suzuki

4y

also d*** addicted morons have been making timeless music for like 60 years at least !

Fella

4y

It’s not the best decade for rap by any means. Not to sound like an old head but half of these new artists people overhype are d*** addicted morons who don’t have an artistic bone in their body who get by simply by having interesting producers. I feel there’s been an over corrective response in the last decade to annoying “real rap” dorks who care only for technical ability. There’s so much disposable junk rap in the 2010’s.

Koala

4y

@drjdeponytail @Jerry_Seinfeld

Koala

4y

@drjdeponytail @Jerry_Seinfeld

Koala

4y

@drjdeponytail @Jerry_Seinfeld

Aruji

4y

There's also so much rap in the 2010s in general tbh. It exploded into the mainstream even further

Koala

4y

@drjdeponytail @Jerry_Seinfeld

Koala

4y

Idk bout d*** addicts but I do agree that the genre basically becoming pop was a factor in its uh quality. You got some highs and some very low lows..

Might be a lil biased but ill take Puff Daddy and Will Smith over Machinegun Kelly or Takashi 69

internet buddy

4y

You ever watch the show?

Koala

4y

nah but I heard it was actually p good

Ill tell ya what, Otis is Otis.. but you know who's right there and underrated imo.. My mon James Carr

Elric

4y

My close friends old Irish dad (who was also my sisters father in law) gave me his best of James Carr among a bunch of other cherished things before he lost his fight to cancer a few months before we lost our dad it's really good. Was just in time for my Best Songs thread to get to his classic era. Those Irish knew what was up with good soul music.

Koala

4y

a good mon with a good taste in music no doubt

internet buddy

4y

or, a new generation just knew how to listen to it more than the previous generation

More than anything, Barter 6 feels like a 50-minute performance of what rap, as a form, can do: rap that need not transcend itself, towards High Art on one hand or commercial art on the other, in order to succeed in 2015. Thug’s rapping itself, known for its unpredictability, is sharper than ever; his voice feels clarified, strengthened. Take "Halftime", the most thrilling technical display here, on which Thug seamlessly snaps into a dozen different flows: casually extending the second syllable of "re-cy-cles" so that it threatens to throw the song off track entirely, pausing a beat, unleashing a quick guffaw, snapping back on beat. It's an almost-reckless balance-beam routine. He pauses only for an ingenious vocoder breakdown that melts his cries of "Havin’ the time of my muhfuckin’ liiiiiife" into semiotic ooze, suddenly giving the blood-red backdrop of the cover art an almost Lynchian cast, like the velveteen Black Lodge interior.

something like this could only come from someone who grew up with at least a passing interest in rap in contrast to

Though he’s a sharp, detailed writer, a meticulous craftsman and an influential stylist — as well as lifestylist — Jay-Z is not extremely expressive or innovative, and The Blueprint threatens at times to slide into monotony. This is not just because of his unvarying flow, but because he never turns it off. He rarely pauses to let the beat breathe, and has a bad habit of talking back to every sample. So when the sped-up voice (RZA-style) of Bobby Byrd sings, “You don’t know what you’re doing,” Jay-Z responds, “Sure I do”; when David Ruffin sings, “Never change,” Jay-Z responds, “I never change”; when Bobby “Blue” Bland sings, “Ain’t no love in the heart of the city,” Hova asks, “Where’s the love?”

Elric

4y

man Geto Boys s/t is some crazy s*** Bushwick Bill sounds amazing with that hint of Jamaica in his voice and the way these guys stampede over the track is something else.

only got the album last year but Bill is deep in my DNA off his intro to Stranded on Death Row but i didnt know who it was for ages tbh which was a pretty crazy ft. for a Dr Dre album and kinda seems like the precursor to Kanye and his wild smattering of guests he has dropping gin and out of his albums were there any other high profile guests like that from all the way across the country? seems rare at the time

Fella

4y

It’s not the best decade for rap by any means. Not to sound like an old head but half of these new artists people overhype are d*** addicted morons who don’t have an artistic bone in their body who get by simply by having interesting producers. I feel there’s been an over corrective response in the last decade to annoying “real rap” dorks who care only for technical ability. There’s so much disposable junk rap in the 2010’s.

UIP

4y

LMFAO this post is out of touch man. like fr sounds like a 35-40 yr old white man take

Elric

4y

As that exact demographic even I was like

UIP

4y

honestly I just couldn’t believe how it got worse and worse as it went on, and how he actually called artists “drug addicted morons” as if half the artists we idolize weren’t all strung the f*** out in their primes i’m disappointed in that post tbh

and you’re not out of touch like the people I’m talking about lmfaooo you’re the exception