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[dilla]

I don't know who likes mumble rap but I came across this today. I've heard the rapper's name but couldn't name a song of his. But boy was this cringey.

Obviously didn't watch the whole 40 minutes but take a one minute sample from a random spot and it's just...

This reminded me of the phrase "hip hop is dead" that I used to read on rap forums back when I first joined this site (fuck, 15 years ago). Who knew people would still be saying that phrase today in the comments of this video.

I remember Nas made an album with that title. But Nas also made an album titled "N****r" so.....

 

[dilla]

So like three months after George Floyd's murder, we're dealing with Jacob Blake's.

All NBA games cancelled after a strike, some other sporting events in baseball, too. The actual city he was shot in is up in flames and a 17 year old kid was walking around with a rifle and shot people, killing two (so far).

This city is 60 mins. from me. Never been there but it's still close enough.

 

[Jokerman]

The problem is that everyone wants to take a side and defend it. The truth in most of these black shootings is that both sides, the cops and their “innocent” victims, were behaving badly in these situations. That’s the answer that no one wants to admit or look at. Many reasons that blacks act badly around cops, justified and not, and many reasons cops act badly with blacks, justified and not. These need to be discussed and understood by everyone, especially with cops in training. Each side needs to put himself in the shoes of the other.

But now most just want to see things in a simplistic black-and-white way, take a side and be reinforced in the righteousness of their opinion, which will forever leave everyone half mostly wrong and half mostly right on this, and it will continue to be argued forever.

 

[dilla]

Maybe. But then we've seen so much back and forth in these situations since 2014? 15? Whenever Trayvon was killed and BLM started. You just start to let the people on both sides who feel so strongly about it duke it out until the end. Because there's no room for nuance in this; you're either all in on one side or the other.

 

[Pittsey]

Edit - I'm over it

 

[dilla]

NFL starting next week, although I don't know for how long. NBA has been real entertaining. Forgot hockey existed. Baseball just chugging along. Feels good to have sports back, with a slight twist.

I don't think CFB will be the same though. Not with two P5 conferences delaying the season or sitting out.
I don't know how sports are going around the rest of the world.

 

[Jokerman]

One of Bin Laden's nieces endorses Trump. She's not even American. Putin/Bin Laden 2020.

 

[Da_Funk]

Does anyone watch this? It's how I picture most of the board from back in the day

 

[Pittsey]

Does anyone watch this? It's how I picture most of the board from back in the day

I've seen about 10 minutes of it. It made me cringe

I'm sure a lot of people here were heavily influenced by hip hop to the extent that they thought it was acceptable to wear all the silly brands like Sean John and Rocawear. But to me it was always about the music. I love rap music but I also love a lot of other genres and music doesn't define me, how I talk or how I dress

 

[dilla]

Did anyone's music tastes change since the days of the Pac Board? I joined rather late before the board started to kind of die in 2005, but I was still in to hip hop for a few more years.

Now, I can't say I listen to much music, at least nothing new. I give the New Releases tab on Spotify and Deezer a listen from time to time, but I end up going back to artists that were big in high school (2007ish) and before.

I sub to the HipHopHeads subreddit but probably 80-90% of the artists are ones that I've never heard of or are familiar with or I just don't like. Occasionally they'll be a post about a Kanye meltdown or something, but outside of that I can't carry a conversation about Smoke Purp or Juice World or any of the "Lil ____s" they have these days.

It reminded me when I was cleaning out my room at my parents' house and I found one of those big-ass CD binders with some of the albums I bought throughout the years and then 200+ CD-Rs of music I ripped from the library pre-2006 before going digital. I realized I hadn't listened to a lot of those albums since that time and that I probably should. I gave that binder to Goodwill, so hopefully someone else enjoys them but they were all the classic artists from the 90s and early 2000s, so I can always find their stuff on Spotify or something. I just have to do it some time in the future.

But basically, I don't get excited for hip hop anymore. Maybe the genre changed or my tastes changed. I was always a "beat over lyrics" person and some of the newer stuff does have beats that draw me in, but man do the lyrics fucking suck. The worst has to be Juicy J, by the way. Is it possible to have a negative-IQ?

 

[masta247]

^I've also gotten really sensitive to bad lyrics. Probably half of all songs I used to listen to make me cringe and I just can't. I still like hip-hop, but I'm stuck in the late 90s in that genre, and the list of songs I can bear is likely getting shorter and shorter. I still love 2pac's music, and appreciate him as an even more outstanding artist than I used to back in the days - I feel like if anything time has proven that he was in fact special. I spend much less time listening to hip-hop today simply because I listen to many more different kinds of music these days. And I also mostly listen to things that aren't music.

