Do y’all actually like Hip Hop?

Do you like hip hop


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Majestyx

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I LOVE Hip-Hop.
I'm not some Boom bap purist who doesn't like anyone who doesn't make some perceived "Golden Age" type of
Hip-Hop but I also don't want to hear blatant, mediocre bullshyt.

Too many people take legitimate criticism and cast it aside as "Oh you're just some elitist or gate keeper" when
myself or others criticize people who can't be bothered to learn the basic rudiments of being a rapper.
Some of the shyt people tell me is "Dope" with a straight face is legitimately trash.
Like, I genuinely gave Blueface a shot, bro is horrible, I have no idea how someone can listen to say Bone Thugs
or Dom Kenedy then listen to Blueface and can say with a straight face that THAT is what's dope. :pachaha:
 

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the problem is u kids change hype up a new rapper every week. then a week later ya'll hating on the same rapper u were stanning last week.

everytime we listen its just hot garbage too..

not to mention every rapper u guys recommend is on some gimmick shyt outside of the music too.

we just want a nikka who get in the booth and rap and not on some corny shyt.
 

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LOL @ this Fresh Prince "how come he don't want me?":to: thread.
Just because I call out a steakhouse for having all their chefs serve up flavorless burnt and dried out wads of meat doesn't mean I don't like steak.

I have standards that I know should be met, because I've been accustomed to those representing hip-hop expressing themselves with skill, creativity, originality, and variety. And these new nikka's ain't checking them boxes. Maybe they should just officially classify this as another genre..."DrugNThot" or something?

Y'all kids can make excuses all day for them because they are in your age bracket and it's trendy. And I let y'all do your thing at the kiddie table undisturbed...But if you ask what I think I got no problem giving you the answer
 
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Everyone basically stays into the style of music they were into when they first started getting laid. It'll happen to you youngins too lol. One day you'll wake up and realize you're suddenly irrelevant and don't understand young people anymore.

That being said, I dip in and out of the modern pop rap and trap stuff. I like some of it, it's just not my focus as a hip hop fan or a producer.

Yeah your formative years, that's when all those psychic connections are formed, so people are always biased towards them.
 

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Yes I enjoy it all. This new wave of production just needs to be a little more rough around the edges. Everything is so polished. You can tell these kids use chord generating plug ins and shyt. Just think a little more variety for the radio would be dope. Bit more soulful and I don’t mean in soul samples although those work too.
 

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Everyone basically stays into the style of music they were into when they first started getting laid. It'll happen to you youngins too lol. One day you'll wake up and realize you're suddenly irrelevant and don't understand young people anymore.

That being said, I dip in and out of the modern pop rap and trap stuff. I like some of it, it's just not my focus as a hip hop fan or a producer.

Yeah your formative years, that's when all those psychic connections are formed, so people are always biased towards them.
Then I’m fukked. How should I off myself? I’m joking bout suicide.
 

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I LOVE Hip-Hop.
I'm not some Boom bap purist who doesn't like anyone who doesn't make some perceived "Golden Age" type of
Hip-Hop but I also don't want to hear blatant, mediocre bullshyt.

Too many people take legitimate criticism and cast it aside as "Oh you're just some elitist or gate keeper" when
myself or others criticize people who can't be bothered to learn the basic rudiments of being a rapper.
Some of the shyt people tell me is "Dope" with a straight face is legitimately trash.
Like, I genuinely gave Blueface a shot, bro is horrible, I have no idea how someone can listen to say Bone Thugs
or Dom Kenedy then listen to Blueface and can say with a straight face that THAT is what's dope. :pachaha:
Who listens to blueface? He’s a 1 hit wonder and there have always been blueface equivalents in rap music

why would you compare an all time group with a catalog of hits to blueface?
 

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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
I just don’t see this being legitimate criticism. Sorry

Like I don’t care if Kodak disrespects Nas or Jay z. I only care if he makes good music
 
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