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***Official Rap/Hip Hop Discussion Thread*** (2 Viewers)

John Bender said:
Queued it up for tonight - thanks for the reco. I'm way into that sound. Goldlink - Crew was my favorite song from last year and is very similar to OTW. This is my wheelhouse. I'll take whatever you have. 
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Khalid's Free Spirit album is really good.  Chill, clean album that can be played without skipping tracks.

 
shadyridr said:
So I grew up listening to rap. Over the last 10 years I stopped listening to it because its hard to listen in front of my son and it started sucking. Anyway, I recently signed up for Spotify and started listening to some of the classic stuff I grew up on and some of the new stuff. One group I absolutely loved was Army of the Pharoahs. Excited to see they came out with 2 new albums in 2014 which I'm listening to now. Great stuff. The perfect combination of hard hitting beats and clever word play. Celph Titled is so awesome.
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FWIW, New album from Vinnie Paz featuring our very own @TheIronSheik

 
Not sure if this goes in this thread, but I was spinning DJ Shadow's Endtroducing the other night. Realized how groundbreaking it was for '96. I missed it for many years until @Ilov80s drafted Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt in the Genrepalooza draft we did. It's just a really quality album, and worth a listen or five.  

The Number Song

 
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I still remember hearing Organ Donor for the first time in my friends teal Ford Probe with some ridiculous over the top system. I went out to get the DJ Shadow CD the next day...after my ears stopped ringing.

 
Ilov80s said:
That was HS in the late 90s for sure. For every friend with a nice Jeep Cherokee or Mustang and a system, there were 2 with a hilarious hand me down and a system worth as much as the car.
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Oh God, I had one of those in my very early thirties. A used Honda Accord with a ridiculous head unit, Alpine amp, and MB Quart speakers. Thing still sounded like garbage. Rattled and hummed. The thirty-five buck a pop Pioneer speakers that came with it were better than the component MB Quarts that I specifically purchased, as the maker of MB Quart had farmed out the rights to their name to a different company the year prior to the model I purchased. They sounded awful and must have needed an amp for each speaker.  

Argh.  

 
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rockaction said:
Oh God, I had one of those in my very early thirties. A used Honda Accord with a ridiculous head unit, Alpine amp, and MB Quart speakers. Thing still sounded like garbage. Rattled and hummed. The thirty-five buck a pop Pioneer speakers that came with it were better than the component MB Quarts that I specifically purchased, as the maker of MB Quart had farmed out the rights to their name to a different company the year prior to the model I purchased. They sounded awful and must have needed an amp for each speaker.  

Argh.  
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I’ve always leaned towards paying more for the built in premium audio system from the manufacturer over trying to install my own ####.

 
rockaction said:
Oh God, I had one of those in my very early thirties. A used Honda Accord with a ridiculous head unit, Alpine amp, and MB Quart speakers. Thing still sounded like garbage. Rattled and hummed. The thirty-five buck a pop Pioneer speakers that came with it were better than the component MB Quarts that I specifically purchased, as the maker of MB Quart had farmed out the rights to their name to a different company the year prior to the model I purchased. They sounded awful and must have needed an amp for each speaker.  

Argh.  
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I had 6x9 speakers built into my Ford Escort hatchback.

 
My youngest brother (third born of three brothers) has been working on this album (his first) for a couple of years and just released it on Amazon last week. He’s been friends with guys from the Bakersfield hip hop community for years and they helped him out on this project. The production is outstanding. They have 90’s-era Golden Age of Hip Hop tastes and it shows on this album. It’s basically a love letter to his twin daughters Emma and Abigail who were born prematurely about 4 years ago and both passed away. The album examines life, death, responsibility, disillusionment, conspiracy, faith, and where we’re headed in the digital age.

N.O.T.E. - 3rd Born

I’m kind of a hip hop purist/snob. Don’t like much of the new stuff these days. Because it hits so close to home, to me my brother’s album feels like one of the realest hip hop albums I’ve ever heard. I also think it’s really damn good.

All proceeds go to Graham’s Foundation, a non-profit organization serving families of pre-mature babies. Hope you check it out.

 
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dickey moe said:
My youngest brother (third born of three brothers) has been working on this album (his first) for a couple of years and just released it on Amazon last week. He’s been friends with guys from the Bakersfield hip hop community for years and they helped him out on this project. The production is outstanding. They have 90’s-era Golden Age of Hip Hop tastes and it shows on this album. It’s basically a love letter to his twin daughters Emma and Abigail who were born prematurely about 4 years ago and both passed away. The album examines life, death, responsibility, disillusionment, conspiracy, faith, and where we’re headed in the digital age.

