Caution. Kids at Play: Have We Outgrown Hip-Hop? (Commentary)

[Brown_Pride]

They have no more soul & R&B is in the same predictamet.

Amen.

My wife showed me one of Chris B's videos and i was like

I really do not see how a kid, teen can relate to half the shyt out there today. ESPECIALLY new hip hop/top 40 hip hop.

Other than decent production...so of the beats are nice

 

[Brown_Pride]

i feel that hip hop has always been immature junk food type of music, like pop or rock. the difference is that as people age they take everything way too seriously and music at its core is not supposed to be about being serious

traditionally music has been uber serious. It's just not now, hence the "don't really care" attitude towards the erosion of a human art form that has existed since the fukin cave man. It's not really even about hip hop either, most music in general is like this now, Hip hop catches the brunt of it still because it's still seen as the cool things for white kids to do to show off how "ghetto" they are.



it is what it is.

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

traditionally music has been uber serious. It's just not now, hence the "don't really care" attitude towards the erosion of a human art form that has existed since the fukin cave man. It's not really even about hip hop either, most music in general is like this now, Hip hop catches the brunt of it still because it's still seen as the cool things for white kids to do to show off how "ghetto" they are.



it is what it is.

Music was only serious to small segment of society. Jazz was popular when it was strictly dance music, and the most creative artists weren't the most popular.

When Jazz got really serious, with bebop and later movements, it ceased being commercially viable in the mainstream.

Classical music was the music for the upper classes in Europe. The lower classes listened to and played folk music. For those people music was just for fun-- for singing and dancing.

 

[Brown_Pride]

Music was only serious to small segment of society. Jazz was popular when it was strictly dance music, and the most creative artists weren't the most popular.

When Jazz got really serious, with bebop and later movements, it ceased being commercially viable in the mainstream.

Classical music was the music for the upper classes in Europe. The lower classes listened to and played folk music. For those people music was just for fun-- for singing and dancing.

looks like not much has changed then huh. Social elite take it and value it a little more. Fish mongers till they can't no more.

 

[Serious]

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[Serious]

i'm a little more eclectic than just hip hop but typically it's older stuff, mostly conscientious things.

Mos Def, Talib, (blackstar), Crown City Rockers, Little Brother, some Nas, some JZ, the Lox (we are the streets has a place in my heart), Dilated Peoples, Del The Funky Homosapien, Souls of Mischief, Fugees, Gangstar, Big Pun, Pac, Biggy, Jay Electronica, J5, Wu Tang Clan, Aesop Rock, Grimm, Non Prophets, J-Live, Madvillian (MF Doom & Madlib), Afura, Big L, Company Flow(most of El-P's groups/stuff), DMX (just his first 2 albums), Eminem (some of his stuff), Jedi Mind Tricks, Dan the Automator in his various ventures (deltron, Dr. Oc, etc), Heiro, THe ROots (forgot to add them )
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You know, the essentials
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this actually a dope list.

Right now I just f*ck with GOAT, rip, Nujabes.

His music never gets old. I find it to be therapeutic and enlightening. This is what rap is missing a positive enlighten, message, with a dope beat.....


93 million miles(1Au), 3 rocks a way

 

[Roaden Polynice]

And yet you want me to take you, presumably a young man, serious with Willow Smith and Whip My Hair?

If asked what i'm listening to I'll say who i'm listening to...no shame.

You clearly feel the same way.

LOL@ the record store...

I guess if I was talking to you anythign less than "The New Carly Ray Jensen" and i'm not valid though eh?

It's Carly Rae Jepsen gramps

How are you a no0b and a gramps

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Man your parties must be crackin' dawg.

"You guys hear this new Pigeon John?? Such good party music guys" - Mr. Somebody at his New Year's party.

Yea, we actually have a pretty good time. I dont need to simulate sex behind a demonically possessed women to feel like im having a party, friend.

 

[newarkhiphop]

People take hiphop too serious I like all aspects of hiphop from the ones who kick knowledge to the ignorance , do i follow it as much as when i was a teen? Na , but i still and will always listen to it

 

[Mr. Somebody]

People take hiphop too serious I like all aspects of hiphop from the ones who kick knowledge to the ignorance , do i follow it as much as when i was a teen? Na , but i still and will always listen to it

Artists take their work seriously. Are you good at any arts?

 

[Malta]

I find myself listening to less and less, basically only check for certain artists and avoid the radio like the plague.

 

[Brown_Pride]

It's Carly Rae Jepsen gramps

How are you a no0b and a gramps

Cause fuk you that's how you grass-eater.

Imagine my embarrassment when i couldn't tell you the name of some 15 year old.

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

looks like not much has changed then huh. Social elite take it and value it a little more. Fish mongers till they can't no more.

I think you need to realize that it's the music elitists who are the negative people, Not the people who enjoy music for song and dance.

 

[feelosofer]

I am a hip-hopper always will be, but I came up on a lot of different types of music as a kid.
I run through classic soul and r and b. Rock, especially punk and alternative. House music, electric, bebop and jazz, funk. But I think there is plenty to like about today's artists, I think while lyricism is no where near where it was in the Golden or Silver era, it's better than where it was 6 or 7 years ago, when cats were kicking extra basic nursery rhymes. But I don't think hip-hop is something you grow out of, per se, hip-hop is a culture, but I can understand if you don't care for modern rap music.

 

[Box Cutta]

I pretty much gave up on it a couple of years ago. Used to be "mostly rap". Then it was "a little bit of everything except country". Now it's "mostly alternative, electronica, and soundtracks"....

Edit : Let me just add that it's just as much about the actual *sound* as it is the *associated culture* and *content*. All the c00ning, delusions of grandeur, cocky attitudes, etc aside....the music just rarely sounds "sexy" to me anymore. I honestly just have a hard time finding rap music that really turns me on these days.