995 for instance, we weren't trying to hear a classic like humpty dance at a party right after raekwon ice cream and that dropped only five years prior! lol so i'm guessing it may be the same dynamic for these youngsters


but trust me they still love bad and bougee & mask off

I can play Humpty Dance NOW among people my age and they will get up and do that shyt

Was bumping Kid n Play My Way and was about to do the kick step with the homie

I live in the heart of the hood right next to a housing project. These cats are not shy about their musical choices. They want you to know they are listening to music so they walk down the street or even through stores playing music through external speakers. I NEVER hear anything I recognize.

Never even hear them speak the names of the "dead" at work (I work with lots of 20 somethings). Its only ever about the very latest thing. A hot artist from 2018 would seem like a joke to them if they don't have something hot right now

 

[Sterling Archer]

IDGAF about what someone else is listening to. I was just playing 56nights Future, some 8Ball/MJG, DMX, Playa Fly, Rex Orange County () and that Kane & Abel No Limit joint yesterday.
Music is offered and consumed on a much larger scale now. No way that it has lasting drive unless YOU make it so anymore.

 

[Boolean]

I play this damn near daily to this day

I remember when this had 3 mil views

 

[old boy]

I can play Humpty Dance NOW among people my age and they will get up and do that shyt

Was bumping Kid n Play My Way and was about to do the kick step with the homie

I live in the heart of the hood right next to a housing project. These cats are not shy about their musical choices. They want you to know they are listening to music so they walk down the street or even through stores playing music through external speakers. I NEVER hear anything I recognize.

Never even hear them speak the names of the "dead" at work (I work with lots of 20 somethings). Its only ever about the very latest thing. A hot artist from 2018 would seem like a joke to them if they don't have something hot right now

digital and kid n' play right now? oh absolutely, matter of fact i was bumpin last night changed it all weeks ago off the 2 hype album

i'm just thinking back to when i was young and yeah it was pretty much the same thing as these kids. i was bumping road to the riches hard in 1989 but really wasn't thinking too much about it when case of the pta dropped just 2 years later. not to mention how i could just kill a man, check the rime, treat 'em right etc. i still loved older shyt but focused on the brand new. they're the same way i'm sure

trust me they will be bumping migos versace when they're adults just like we have our throwback joints now

 

[UncleTomFord15]

"Percocet, Molly Percocet, chase a check. Never chase a bytch"

 

[Chapter_BLK]

Microwave artists I would call it more so than microwave music.

Hype culture moves waaaaaaaay too fast now. If an artist is no longer in one of the 10 most recent posts of whatever web community or social media news outlet reports on music, and they haven't established a career yet, they're taken out of the conversation immediately.

 

[Wild self]

Microwave artists I would call it more so than microwave music.

Hype culture moves waaaaaaaay too fast now. If an artist is no longer in one of the 10 most recent posts of whatever web community or social media news outlet reports on music, and they haven't established a career yet, they're taken out of the conversation immediately.

Like how Desiigner, Young MA, OJ da Juiceman are remembered, right?

Or why Gucci dropped hundreds of projects that sound similar in production. The ADD and the underappreciation of music is what killed attention spans.

 

[ba'al]

Nah nikkas keep a lot of them shyts in rotation was just listening to sauce it up

Sauce it up (sauce it up)

Do too much (do too much)
Ain't enough (ain't enough)
Ain't enough (ain't enough)
Where you from? (Where you from?)
Throw it up (throw that shyt up)
Goin' nuts (yeah)
Goin' dumb

 

[ba'al]

Rari's and Rovers
These hoes love Chief Sosa
Hit him with that cobra,
Now that boy slumped over
They do it all for Sosa

Fire Flames

 

[intruder]

Was just talking about this yesterday at a friend's party. He's a former music producer and even produced some of Mary J. Blige's albums. Homie got platinum plaques all over his condo walls.

Anyway about 12 of us were at his place for a party playing old school hiphop and R&B jams on youtube. I got on there and started making the selections when dude stepped away to cook and was playing shyt I liked like De La Soul, The Roots, Tribe, Lupe Fiasco, Onyx etc. Dude turned to me and said he was shocked to see that i knew so much hiphop stuff because since he's known me (about 2 years) he's rarely if ever seen me play any hiphop when we chill . Usually I mostly jam to Caribbean and African joints these days when we hang. We go camping and rent beach houses and i usually bring the tunes. His woman is one of my good friends).

I explained to him that since i didnt grow up around hiphop being a foreigner, the thing that initially made me gravitate toward hiphop just no longer exists in the genre. Namely the creativity in beats and the lyrics that AAs flexed back then. Even tho a lot of shyt were riding over samples, there were some dope drum beats added by the producers underneath these samples that truly set it apart. Listen to the first 10 seconds of Outkast's SoFresh So clean as an example. Also lyrics that meant something. The first rapper i developed and interest in was KRS-One because of the "why is that?" song so from there i've always leaned more on conscious rappers. Once that started to fade around early 2000s and then about 2009 ish i started bailing on the genre as a whole. By 2014/2015 I would often go over 6 months and you wouldn't catch me listening to it.

I feel like these day, every beat is essentially the same. Pardon if i butcher the terminologies since it's been a while but It sounds to me like cymbals and snares have overtaken all other instrumentation. I think i discusseed this with @Dip briefly once.
No dissing but it (trap beats) just doesnt do it for me anymore in the trap era

If i'm losing you watch this video and ignore the other drums this guy is hitting and focus on the sound he's making with the cymbals alone. I feel like all newer hiphop tracks are just that sound and a shyt load f base all the sudden



Even better yet listen to this one's first 20 seconds and that is exactly the sound that annoys me these days that i feel had flooded the music

 

[Black Steph Curry]

Thts just tha nature of tha music business nowadays. Cop n blow, like tha old pimp book says. Same goes for tha artists.

 

[Cave Savage]

Yeah, I remember people getting clowned in school for bumping a song more than 8 months old

 

[Cave Savage]

i think in hip hop we're so obsessed with new shyt that we have a tendency to move on very quickly. thinking back to the 1995 for instance, we weren't trying to hear a classic like humpty dance at a party right after raekwon ice cream and that dropped only five years prior! lol so i'm guessing it may be the same dynamic for these youngsters


but trust me they still love bad and bougee & mask off

Wasn't even KRS One considered played out by 93?