Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

[jda1202]

Anybody listen to chiddy bang?

[Buke14]

Quote: Originally Posted by Beantown

Finally giving "Friday Night Lights" a solid listen-through and I'm really enjoying it so far.

I've been riding with Cole since his "Come Up" days. Every project he has put out has been dope IMO. Some of the songs on FNL are just great joints IMO.

2Face
Farewell
See World
Too Deep for the Intro
Enchanted.

FNL is by far the mixtape of the year IMO and I cannot wait until the album drops.

[Beantown]

Quote: Originally Posted by Brandon

I've still yet to do that. I've tried, but just haven't been able to get into it.

It's worth giving a try.

I'd still take B.o.B's "No Genre" over it for mixtapes I've heard recently, though, but I feel like this one will grow on me.


To the above - I'll have to give those songs another listen to see what they're like.

[Jukeman]

NSFW

Young J Cole AKA Therapist

[BlueNGold]

Quote: Originally Posted by Buke14

Pretty good read here for any J. Cole fan. I literally can't remember a time when I was more excited for albums to come out, in March Lupe and Cole are dropping. My two favorite artists of all time dropping within two or three weeks of each other.

Might wanna edit out those n-bombs Cole loves to drop, lol. You know how it is around these parts these days.

Quote: Originally Posted by Buke14

I've been riding with Cole since his "Come Up" days. Every project he has put out has been dope IMO. Some of the songs on FNL are just great joints IMO. 2Face Farewell See World Too Deep for the Intro Enchanted. FNL is by far the mixtape of the year IMO and I cannot wait until the album drops.

I agree.

I still put The Warmp Up ahead of it though, because IMO that was just a classic. I'm hoping it gets turned into an album once Cole eventually blows up, just like So Far Gone was turned into an album once Drake got big.

But yeah, FNL is awesome. And to think these are just songs he's throwing out because he has better songs for the album.

[NC State-31 UNC-27]

I know where to find good music, ALTHOUGH, 99.99% of people do not cherish the good stuff like they used to.

Look at this thread.

An album leaks, people listen twice, give their opinion, then the next day its on to the next four albums that leaked and anything not released within the week is forgotten about unless it's REALLY someones absolute favorite.

Theres too much music, too much really bad music, and people flat out do not listen like they used to.

You can't tell me hip hop isn't struggling when Wacka Flacka and Rick Ross account for 20% of the radio play.

Also about where to find good stuff....even those places feed you 80% bullcrap. The media that controls hip hop is a freaking disaster.


MTV just named Kanye West their "Man of the Year." Thats the biggest joke I've ever heard. Kanye can. not. rap.


Blogs, the internet, etc. was initially very good for hip hop and artists. Eventually it's going to be the death of it.

Think about where it will be in 20 years. 10 years even. Hip hop music hasn't even been around that long, and already it has changed tremendously. CD's don't sell anymore, there are SO many artists, do videos even exist anymore?, the shelf life for a CD is like a month maximum for many many people...basically everything has to be given away for free for most artists.

the whole structure of hip hop...the labels, how music is distributed, how many and which artists are out there, marketing, mainstream vs underground vs the middleground, etc....is going to bottom out and completely transform itself in the next 15 years.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Theres too much music, too much really bad music, and people flat out do not listen like they used to.

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Blogs, the internet, etc. was initially very good for hip hop and artists. Eventually it's going to be the death of it.

Unfortunately this is the truth because there's really no work being put in(from what I've noticed over the last few years)to become a good artist.

It's either make a song with a catchy hook/dance to it and in no time you'll automatically become known as a "great" rapper just because of those two.

With the Blogs/Internet, you got soooo many dudes dropping mixtapes that it's hard to separate the very good from the good from the bad from the god awful.

[BlueNGold]

Quote: Originally Posted by NC State-31 UNC-27

I know where to find good music, ALTHOUGH, 99.99% of people do not cherish the good stuff like they used to. Look at this thread. An album leaks, people listen twice, give their opinion, then the next day its on to the next four albums that leaked and anything not released within the week is forgotten about unless it's REALLY someones absolute favorite. Theres too much music, too much really bad music, and people flat out do not listen like they used to. You can't tell me hip hop isn't struggling when Wacka Flacka and Rick Ross account for 20% of the radio play. Also about where to find good stuff....even those places feed you 80% bullcrap. The media that controls hip hop is a freaking disaster. MTV just named Kanye West their "Man of the Year." Thats the biggest joke I've ever heard. Kanye can. not. rap. Blogs, the internet, etc. was initially very good for hip hop and artists. Eventually it's going to be the death of it. Think about where it will be in 20 years. 10 years even. Hip hop music hasn't even been around that long, and already it has changed tremendously. CD's don't sell anymore, there are SO many artists, do videos even exist anymore?, the shelf life for a CD is like a month maximum for many many people...basically everything has to be given away for free for most artists. the whole structure of hip hop...the labels, how music is distributed, how many and which artists are out there, marketing, mainstream vs underground vs the middleground, etc....is going to bottom out and completely transform itself in the next 15 years.

I hate this whole "back in the day...." argument.

Anyways, your first sentence you make a total blanket statement that just isn't as true as you make it sound. Sure it is true for some people, but you can't just generalize like that. I still listen to plenty of albums that were released months and years ago.

About the posts here, I can't speak for everyone else, but the "listen to an album twice, give opinion, then on to the next one" thing only happens if I really don't like the album (T.I.'s as an example and even that I listened to more than twice trying to give it a second chance). I don't post exactly what I'm listening to every day because no one gives a **** and I wouldn't either.

Of course people aren't going to "listen like they used to" when music is everywhere nowadays. You're literally a click away from finding something you like whereas about 15-20 years ago and further you were stuck with what you had and that was MTV, BET, that one Eminem CD or that Snoop cassette, etc. You didn't have much of a choice or control over what you could/couldn't listen to. Now you do and I don't see how that is a bad thing.

Now yeah sure, there is plenty of terrible artists out there now. That's obviously going to happen when someone who has no business rhyming can spit out a couple bars and upload it to Youtube. But lets not act like there was never terrible artists in the 80's and 90's. And the thing is, you don't HAVE to listen to that person that posts ****ty music on Youtube or whatever. You can easily sit back and bitch and moan about how much bad music there is, but no one other than yourself is forcing you to listen to it. You don't have to click on that Youtube video or MP3, you don't have to watch what video 106 & Park is playing, you don't have to listen to the garbage on the radio.

I don't even understand why you're bringing up this MTV award like it's some holy grail. You're basically acting like Kanye himself taking awards like that seriously. I won't bother getting into an argument about whether or not Kanye can rap either because it's clear you don't like him and you're entitled to have that opinion. Nothing I or anyone else says is going to change that opinion.

Your next point about blogs and the Internet being the death of hip-hop....sorry, but I just don't see it. When you bring up the fact that CD's aren't selling, that's the entire music industry that struggles with that, not just hip-hop. Besides, last I checked Eminem was selling a million copies of Recovery in it's first or second week out, Kanye just sold 500k his first week and even Nicki Minaj sold 400k or something like that.

I'm not sure how that stacks up with first week album sales from 10-15 years ago, but it doesn't look terrible to me for something that is supposedly close to dying.