Why can't I enjoy 90's hip-hop?

[JKO123]

"They're just bars. There's no real melody"

Prediction: In 20 Years Black People Aren't Gonna Like Rap Music PERIOD

Rap listeners have been conditioned to gravitate away from bars/words to melodies.

Listeners are becoming more and more lazy when it comes to actual lyricism, and sing-songy, melodic, cat in the hat, Dr. Suess flows have taken precedent.

OP is 18 so of course "words" will be a chore for him to listen to. Concentrating on every word a rapper says is becoming a thing of the past. Its more about "vibing" to a melodic flow over a hot beat. Subject matter be damned. Just a hot beat and catchy flow saying anything is all that's needed today to capture the attention of listeners.

No offense to anybody reading this, but the "intelligence" in hip-hop overall has been drained severely. (That's a FACT, not an opinion)

This melodic, sing-songy rap is like nursery rhymes to little kids. Its hypnotizing. Its catchy. It requires little to no work of the brain. Its easy to listen to and digest. Modern-day hip-hop for the most part is aimed at the equivalent of 6th graders.

im not a fan of the modern-day rap u talk about

i very rarely enjoy the new yachty/uzi/21 savage stuff. some songs here and there, but the rappers that i mess with are cole, kendikk, drake, mac miller, logic, kanye, big sean, etc.

anyway, i think the problem is that jay'z volume albums are just not that good. i like reasonable doubt and blueprint.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

nikka u trolling

I said musically/sonically are you dumb? This not counting lyrics dumbass ... I'm talking about song structure and the more artist side to music.... Hip Hop in the 90's had more imperfections and blemishes but those blemishes actually made the records lowkey ... Sonically Rap was still apart of the streets in the 90's and wasn't as advanced as it is now that's why people love it so much ...

 

[letti cook]

im tryna think if I was legit bumping some shyt that was 20 years old when I was 18

so...84....


yeah I wasnt bumpin no got damn Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow and all that

its wild to think 96 JayZ might sound like that to someone who was born in the 2000s..but

 

[JKO123]

im tryna think if I was legit bumping some shyt that was 20 years old when I was 18

so...84....


yeah I wasnt bumpin no got damn Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow and all that

its wild to think 96 JayZ might sound like that to someone who was born in the 2000s..but

the thing is i love reasonable doubt. i love ilmatic.

vol 1, 2 and 3 i just wasnt feeling. there were no songs on there like can i live, dead presidents, feelin it, etc.

 

[Techniec]

18 years old.

I been making my way through Jay-Z discography. I like Reasonable Doubt but vol 1, 2, and 3 are hella boring to me.

A lot of Wu Tang songs sound really boring to me.

They're just bars. There's no real melody. I'm sure if I printed out lyrics I'd appreciate it, but they don't sound fun to me. Fun songs to me are like Drake - 4PM in Calabasas, Kendrick Lamar - DNA, J.Cole - Neighbours, Vince Staples - Big Fish, etc.

I like some 90's songs like Ice Cream and Atliens, but I can't listen to a full album cause it gets boring. 4:44 >>>>>>> any Jay-Z album for me. Is it really that hard to enjoy stuff before your time?

Your first mistake is listening to Jay shyt

I don't blame you because you came up in an era where Jay is the God Rapper so you naturally assumed he is the first person u should turn to. And now you realize the media had you bamboozled



I understand how you feel young one about melody. Im 33 and came up on west coast hip hop which I gravitated to because it was so melodic

Get you some Bone, Pac, Snoop and some Biggie in your life

 

[JKO123]

Your first mistake is listening to Jay shyt

I don't blame you because you came up in an era where Jay is the God Rapper so you naturally assumed he is the first person u should turn to. And now you realize the media had you bamboozled



I understand how you feel young one about melody. Im 33 and came up on west coast hip hop which I gravitated to because it was so melodic

Get you some Bone, Pac, Snoop and some Biggie in your life

i might as well finish jays discography before i move onto others

ive listened to ready to die

 

[Yaddam Yussein]

Listen to Nas instead of Jay Z :Escobar:

 

[Techniec]

i might as well finish jays discography before i move onto others

ive listened to ready to die

That's smart, you're going catalogue to catalogue

When you are ready, get into some west coast Death Row shyt

Doggystyle
Dogg Food
Regulate G Funk Era
E1999 Eternal
All Eyez On Me

Understandably to a young man like yourself, 90s rap will be dated regardless. I felt like that about 80s rap coming up, but you'll be surprised how much of this stuff you'll come to love.

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

Im the same age as OP and I love me some Bone, Busta, Snoop, Em, Pac My favorite rapper of all time is TI so

 

[Guru]

DMX, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang, Biggie, Tupac and Jay Z are the only rappers I take serious coming out of the 90s, rest of them nikkas can

 

[Techniec]

DMX, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang, Biggie, Tupac and Jay Z are the only rappers I take serious coming out of the 90s, rest of them nikkas can

Don't discount Nas, Bone and Snoop though

 

[JKO123]

DMX, Mobb Deep, Wu Tang, Biggie, Tupac and Jay Z are the only rappers I take serious coming out of the 90s, rest of them nikkas can

Nas?

 

[Guru]

Don't discount Nas

Nas?

I fukk with nas a bit but can't really vibe to a lot his songs.

He still has the 2nd greatest flow of any rapper ever I've ever heard

 

[A Tribe Called Quest ™]

I don't even think the dude OP listing that nice ... Never thought that Cole, Drake n them was that nice ... I listen to more Wiz , Rocky , Keef, Carti

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

i might as well finish jays discography before i move onto others

ive listened to ready to die

Start with some gangster shyt.