oh i'll get to them, don't worry. i guess i should do aesop first. i will do tech n9ne eventually but first someone give me an album od his that is supposed to make me like him. cause i've heard songs from him a while ago but he always struck me as a mediocre look-how fast-i-can-rap type gimmick rapper.
aesop: i was going to give him a second chance first like i said cause i actually liked that zero dark thirty song. i was actually surprised that he seems to have learned the importance that delivery and flow have when making rap music. but i have been too lazy to really delve past that. i've tried putting a few of his newer albums on a couple times and have just turned them off pretty quickly due to sheer boredom.
truth be told i actually do like labor days in a sort of def-poetry-slam kind of way but most of it is not really great rap music to me. there are a few songs on there towards the end of the cd that i actually like as rap music, but the majority of it is just awkward whiteboy rap with a few insightful quotables and a whole lot of incoherent rambling which hardly rhymes or fits into any sort tangible rhythm.
and that's most of the problem with a lot of that post-2000 underground nerd rap. it is like the drive to present an alternative to the mainstream club **** that ruled the day in the early to mid 2000's, these rappers sacrificed any musical appeal that rap music has in favor of poetic lyrics and obscure beats. sometimes it really does click and you get something brilliant like the cold vein but a lot of the time it falls flat on its face and you are left with something that is either too corny to really listen to without feeling embarrassed inside or something that is just god awful from a musical standpoint.
i think i used this analogy once before, but it sort of reminds me of coltrane in his later years when he was testing the limits of jazz and willing to step outside the traditional boundaries. what resulted was some of the best experimental jazz i've ever heard, followed by some of the worst music i've ever come into contact with from any genre.
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