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06-14-2013, 06:33 PM | #1 |
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Oh good lord, no. Rap is freaking amazing right now.
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06-14-2013, 06:38 PM | #2 |
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**** no it isn't. When you have guys like Kanye, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, Drake and guys like that as the main thing it just isn't. There are some great ones out there right now, but they have been at it for 10-15 years.
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06-14-2013, 06:42 PM | #3 | |
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Black Hippie is badass. OddFuture is great. Danny Brown is awesome. Those are relatively mainstream acts as well. If you get into underground stuff it gets even more interesting. Hiphop has become respected and respectable. The artists engaging in it are like 3rd generation, and they're smart as hell with their production. They're pushing the envelope. I'm old school. Met the Geto Boys. Saw MC Breed in concert. Saw ****ing Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. Loved all that shit. Got into the whole Tribe/Native Tongues movement as well. Was listening to Life is Too Short in 8th grade. I think rap is as good as it's ever been right now.
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Definitely a refreshing sound. |
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06-25-2013, 12:21 PM | #10 |
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Yeah. That being said, Mac's latest album shows some growth. Still not crazy about him, but he's improving.
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Never really listened to Mac Miller before this album he just put out, but it's not that bad.
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1) Drugs: It's in a psychedelic era due to the type of drugs in the scene right now. The culture is dominated by molly (x), lean, and weed. All of those give varying degrees of mind alteration, but they've contributed to some seriously trippy and experimental music being made. 2) Crossover: for better or worse, hipsters are into hip hop. This has had a validating effect on the artistic value of the music (it's not just pop anymore). This has led to a lot of crossover of genres with things like Justin Vernon showing up on Kanye albums. It's also led to a lot of interesting production work and choices (also heightened by #1 above). 3) Maturity: we're in like the 3rd generation of the culture now. As such, we get non typical people like Kanye West, Danny Brown, Kitty Pryde (who I can't stand), Odd Future, ASAP Rocky, who have a broader world view than the ghetto-centric vision of much of hip hop in the past.
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All you gotta do is switch the Lil Wayne, 2Chainz, etc for shitty big name artists in whatever genre you want to talk about.
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06-14-2013, 08:16 PM | #14 |
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Uhh, two of these are not like the other two. Drake has one of the tightest flows of any rapper out there, mainstream or otherwise, and Kanye' s career could be considered a mega-success off his first 3 albums alone.
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