R&B and Soul is the secret kryptonite to Hip Hop culture vultures

[Monoblock]

Breh, when I was comin' up (70's baby......), we used to play a game called 'Guess the Sample' while smoking/drinking in the early-mid 80's.

There was NO INTERNET!!!!!!!! You just had to know your shyt and/or listen to the radio and watch Soul Train.

Luckily, I grew up in a household full of stuff like this......







Especially this......



Funny thing is.....I USED TO HATE THIS STUFF BECAUSE IT WAS TOO SLOW!!!!!

Now, I just hope that kids today realize they're being robbed by an industry that doesn't care about quality anymore and are just forcing them to listen to whatever garbage has a catchy beat and multiple references to sex/drugs/violence and not one hint of actual soul.

I'm not impressed by most of the hip-hop that I hear nowadays, but I'm sorely disappointed in what has happened to RnB/Soul.​

I'm an 80s baby myself but pretty much the same. When I went back to Louisiana and spent the summer with my grandparents all we would listen to is funk, blues and soul from sun rise to sunset. I still have a ton of 45s from my grandmothers house in the other room right now. We knew all of the samples growing up and recorded songs from the radio on these Fisher Price joints in shyttiest quality imaginable.

But as soon as we heard hip-hop songs on the radio and recognized the flip of the sample we would lose our shyt.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

If you never had to break up a fight with your female cousins over who was singing Monica or Brandy's part on The Boy Is Mine or try to hear grown folks business over The Isley Brother's after being sent to your room...you ain't Hip Hop. You a plant too.

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This is Top 10 Subject of the Year worthy.

 

[Dontay Flaco]

Amazing thread.

 

[LEEeveryday]

You can't teach soul

 

[Henry Orbit]

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[3rdWorld]

Amazing thread.

So sad what we have no become..

 

[litty]

Robin Thicke's career trajectory has to contain some of the greatest irony you'll find anywhere cause perception of him is exactly what you say which is crazy cause dude came up legit and was grinding for years before he had his break even with the Hollywood famous dad. It wasn't until the drama surrounding Blurred Lines overshadowed everything he did before that he got the culture vulture tag despite having put in enough work to have avoided it.

Most don't know that he started off in the industry way back contributing to great R&B tracks behind the scenes.

There are many deserving of the culture vulture tag, but in Thicke's case it isn't that straightforward.

Robin Thicke production discography - Wikipedia

cac = vulture. Simple as that.

Also lmao at people posting UK and southern US cac vultures and their 'appreciation' for the art while creating their own artists to supplant actual Black art

 

[puppetmaster]

The Ohio Players were my “what you know bout this shyt here youngster?” moment..

pretty much lead me to my favorite sound which is 90’s Westcoast hiphop.

Ohio Players was a staple whenever my uncles, brothers old heads would play cards BBQ and drink. Some of my earliest and fondest memories

Lotta validity in the OP’s thoughts.

 

[Gizza]

Heard most of these songs growin up, have some on a playlist & added some from here
Never listened to “Views” but “Fire & Desire” been on repeat while smokin cherrypie.

 

[Monoblock]

Man I have hard drives full of mixes like these I made for family functions too with themes. I'm uploading when I get home if anyone wants them.

 

[THE MACHINE]

When these hit




you gotta feel something

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Anyone who attended a Hip Hop function in NYC from 1973 - 1988 probably heard more r&b
and dance music played than rhyming and rapping.

For the pre-1990s Hip Hop generation, "Good Times" and "Love Is The Message" are Hip Hop records.

There isn't a commercial rap music industry without "Good Times" (the instrumental basis for "Rapper's Delight").

Folks in the past were into music, not labels.

Deejays would close Hip Hop gigs in the late 70s and early 80s playing King Pleasure's "Moody's Mood For Love"
because they heard Frankie Crocker close his radio show with the same song.

The song goes: "I love music, just as long as its groovin'."

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

The first generally-accepted rap record to be released came in early 1979 through an r&b and funk band.

 

[TNOT]

Black Gold of the Sun: Psychedelic Soul Explosion

If you got TIdal check out this playlist.

The songs on this playlist have been sampled on some hip hop classics, have fun picking them out.

Dont get high, listen to this playlist and think you're gonna get anything productive done the rest of the day

 

[KOohbt]

I liked RnB more when I was in elementary school in the 90s than rap. But I did love Outkast.