Wow, I feel old reading some of the posts here. I’m sure I listened to some crap when I was younger, but I can’t imagine anything as weak as Soulja Boy. Crank Dat is like the ghetto Macarena, complete with its own dance moves.
[quote]meangenes wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
meangenes wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
eminem is overrated as hell too. you seem like a backpacker with that list, im suprised you didnt have Cage up there too haha.
jaheim aint shit compared to Ne-Yo get outta here man
Better yet, John Legend blows both of them out of the water. Quit Ne-yo dick ridin’. You like him for the same reason my little sister does. You think he’s cute.
Backpacker… And? You say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s 2008, backpacker isn’t even a relative term anymore. We carry valuable art portfolios and USB thumbdrives now.
i like ne-yo cause he makes real life songs. you like jaheim cause you wanna get thugged down. exactly, its 2088 what are you doing listening to gay ass backpack rap.
I don’t really know why you have fast forwarded 80 years but anyway.
I have evolved with the artists that I listened to in my backpacking days. Those artists that were underground then are now mainstream and commercially successful. It has something to do with progression. Thing is, these artists have kept it real the entire time and allowed for the general public to realize that they are the shit instead of selling out from the get go and coming with that dumb down, Uncle Tom, jig n’ jive, blackface shit.
I could name more than a few artists that do follow that route and it’s digressive to hip hop culture and everything that hip hop represents (ehem, a positive influence in black culture). This is common sense. If a “hip hop” artist doesn’t want to be affiliated with this concept then I would kindly ask them to rename their shit something other then rap or hip hop.
Every hip hop artist isn’t a drug dealer, pimp, murderer or ex-con. Especially not the ones that glorify it.
This is just reiterated straight from that book I keep in my “backpack” as a reminder.
And for your anti-backpack argument. Commerce is not everything, art is about production not commercial value. As for hip hop as a business; conscious hip hop is selling, selling well, always will-- it’s “cool”.
Thanks for your time. [/quote]
i dont listen to gangsta rap babe. i listen to music that i enjoy, i dont listen to it to support some culture that died in 1992.i hate rappers that want to try and sound overly intellectual like christ if i wanted that id buy a histroy book on tape. especially people like the RZA or Gza…whichever one wow that guy is terrible. just because someone makes a nice catchy song or something people call them a sellout. who cares? let them do them. people from this “grand era” of rap where just making party music too, real hip hop music was just party music. and now somehow everyone thinks in order to be hiphop you have to boring as fuck and collect Rakim vinyls. fuck that. if THATS what hip hop has become then fuck hip hop. stop trying so damn hard.
[quote]ty45 wrote:
yes to whoever said swollen members, reppin van city.
big pun
bone thugs n harmony
UGK
Too short
south park mexican
and Young buck are some good ones that havent been mentioned yet.
And im serious about ya boy and JR writer, check em out.
fuck soulja boy.[/quote]
swollen members are amazing.
i forgot too short somehow, that’s from my town! there goes my hood pass…
Brotha Lynch Hung
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
meangenes wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
meangenes wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
eminem is overrated as hell too. you seem like a backpacker with that list, im suprised you didnt have Cage up there too haha.
jaheim aint shit compared to Ne-Yo get outta here man
Better yet, John Legend blows both of them out of the water. Quit Ne-yo dick ridin’. You like him for the same reason my little sister does. You think he’s cute.
Backpacker… And? You say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s 2008, backpacker isn’t even a relative term anymore. We carry valuable art portfolios and USB thumbdrives now.
i like ne-yo cause he makes real life songs. you like jaheim cause you wanna get thugged down. exactly, its 2088 what are you doing listening to gay ass backpack rap.
I don’t really know why you have fast forwarded 80 years but anyway.
I have evolved with the artists that I listened to in my backpacking days. Those artists that were underground then are now mainstream and commercially successful. It has something to do with progression. Thing is, these artists have kept it real the entire time and allowed for the general public to realize that they are the shit instead of selling out from the get go and coming with that dumb down, Uncle Tom, jig n’ jive, blackface shit.
I could name more than a few artists that do follow that route and it’s digressive to hip hop culture and everything that hip hop represents (ehem, a positive influence in black culture). This is common sense. If a “hip hop” artist doesn’t want to be affiliated with this concept then I would kindly ask them to rename their shit something other then rap or hip hop.
Every hip hop artist isn’t a drug dealer, pimp, murderer or ex-con. Especially not the ones that glorify it.
This is just reiterated straight from that book I keep in my “backpack” as a reminder.
And for your anti-backpack argument. Commerce is not everything, art is about production not commercial value. As for hip hop as a business; conscious hip hop is selling, selling well, always will-- it’s “cool”.
