OT: What are you listening to?

Dr Positivity · Post #441 » by **Dr Positivity** » Mon May 12, 2025 4:11 am

Better album than their last but the best is still Funeral-Neon Bible-The Suburbs

Merit · Post #442 » by **Merit** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:34 pm

Dr Positivity wrote:

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Better album than their last but the best is still Funeral-Neon Bible-The Suburbs

Those three albums are legendary.

Too bad Will was accused of sexual misconduct, or I’d be singing his praises as both an excellent musician and a solid basketball player too.

dohboy_24 · Post #443 » by **dohboy_24** » Mon May 12, 2025 9:01 pm

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Merit · Post #444 » by **Merit** » Mon May 12, 2025 9:11 pm

OhCanada wrote:

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This was super cool. Do you have any other recommendations? Similar or dissimilar - I have a feeling our tastes will align. Thanks for putting me on to these guys! Visuals are neat too.

C_Money · Post #445 » by **C_Money** » Mon May 12, 2025 9:22 pm

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Listening to it after getting dumped by gf

Also it’s just a really good song

SDM · Post #446 » by **SDM** » Mon May 12, 2025 11:21 pm

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Westside Gunn · Post #447 » by **Westside Gunn** » Tue May 13, 2025 1:29 am

So Grand Puba was someone I always knew of but didn't come around to the music. This is one of those artists I wished I listened to a long time ago.

He's from Brand Nubian, with Lord Jamar, Sadat X. Lord Jamar and Sadat X might have their own releases I will check it out later, because I really liked Grand Puba's 2000 and just got a taste of reel to reel. Picked up the CD in a garage sale

Its the definition of smooth top to bottom. Jazzy/soulful beats with Pubas rapid, laid back and confident rapping, mixed with that old school flow you probably heard from actq with Qtip and phife.

When you think golden era new york rap, this should definitely be part of the soundtrack. The 5 percenter rap has always been on point. Do check it out. Now maybe someone who was growing up in that era can tell us why Puba didn't blow up more, seems like very under the radar

OhCanada · Post #448 » by **OhCanada** » Wed May 14, 2025 1:34 am

Merit wrote:
OhCanada wrote:

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This was super cool. Do you have any other recommendations? Similar or dissimilar - I have a feeling our tastes will align. Thanks for putting me on to these guys! Visuals are neat too.

Watch on YouTube

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bballsparkin · Post #449 » by **bballsparkin** » Wed May 14, 2025 5:41 am

Handsome Boy Modeling School - Once Again Here to Kick One For You

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Westside Gunn · Post #450 » by **Westside Gunn** » Thu May 15, 2025 1:04 am

So this was another CD I picked up from the garage sale after seeing the band name which was I recall a lot from the music video on TV era where you received a lot of exposure to all kinds of music, including heavy metal, punk rock, boyband pop, girl pop, hip hop, rnb etc. You watched the video for the creativity and in anticipation of watching your favourite video.

I have no clue what I'm listening to but I liked the CD. Anyone got a review or story about this album and band.

Dr Positivity · Post #451 » by **Dr Positivity** » Fri May 16, 2025 3:22 pm

They were an enjoyable band for that time period, I feel if they were relevant for maybe one or two more albums than they were it would've pushed them over the edge for 2000s nostalgia legacy, but I only remember people caring about them for the one you posted and their follow up which had some of my favorite songs from them in Pain and Work, by the late 2000s they couldn't get a foothold anymore, it just felt a little bit early for them to disappear. The Middle is their biggest song and had the perfect music video for it at high school party, and Sweetness is also a good single. They could pull off a ballad like Hear You Me and that album has some other decent rock style non singles like Bleed American and A Praise Chorus. I definitely have more songs I like from them than a band like Yellowcard who's all Ocean Avenue for me but seems to be as famous nowadays and apparently selling tickets.

mdenny · Post #452 » by **mdenny** » Sun May 18, 2025 3:25 am

Westside Gunn wrote:

So Grand Puba was someone I always knew of but didn't come around to the music. This is one of those artists I wished I listened to a long time ago.

He's from Brand Nubian, with Lord Jamar, Sadat X. Lord Jamar and Sadat X might have their own releases I will check it out later, because I really liked Grand Puba's 2000 and just got a taste of reel to reel. Picked up the CD in a garage sale

Its the definition of smooth top to bottom. Jazzy/soulful beats with Pubas rapid, laid back and confident rapping, mixed with that old school flow you probably heard from actq with Qtip and phife.

When you think golden era new york rap, this should definitely be part of the soundtrack. The 5 percenter rap has always been on point. Do check it out. Now maybe someone who was growing up in that era can tell us why Puba didn't blow up more, seems like very under the radar

Thats's dead square in my era and always loved Puba. His track with the beatnuts (most underrated producers in all 90s hiphop) was ill:

https://youtu.be/nV0oA5MtpQs?si=9VwK_z3V0L8DZoYc

By the way....that beatnuts album, street relativity, is one of the greatest collections of beats in history. I put it up there will Illmatic in terms of beats. The Raps obviously aren't on that level but the beats are.

Puba definitely took a bit from slick Rick's jazzy flow. If anything...I think the black nationalist politics associated with brand nubian probably limited them to an underground following at that time.

Puba became less political as he became more of a feature artist in the mid 90s. But by then he had probably aged out of that time frame when a rapper could break through to bigger exposure.

Westside Gunn · Post #453 » by **Westside Gunn** » Sun May 18, 2025 3:40 am

Dr Positivity wrote:They were an enjoyable band for that time period, I feel if they were relevant for maybe one or two more albums than they were it would've pushed them over the edge for 2000s nostalgia legacy, but I only remember people caring about them for the one you posted and their follow up which had some of my favorite songs from them in Pain and Work, by the late 2000s they couldn't get a foothold anymore, it just felt a little bit early for them to disappear. The Middle is their biggest song and had the perfect music video for it at high school party, and Sweetness is also a good single. They could pull off a ballad like Hear You Me and that album has some other decent rock style non singles like Bleed American and A Praise Chorus. I definitely have more songs I like from them than a band like Yellowcard who's all Ocean Avenue for me but seems to be as famous nowadays and apparently selling tickets.

I'd say late 2000s and entry into the social media era coincided with the death of this genre. I just didn't see or hear of it much anymore compared to the 2000s.

bballsparkin · Post #454 » by **bballsparkin** » Sun May 18, 2025 5:05 am

Shpongle - 'Brain in a Fishtank"

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Dry The Rain (Remaster) · The Beta Band

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Loop De Li (Leo Zero Remix) · Bryan Ferry · Leo Zero

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bballsparkin · Post #455 » by **bballsparkin** » Sun May 18, 2025 10:51 pm

SDM wrote:

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Good stuff thanks. Dude goes off in the first video. Fit my mood perfectly. :thumbsup:

Westside Gunn · Post #456 » by **Westside Gunn** » Tue May 20, 2025 2:24 am

I randomly bumped into this group a while back (like a long time back) looking for some soul and I thought this was an experiment of some friends getting together and making music. But damn, they're still puttin on some heat. Following them on spotify so I don't forget.

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I put my parents onto this and them and they thought I was playing something from their era they couldn't remember.

I know what that feeling is like, its like when I first heard a Griselda/Westside Gunn record in 2016-2017 and I was like did I miss someone from the golden era of hip hop, then I heard the off white mention in the raps and I was like damn this is the new new.