Hip Hop 09?

nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
evanbbb said:
As much I like to think my teen years held nothing but Gansta Rap, 90s radio was crammed with RnB. Yes, there were radio shows (always have been) playing hiphop but the big places (national radio, MTV) were dominated by Mariah Carey, En Vogue, Boys2Men, Jodeci, R kelly, Brandy, Babyface ...

the horror

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RnB has been around since the late 1950s but I'm talking about how RnB and hip hop sort of fused into one entity on the radio. Artists like Fabolous technically "rap" but their demo is more on target with RnB listeners and their aesthetic is more mainstream/accessible.
 
Lethem

Lethem

Interloper out 1st of Oct
the A side

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the B side
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Something a little different I really like these guys and I am really looking forward to getting their debut album in September.

Mayer Hawthorne def worth checking out.
 
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michael

Bring out the vacuum
^ Was weird to read he did the Mayer Hawthorne records as a kind of joke - right down to "Mayer Hawthorne" being the guy's pornstar name (you know, middle name + street you grew up on).

Would love to know what he does when he's being serious!?

Thought it was slightly less ... necrophiliac ... than some of that funk revival stuff.
 
Lethem

Lethem

Interloper out 1st of Oct
michael said:
^ Was weird to read he did the Mayer Hawthorne records as a kind of joke - right down to "Mayer Hawthorne" being the guy's pornstar name (you know, middle name + street you grew up on).

Would love to know what he does when he's being serious!?

Thought it was slightly less ... necrophiliac ... than some of that funk revival stuff.
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http://www.myspace.com/haircut

This is what he does when he's being serious, under the name Haircut.
 
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gragy10

Veteran Lurker
drilla said:
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Heard a different amazing track at So Bones that he compares to Grindin', but scanning the album I want to draw attention to this particular madness... the album in general has revived my interest in hip hop which had been waning these past few years.

The old thread has been closed for 2 years (why?) so why not a fresh one for this year
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Album's fucking great - big up for posting
 
rosebeast

rosebeast

Well-known member
drilla said:
Heard a different amazing track at So Bones that he compares to Grindin', but scanning the album I want to draw attention to this particular madness... the album in general has revived my interest in hip hop which had been waning these past few years.

The old thread has been closed for 2 years (why?) so why not a fresh one for this year
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gragy10 said:
Album's fucking great - big up for posting
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Probably my second favourite track off of that album, after 9 x Outta 10. So unexpected as well...felt like that stuff just came from out of nowhere.

I kinda feel like lately hip hop has been in a bit of a rut, and that R&B, even though both scenes are pretty much intrinsically linked with one another these days anyway, has been throwing up far more interesting material. That said there have been a few gems...

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If anyone fancies popping down to Catch this Thursday to dance to some of this stuff, I'm throwing the last London SO BONES night before I bugger off back to NYC!

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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
Hip hop is so bad now. It's actually sort of strange to say that out loud.

All of the backpacker shit is way past its sell-by date, and all the stuff that backpackers rag on has finally got shit as well. It's enough to make me relapse into grieving over Hyphy's young death. Regardless of your opinion on him, can you imagine what rap would look like right now without Lil Wayne?
 
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slackk

slackk

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Really resisting the urge to just go mad and post about 500 Max B videos in this thread. Such a shame he got banged up, the Wave was my favourite thing in US rap in a long time. Those wonky sing-song choruses get me every time.

A lot of people I try to make like him look at me with disgust, mind.


So many tapes out man.
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
Sick Boy said:
Hip hop is so bad now. It's actually sort of strange to say that out loud.
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Ace Hood WHAT? Yeah I think it's safe to say the genre bores the world senseless.

For a while there I was loving all of the T-pain guest spot "she move her body like a cycloone" trashy ringtone anthems but even that is wearing so so thin. And not just the autotune part, either. The whole thing.

Maybe rock is going to make a comeback.
 
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petergunn

plywood violin
Sick Boy said:
Hip hop is so bad now. It's actually sort of strange to say that out loud.

All of the backpacker shit is way past its sell-by date, and all the stuff that backpackers rag on has finally got shit as well. It's enough to make me relapse into grieving over Hyphy's young death. Regardless of your opinion on him, can you imagine what rap would look like right now without Lil Wayne?
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Hyphy's not dead, at leats not in the bay area...

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no mention of Young Chris?

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everyone feverishly sweating Doom and Mos Def upthread should check for him... Doom is great, but this should not be a newsflash... Operation Doomsday came out over 10 years ago (april 1999 if memory serves)...

re: being sick of hip hop... eh, i mean sure whatever... everyone goes thru periods of not digging what's in the clubs or on the radio, but there is alot of stuff going on... Squeeze Radio on WKCR is a good source for new non-mainstream hip hop...
 
U

UFO over easy

online mahjong
people feeling the ghostface leaks?



that d lo thing peter posted is the best thing ive heard in weeks
 
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crackerjack

Well-known member
petergunn said:
no mention of Young Chris?

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that YC track is ace, but the beat sounds familiar...is it a remake of something?
 
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