Will You Be Saddened When/If You "Outgrow" Popular Rap Music?

[Techniec]

If i outgrew it, why would i be sad. Are you sad when you outgrow hoodrats and fat bytches?

 

[AsAboveSoBelow]

What do you mean "outgrow". You make it sound like Hip-Hop is for kids, which isn't necessarily the case. Just like any other genre of music there are different lanes and approaches when it comes to rap (From gangsta to jazzy, to trap and so on) and a plethora of artists that rap about different kinds of subject matter...not to mention a crap load of classic albums.

I think what you mean is weather or not you will outgrow "popular" or "mainstream" rap music.... you know the whole formula of rappin' about money, hoes, cars and clothes over trap beats or pop-ish beats. In that case then I guess I have.

I find myself looking for artists (old and new) that a) rap about subject matter that is more substancial, and b) actually display skills on the mic, (instead of having simplistic rhymes and a catchy hook) instead of just bumpin' whatever is hot on the radio. Which has basically led to me bumping more underground-ish artists, or listening to old school rap music.

But if we're speaking in terms of Hip Hop as a musical artform? Then nah, I'll be bumpin' rap music well into my forties. I listen to other kinds of music as well though, but I can still see rap dominating my playlists for sure. If the mainstream fails, then I can always go back to the good ole 90s.

Yeah, I actually had "Current" in the initial thread title but felt that it would have been interpreted that I was in some way biased against the current rap scene.

Pretty dope perspective though breh.

 

[YouMadd?]

Ill never outgrow it... I listen to so many different genres of music that it really doesn't matter....

 

[Brian O'Conner]

Nope I'm gonna be 50 years old bumping hood classics at high volumes and ice grilling white people still.

 

[Big Mel]

you dont say? see your krusy ass in every thread bytching about one thing or another

everytime i see you and art barr post 99% of the time its on some...

....type shyt

You'll get there eventually but you'll be longing for weaker music.

 

[DaveyDave]

Nope. I'm only 24 and I'm starting to outgrow it. The more you mature you just acquire different taste in life. Everything from your style of dress to music to people you hang around change. Don't get me wrong I will still bump some hood shyt but rap music will not dominate my iTunes. Life has more sounds outside of 808's.

so does Hip Hop

there is dope music on both ends of the age spectrum that i can listen to, From Jigga to Joey Badass and Kendrick lamar. i don't think Hip Hop will ever get to a point where it's ALL Waka Flocka which i can't stand.there will always be a wide range of Hip Hop music & sub genres. i don't think i'll ever grow out of it, i'm 30 this year and been listening & living the culture since i was about 8/10. plus like a few people have said, you can ALWAYS listen to the classics & old stuff you like, if you were ever really a part of the culture then you will never just "grow out" of Wu Tang or Gangstarr or Ice Cube or OutKast etc etc, whatever your fav rappers were in any given era. but if you just like it cos it's trendy or only like certain artists because your homies like it then i think it's easy to out grow it.

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

Im 32, I grew up on the genre and I was about to give up on it a few years back until I went to Rock The Bells at Jones Beach a few years back. Tribe & Nas were the headliners and there was a sea of 30-40 yr olds in the audience...

People dont realize, that in comparison to other genres of music......Hip-Hop even after all this time is still in its early stages. Artists that I grew up on in the early/mid 90s, can still have careers now (if they are smart businessmen) because they still have a fan base......

I like a lot less cursing in my music, and a little more diversity in subject matter but Hip-Hop has something to offer every demographic....so Ill still be listening as long as there is someone making music that speaks to me and what I am doing.

 

[Pazzy]

you NEVER outgrow music. you obviously aren't a rap fan. take your ass to dubstep. it's just music. if you actually get your life lessons from that sh!t and actually let it decide who you are as a person, then you obviously have some issues you have to work out. figure yourself out. quit letting the music do that for you. you are NOT going to get any smarter or more mature by changing the music you listen to. that's just NOT going to happen.

you guys act as if there weren't corny rappers back in the 90s and 80s. i bet you would have said the same shyt when rakim wasn't blowing up and hammer and vanilla ice and all these other corny rappers were coming around too. please stop.

 

[yesiambowling]

The best music is timeless. That you believe you'll "outgrow" it is should show how little you think of it.

 

[Easy-E]

Number One: Hip = Intelligent, Hop = Movement

Intelligent Movement will never pass me

The beauty of Hip-Hop, when u seperate the culture from the industry is that it's the voice of the misunderstood and voiceless

Your askin' if we are gonna dread the day we aren't wearin' the newest this and listening to the newest that

I'm 24 and that day is hear for me

Not all of Rap music is "Ra ra, my bytch and my gat"

And Hip-Hop is what I live, black

 

[CHAIN]

This is the most ridiculous thread I ever read, because yall dead serious

How the fukk could I outgrow what I am? this shyt is more than just a song, its a fukking lifestyle. Yall sound like a bunch of white ppl. Its usually them white guys in their early 30‘s that give up on the music. It was just a phase for yall, the 90‘s were great, move the fucl on, the energy behind the music is what made me love hip hop, that's why I can put Lil durk right here and Sky zoo half moon part and large pro looking at the front door on the same playlist like its nothing.

You moved on? pffff no u didn't, yo punk ass is still posting a hip hop message board, I'm just here to get music, I see some of yall that moved on talking about hip hop all day in this muhfukka

Yall them bytch ass nikkas that play cold play and....(i dunno what yall play) for their white friends, yall ain't shyt

Maybe this thing was never you

 

[Big Mel]

This guy. I presume the thread starter is speaking to outgrowing the "now" sound of hip hop. But continue that posturing for us all fukk boy.

 

[Pazzy]

This guy. I presume the thread starter is speaking to outgrowing the "now" sound of hip hop. But continue that posturing for us all fukk boy.

aren't you from jersey or up north? why are you using south slang? stop.

 

[Big Mel]

Aren't you not from NYC? Why are you a fan of hip hop?

 

[Juneya]

Never too old to enjoy rap... But I am definitely beginning to be one of those old heads that think the new rap is wack lol

Like when i was coming up, we had the wu tang generation that thought everything besides those dudes was killing the progression of hip hop culture lol.

I live it tho... Rap is me... Ill never out grow me