The Current Hip Hop Situation

JOEBF85 · 07-09-2009, 09:47 AM

I listen to pretty much anything you can throw at me, but the one thing i haven't been able to listen to for a few years now, is the newer Hip-hop. Personally, the direction that it has went puts a sour taste in my mouth. I know there are rock bands that have taken it back to the earlier days of rock, like The White Stripes and The Black Keys to name two. If new people did that in Hip-hop, i could definitely listen to it. I'm talking all the way from Kurtis Blow to N.W.A. eras. How many feel the same?

LoathsomePete · 07-09-2009, 10:16 AM

Hip Hop is more of a technology based genre of music, so as the technology improves, so will the way the music is created. I personally love the hip hop that has come out in the last decade, probably some of the most innovative and genre defying stuff to date. With the rise of the Independent scene, hip hop in whole is losing the gangsta personification that plagued it throughout the late '80's and '90's. Also if you look at people's profiles on sites like Last.fm, you'll notice that a lot more people who listen exclusively to rock or metal, are starting to open their minds and ears to hip hop. Could you give some examples of the newer stuff you've heard?

**Janszoon** · 07-09-2009, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JOEBF85

I listen to pretty much anything you can throw at me, but the one thing i haven't been able to listen to for a few years now, is the newer Hip-hop. Personally, the direction that it has went puts a sour taste in my mouth. I know there are rock bands that have taken it back to the earlier days of rock, like The White Stripes and The Black Keys to name two. If new people did that in Hip-hop, i could definitely listen to it. I'm talking all the way from Kurtis Blow to N.W.A. eras. How many feel the same?

There's so many different things going on with hip-hop that it's hard for me to give much of a response to this question. I mean, yeah, I think a lot of top 40 hip-hop is garbage but there's still tons and tons of great stuff out there.

grazeanatomy · 07-10-2009, 05:22 AM

try these if you're into older hip hop
blu
pacific division
the cool kids
U-N-I

boo boo · 07-10-2009, 06:24 AM

I'm partial to the older hip hop myself, but there's some great modern hip hop, particularly alternative/underground stuff like Madlib, El P, Mos Def, MF Doom and Danger Mouse.

Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and all that stuff is pretty horrible.

Kayne West is overrated, he had a good tune or two, but I hate how processed his vocals are and that seems to be the problem with most modern hip hop and pop music. Not to mention how much of a colossal douchebag he is.

jackhammer · 07-10-2009, 06:54 AM

Just listen to Atmosphere or Dalek and then tell me that it's all bad.

Syffuf25 · 07-10-2009, 01:19 PM

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Just listen to Atmosphere or Dalek and then tell me that it's all bad.

In general I just don't really care for hip hop, one of the main reasons though is the lack of lyrics with any real meaning to them. However, I picked up the a cd released by First Avenue, which is a music venue up here in Minnesota. The cd consisted of bootlegs record over the past 35 years at First Ave, and one of the tracks was "Woman with Tatooed Hands" by Atmosphere, and it's absolutely amazing.

Lain_Lain · 07-10-2009, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Syffuf25

In general I just don't really care for hip hop, one of the main reasons though is the lack of lyrics with any real meaning to them.

yea you'd think with all the world's problems they'd find somethin' good to rap about.

djchameleon · 07-12-2009, 04:17 AM

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yea you'd think with all the world's problems they'd find somethin' good to rap about.

meh not everyone is deep into the world's problems and knowledgeable about it

People that say they don't listen to rap because of the lyrics the same argument could be said for whatever music they are listening to. Each genre has artists that don't go into very deep lyrical content.\

Most rappers write songs about things that they know or that's around their immediate self. There are a few that like to be creative and do some story-telling but most mainly rap about where they live and how proud they are that they made it out of where they came from. So if you can't relate the how they used to live or how they are living now then you won't like a majority of their lyrical content.

For example , I really like Maino's Debut album because he basically goes through and gives you a story about his life over all of the tracks. He actually starts the album with the first track talking about the end and then on the next track he goes and starts from the beginning.

SATCHMO · 07-10-2009, 02:35 PM

Hip-hop is still in a state of finding itself. Like most genres it is very hit or miss. I can understand the desire to for hip hop to return to its roots, but hip-hop is very much evolving into something that will surpass anything we've heard from the genre so far. its best days are yet to come.

07-09-2009, 09:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
JOEBF85 Groupie Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3	The Current Hip Hop Situation I listen to pretty much anything you can throw at me, but the one thing i haven't been able to listen to for a few years now, is the newer Hip-hop. Personally, the direction that it has went puts a sour taste in my mouth. I know there are rock bands that have taken it back to the earlier days of rock, like The White Stripes and The Black Keys to name two. If new people did that in Hip-hop, i could definitely listen to it. I'm talking all the way from Kurtis Blow to N.W.A. eras. How many feel the same?

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LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Hip Hop is more of a technology based genre of music, so as the technology improves, so will the way the music is created. I personally love the hip hop that has come out in the last decade, probably some of the most innovative and genre defying stuff to date. With the rise of the Independent scene, hip hop in whole is losing the gangsta personification that plagued it throughout the late '80's and '90's. Also if you look at people's profiles on sites like Last.fm, you'll notice that a lot more people who listen exclusively to rock or metal, are starting to open their minds and ears to hip hop. Could you give some examples of the newer stuff you've heard? __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Just listen to Atmosphere or Dalek and then tell me that it's all bad. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

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grazeanatomy Groupie Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 8	try these if you're into older hip hop blu pacific division the cool kids U-N-I

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SATCHMO Al Dente Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,708	Hip-hop is still in a state of finding itself. Like most genres it is very hit or miss. I can understand the desire to for hip hop to return to its roots, but hip-hop is very much evolving into something that will surpass anything we've heard from the genre so far. its best days are yet to come.