Old heads, how many of you have accepted hip hop passed you by?

[Eastside Get The Money]

I was in a mood late last night and listened to some rock much for like 3 hours on the patio. The pain/passion/anger that other genres produce makes me embarrassed of hip hop.

I'm 23 and I can say I probably won't be checking for hip hop anymore in 5 years. No substance and hip hop (like black people in general) is trend based (nikkas who weren't even talking about drugs mollied out in the raps now . It makes me mad when someone asks me for a deep meaning hot or mainstream rap song and I honestly have to think. I've always been a defender of hip hop, but growing older I'm realizing that it is hurting our people and it can pass me by without me trying to catch up.

 

[Stuntone]

I'm 31, but I listen to a lot of older hiphop. But there's some good younger cats and new music.

Curren$y, Krit mainly. Some of the old heads still making good music: Ross, Nas, Juicy J still making good stuff.


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[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I'm 35 and was bumping this loud as fukk going to work yesterday

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I'm 2 months younger than 2 Chainz and give no fukks. My musical catalog and range shyts on the youngins. I can go 70's 80's 90's 2000's without a care in the world

 

[HoLLaBaCK]

IM 31 (and I guess as the OP stated IM not quite an old head yet), I like a lot of todays music. Of course IM gonna have a special place for the music of my late teen's/early 20's, that doesn't mean I hold anything against todays music.

I will say that I don't really like todays generations obsession with age and being . I think it's easy to view 35 as when your 21...but wait till you get to your late 20's/ early 30's u'll see its not as old as it seems.

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

34 here

I came to this conclusion about 10 years ago almost. The late 90's my interest started to fade, but then it was resparked with the resurgence of soul sampled material coming from the West via Cut Chemist and that crew, and then w/ the Quannum Records run they had around that time.

I don't bother checking for new stuff much, not even from the older artists. Sometimes a track will grab me here and there, but I've moved on to other genre's for the most part.

 

[DaPresident]

Music today, not just Hip-Hop, sounds uninspired to me...

I'm not in the age bracket OP mentioned (29).

Same age, and I feel basically the same way.

 

[How Sway?]

When hip hop still had distinct regional sounds that when it was good. So much variety

Like from the late 90's till the mid 00's you had east coast nikkas who were still doing them, the south was on the rise and even within the south there were different styles depending on the city the artists were coming from. You had the Midwest and the West coast still doing their own style of hip hop.

Right now even though regionalism is pretty much dead, rap is nothing more than a duplication of the next song. Everyone need to have a mike will beat and that fake ass high ass soft ass Drake wannabe voice. shyts trash G.

I mean, I'm product of my generation so Naturally I fux with guys like future, 2 chainz, ye, some lil wayne but I have ears and I know when shyt gets redundant.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I get tired of hating but I do cringe at the majority of the new shyt. But its mostly mainstream shyt that radio and media and even the coli tries to shove down our throats. There always gonna be some dope dudes making dope music its just hard to find. Some think that these newer cats are doing shyt different but they really just remaking shyt done way better. No inspiration, no hunger just people wanting the attention. It kills music.

 

[King Poetic]

I stay right in my lane, no getting over, no u-turns , no detour.. but right now i'm more into reggae music and old r&b music.

if i listen to hip-hop today it's because i want to see what old school R&b sample they used

but for the most part the popular rappers out today in the mainstream are in there 30's - rick ross and jeezy then u have new dudes coming out like 2 chainz who is 36..

but i do listen sometimes to see what's going on today and nothing has changed in the music ( except kendrick lamar ) same pimp sh!t, drug deals and killing n!ggas and the fact that old white people have came in and took over what we made...

i remember the days when we had some type of control at labels such as bad boy, death row, loud records and def jam... now u must put out bullshyt to get play..

it's sad that us as black people can't keep sh!t to ourselves and have to sell our azz for a $60,000 check while the company made over 10 million off your sells

 

[NigerianDonDada]

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Hip Hop will only pass you by if you want it to......been listening to this genre of music since I was 5 years old......I am now 33.......will probably never stop listening and will always find a rapper I like no matter how old I get.....I remember when kids were talking all that heavy metal shyt back in the day and how it was going to outlast hip hop/rap music.................

 

[Theabbot]

I stay in my lane for the most part. But there are a couple new dudes I enjoy listening to. All I really care about is lyrical quality paired with good music. I don't care if it came out in '94 or 2014. If the lyrics are on point, I'm in. What also makes me not enjoy the current state of the genre is that I prefer a harder edge to my hip-hop. IMO an MC should be trying to take heads when he spit. I.E.:

Either taking heads or trying to paint a picture of his/her environment. Saying something meaningful. That WAS the foundation and mentality that hip-hop was originally created on.
Also MC 's used to constantly strive to raise stakes in the art form. Build and improve on the older shyt. Not just be average, or willing to settle for the current state of affairs indefinitely. Not be obsessed with tryin to push a catchy hook or some corny ass gimmicky shyt either.
But the current mainstream hip-hop (is it even hip-hop anymore tho??) has embraced some weak ass principles as gospel. The shyt is so soft it isn't even funny. But dudes are getting paid. They are willing to sell their soul to get that dollar I guess.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

I think some people get hip-hop confused with the corporate dictatorship that's been going on in the mainstream the past 5-10 years.

i stay in my lane and dont fall for all the trendy, dressed in feathers and skirts shyt. theres a few new school cats that still drop heat. but for the most part, i feel like todays hip hop is just pop culture and alot of younger people dont understand what that means because they grew up on the shyt that was crossing over to pop.

agreed. the cultural aspect is darn near dead. and when that dies off, so does hip-hop.

 

[Big Mel]

What the bozo, slight shouldered, TJ Maxx draped don TS* fails to illustrate is that popular rap or current rap hasn't been my thing since 1997-8. I still consume new hip hop at a rabid pace.


*transexual/thread starter

 

[ch15x]

I got a head-start in the "passing me by" phase during the early 00's and just turned into a casual listener. I like music in general, so the strictly hip-hop mindset had to ease up, especially being curious about where a lot of these samples I've heard came from (often times from other hip-hop tunes). Too busy playing catch-up to other "sampled" genres like classic soul/R&B/Rock, Reggae, Jazz, Blues, and even '70s-late '80s hip-hop, etc.

...but I'll blast a tune in the ride on occasion!