N.O.T.E. - 3rd Born

I’m kind of a hip hop purist/snob. Don’t like much of the new stuff these days. Because it hits so close to home, to me my brother’s album feels like one of the realest hip hop albums I’ve ever heard. I also think it’s really damn good.

All proceeds go to Graham’s Foundation, a non-profit organization serving families of pre-mature babies. Hope you check it out.
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Sounds dope I’ll check it out.  

 
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I do this occasionally.

Just some newer stuff that you old men don't keep up with that is worth a listen. Mainstream stuff only, since you guys keep me up to date on the lower key stuff.

I usually do this for an 8 month lookback. Enjoy or don't. ❤️ 

Ice Cube / Too Short - Ain't Got No Haters (So Many People missed this song for some reason. It's a 90's west coast template complete with the Isley Brothers sample)

21 Savage - Power (everyone already knows "A Lot" but this was great)

Post Malone - Goodbyes (I'm telling you know, only the Post Malone verse is good, then Young Thug comes in and completely ruins the song)

Gucci Mane, Kodak Black, Bruno Mars - Wake Up In The Sky (best rap song of 2018 I think)

Meek Mill and Drake - Going Bad

 
It's funny. I never looked at it as an "old man/young man" thing even when I was young. What I looked at it as was different tastes, different exposures, different experiences. I think I'll stick with the latter -- I knew back then the old men might be right about certain newer things, and they were right quite often.

Critical gatekeepers of the aged variety serve an important function. Sometimes the new stuff just sucks ### for reasons relating to the market, devolution in tastes, seismic forces (like self-production and fragmentation of talent), etc. 

And I like the new stuff at times, but it's hardly an age thing. Sometimes there's a quality check not there, let's say...

 
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New albums y’all need to check:

new little brother

new rapsody

new ybn cordae 

new big krit 

new freddie Gibbs and madlib 

also new common coming soon

 
rockaction said:
It's funny. I never looked at it as an "old man/young man" thing even when I was young. What I looked at it as was different tastes, different exposures, different experiences. I think I'll stick with the latter -- I knew back then the old men might be right about certain newer things, and they were right quite often.

Critical gatekeepers of the aged variety serve an important function. Sometimes the new stuff just sucks ### for reasons relating to the market, devolution in tastes, seismic forces (like self-production and fragmentation of talent), etc. 

And I like the new stuff at times, but it's hardly an age thing. Sometimes there's a quality check not there, let's say...
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I def don't mean to disparage the crowd here. We lean more Underground/Old School which is all good and tend to hate the mainstream stuff, but I keep up with the mainstream stuff always and just want to share it with the people here. There are good songs in there but they are hard to find and since I spend my days listening to nothing but Hip Hop (new and old) and I just want to put the #### out there for people who it may have passed over. It's only love for the thread. 

Even I missed that Ice Cube song the first time through and then was floored when I heard it. 

 
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John Bender said:
I def don't mean to disparage the crowd here. We lean more Underground/Old School which is all good and tend to hate the mainstream stuff, but I keep up with the mainstream stuff always and just want to share it with the people here. There are good songs in there but they are hard to find and since I spend my days listening to nothing but Hip Hop (new and old) and I just want to put the #### out there for people who it may have passed over. It's only love for the thread. 

Even I missed that Ice Cube song the first time through and then was floored when I heard it. 
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You know what? I shouldn't have started with disagreement. I should have started with general appreciation that you were posting new stuff. I think my original intention was actually subsumed by what I personally chose to concentrate on. I took one part of what you said, and instead of noting my affirmation for the rest of it, ran with a quibble, which was not my intent in conveying my thoughts at all.

I dig what you post in this thread. I actually force myself to give it at least a whirl when you do this. I find I like some stuff. I loved 21 Savage's "A lot" so much last year I picked it for a 2018 song in a music draft. 

 
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rockaction said:
You know what? I shouldn't have started with disagreement. I should have started with general appreciation that you were posting new stuff. I think my original intention was actually subsumed by what I personally chose to concentrate on. I took one part of what you said, and instead of noting my affirmation for the rest of it, ran with a quibble, which was not my intent at all.

I dig what you post in this thread. I actually force myself to give it at least a whirl when you do this.
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No problem. For example 21 Savage is generally HORRIBLE. But he put out an album with 2 or 3 amazing songs. Most people will hear him on a song and think "#### this guy sucks" but not get into track 9 or 10 on the album which are just the giganuts. 

Also, you didn't come off as disagreeable. I enjoy sharing music with hip hop fans who think all the new stuff sucks. It doesn't. A lot of it does, but a lot doesn't.

 
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