What is it about “Laffy Taffy” that is so offensive to hiphop heads?

[mobbinfms]

Laffy Taffy put om Shawty Lo

Heavy D didn’t come out on some Laffy Taffy shyt though

 

[mobbinfms]

I know This is the real answer

Hiphop heads( which really means 90s east coast bias) hate the south because they think it made their favorite music irrelevant

Why didn’t every popular song from the South get the same response then?

 

[tonyclifton]

Because is is the most stock fruit loops sounding beat of all time. It is a contender for worst production on a single ever. Any genre

And the rapping is trash

 

[GPBear]

Laffy Taffy put om Shawty Lo

Comparing Pete Rock to Shawty Lo...

That's some low-tier trolling, even for you

 

[CrimsonTider]

Because is is the most stock fruit loops sounding beat of all time. It is a contender for worst production on a single ever. Any genre

And the rapping is trash

Song is classic

 

[Damnshow]

It was a terrible song. Video. Everything about it. It was very popular so it came to symbolize what at the time we all wrongfully assumed was rock bottom for hip hop. There was a backlash and rightfully so. Unfortunately, hip hop had lost any semblance of artistic integrity long before that and so the critics were ultimately dismissed as haters. As long as you were getting money, anything goes.

None of us knew that we weren’t even close to the bottom. The last 5 years or more we’ve had mumble singing over the exact same trap beat over and over. Flamboyant androgyny is the new wave. But even this isn’t the bottom. My prediction? Rhymthic grunting will be the next wave. I’m not sure how the beats will get worse, but I’m sure they will.

it's turning into EDM type of shyt, minimal vocals, just bunch of loud noise

 

[Legal]

The simplicity of the record offended people. The 3 note beat, the Dr Seuss lyrics, the dance... literally took no skill to put together, and the fact that it achieved MAJOR success and was being championed over songs from other artists with actual skill and respect for the craft, made people angry.

Not to mention that it pretty much represented a changing of the guard. There was a clear agenda, with viacom pushing aside Little Brother, Nas etc. and any other record that was deemed “too intelligent” (their words verbatim) for this dumbed down shyt to feed to the masses.


It’s not that complicated.. I personally liked the song, but I was also like 12..

The bolded is the real answer to the question, despite the OP thinking it's a case of anti-southern bias.

I enjoy the song for what it is, but the beat comes off as something super bare bones that could've been laid out and looped in Fruity Loops in 10 minutes or so. And it came at a time when hip hop wasn't doing stripped down beats, so a lot of people viewed it as an insult to the work that went into creating songs back then.

I see both sides of the argument, but ultimately I see nothing wrong with songs like this being hits. Sometimes you need some levity in your music. Now, when EVERYBODY started trying to make their own version of snap music, that's when shyt got played out.

 

[mobbinfms]

Comparing Pete Rock to Shawty Lo...

That's some low-tier trolling, even for you

I remember one Shawty Lo song. And it was 99% the beat


Meanwhile, Pete got classics.

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Cause the south made it.
I dont mind , cuz I know all them dudes personally. Lo hated the song off jump, but it started to blow, and he just rode with it. Yet my boy Fabo still doing shows off that shyt. Eating.

Atlanta aint the South. Dont associate with Laffy Taffy with us

 

[tremonthustler1]

Besides the millions of Jamster commercials that followed begging you to buy ringtones, it was viewed as the lightning rod to a world where everyone stopped caring about anything with substance.

Also, I think hip hop heads couldn't stand the sight of Fabo

I was on All Hip Hop at the time. shyt was a funeral when this song hit #1

 

[tonyclifton]

Song is classic

Not gonna lie it can be catchy when I’m off like 3 Molly’s 10 years ago

It is garbage and if you are into production it is for sure WOAT

 

[GPBear]

That's what I have to say to this thread, good day sir.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

the beat had a candy ass cheap melody straight out of a fisher price keyboard

the raps were not worth listening to

it was a fun record but that shyt was the definition of rap dying.

i def bring Laffy Taffy and Party Like A Rockstar up as the true beginning of the end...but somehow worse shyt drops every year.

 

[CrimsonTider]

Besides the millions of Jamster commercials that followed begging you to buy ringtones, it was viewed as the lightning rod to a world where everyone stopped caring about anything with substance.

Also, I think hip hop heads couldn't stand the sight of Fabo

I was on All Hip Hop at the time. shyt was a funeral when this song hit #1

If it wasn’t from the south that wouldn’t have been the convo

This was at the height of the south killed hiphop propaganda

 

[Love Sosa]

There’s like 290 reasons.

First off, nobody wants to be bumpin the same shyt they little sister is bumping.

Second off, think of the time period. You go from the era of superproducers like Dre/Timbo/Neptune’s in the early 00s to shyt like this and Crank Dat. It was a regression. To me it wasn’t because they were from the south, they just so happen to get that stamped on them.

Third, that era was awful. Look at the clothes and dancing

It’s nothing wrong with pop rap, but the crowd that liked that song seemed remedial to me.