Official Rap/Hip Hop Thread IV

IllmaticHandler · Post #1021 » by **IllmaticHandler** » Tue Nov 3, 2015 6:55 pm

Before the Twin Towers Fell New Yitty Hip Hop....

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofo6QO9-RYY[/youtube]

IllmaticHandler · Post #1022 » by **IllmaticHandler** » Tue Nov 3, 2015 7:05 pm

If you looking for something new and ill...Check TJ out. He is mad nice and is mad young. He got a bunch of music out. I respsect it.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UqxHrpg_A[/youtube]

IllmaticHandler · Post #1023 » by **IllmaticHandler** » Tue Nov 3, 2015 7:09 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTtWcJrdV8c[/youtube]

Post #1024 » by **j4remi** » Thu Nov 5, 2015 7:01 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgopVOg2ifk[/youtube]

DowNY · Post #1025 » by **DowNY** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:34 am

Logic album....yeah man.

DowNY · Post #1026 » by **DowNY** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 9:27 am

I repeat....this Logic album!!!....man

levendis · Post #1027 » by **levendis** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:01 pm

DowNY wrote:I repeat....this Logic album!!!....man

Man this album is so **** good. The entire album is just smooth af and flows so well. He's still the same, like the theme of the songs are still rather the same, but love the new sound.

Post #1028 » by **j4remi** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:31 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiIjRs8M2KY[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLDoO3YOxiU[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_rkTi0D_M[/youtube]

Fat Kat · Post #1029 » by **Fat Kat** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 4:36 am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZ-qca_99o&ebc=ANyPxKo5zSMN0XaCfK5slRKS8FsmiYykiyey-whvNSIPX07BvflHq9QKupva1IFXAvbaUI9ZYEKm[/youtube]

knicks94 · Post #1030 » by **knicks94** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:37 am

I know some of you look at Drake or Asap rocky as the greatest MC to ever be in show business but has rap really gone down the toilet or is it just a generational bias. I have tried to listen to rap today but it just doesn't do anything for me. I get more thrill listening to Vanilla Ice than I do listening to any of these rappers that these young cats are listening to now.

LifeLongKNICK · Post #1031 » by **LifeLongKNICK** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:07 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSH_aGquxJQ[/youtube]

LifeLongKNICK · Post #1032 » by **LifeLongKNICK** » Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:17 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR-W280lVPY[/youtube]

Post #1033 » by **Marcus** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:44 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBZ-qca_99o[/youtube]

NEW PUSH

YEEEEEUUUCKKK!!!

Bick · Post #1034 » by **Bick** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:58 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQMGXR5hvk[/youtube]

CoolKids · Post #1035 » by **CoolKids** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:22 pm

Bick wrote:[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQMGXR5hvk[/youtube]

**** this clown

Post #1036 » by **Manhattan Project** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:30 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Gwdai95Vo[/youtube]

KnickswiththeKnack · Post #1037 » by **KnickswiththeKnack** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 10:50 pm

Real Hip Hop

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDga7tJL2UU[/youtube]

KnickswiththeKnack · Post #1038 » by **KnickswiththeKnack** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:18 pm

knicks94 wrote:I know some of you look at Drake or Asap rocky as the greatest MC to ever be in show business but has rap really gone down the toilet or is it just a generational bias. I have tried to listen to rap today but it just doesn't do anything for me. I get more thrill listening to Vanilla Ice than I do listening to any of these rappers that these young cats are listening to now.

It's a bit of both, really. Part of it is definitely a generational bias, but part is also just the nature of the music itself.

Hip Hop was always a music of the "now", especially with its storytelling or picture painting nature. Whether it was Grandmaster Flash's 'The Message' or NWA's 'Straight Outta Compton' or Nas' 'Illmatic', all the way up & down the list, Hip Hop has been about painting a picture of an MC's locality at that moment. So now, young rappers are painting pictures about what they experience, which is obviously far away from what older heads did.

Creatively, Hip Hop peaked in the late 90s, when sonic superiority (thanks to big budgets) blended with full-force street-level creativity. Albums like Dre's '2001' or even Monch's 'Internal Affairs' were loud, punchy, clean, and at the same time creative and complicated. Really, Hip Hop had nowhere else to go but to regress to simpler music. Anymore creative, and it would have gone into unintelligible territory (I'm looking at you Common).

So Cash Money & No Limit came along, made it simple and club-oriented, and the rest is history. I don't know that Hip Hop will ever get back to its creative peak in the mid-late 90s, because if it does get back to that level, well most of that stuff has already been done & it'll just be a rehash. In the meantime we still have Jay Electronica... if he ever drops his album.

Mecca · Post #1039 » by **Mecca** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 3:58 am

Only the ignorant hate on this generation. You have kdot, cole, absoul, wale, mick jenkins, bada$$, Vince staples, logic, Q, big Sean all producing WORK. open the mind up

levendis · Post #1040 » by **levendis** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:02 am

Mecca wrote:Only the ignorant hate on this generation. You have kdot, cole, absoul, wale, mick jenkins, bada$$, Vince staples, logic, Q, big Sean all producing WORK. open the mind up

yepp, people have to stop trying to compare each era to the 90s. That being said, this generation is a lot better than the 00s imo.