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re: What's up with rap music these days? It's like there's no melody...
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:50 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 6/16/20 at 10:50 pm to PrimeTime Money
Agreed, there’s none at all. I don’t care for rap and never have but I remember Bone Thugs having some pretty solid songs and they had melody in them and wasn’t just name dropping brand names like Lamborghini and Gucci in every song.
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Posted on 6/17/20 at 12:30 pm to Swank
sorry for all the downvotes. That was a great list.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 12:57 pm to RoyaleWithCheese
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That was a great list.
I don't agree with all of it, but it is a solid list. No idea why there are so many downvotes.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 4:34 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Am I just getting old
yes.
Posted on 6/17/20 at 5:31 pm to Cdawg
I'll say this, if you want an intro into newer stuff, the guy who mentioned EARTHGANG was dead on.
They blend some vocal melody with solid rap skill. It's much easier on someone who grew up in the 90's like me than listening to Future slur "Tony Montana" 200 times.
I always thought the lineage of melodic rap was Bone, Nelly, Drake...and Drake is kind of where it went off the rails. I am not a Drake fan.
They blend some vocal melody with solid rap skill. It's much easier on someone who grew up in the 90's like me than listening to Future slur "Tony Montana" 200 times.
I always thought the lineage of melodic rap was Bone, Nelly, Drake...and Drake is kind of where it went off the rails. I am not a Drake fan.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:09 pm to Rep520
Posted on 6/26/20 at 3:26 pm to Rep520
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Lockdown--Anderson Paak ft Jay Rock
One of my friends turned me onto this last night
Very good
Posted on 6/26/20 at 4:29 pm to Rep520
just looked at this thread again. Seems like we have a bunch of hating arse old heads in this thread. I get not liking Future and some of his contemporaries, but if someone claims to like hip-hop they would like the bulk of those albums.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 4:51 pm to Swank
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Seems like we have a bunch of hating arse old heads in this thread. I get not liking Future and some of his contemporaries, but if someone claims to like hip-hop they would like the bulk of those albums.
I'm not a huge fan of mumbling, repetition or trap beats.
Don't take it as hate, at least from me. It's not my thing and I acknowledge it. There are some newer artists that do stuff like that I can get into. I like some of Travis Scott's stuff and even like some Juice WRLD.
It's sort of how music goes. For people who grew up on Dre, Pac, BIG, Snoop, Rakim, Outkast, etc., it's natural to associate rap with that. That's why I'm sure I gravitate towards Kendrick, Cole, JID, etc.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 9:17 pm to Swank
Future is great. There, I said it.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 12:40 am to Rep520
To be clear I wasn't calling you an old head, just the lurking downvoters
I don't take it as hate, as it is a legit gripe about trap. I don't enjoy the bulk of trap music either, unless an artist is doing something weird, interesting or creative with their music trap gets old real fast for me.
I agree though, I'm fairly young, but I grew up listening to Rakim, Run DMC, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, etc. so I tend to prefer artists like Kendrick, JID, Freddie Gibbs, etc.
I don't take it as hate, as it is a legit gripe about trap. I don't enjoy the bulk of trap music either, unless an artist is doing something weird, interesting or creative with their music trap gets old real fast for me.
I agree though, I'm fairly young, but I grew up listening to Rakim, Run DMC, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, etc. so I tend to prefer artists like Kendrick, JID, Freddie Gibbs, etc.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 6:56 am to PrimeTime Money
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what happened to rap music?
Same thing that happened to rock and country. Corporate agents and professional songwriters killed the genre.
There is no risk and no individuality anymore. It’s all the same sterilized monolithic rinsed and repeated shite. You can’t tell one from the next anymore.
Instead of going out and finding and nurturing talent, they just create it in a basement somewhere.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 11:07 am to PrimeTime Money
Melody takes musical skill.
Posted on 6/27/20 at 5:07 pm to PrimeTime Money
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Am I just getting old or is this really some new kind of weird style that other people complain about too?
Were old and this shite is terrible. We lived through hip hops golden era. Its now dead and this is the zombie Xanax corpse of rap music.
This post was edited on 6/27/20 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 6/27/20 at 5:44 pm to PrimeTime Money
These days?
Posted on 6/28/20 at 9:46 am to Swank
Not a bad list you compiled. I've listened to quite a few of those.
Tyler the Creator doesn't do it for me. I can't get with him. Never heard of Danny Brown. I've never gave Joey Badass a shot
I like Migos and Future for one thing and one thing only. Workout tunes.
Tyler the Creator doesn't do it for me. I can't get with him. Never heard of Danny Brown. I've never gave Joey Badass a shot
I like Migos and Future for one thing and one thing only. Workout tunes.
Posted on 6/28/20 at 12:48 pm to PrimeTime Money
At some point the lines stopped mattering.
Chuck D was an amazing lyricist with a kickass DJ, and Public Enemy still sounds fresh and edgy to listen to.
Outlast were two amazing lyricists that became amazing producers after outgrowing Organized Noize.
Beastie Boys, Snoop, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Q-Tip, GZA, Em - everyone who made it big and had a lasting impact on hip hop before 2000 was revered as an excellent lyricist and got production help to go over the top.
That changed with Kanye and Jay-Z, as it became a fusion of equal parts production and lyrics and ethereal style and public image. Mattered so much less what you were saying if you had your own Nike shoe while you were rapping it, and I say that while thinking Kanye was/is a good lyricist.
We're now 10 years removed from even that point, and it is all manufactured garbage based off internet popularity, probably the fakest era of all music in history. It's what made Kendrick stand out so much pre-DAMN.
Chuck D was an amazing lyricist with a kickass DJ, and Public Enemy still sounds fresh and edgy to listen to.
Outlast were two amazing lyricists that became amazing producers after outgrowing Organized Noize.
Beastie Boys, Snoop, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, Q-Tip, GZA, Em - everyone who made it big and had a lasting impact on hip hop before 2000 was revered as an excellent lyricist and got production help to go over the top.
That changed with Kanye and Jay-Z, as it became a fusion of equal parts production and lyrics and ethereal style and public image. Mattered so much less what you were saying if you had your own Nike shoe while you were rapping it, and I say that while thinking Kanye was/is a good lyricist.
We're now 10 years removed from even that point, and it is all manufactured garbage based off internet popularity, probably the fakest era of all music in history. It's what made Kendrick stand out so much pre-DAMN.
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