Do y’all actually like Hip Hop?

[CrimsonTider]

of course you come with the excuses. no one said they had to love it or think it's the best, but to actively disrespect and revel in not knowing artists and music that literally put the genre in the forefront where it is now shows their lack of love for the music. i don't listen to no grandmaster flash, run dmc, krs one, but i respect and acknowledge what they meant to the genre. FOH with excusing these lil nikkas being willfully ignorant of hip hop history...history in general, gen z (and some of the youngest millennials) really has a problem with that.

I really have no idea what rappers you’re referencing but it’s unfair to expect kids born in 2001 to pay homage to Nas

 

[Deltron]

makes me wonder on how some of the posters who call old heads flabby gonna be when they flabby.

if they still gonna be tryna relive their glory days with young shyt stain or lil tiny smalls, or if they were on the same shyt as the "artists" they liked, and didn't really fukk with hip-hop like that, and think this shyt was a fad

or if they gonna shyt on the even shyttier next gen.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I really have no idea what rappers you’re referencing but it’s unfair to expect kids born in 2001 to pay homage to Nas

1. It’s not unfair, I didn’t grow up in Chaka Aretha or Marvin Gaye’s era, but I know their songs and can respect their contributions to r&b/soul. You don’t have to be from a generation to at least know the icons, a few of their hits, and respect what they did.

2. no one is asking them to pay homage or even act like that’s the music they love, I’ve seen interviews posted on here where they were actually dissing older rappers and happily not giving a fukk they don’t know the music - I believe Kodak was one. It’s ok to say you’re not familiar with the music and keep it moving respectfully

3. Back to the point of my original post - I love hip hop, I’m still going back to listen to classics that were before my time just for knowledge’s sake - shyt, last spring I discovered Digable planets’ blowout comb and that became a favorite album of mine. You can’t try to finger wag older listeners as not loving the music when the actual participants in the music show they don’t love the art. And just like I give old stuff a try, I’ve given these young dudes a try - the ones charting are garbage to me. But I love the music enough to at least expose myself to create an informed opinion. Many of them don’t and revel in the fact they don’t care to try

 

[Charlie Sollers]

"I love hip hop, I just hate the nikkas in it"

 

[phcitywarrior]

woat playlist

Absolute

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

1. It’s not unfair, I didn’t grow up in Chaka Aretha or Marvin Gaye’s era, but I know their songs and can respect their contributions to r&b/soul. You don’t have to be from a generation to at least know the icons, a few of their hits, and respect what they did.

2. no one is asking them to pay homage or even act like that’s the music they love, I’ve seen interviews posted on here where they were actually dissing older rappers and happily not giving a fukk they don’t know the music - I believe Kodak was one. It’s ok to say you’re not familiar with the music and keep it moving respectfully

3. Back to the point of my original post - I love hip hop, I’m still going back to listen to classics that were before my time just for knowledge’s sake - shyt, last spring I discovered Digable planets’ blowout comb and that became a favorite album of mine. You can’t try to finger wag older listeners as not loving the music when the actual participants in the music show they don’t love the art. And just like I give old stuff a try, I’ve given these young dudes a try - the ones charting are garbage to me. But I love the music enough to at least expose myself to create an informed opinion. Many of them don’t and revel in the fact they don’t care to try

You wasting your time, he a troll

An enjoyable one sometimes but a troll nonetheless

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

A lot of us love and breathe hip hop but don’t like the mainstream right now.

 

[badboys11]

Today's rap music is built like the average woman, good for a one hit quit. They make singles, not albums you can get lost in and listen to over and over again.

 

[boskey]

If you loved hiphop you’d do the work yourself to find out these answers

lol fukk outta here. I listen to hip hop every single day, but the other side of streaming is I don’t have to pay attention to any new rappers to hear new music. There’s tons of older music that I haven’t heard yet and most of it is better than the new shyt. Even the new artists that I like are mostly older than I am

If you cant recommend anything then just say so

 

[KamikazePilot]

Modern rap has basically transformed into pop music now It's why so many more women and kids nowadays love the new shyt.

But Hip Hop is Pop Music it’s the most popular in the world the biggest pop song of the year got a dababy feature and sky rocketed it.

Hip-Hop is global it’s pop music.

 

[DapMeUp!]

But Hip Hop is Pop Music it’s the most popular in the world the biggest pop song of the year got a dababy feature and sky rocketed it.

Hip-Hop is global it’s pop music.

You know what I mean by pop music don't do semantics.

I'm saying Ariana Grande The latest rap radio song.

From melodies to the beats they use are literally the same now.

 

[KamikazePilot]

You know what I mean by pop music don't do semantics.

I'm saying Ariana Grande The latest rap radio song.

From melodies to the beats they use are literally the same now.

Well yeah like I said hip hop is pop and pop is hip hop.

 

[DapMeUp!]

Well yeah like I said hip hop is pop and pop is hip hop.

Yeah...

The point I was making is rap has been popular culture for at least two decades now.

It wasn't actual pop music in the sense it is now until the melody driven rap became prominent.

50 Cent- In The Club couldn't be confused with anything other than Hip-Hop despite how huge and popular it was.

We now have Post Malone who is a huge Popstar who I have never actually heard rap, being called a rapper.
This singing shyt really blurred the lines.

 

[KamikazePilot]

Yeah...

The point I was making is rap has been popular culture for at least two decades now.

It wasn't actual pop music in the sense it is now until the melody driven rap became prominent.

50 Cent- In The Club couldn't be confused with anything other than Hip-Hop despite how huge and popular it was.

We now have Post Malone who is a huge Popstar who I have never actually heard rap, being called a rapper.
This singing shyt really blurred the lines.

Post Malone is not a rapper maybe in the beginning but no one calls him a rapper anymore.

I think when you’re a black artist you kinda are seen as hip hop as default. So many R&B and pop singers are just called rappers cause they’re black.

Also A lot of these guys grow up liking rock music and would have been rock stars but rock is a dead genre. So they took rock elements and bought them to hip hop.

 

[Mastamimd]

Post Malone is not a rapper maybe in the beginning but no one calls him a rapper anymore.

I think when you’re a black artist you kinda are seen as hip hop as default. So many R&B and pop singers are just called rappers cause they’re black.

Also A lot of these guys grow up liking rock music and would have been rock stars but rock is a dead genre. So they took rock elements and bought them to hip hop.

I'm almost positive that Post Malone won a rap or hip hop award recently