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Originally Posted by Frownland
The music is important, I get that. I think hip hop is the only genre where I'm more forgiving of an album's music if it has strong lyricism, and even then it took me a while to get there. That said I think that Woods generally chooses good producers (though Dour Candy was pretty lackluster on that end).
I gravitate towards artists have both strong traits, but lyrics aren't exactly a requirement. Shabazz, dalek, Woods, and Death Grips come to mind for that.
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I think it's kind of weird for me personally as I have such strong traits that apply to pop music fans or juggalos while also being so different in many other ways. I would never play
None So Vile or
Wolf Sea Leviathan or
Larks Tongues in Aspic for a bunch of ICP fam but I feel those albums very much. And as much as I have fun repping trashy **** to you all, in person I'd never try to get you all to understand Nazi punk or Brooke Candy or
The Great Milenko. It feels natural to view musical taste on a spectrum of being more complex vs. less complex but my specific tastes seem to be idiosyncratic enough that this dichotomy is even more useless than it is even for many of the weirdos on here.
It feels like existentialism as music if that makes sense and I'm as interested in existentialism as I am with trying to figure out just why I do or don't like this or that music, even on just an intellectual level. It's fun but with an odd feeling of stress just as with existentialism. I simply don't know where I'm at and that is as exciting as it is confusing.