What period of rap now sounds dusty and retro to you?

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Mostly anything that I felt was great and/or classic in the past. .I still feel the same way now...music is SUPPOSED to sound dated cause it represents the time..and I like that about it..I LOVE the fact that 90s music sounds like 90s music..80s sound like 80s etc... I did notice that since radio conditioned people to hear hip hop with some kind of southern or anti NY accent...people feel it sounds funny to listen to heavily NY influenced shyt...

i agree.

me personally, i was referring to eras in general. not saying that everything from the eras that i mentioned didnt age well.

the classics are gonna age well regardless. im moreso referring to the eras where alot of the songs & albums that werent classics didnt age well.

like how pac's 1st album was hot but it wasnt a classic so it gets chitted on by newer listeners.

how can you answer this question tho? theres stuff from the early-mid 90s which still sounds fresh and theres shiit from the neptunes era that sound aged and wack

yea, topic is kinda vague.

theres no way to generalize an entire era.

Yeah, if u were around and bumping all that music when it 1st came out ur still gonna love it to this day, even if it sounds dated.

Anything pre 92 or so was before my time so I'm not really feeling it and sounds dated. Except for a few artists and a few tracks of course...

nah, thats not exactly what im saying. the confusion is my fault tho.

im not saying that you have to have lived those eras to enjoy the entirety of it. just the stuff that isnt classic.

and im certainly not saying that anything before me didnt age well. the mid-80s and late-80s aged nicely. as for the eras mentioned, the classics from those eras are timeless. even tho i listed the early '90s, its still amongst the greatest eras overall because there were so many classic songs & albums.

 

[Jone2three45]

i noticed a pattern here.

i'll say the beginning of every new decade provided a noticeable amount of rap music that hasnt aged well. not saying everything sounds dated from these periods, but a noticeable amount of material does.


early '80s
early '90s - great era but some stuff aged horifficly
early '00s - too many ping-pong beats & generic raps
early '10s - current era and its already hard to listen to. weakest of them all.

you literally have to put yourself in a time machine in order to fully enjoy alot of that stuff in retrospect.

On the Flipside,
Timberland as a producer is the only guy who I could listen to his instrumentals from 90's-now and it still sounds fresh and new like

Neptunes beats are now.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

On the Flipside,
Timberland as a producer is the only guy who I could listen to his instrumentals from 90's-now and it still sounds fresh and new like

Neptunes beats are now.

meh. alot of timbaland's stuff is just as cheesy and didnt age well either imo.

i'd even go as far as to say:
neptunes' serious hip-hop productions >>>> timbaland's rap beats

this calls for a thread. ive been meaning to do this one for a while. time to pull the trigga:
http://www.the-coli.com/booth/75226-str8-rap-beat-tip-neptunes-timbaland.html

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Like others have mentioned, the 'Crunk' pre-trap ATL scene. This also reminds me of the time when the Ying Yang Twins tried to start that 'whisper' style that flopped. God were those dudes some clowns.

 

[Standing on business]

meh. alot of timbaland's stuff is just as cheesy and didnt age well either imo.

i'd even go as far as to say:
neptunes' serious hip-hop productions >>>> timbaland's rap beats

this calls for a thread. ive been meaning to do this one for a while. time to pull the trigga:
http://www.the-coli.com/booth/75226-str8-rap-beat-tip-neptunes-timbaland.html

Great topic, I think timbo has the hiphop/rap/pop crown,

They both created signature sounds but timbo did it in two different eras

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Great topic, I think timbo has the hiphop/rap/pop crown,

They both created signature sounds but timbo did it in two different eras

so did the neptunes.

 

[Mike Statik]

rhymes were sharper back in the 90s but the beats compared to todays (even tho i think 90s beats are better) the beats do sound dated... prob due to the technology

but idk i cant listen to ALOTA this new shyt... just doesnt sound like hip hop IMO

 

[CHITLING flavored CEREAL]

Was listening to Bizmarkie's first two albums yesterday. Sounds archaic by today's standards, but was still dope. Real minimalist sounding, but as an emcee he was very underrated.

this

but are

dont you mean big daddy kane

biz

 

[CHITLING flavored CEREAL]

On the Flipside,
Timberland as a producer is the only guy who I could listen to his instrumentals from 90's-now and it still sounds fresh and new like

Neptunes beats are now.

neptunes beats were pretty much like that then

not sure but thinkin on it neptunes are prob the most overrated producers in rap history......they had hot tracks here in there but very few timeless joints just mostly casio kyboard beats

 

[Scotty Piffin']

Golden Age stuff sounds "dusty" now but that's not really a bad thing, I can still appreciate it just as much as the shyt I grew up on and/or modern day shyt if I'm in the mood for it.

Kool G Rap transcends time though, he's been fweago forever.