 

[dilla]

^I've also gotten really sensitive to bad lyrics. Probably half of all songs I used to listen to make me cringe and I just can't. I still like hip-hop, but I'm stuck in the late 90s in that genre, and the list of songs I can bear is likely getting shorter and shorter. I still love 2pac's music, and appreciate him as an even more outstanding artist than I used to back in the days - I feel like if anything time has proven that he was in fact special. I spend much less time listening to hip-hop today simply because I listen to many more different kinds of music these days. And I also mostly listen to things that aren't music.

Yeah, I can't even explain what I listen to anymore. It's a mix of some random EDM and some times it's composers of scores I've heard in a movie or TV show and then gone on to find more of their work and enjoyed it. Random, older hip hop songs and/or their artists albums. I still have a spot for classic rock like Zepellin and Pink Floyd and Van Halen.

 

[_carmi]

I have to say I don't look for music the way I did when I was a teen. I recall the good old time of being on MSN and exchanging MP3s with friends to get the latest music. Really good old days when you think of it.

Nowadays I've been into throwback music from the 90s and 2000s. Hip hop, RnB, but also Rock which was a genre I wasn't into back then. I'm too lazy to create my own playlists therefore I simply pop a Spotify playlist and hope for the best. It's a bit sad, but I don't have the time to invest in music anymore. I don't keep up with recent music, I tend to put the radio when I drive and whatever bullshit pop music that plays on is what I know from the 2020s.

I do feel every generation gets attached to the music during their high school years and is always drawn back to it. Music was such a big deal then. The kind of music I listened used to define who I was. Now? Not a bit.

 

[dilla]

I have to say I don't look for music the way I did when I was a teen. I recall the good old time of being on MSN and exchanging MP3s with friends to get the latest music. Really good old days when you think of it.

Nowadays I've been into throwback music from the 90s and 2000s. Hip hop, RnB, but also Rock which was a genre I wasn't into back then. I'm too lazy to create my own playlists therefore I simply pop a Spotify playlist and hope for the best. It's a bit sad, but I don't have the time to invest in music anymore. I don't keep up with recent music, I tend to put the radio when I drive and whatever bullshit pop music that plays on is what I know from the 2020s.

I do feel every generation gets attached to the music during their high school years and is always drawn back to it. Music was such a big deal then. The kind of music I listened used to define who I was. Now? Not a bit.

Same. I only listen to music on the radio on accident. My mom is still big on local stations and that's what she plays in her car when she drives around. I only hear it if I occasionally use her car, get in, and it's on to the last thing she listened to. Can't name any new artist hip hop or not. I find out about new artists when they die and it's a headline on the hip hop subreddit. Never knew they existed prior to that. Or they go to jail. Or shoot someone in the foot. Or make a song about pussy and that angers some people.

Spotify's smart playlists is pretty good when I do use it; since I have all the artists I like as "followed" on Spotify, the algorithm usually is good about finding someone similar or a song with a similar beat/production style.

But still, in the car or at home, I'm more in to listening to talk shows about sports or tech. Either sports radio or YouTubers that live stream or the occasional tech podcast. I find that to be a lot more relaxing to have in the background than music.

 

[k69atie]

I don't listen to any recent music and the radio station i have in the car plays 90's and 00's

 

[Jokerman]

I only listen to Cardi B. It defines who I am right now.

 

[keco52]

I still really love music. Whenever I hear a new song on a movie or tv show I search for it. I was probably more upset about covid cancelling concerts than I should have been. I really wanted to see Gary Clark jr.

 

[Pittsey]

I find myself listening more to 60s music the anything else now. I might listen to a bit of hip hop but there are only a handful of artists that I care about

 

[jsharma17]

Over the last 5 months, I've gone through all 500+ pages in the hip-hop talk section during my free time. It was fun looking at everyone's opinions and how they've changed over time. Rukas you a legend for keeping this site up even though I've only been here for a short time.

 

[S O F I]

Hiking a 14er is so damn fun. Going from basically sea level to that you're going to struggle. Are you going to hang out up there for a day or two before you go up?

It turned out fine without any acclimating. We did take Diamox to prevent altitude sickness and that seemed to work. The hike was long though - left at 3:30am and got back after sunset.