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Originally Posted by coyotekells  Nice touch.. I feel ya.
I hate hip hop though.. well mostly. But at least there's no banjos.
I would hate all my favorite rap records if they came out now (Only Built For.., It Was Written, ATLiens, etc.)
If The Blueprint came out now, I'd still think it was good. The other ones only get a pass because they arrived at the right time.
You don't want to copy the way those records sound, only the way they make you feel. |
Exactly.
BTW, Hip Hop is still happening. I don't mean underground either. Jadakiss, Lil' Wayne, whatever. Hip Hop is NOT a style. It is NOT limited to a sub-genre (East Coast, Dirty South, etc.) Hip Hop is taking whatever means you have; sampling, synths, keys, live bass, an 808.....even autotune, anything you have available and make the music that moves people. Hip Hop keeps evolving, cats need to realize that. (not aimed at you, coyote)
I've been present at about 1,000,000 conversations or debates about this very thing. As soon as you try to timestamp a year and say that is "real" Hip Hop, you have just killed your chances of making "real" Hip Hop. You will spend time trying to resurrect the corpse that Hip Hop shed when it grew to the next...
Alot of people wanna weigh in on it, but don't plug in to their local scene or any scene if they don't have one. Where do you see cyphers any more? What about the battles? Cat's are so scared to get punked that they don't show up anywhere they might be criticized. That's why you have all the wack posts even on this forum. It used to be that you got punked, you did 1 of 2 things. You got better and came back to win or you quit. Hip Hop weeded itself of all the pests and wannabe's. I could keep going, but I'm not gonna. The sooner people consider this, the sooner the music will get better.