variety / how broad is your hip hop taste?

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 08-25-2015, 03:46 PM

i make this thread to divert the discussion on who listens to the widest variety of hip hop out of william's battle thread, cause that was a good thread that i'd like to see surive and not be killed by our arguments.

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

He doesn't like clever wordplay or anything, I don't think he's liked a single rec I threw at him. Picky as fuck. He just wants to hear about shit he's never been through and can't relate with.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

**** are you talking about vowels?

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

How picky you are about hiphop. Meant to post this in the other thread where you and Frown were arguing or whatever. Whoops.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i don't think i'm picky... more like i'm not obsessed with the same internet based hip hop subcultures that you are

i like most hip hop from 90 or so onwards... in fact i dare say i like more hip hop than anyone else on this forum

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

I listen to everything from 80s to present. I rec you "White Lines" and you say, "eh, it's okay, I can appreciate it, but not something I'd really listen to on my own". I rec you La the Darkman, "it's boring, can you tell me the good songs?"... I get it if you don't like my underground whiteboy rap and prefer more traditional golden era stuff, but if you don't go beyond mainstream hippop there isn't much modern music that captures the essence of (imo) quality lyrics, diverse flows, and interesting beats from that time. I love the classics but I wanna hear new things too.

Also, there's no way you listen to a wider variety hiphop than I do.

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I listen to so much hip hop that half of it isn't even considered hip hop.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i didn't dislike la the darkman... i just said it was underwhelming

keep in mind this is an album that you told me was up there with cuban linx/liquid swords/etc

but yea you like more old school **** and more nerdcore rap than i do. i like 90's rap and some late 80's stuff but i'm not really into that ancient sounding b boy ****

but you can't appreciate a good majority of mainstream rap from 2000 onward, and you completely ignore/dismiss all trap oriented rap music

so yea i say i listen to at least as wide a variety as you... except the **** i like is better

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Originally Posted by Micco

I'm more Hip-Hop than anyone here! I run an Instagram page called @HipHopLand and I have my own logo! Only I listen to the real Hip-Hop and not that Hip-Pop! Lil' Wayne is wack and Tupac is for life!!

so here is the place to discuss these matters

i disagree with vowels and micco that there is nothing to appreciate in southern trap music...i think they are taking a sort of scientific/alien approach towards appreciating hip hop based one whatever rigorous linguistic standards they hold.. instead of appreciating the subtexts and the spirit of the actual music. if you say that the carter 2 sucks or jay-z sucks but you give props to biggie... you're just following the counter cultural trend to dismiss the "mainstream" and give props to the old school and underground hip hop. the type of people to use the term "real hip hop" cause they wear it on their sleeve like a badge. if you honestly think lil wayne isn't a good rapper i think you pretty much forfeit any right to comment on any hip hop post 2005 or so

so what do you guys think