shyt you miss about Hip-Hop

[Suicide King]

Another personal thing I miss is knowing all the words, so much music comes out now I feel like I'm always switching, but back then, the relative longevity of a cd's replay value had me knowing all the lyrics

Fans are blaming too much music for them being too fickle?

I feel there was always a lot of music dropping, I think this generation is more open to listening to trash.

I watch all these major releases drop and I still haven't heard the new Jay-Z or any of J.Cole cds or mixtapes outside 3 or 4 songs, never heard any of Kendrick Lamar cds, only listened to Big Sean first cd twice, last song I heard from Drake was Stay Scheming feature. People was even giving Trinidad Jame$ props because he gave a good interview.

I'm still playing mixtapes and albums from '06.

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[StaxMalone]

Actually anticipating music, now I can get whatever I want anytime.. It really did make albums sound better in a way

 

[Rominati]

I love this era because young, talented black MCs can be themselves and not conform to that gangsta image that led us to that mess.

Ayo, where you from b? You stay talking about how you hate the "street image" of rap and how you like how the atmosphere of the game is soft now

RAP is from the STREETS, back in the days even when nikkas was rapping that wild shyt. nikkas wasnt out there actually doing it. NWA,RAKIM,KRS,WU-TANG, BIG, JAY,NAS

The music was jus RAWER, FIERCER, more PASSION behind it. Thus making BETTER music. I want to hear shyt from the streets, the PEOPLE, not every nikka in the hood is Chief Keef nor aspires to be Chief Keef or wants to be some killer. You talk like u from the burbs or sumthing.

Thats why half these new jacks nowadays dont got no damn story nor personality. The wannabe rappers on my block got more pizzaz than the whole fukking game n they aint even half serious wit it.

 

[How Sway?]

Most of what I was gonna say has already been said, but....

I just miss the edge of rap music. And I'm not just talking about hardcore/gangsata rap b/c Even Conscious rap had some edge to it (I.E. Talib Kweli, Q-tip, Common, mos def, even Kanye when he first came out).

Most shyt today is just extra average (if that's even possible) or has no replay value. OR there's no emotion or passion behind the music.

Kendrick is the exception..J cole stepped it up on Born Sinner so he's good too.

EDIT: I also miss the fact that you had to posses atleast some kind of skill to become a rapper. Half these muthafukkers won't even spit a freestyle or a lil 16 on the radio.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Another thing I miss is listening to the fukking radio. I haven't listened to the radio since the late 90's, and I don't regret it. But back in the day, shyt was different. You could hear a track from KRS-One, and ten minutes later a track from Missy Elliot. It was diverse, instead of brainwashing you to like certain artists/tracks nowadays by keeping the same shyt on repeat. The radio station in my hometown used to play records unedited after 10 p.m. and the shyt was just on point. I remember coppin blank tapes just to record shyt off the radio because it was that dope back then.

When you heard a song by an artist you wouldn't hear another song by them for HOURS, not even features. I also remember they had certain songs in rotation for years played regularly. 112 "Only You" and Tony Braxton's "Just Be A Man About It."

 

[Ohene]

hiphop slowed down a lot after Pac died so 97,98,99 wasnt nowhere poppin like 91-96.then the flood of No limit,cash money and the bad boy shiny suit era had hiphop blinged out with little to no substance.


so no,the 97,98 & 99 aint fukkin with 91-96

nikka...i could argue 1997-2001>>>1990-1994

 

[Don Homer]

beat variety. everything is produced by the same ppl and they are all skittering high hat beats (trap beats)

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

i miss gangsta rap, drug rap, gun rap, coke dealing rap. no more conscious bullshyt, no one wants to hear ya opinion on gay marriage or whatever. just talk about killin nikkas.

this is quite possibly the stupidest post in this thread

that is all that is out now

 

[CDoty]

this is quite possibly the stupidest post in this thread

that is all that is out now

no, it isn't.

 

[How Sway?]

Trash Music Connoisseur

 

[tremonthustler1]

Ehh, I'm 27 and a lot of the new nikkas are just a lil bit younger than me, they were born in the 80's and grew up in the 90's..back then everybody was still outside and there was plenty of shyt to get into.

