softcore rap

[blissblogger]

Yes probably this forum would tend to favor rap about gangs, guns, girl's butts, drugs and/or drug deals, boasts 'n' threats, conspicuous consumption etc.

Either that or the militant hardcore - conscious and righteously rage-full

But what about the softcore rap? Dreamy, goofy, quirky, floaty

De La Soul and that kind of thing, yes, but lots more.... much of it indexed to a very end of '80s / early '90s mood of positivity in the wider pop culture

Reminded of this kind of thing and its appeal by coming across an ancient friend's review (both friend and review = ancient) of this group, whose existence I'd completely forgotten


Have at it, Dissensus!

Luka and Thirdform especially encouraged to participate

 

[pattycakes_]

 

[blissblogger]

And here's another - British too


This is just rapping superimposed over (and a beat underimposed beneath) a US garage tune from the '60s isn't it? Which one?

update: It's "Gloria" by Them, Van Morrison's first group - so not US garage, but a song hugely influential on the US garage groups and widely covered by such as Shadows of Knight etc

 

[blissblogger]

I was just about to pull up something from PM Dawn! Used to love them

 

[blissblogger]

It figures that a song about having an inferiority complex would not lead to a lasting career in rap

 

[pattycakes_]

almost all of Labcabincalifornia smooth as butter

 

[mixed_biscuits]

The golden era before the CIA/FBI met up with all the rap moguls and told them to vulgarise the genre?

 

[pattycakes_]

third's gonna love this, hippy lyrics and a lonnie liston smith sample



*don's flame suit

 

[blissblogger]

this and Pharcyde "Passin' Me By" is probably on the edge of what I'm talking about but has that dreamy hazy quality

 

[blissblogger]

Guitar loop sampled from Jefferson Airplane's "Today"

 

[bassbeyondreason]

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[Roobric]

not sure if you just want 90s rap, but I always thought this Future track was surprisingly soft


a lot of HNDRXX sounds kind of like this too

 

[blissblogger]

not sure if you just want 90s rap, but I always thought this Future track was surprisingly soft



a lot of HNDRXX sounds kind of like this too

yeah with the late 2010s wave of mumbly Auto-Tune trap you get a lot of ambient-woozy and IDM twinkly sounds + subdued / sedated delivery further etherealized through effects - so you get this mismatch of hard content (boasts, drugs, sexism etc) and soft sonics.

 

[pattycakes_]

It figures that a song about having an inferiority complex would not lead to a lasting career in rap

Whats this? Not available in my country

You should post another PM Dawn also

 

[you]

- methods by Charisma

Eternal Sunshine (the Pledge)by Jay Electronica

Clouddead

wonderful Sativa-melancholy

AKAI SOLO

 

[you]

Swedish bunch veer this way at times

 

[you]

Quasimoto - come on feet?

Clammyclams

 

[you]

SpaceGhostPurrp stuff..... and another flute sample
flauting it

 

[you]

Mike Zoot.... scratching maybe not calm

Ronnie Foster sample in Madlib's Blue Note LP on Stones Throw