Thanks for your time.
i dont listen to gangsta rap babe. i listen to music that i enjoy, i dont listen to it to support some culture that died in 1992.i hate rappers that want to try and sound overly intellectual like christ if i wanted that id buy a histroy book on tape. especially people like the RZA or Gza…whichever one wow that guy is terrible. just because someone makes a nice catchy song or something people call them a sellout. who cares? let them do them. people from this “grand era” of rap where just making party music too, real hip hop music was just party music. and now somehow everyone thinks in order to be hiphop you have to boring as fuck and collect Rakim vinyls. fuck that. if THATS what hip hop has become then fuck hip hop. stop trying so damn hard.[/quote]
First off what’s this babe shit about? Are you a chick, jw? Second, hip hop is most definitely not dead, if you actually listened to hip hop you would know that. Third, forgive an artist if he sounds like he might have an education. Oops I forgot, you’re not supposed to be able to get an education on the plantation.
I’m going to apologize in advance because I’m coming off sounding like a racist. I mean to; it’s a combative measure for the notion that hip hop artists are just entertainers. They are political activists, writers, entrepreneurs, social commentators, actors, and so on and so forth. Sound pretty intellectual to me.
For instance Mos Def and Talib Kweli aka Black Star–Catchy, rhythmic (rhythm is key), intellectual, fun, deep, socially conscious, real, and marketable.
Glad you could make it to school today.
im a dude, babe. the type of hip hop youre listening to, yes, it most certainly is dead. no one cares about mos def. you sound like youre one of those afro-eccentrics going on about how “the man is tryna keep the brotha down” shut the fuck up. you can stay listening to Tribe Called Quest tapes from 8 years ago, complaining about how modern music is tainted and blah blah blah, being all negative and pouty while everyone else is having fun and enjoying themselves.
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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
A-Dizz wrote:
I’m 20, I just respect good music. To be honest, Weezy fuckin blows. I hate Lil’ Wayne, his voice and his flow are so annoying. He uses great metaphors and similies but I don’t understand how anyone can stand him outside of his verse in the I’m So Hood Remix.
-dizzle
I completely disagree, and so does the general public.
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Yeah but the general public also loved creed and nsync.
-dizzle
[quote]mazevedo wrote:
Brotha Lynch Hung[/quote]
i was just about to post that. hell yeah
40 ounces and chronic dice
stay high
i stay high mothafucka
[quote]A-Dizz wrote:
Yeah but the general public also loved creed and nsync.
-dizzle[/quote]
but they always sucked, wayne never did
[quote]ericbyrnesjr wrote:
swollen members are amazing.[/quote]
hahahahahahaha
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LiveFromThe781,
Aren’t you the same person who was in another thread about techno getting all mad because someone was making fun of techno. And now you’re here doing the same thing.
You are a hypocrite.
meh, i dont like backpack. and were mostly arguing the current state of hip-hop and how backpackers think somehow every song that isnt filled with overly preachy lyrics is whack.
to put it simply, YAH TRICK YAAAH
dmx.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
meh, i dont like backpack. and were mostly arguing the current state of hip-hop and how backpackers think somehow every song that isnt filled with overly preachy lyrics is whack. [/quote]
But there should be some lyrics, shouldn’t there? It seems that pride in lyricism and working with words has been lost. Laffy Taffy? Chicken Noodle Soup? Crank Dat?
I agree these songs can be catchy and mindless entertainment, but they’re damn near just nursery rhymes. Don’t make them out to be anything more than that.
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to put it simply, YAH TRICK YAAAH[/quote]
You got to be under 17 if you like that shit.
I don’t listen to very much rap, but here are some of my favorites:
Digital Underground-The Humpty Dance
NWA-Express Yourself
Public Enemy and Anthrax-Bring the Noise
Wu Tang Clan-Protect Ya Neck
Beastie Boys-Hey Ladies
Run DMC-Tricky
De La Soul-Me, Myself, and I
Dr. Dre-Ain’t Nuthin’ But a G Thang
Swollen Members-Too Hot
Warren G and Nate Dogg-Regulate
Between the Sheets by the Fat Boys
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
i hate rappers that want to try and sound overly intellectual like christ if i wanted that id buy a histroy book on tape. especially people like the RZA or Gza…whichever one wow that guy is terrible. [/quote]
did you just insult the wu tang clan? and claim to be a hip hop fan?
dude just remember mc hammer was popular once.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
im a dude, babe. the type of hip hop youre listening to, yes, it most certainly is dead. no one cares about mos def. you sound like youre one of those afro-eccentrics going on about how “the man is tryna keep the brotha down” shut the fuck up. you can stay listening to Tribe Called Quest tapes from 8 years ago, complaining about how modern music is tainted and blah blah blah, being all negative and pouty while everyone else is having fun and enjoying themselves.
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You’re from Massachusetts. What the fuck do you know about hip hop?
On another note. I am a strong believer in that people with some decent understanding as well as a strong moral base have more fun. Concepts such as responsibility and knowing what to do with the power that you have often lead to more responsibility and more fun. In other words… Step your fucking game up.
Saigon is the man. “C’mon Baby” is the best damn hip hop song I’ve heard in a long time.
Other than that, Jay, Kanye, Cassidy, Tupac… and anything that Swizz Beats touches is fuckin gold…
im sorry but kanye just doesn’t cut it for me. Who the fuck raps about louis vuitton.