Rap is Dead. Change my mind.

Check this shit out, some rather radical cal white rap my cousin just sent me wondering what I feel at this,

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0QNoU1kS4[/youtube]

And then this, a review of Drake, in general, and some album of his -
I agree with the dude on all accounts, Drake is where things started getting really bad for hiphop.

okayplayer.com/news/drake-n … ghost.html

:open_mouth:

I think that those two, are very niche.

i think you’re right that rap may actually be dead i think people are listening to more country music now. listen to this motherfucker right here. whether it’s possible for you to be a fan of the genre or not you gotta give this dude his props.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAThXFOy2c[/youtube]

this is a dude doing a cover of a song by a dude from alabama. the dude in this video got in trouble for saying the n word on camera, even though he was just drunk and calling his friend that. i don’t even think he had the “er” like it ended with an “a” which is totally different. but now people are like ok yeah he’s alright so it’s not that bad. new-ish music that sounds like old music. not bad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsfDpW7PYN8[/youtube]

Perpetual these songs sound like the Fresh Prince on prozac. Not impressed.

One of the few great rap songs from after 2000

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCf-URqIf0[/youtube]

Has everything rap should have. Rare. The video is awesome too.

Mhm. Me and my rocking chair agree.

pffft… you’re either too hard to please or too easy to please…those songs are pretty mint… as far as rap goes…

Admittedly better than the first but that’s not saying much… Still can’t get into it… At least you like 2pac and Immortal Technique … we have that in common…

I first of all dont enjoy those summertime barbecue vibes. I like my rap hard.

As far as rap being dead, lets take a moment:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tZ3-a7lCAU[/youtube]

THIS is rap,

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqHFWUXIqyE[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXW6cEM3FtQ[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjGd2s8ndo[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_cNbuH33B4[/youtube]

There is a tremendous amount of rap in my native language, most of it these days is the soulcrushing moron purse-snatcher trap faggot slime but there used to be some hard songs, like this one.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEH2BBJTDUw[/youtube]

This is excellent by the way. Never knew Coolio was a real artist.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wncO5AYgw8[/youtube]

Define “mind”.

:confused:
It’s like, a thing some of us have. We do stuff with it… that, well never you mind.

here’s 2 classics that are not as well known as they should be

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1VKbF3GvjI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1j8TWCI5-A[/youtube]

start this one at about 4:29 for a badass little known tupac verse where he references the time he sued the cops.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6PlP6NnPY[/youtube]

and this one at about :53 for what may be one of the most underrated verses from all eyez on me

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64cuGkOVYfg[/youtube]

here’s a real throwback from my youth

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYZf-lBF_U[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZSSdUgQ63w[/youtube]

Truly nicely produced. That bass. I found this album in Tel Aviv in 1998

Stuff I used to play on my first walkman.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg6ZL40_MTc[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzbl6n7Mqjo[/youtube]

you remember the judgement night soundtrack?

For sure, everyone started doing these crossovers then. I wasn’t that much into it, as really what I loved first and foremost about hiphop is the funky ass basslines.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdf_GIV9Svo[/youtube]

Snoop discussing the advent of mumblerap

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7kJfhjqEeM[/youtube]

“in the 90s no two niggas rapped the same. In the 2000s a hundred niggas rap the same”
Meaning, the art is deade, all thats left is copying.

Autoplay followed this up with a song from Eminem that piece of horrific absolute trash. He should never haver been allowed into the game, with his nasal whiney mother-disgracing trash. I mean I dont mean to insult trash. I just dont know how to call Eminems pale excrement.

I mean he got famous by degrading his own mother. Apparently thats what a white kid has to be ready to do to enter this form. To sell your soul tot he devil to get fame is one thing but this… absolute depravity… I admit listening to his shit when it came out. But in retrospect it always felt hollow, bleak. Though Lose Yourself is kind of an exception. Its the only song where he acts like a mammal and not some filthy toilet dwelling insect, and even tells his mom that he loves her.

Other than that he is a plague. What he has become, among the lowest human beings on the planet.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ4cZTQG5Cc[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6vhn4JBCns[/youtube]

And of course

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlZgiK6FiO0[/youtube]

Why don’t you like AOTP again? It’s hard, lyrically driven with good beats

Why you say I don’t like Army of Pharaos? I went to a concert even.

Yes they have very hard sound. Rare crew that has a hard sound with a spiritual message. Like Gravediggaz.