It's just the labels have gone in a different direction pretty much phasing the hood out of hip hop, you still have your generic "bangers" with nikkas like Meek,Ross,Wayne and French rapping over the same beat everytime, but Drake,Kendrick and Cole are the big 3 for this generation and there's only one arguable classic between all of them (GKMC). When dudes like Caclemore,Tyler and Mac Miller are selling more than most hood nikkas is says a lot about the game.

The hood is phasing the hood out. It's called gentrification.

It's not as if hood nikkas are comfortably just blasting A-Mafia or some other thugged out rapper on their own

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

this is quite possibly the stupidest post in this thread

that is all that is out now

nah, you don't have nikkas like mobb deep, the lox, etc spitting that hard shyt. It's a whole bunch of I use drugs music, but not that hard shoot em up bang bang slanging dope in the pj's shyt (well trap rap, but IMO it doesn't have that same dark grimy feel)

Fans are blaming too much music for them being too fickle?

I feel there was always a lot of music dropping, I think this generation is more open to listening to trash.

I watch all these major releases drop and I still haven't heard the new Jay-Z or any of J.Cole cds or mixtapes outside 3 or 4 songs, never heard any of Kendrick Lamar cds, only listened to Big Sean first cd twice, last song I heard from Drake was Stay Scheming feature. People was even giving Trinidad Jame$ props because he gave a good interview.

I'm still playing mixtapes and albums from '06.

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one, I didn't blame too much music, I said it's a personal problem...as in I try to keep up with what I can which causes me not to replay a lot of stuff (unless it's incredibly dope such as Dom Kennedy's yellow album) you got a nikka like curren$y, who I fukk with, who releases two mixtapes and an album every three months...like when do I have time to give it burn and learn the words. Back then, there were albums, they came out on tuesdays, there were maybe 3-8 albums a month i wanted to hear, not tons of mixtapes and random leaked tracks, and albums dropped every 18 months (or longer). Now there are about 3-5 projects each week i'd be interested in. The amount of access available now is a catch 22 for me personally, it's cool to hear dudes I wouldn't have otherwise, but I kinda miss having a filter.

As for you not hearing new music and listening to stuff from 06, what does that have to do with anything? I still play old stuff I like as well.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

Radio edits. The whole flow would be different sometimes....





Birdman sounds 10x more raw and menacing on the dirty version.



(only could get the screwed version)

It's like two different songs.

Real remixes









They censored the remix of Player's Anthem and made it the radio version.





Even minor remixes like this are pretty much dead.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

R&B like this.......

 

[Wild self]

Ayo, where you from b? You stay talking about how you hate the "street image" of rap and how you like how the atmosphere of the game is soft now

RAP is from the STREETS, back in the days even when nikkas was rapping that wild shyt. nikkas wasnt out there actually doing it. NWA,RAKIM,KRS,WU-TANG, BIG, JAY,NAS

The music was jus RAWER, FIERCER, more PASSION behind it. Thus making BETTER music. I want to hear shyt from the streets, the PEOPLE, not every nikka in the hood is Chief Keef nor aspires to be Chief Keef or wants to be some killer. You talk like u from the burbs or sumthing.

Thats why half these new jacks nowadays dont got no damn story nor personality. The wannabe rappers on my block got more pizzaz than the whole fukking game n they aint even half serious wit it.

Yeah, but isn't that the reason why it also got played out? When nikkas on the streets wanted money over the craft, and stop innovating, is when people moved on. Making the same shyt over and over again with the grandpa rappers (like you said in another thread), heads got tired of that shyt and wanted something different. The same nikkas that played out the likes of Public Enemy and even the Wu got pushed to the side for bullshyt corporate rap in the early 00s. nikkas voluntarily changed the rap game for the worse, and the corporate heads took advantage of that. No one like accountability in here, so it had to be addressed.

Rap is from the streets to address the problems and to get away from negativity, not to engage in it. Old heads that took part of that bullshyt back in the early 90s twisted that part of the message and wanted to be poverty pimps (basically exploiting the hood) for a few $$$ while made the regular black person into a savage thug. Now they basically re-written history and think that there are only one side of the streets that its about: the criminal side of the first person-view.

@ you thinking that you gotta have a crazy back story and "swag" to have personality. Best to let the young MCs be themselves and grow onto their own sound, not for everyone to be confined to one image and style. It ain't no conspiracy or no corporate shyt: no one wants to hear that redundant street shyt anymore. Especially when they are not contributing to anything new or of anything of timeless quality.